Adobe Creative Space

Students, visit  adobe.auburn.edu to learn how to log in to Adobe Express and request your free Adobe Creative Cloud subscription.

Employees have automatic access to Adobe Express and Adobe Creative Cloud. Learn more at adobe.auburn.edu

Instructions from OIT are available on the Adobe Auburn web site.

Migrate files from a personal Adobe ID to your Auburn Enterprise Adobe ID or migrate files from your Auburn Adobe ID to a personal Adobe ID when you graduate.

Adobe Technical Help Center

Adobe Creative Cloud Tutorials

In-person and/or online Zoom Room assistance is available. Adobe Student Consultants are available in the Adobe Creative Space and/or online in an Adobe Help Zoom Room to assist users in learning skills to complete academic projects using Adobe Creative Cloud applications. 

Access the Adobe Help Desk and/or Adobe Help Zoom room at: aub.ie/adobehelp  during the posted hours of the  Adobe Help Desk Calendar.  University-recognized holidays and library hours may affect these hours and schedules are subject to change. Consultations are first-come,  first-serve . Only one user at a time will be admitted to the meeting or assisted in person.  Help sessions may have a maximum time of 30 minutes.

All consultants can assist with Adobe Express. See the list of consultants and their additional areas of specialty below.  It is advised to match the assistance you need with the consultant who lists skills in that area for the best experience and visit the Adobe Help Desk in person or via Zoom at the time they are listed on the calendar. See the left sidebar for the calendar and Zoom room link.

Adobe Consultants' Areas of Specialty

Consultants	Areas of Speciality
Adobe Consultant A	Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro, video editing
Adobe Consultant B	Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, graphic design
Adobe Consultant C	Photoshop, InDesign, graphic design,  Premiere Pro, video editing
Adobe Consultant D	Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, graphic design, Portfolio
Adobe Consultant E	Photoshop, Illustrator, visual / written communication
Adobe Consultant F	Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, visual design
Adobe Consultant G	Illustrator, digital drawing, Premiere Pro, video editing
Adobe Consultant H	Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, graphic design
Adobe Consultant I	Premiere Pro, Audition, video and audio editing

 

I&RC Workshops:  Free and open to AU students, faculty, and staff. View flyer (coming soon); register at aub.ie/libraryworkshops

Auburn Adobe Creative Club:  Check out the  Adobe Creative Club at Auburn University, an official student club for all creativity enthusiasts! Whether you’re an aspiring graphic designer, videographer, or digital artist, this club is the perfect place to connect with like-minded individuals and explore the world of Adobe Creative Cloud. Join us for engaging workshops, collaborative projects, and opportunities to showcase your work. No prior experience is necessary—just bring your passion for creativity! Let’s inspire each other and make amazing things together. Make sure to join on AUInvolve and follow us on social media for updates !  

Students, you could be an Adobe Student Ambassador!  
Adobe Student Ambassadors help increase awareness and use of Adobe products on their university campuses. Activities can include:  

• Helping fellow students navigate to their school activation portals, getting them logged in, and discovering what tools are available  
• Helping students use Adobe products- especially Adobe Express – for the first time  
• Representing Adobe through social media, club meetings, student events, and more  
• Partnering with faculty and administration to provide instructional support  

Benefits can include: rewards and incentives, networking, career empowerment, and more!
Learn more about the Ambassador program and complete an application  

Adobe Creative Skills Series:  aub.ie/adobeskills
Originally created based on feedback from students, faculty, and industry employers, this free program is designed to equip students of all majors with the creative/soft skills that employers seek in their new hires. Carefully curated, engaging, and modular content has been organized into bite-size courses—with Adobe-certified badges ready to be added to resumes and LinkedIn profiles.  Courses include:  

• Generative AI for Creativity and Innovation
• Presentation Design
• Compelling Job Application Materials
• Sports Marketing
• Storytelling with Short-form Video
• Social Media Strategy
• and more!   View the flyer for more info; view and share the advertisement flyer

New Adobe Certifications from Coursera (free):

• Adobe Graphic Designer Professional Certificate: Learn the design skills you need to create high-impact, on-brand visual content, and eran a credential that unlocks new career possibilities. Learn more and enroll
• Adobe Content Creator Professional Certificate: Learn to create strategic marketing content using industry best practices and generative AI and earn a credential that opens doors. Learn more and enroll

Adobe Certified Professional: Offered externally via Adobe and Certiport, users can pursue the testing in their own through online remote testing at a cost.

Adobe Internships : Apply on Adobe's university career site; sort by Intern.

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Ongoing Events

Adobe Max: Oct. 28-30, 2025 Learn from your design heroes at Adobe's professional conference, online and in-person this year. Many sessions will be available for free online; register with your AU login to access. On-demand sessions are available year-round for free. Visit max.adobe.com for info and links to sessions.

Adobe Behance Live Video Demonstrations and Challenges Adobe's online community, videos also available for replay 

Join the  Adobe Creative Career Discord  community, Adobe’s newest hub for students and anyone looking to launch their career. 

