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Hi, students. Um, I'm doctor Chelsea Hooper.

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I'm an instructional technology specialist in the Auburn University Libraries.

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My main area of work is in the Adobe creative space on the first floor of the library.

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And today, um, this video is going to walk you through getting your Adobe ID, um,

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making sure that you can get access to the Adobe Creative Cloud that is available to you for free as an Auburn student.

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And then walk you through using Adobe Express, um, for your projects.

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So the first step is to get your Adobe ID in order to do that, it's free to you, but you do have to sign up first.

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So please visit adobe.auburn.edu.

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And then you will click sign up. Once you click sign up, then if you scroll down just a little bit, you will see another button to request a license.

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So you will click there to request a license. And then it will ask you for your Auburn login information, which you will enter.

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After you enter that successfully, you will get a screen that says our request submitted.

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Or if you get a screen that says already enrolled, that means you have already requested access and you already have it.

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Once you get a confirmation email, um, from Adobe yet notifications.com to your Auburn email address.

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It takes about two hours to receive that access.

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Once you have that, you are ready to move on to the next part, which is to then sign in to Adobe Express.

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So to do that, we will open a new tab. We can open any browser.

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Adobe Express is just web based. If you've used something like Canva before, it's very, very similar,

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but better because you get premium access to Adobe Express and there's support on campus to help you with Adobe Express.

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So to get there, the best way to do it is just to start typing express.adobe.com, put that as the URL and then hit enter.

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It tends to work really well in Chrome, so that's a good, uh, you know, browser to use, but it will work in other browsers.

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No problem. Once you are here, um, do not sign in with Google or any other accounts.

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Sign in with that Auburn log in that you just activated so you will put in your full Auburn email address here.

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So take a minute to do that. And then hit continue.

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Once you hit continue, it's important to be sure that you choose company or school account.

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You have access to the entire Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Express through Auburn.

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So it's a school account. So you'll click that and then you'll get the Auburn authenticate screen, which is correct.

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That's what you want to see. You will go ahead and enter your regular Auburn username and password.

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And once you have done that, you are now inside of Adobe Express.

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So from here you can create all kinds of projects.

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Adobe Express is web based, helps you create all kinds of things from videos to graphics,

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even generative AI, even adjusting images by removing the background, um, text effects.

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There's all kinds of quick actions, and you can create all kinds of things by clicking the little, uh, purple sort of, um, uh, plus sign.

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And that gives you all kinds of choices that you can choose from.

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This is also great to create, uh, social media posts.

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If you're branding yourself, you could use this in your careers to create multiple types of things.

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Fliers, um, manage the social media.

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In this particular project, we will be creating, uh, digital signage.

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Um, you can, uh, go to custom size for that.

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So digital signage is what's used on TVs that you see around campus, for example, this is would be a common thing to design for a clinic setting.

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Um, because it's digital. So it's sustainable. You can change it out as you need to as your services change,

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and you could use the same design and you make it into a printed flier and that sort of thing.

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Um, so what we're going to do today is set up a custom size graphic.

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So if you had custom size for digital signage, the standard resolution size, um, is going to be, uh, 1920 pixels.

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Make sure it's on pixels, which is the sign uh unit.

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You can notice here you could also choose inches and centimeters. But in our case we're designing for pixels for our screen by 1080.

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So 1920 wide by 1080 is the resolution that you want.

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And then you'll hit create new file.

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So from here you have a nice blank canvas that you can start working on, and it's kind of encouraging you to get started with maybe adding some text.

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But let's just take a minute to kind of look at the interface here. We have a project we've created.

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So the first thing we should probably do is go ahead and name it. So let's call this something like uh simple.

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I'm just going to call this simple ditch sign. And then, uh.

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This is one file, and right now it just has one page in the file.

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Now that this is saved, um, I can access this file wherever I have internet access and can log into Adobe Express.

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So now it will save as I go. Now I'll have to worry about that.

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And it doesn't take up any space on your computer. So from here, you probably have already brainstormed what you want your motto to be.

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What? Maybe there are some images you might be searching for that might be good to put in your digital signage.

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What colors might be good? You can start with a couple of basic things here by changing the background color to a certain color.

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It's going to give you some recommended, but you can also go to custom.

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Choose any color that you want. If you know the hex code for a certain color that you want, you could do that.

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You can also use the eyedropper to sample maybe an image that you have inserted, so you could pick a color from the image that you're using.

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That might be a good way to get started to. But just notice you can get started there.

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And then over here on the left hand side, let's go a little bit more in order.

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So we have media here under media you have photos.

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Um, there are videos and audio as well. But this is going to be a static image.

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So we're going to stick with just photos. But um, this search is just Adobe Stock images inside of express.

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So all of these are, uh, you're not going to violate any kind of copyright because they're already licensed to Adobe.

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So this is a safe way to use images that you could then republish.

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No problem. Um, so it's responsibly sourced.

