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Moving Your Adobe Assets A How-To Guide for Graduating Students

If you’re getting ready to graduate (congrats!), you may be wondering how you can take all the beautiful things you created at school using Adobe with you. We’re here to answer that question. The process looks a little different depending on what it is you’re moving, so we’ve laid out all the details, by application (arranged in alphabetical order), so you can move anything from a few images you created using Adobe Express to an entire Creative Cloud library. A few important notes:

  • For whatever you’re moving, previous collaboration-related components (comments, sharing invitations, versioning information, ratings, etc.) will not come along for the ride.
  • All processes require you to log into your School Account. If you can no longer access your School Account, you will need to ask your school admin to reactivate it.
  • For processes that involve moving items from a School Account to a new Personal Account, you will need to first establish a Personal Account.
  • Creative Cloud apps are a paid service. Publishing is not supported for Creative Cloud Free membership accounts. Keeping assets published requires purchasing a plan.
  • If you encounter any challenges along the way, please reach out to your school’s IT department.

Acrobat Files

Simple! Download your documents from your School Account by selecting a file and clicking Download in the right pane. Then, if desired, upload them to your Personal Account.

Behance

There is no direct way to move Behance content from one account to another. As a work-around, you can create a new profile and then do the following:

  1. Sign in to Behance with your Personal Account (non-school) and navigate to the Profile page. Note your Behance handle, as you'll need it later. For example, in the URL https://behance.net/ABCD789, ABCD789 is your handle.
  2. In another browser, sign into Behance using your original School Account.
  3. Navigate to a project you want to share. Click Settings.
  4. Click the Add Co-owners, Credits, and More link at the bottom of the Settings dialogue box.
  5. In the Co-Owners field, enter the Behance profile name of your new profile and click Done. Then click Update Project.
  6. In your new profile’s browser window, you'll receive a notification. Accept the invite to join the project as a co-owner. You will be able edit the project, and it will also appear in your portfolio.

Creative Cloud Libraries

You have two options: 1) you can use the Libraries Panel to export your library file; 2) you can use the Creative Cloud sharing and collaboration feature.

Via Library Panel Export: This process will enable you to export your entire library. Then, you can archive it or import it into a Personal Account.

  1. Open the Libraries Panel inside any Creative Cloud App (via your School Account).
  2. Select the library that you want to export.
  3. Click the More Options Menu in the upper-right corner of the Libraries Panel.
  4. Select Export <Library Name>.
  5. Click Select Folder, choose a location, and then save your library.
  6. Click Export. A copy of your library is now available on your local device.
  7. To import into a new account, open the Libraries Panel inside any Creative Cloud app (via your new account).
  8. Click the More Options Menu in the upper-right corner of the Libraries panel.
  9. Select Import Library.
  10. Click Select Library, and select the.cclibs file that you want to import.
  11. Click Import.

Via Creative Cloud Collaboration Feature

  1. Sign into assets.adobe.com with your School Account.
  2. Navigate to Your Work > Your Libraries and then hover on and select the relevant library.
  3. In the upper-right corner, click Share > Get Link.
  4. Click Copy Link.
  5. Sign out and then navigate to the links copied in Step 4. A preview of the library displays. Instead of signing out, you can also open a different browser window.
  6. Click Copy to Your Work. You'll be prompted to sign in. Sign in with your Personal Account. If you copied several links, paste those links and click Copy to Your Work. If you're in the same browser, you won't be asked to sign in again. Verify that the libraries are copied to Your Libraries section in your Personal Account.

Express Assets

You can either 1) simply download project assets, and store them on your computer, or 2) use collaboration features to copy projects from your School Account to your new one.

Download Assets

  1. Go to express.adobe.com and sign into your School Account.
  2. Navigate to Projects.
  3. Hover on a project and click the Edit Project icon.
  4. Click Download in the upper-right corner, choose an output file format, and click Start Download.
  5. Choose a location on your computer and click Save.

Share/Duplicate to a New Account

  1. Open a browser that we’ll refer to as the “source” browser. Navigate to express.adobe.com and sign into your School Account.
  2. Navigate to Projects.
  3. Hover on the project that you want to migrate; click Invite.
  4. Click Copy Link.
  5. Open a new Incognito/private browser window, navigate to express.adobe.com, and sign into your Personal Account.
  6. Open a new browser window, and paste the link copied in Step 5.
  7. When prompted, click Request Access.
  8. Go back to the “source” browser window. Click on the received Notification icon in the upper-right corner and then click Manage Access on the notification that you've received.
  9. Click Accept.
  10. Go back to the new account browser window; navigate to express.adobe.com.
  11. Navigate to Projects > Shared with You.
  12. Hover on the project you've just shared from your School Account or profile, click the icon in the upper-right corner, and then click Duplicate.
  13. Remove the word Copy at the end of the suggested name and click Duplicate.
  14. Repeat for all projects you wish to copy over to your new account.