Students

Get Started: use  Adobe Express  express.adobe.com to begin creating content quickly in a drag and drop easy to use web and mobile app. Create graphics, video, web pages, posters, presentations, and more. Log in using your AU email address and password; be sure to choose "Company/school account". View the Adobe Express learning resources document.

View the  Adobe app sheet to see a list of all apps for desktop and mobile and sample uses. Adobe Stock: Adobe CC subscription includes access to Standard Images, Vectors, Illustrations, Templates, 3D Assets: visit stock.adobe.com. It also includes access to Standard generative AI (text to image, image editing) through Adobe Express and Adobe Firefly. Additionally, access to Adobe Podcast is also included.

Workshops available in-person and via Zoom; register at aub.ie/libraryworkshops. Recorded Adobe Workshop video recordings are available for you to view on demand on our Instructional Content page

Adobe Creative Cloud Tutorials for Students
Beginner, Basic, and Experienced level video and step-by-step free tutorials for all learners of Adobe applications.

Visit Adobe Learn, Adobe's newly designed free learning platform for Creative Cloud apps, organized by app and by project.

Adobe & AI: View Adobe's updated resources web page on new AI features of Adobe Creative Cloud

Adobe Creative Skills Series: visit aub.ie/adobeskills  (see also Certifications in Events & Opportunities, above)
Originally created based on feedback from students, faculty, and industry employers, this free program is designed to equip students of all majors with the creative/soft skills that employers seek in their new hires. Carefully curated, engaging, and modular content has been organized into bite-size courses—with Adobe-certified badges ready to be added to resumes and LinkedIn profiles.  Courses include:  

• Generative AI for Creativity and Innovation
• Presentation Design
• Compelling Job Application Materials
• Sports Marketing
• Storytelling with Short-form Video
• Social Media Strategy
• and more!   View the flyer for more info; view and share the advertisement flyer

Adobe Behance Live Video Demonstrations and Challenges Adobe's online community, videos also available for replay 

Design and Media Books – Browsable Collection  

• The AU Libraries’ Innovation and Research Commons has acquired new copies of design books, currently available in the I&RC on the 1 ^st floor near the Adobe Creative Space .
• Titles include great beginner design books as well as more advanced editions such as  The Designer’s Dictionary of Color,  Design for How People Learn,  Designing Brand Identity, and more.   

The Adobe Education Exchange includes free learning resources and offers the opportunity to earn badges.

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Faculty and Instructors

Custom Instructional Sessions
Customized instruction support for faculty/ instructors available, view sample assignment ideas and request an instructional session by completing our inquiry form: aub.ie/ircinstructioninquiry. For sessions involving Adobe Creative Cloud apps, priority is given to courses in non-design programs to support the campus-wide digital literacy initiative. For more info, contact Dr. Chelsy Hooper, Instructional Technology Coordinator, I&RC, hooperc@auburn.edu. Instructors are also welcome to use any of our Instructional Content resources in their courses.

Get Started: Consider Adobe Express  express.adobe.com as a tool for students to complete multimodal assignments who may not have access to powerful computing or who are unfamiliar with digital design. View the guide to the new Adobe Express for recent updates. Use Adobe Express  express.adobe.com to begin creating content quickly in a drag and drop easy to use web and mobile app. Create graphics, video, web pages, posters, presentations, and more. Log in using your AU email address and password; be sure to choose "Company/school account".

Adobe Express Learning Kits for Faculty
Adobe Express Learning Kits available on Adobe's Higher Education hub are ready-to-use teaching bundles with templates, rubrics, and tutorials that help you bring creative projects into any course. Access the kits online and pick and choose elements you’d like to use or download a pre-made Canvas module to add to your course (OER and accessible-ready). 
Kits include the following projects: 

• Multimodal Reports, Essays, and Narratives
• Career-Skills Portfolios
• Infographics
• Research Posters
• Presentations
• Explainer Videos
• Podcasts 

By embedding creative and safe AI tools into your curriculum, you can better engage your students, improve their academic outcomes, and help them develop career-ready skills. 

Digital Literacy Lesson Ideas
The  Adobe Education Exchange is a free online learning platform for educators to discover ways to learn, teach, and connect with Adobe Creative Cloud apps; includes lesson ideas, opportunities to earn digital badges.  Adobe Education Exchange has new self-paced courses to help you incorporate digital design in your curriculum available, including Generative AI in the Classroom, Digital Portfolios with Adobe Express, and Engaging Video Projects as well as lesson plan ideas using generative AI art such as "Design a graphic that tells a six-word story for history, create an infographic to evaluate an author's claim, create a poster representing a chemistry concept" , and more. View the Adobe Digital Literacy page for curricula ideas from educators. View Adobe's video, What is Digital Literacy?  Adobe Distance Learning Resources site: offers lesson plan ideas for online learning using Adobe applications and more

Adobe Creative Skills Series: visit  aub.ie/adobeskills (see also in Events & Opportunities, above)
Originally created based on feedback from students, faculty, and industry employers, this free program is designed to equip students of all majors with the creative/soft skills that employers seek in their new hires. Carefully curated, engaging, and modular content has been organized into bite-size courses—with Adobe-certified badges ready to be added to resumes and LinkedIn profiles. Embed in your courses to empower students to earn free badges and showcase their skills.