Illustrator or Photoshop Cloud Documents

  1. Sign in to assets.adobe.com with your School Account.
  2. Navigate to Files > Your files > Cloud documents.
  3. Hover over an Illustrator or a Photoshop cloud document and select Share from the context menu.
  4. Click Change to ensure anyone with the link can view and save a copy. Then, click <.
  5. Click Copy Link. ○ If you have multiple cloud documents to migrate, generate and store all the links for easy access.
  6. Sign out and then navigate to the links you copied in Step 5. Sign in with your new account. Instead of signing out, you can also use a different browser or Incognito mode.
  7. Click Copy to Files. Verify that the cloud documents are copied to Your files > Cloud documents in the new account.

Alternatively, you can open a document from within the application and choose to save it to your computer rather than as a cloud document, by doing the following:

  1. Launch Photoshop or Illustrator.
  2. Choose File > Open Menu. Make sure you see your “Cloud Documents” and not your local files. Select Open Cloud Document.
  3. Select the file you want; it will download and open.
  4. Once the file opens, choose File > Save As. Select Save on Your Computer to save a copy of the file on your local hard drive.

Lightroom Photos

  1. Sign into Lightroom with your School Account.
  2. In the app, select the photos you wish to keep.
  3. Choose File > Export on the upper right side of the window.
  4. Change Image Type to “Original + Settings”.
  5. Click the Export button at upper right to save to your computer.
  6. If desired, you can then reimport these files into a new Personal Account.

Mobile Creations

After you’ve set up a new account to host your assets:

  1. Sign into Creative Cloud using your School Account.
  2. Navigate to the Mobile Creations tab, and select the project you want to share. To select the project, hover the mouse over it, and check the box that displays. You can share Photoshop Sketch, Illustrator Draw, Photoshop Mix, Photoshop Fix, and Adobe Comp projects.
  3. Click either Get link or Share and then click Get Link.
  4. Click Copy Link, and share the copied link with your new account.

Portfolio

  1. Go to portfolio.adobe.com and sign in with your School Account.
  2. Click on one of your sites.
  3. Click on Settings in the left panel.
  4. Click on Account & Region.
  5. Under Use Another Adobe ID, select Use Personal Adobe ID.
  6. Type in the new Adobe ID you wish to move your site(s) to.
  7. Click Continue and then Done.
  8. Check your email inbox under the new/Personal Account and click the link provided.
  9. Sign into your new Personal Account and click Confirm Migration.
  10. All set! Click Edit your Portfolio to exit.

Premiere Rush

To migrate your Premiere Rush projects, you'll use Premiere Pro*. Complete the entire workflow in Premiere Pro, and publish your video from Premiere Pro itself. This process requires that you have a new account to which you’re moving your projects.

  1. Sign into Premiere Pro with your School Account.
  2. In the Premiere Pro start screen, click Open Premiere Rush Project and select a project.
  3. Save the file. By default, the file is saved to the Converted Rush projects folder on your machine. If you want to save the file elsewhere, use File > Save as, and navigate to a location of your choice.
  4. Sign into Premiere Pro with your new account and continue working on your project.

*If you do not have access to Premiere Pro, export your Rush projects as MP4s to your desktop or mobile device.

Synced Files

Important Note: Creative Cloud Synced files are being discontinued. Starting February 1, 2024, Adobe will begin to discontinue Creative Cloud Synced files for all free and paid personal users not associated with a Creative Cloud for Enterprise or a Creative Cloud for Teams business account.

Starting October 1, 2024, Adobe will begin discontinuing Creative Cloud Synced files for business plans, including both Creative Cloud for Teams and Creative Cloud for Enterprise.

Until this time, use the instructions detailed below to migrate your synced files.

Discontinuation of Creative Cloud Synced Files - Personal/Free Accounts
Discontinuation of Creative Cloud Synced Files - Business/Enterprise Accounts
  1. Open the Creative Cloud desktop app, and ensure that you're signed with using your School Account.
  2. Click File > Open Sync Folder. This opens the Creative Cloud files folder on your computer.
  3. Move the files from the Creative Cloud files folder to another folder on your computer. You could, for example, create a folder inside the Downloads folder on your computer and move the files into that folder.
  4. In the Creative Cloud desktop app, sign out of your School Account and sign back in with your new profile.
  5. Again, click File > Open Sync Folder. This opens the Creative Cloud files folder on your computer for your new account.
  6. Go to the folder into which you moved the files in step 3, above. Move the files back from the folder on your computer to the Creative Cloud files folder from step 5, above. When you move files into the Creative Cloud files folder, file sync will start as soon as you sign in.
  7. To check the File Sync status, click the Cloud activity icon in the upper right corner of the Creative Cloud desktop app.

XD Cloud Documents

  1. Sign in to assets.adobe.com with your School Account.
  2. Navigate to Files > Your files > Cloud documents, and then hover over an Adobe XD cloud document.
  3. From the context menu on top, select Download.

If you wish to transfer them into a new account:

  1. Sign out, and then sign into your new account.
  2. In your Creative Cloud desktop app, drag the downloaded file to Your files > Cloud documents in the new account.
  3. When prompted, select Continue to convert the file to a cloud document. Verify that the cloud documents are copied to Your files > Cloud documents in the new account.