View the research: Improving Student Outcomes: Quantifying the Impact of Creative Skills on College and Career which includes quantified proof of the positive impact of creative and digital literacy skills on student outcomes.

Adobe Digital Literacy Café Webinar Series
In this series, higher education innovators will showcase how they’re supporting student success by integrating generative AI into courses across the curriculum. Find out how they’re designing and assessing assignments, enhancing visual communication skills, connecting generative AI skills with learning outcomes, and more to help all students graduate as critical, ethical, and agile users of emerging technologies.  
View all sessions and Register  

Adobe Professional Learning:  View Events Enrich your learning with in-depth free, online professional development designed by educators for educators.

Visit Adobe Learn: Adobe's newly designed free learning platform for Creative Cloud apps, organized by app and by project.

Adobe & AI: View Adobe's updated resources web page on new AI features of Adobe Creative Cloud

Adobe for Education YouTube Channel

Employees can also use LinkedIn Learning through AU Access/ ElevatED; "Essential Training" in Adobe apps recommended; student employees also have access.

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Helpful Instruction Handouts

Adobe Digital Literacy App Information (overview of all apps included in our subscription and what they are used for)  Handout

Adobe Express Learning Resources - Get Started Handout

Creating a Poster using Adobe Express Handout

Key Features and Tools of Adobe Photoshop Handout

Key Features and Tools of Adobe InDesign Handout

Key Features and Tools of Adobe Illustrator Handout

Getting Started in Podcasting using Adobe Audition  Handout

Video Storyboard Template Handout

50 Questions for Reflecting on Creativity Handout

Design Process Rubric Handout

 

Adobe Creative Cloud and Accessibility

 

Accessibility at Adobe web site highlights Adobe's Accessibility Principles and focus areas.

Adobe Creative Cloud offers many ways to make content accessible for creators and users. Below are a few examples; visit the Adobe Help Center for specific assistance including extensive documentation and tutorials focused on accessible design practices.

Adobe Acrobat Pro enables tagging of PDFs, including a new, improved cloud-based auto-tagging (Acrobat, Preferences, Accessibility 'enable cloud-based auto tagging for accessibility'. It also provides an Accessibility Checker (All Tools, Prepare for Accessibility). Acrobat also offers Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to convert scanned documents into editable PDFs.

For questions related to Adobe Acrobat Pro and PDFs, contact your OIT staff contact; view the directory

Adobe Scan is a mobile app that can convert printed documents into accessible PDFs.

An October 2025 Adobe MAX session on Designing for Everyone: Adobe and the Future of Accessibility in Education is available on-demand (log in with your AU email and password to view).

Adobe Express offers auto-tagging of PDFs when downloading files and alt text for Express Web Pages

Adobe Premiere Pro allows for caption and subtitle creation, provides text-based video editing for more accurate transcriptions, and supports separate audio tracks for audio descriptions.

Adobe InDesign provides tools for adding alt text and creating tagged PDFs.

Adobe's Accessibility Checker is available for InDesign and Adobe Acrobat Pro for PDF.

Adobe Acrobat Reader offers Liquid Mode to help users view PDFs on mobile and prompts for auto-tagging of content that is not accessible.

Adobe Stock provides a library of licensed images with appropriate contrast.

Adobe Color offers Contrast Checker and Color Blind Safe tools.

Auburn's curated accessibility resources can be found at aub.ie/a11y

Adobe Creative Cloud and Universal Design for Learning:

• Multiple Means of Engagement: Adobe CC's diverse set of tools can help create interactive and engaging content that can be tailored to different learning styles and preferences, keeping students motivated and involved
• Multiple Means of Representation: With Adobe CC, educators can produce content in various formats such as videos, infographics, and interactive PDFs, allowing for different ways to present information and cater to diverse learners.
• Multiple Means of Action and Expression: Students can use Adobe CC to express their understanding and knowledge in creative ways beyond traditional text-based assignments. They can make use of video editing, website creation, or graphic design to showcase their skills and learning.
• Collaboration: Adobe CC facilitates collaboration among students and teachers, allowing for shared projects and feedback in real-time, which is essential for a UDL approach that values cooperative learning experiences.
• Accessibility Features: Adobe CC includes features that enhance accessibility, such as adjustable text sizes, captioning tools, and color contrast settings, ensuring that materials are accessible to students with disabilities.

View the information in this section and more in a presentation format

Read about the Adobe Creative Space in the Auburn news

Check out Auburn's feature on the Adobe blog

Read the research: Adobe's 2024 Creative AI Jobs Report

View the 2024 Creative Trends report

What's your creative type? Take Adobe's Creative Types Quiz and find out!

Discover your creative potential for leadership with Adobe's CQ Questionnaire

Play the Color Wheel Game from color.adobe.com

Questions? Want to join the Adobe Auburn Community email list? Contact: Chelsy Hooper, Instructional Technology Specialist:  hooperc@auburn.edu