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So if I'm doing my particular clinic, um, uh, uh, digital signage on, say, music therapy, I'll just go with a different sort of topic,

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but you could choose whatever topic you're looking into, or you could just search for, uh, a description of an image that you're looking for.

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So we might say, I might say person listening to music.

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Yeah. So let's look at that. And now we have some people listening to music.

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Maybe we put calm in there. Let's see if we can get a little bit better result.

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Yeah. They're going to chillin. That's good. Oh, this one looks pretty nice.

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It's kind of nature and, uh, music put together.

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So you have some examples here we could pick from. Pretty nice.

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Now this person's kind of by themselves. So this might be a good example for us to use because I want to show you another feature that could be cool.

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So we have this person just listening to music. Once we have this image to change anything on your design, you simply click it so it's selected,

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and then you get some options over here that you can, um, adjust.

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So now this one does have a background.

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If I wanted to I could make this image basically like the whole design and then try to fit some things around it.

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But if I want to make more of like a collage type style,

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I might put this at the bottom and then I can use a background, um, a feature called Remove background.

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Once I click it, it just removes the background.

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And now I just have this person, you know, sort of hear, you know, makes it a little bit easier to manipulate and that sort of thing.

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There are all kinds of effects and other things that you can make adjustments to.

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You can even adjust the photo and make it lighter or darker and things like that.

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So picking some good, recognizable images is going to be good for your digital signage.

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So that is the media button. And then uh, text.

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So once we have this image here, we're probably going to want to add some text next.

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So to add text we can search through these sort of pre formatted text pieces that we can add if you want to.

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And if you choose to add one of those so let's maybe add one of these over here.

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Maybe this one once you add it if it's sort of this template um, you know text here, then you can just double click to make changes to it.

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So we could call this one music. And then uh, also if you notice these things have been sort of grouped together.

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So in some cases if you want to get to a certain piece you can use the layers over here on the right hand side.

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Also the layers determine the order. So if you click and drag these around then you can change the order.

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Once you have an item on your screen like this is uh an example of a shape that you could use.

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You can duplicate that shape. You can also click the more button and switch the order of those shapes and then locking it.

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Um, if you press lock, that means it locks it to the background so you can't move it anymore.

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Um, but another feature that you can do is group things together.

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So this was already grouped together to ungroup it. We can click that.

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But if we wanted to group things together we can just sort of select them all and then hit group.

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And now when we move this around so it will stay attached.

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Ope forgot to grab that one, but you get the idea. Um, and that's a great way to start your design,

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because you can group certain elements together and then move them around and figure out what's going to work best for your design and so on.

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Okay. So that gets you started with a text.

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Now text. You can also just add your own. If you click Add Text here then it'll just put some text here.

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And then you can uh make changes to it. So you could put your motto, the name of your clinic that you're developing, that sort of thing.

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Change the font. You get lots of fonts to choose from.

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What's nice is they will also give you some recommended fonts so you can kind of go with whatever design they're kind of mentioning.

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This one's pretty cool a little different there. Um, catches our attention a bit.

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Looks kind of like speakers and stuff like that. There's also like round text.

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There's a text flow. Um, there are also, um, shadow, a drop shadow that you could add.

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You can add a shape behind your text to make it more readable.

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Um, so you have some options with text that you can manipulate. Okay.

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And then um, also elements. So elements will help you sort of, you know, create your, uh, digital signage.

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Under elements. They do even have just backgrounds that you can start from.

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They have design assets. These items are also listed up here in this little menu bar.

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So design assets are things like unique brushes um different kinds of illustrative elements, things like that.

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Overlays. You know, they have all kinds of neat, uh, textures as well that you can add on to onto your design.

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There are also unique backgrounds and you can also search, you know, so for certain topics.

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So if we were search music type backgrounds then we get some kind of fun backgrounds.

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That's a great way to just instantly add, um, you know, some uniqueness to your, um, design.

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There are also shapes. So under music shapes we have these sort of music notes and we can click and add a shape.

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Once we've added a shape, we can of course move it around.

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And again, once we've selected the thing we want to edit, we get the proper menu on the left hand side so we can change the fill color.

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Um, we can, uh, change the thickness of the border.

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Opacity is a nice way to sort of add some elements to your designs, because you can sort of lower how strong they are and that sort of thing.

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There's even blend modes to make it sort of look more unique.

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Um, if you have color, this usually works a little bit better with color.

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You can also flip your designs if they're sort of facing the wrong way.

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Um, so you have some options there that's uh, shapes.

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Make sure you find icons under the elements tab.

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Here. You have to kind of scroll over to the right. But once you get to icons, you have lots of neat things that you could select.

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Um, that would help sort of grab people's attention. This could be part of the logo design that you create.

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You could also create a logo with shapes and that sort of thing.

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So using icons to kind of help, um, you know, convey what it is that you want to convey.

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So if we want to convey that we play multiple instruments and things like that, this might be a good icon to add.

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You can also kind of rotate your shapes as well.

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Um, and then also under elements you have these, uh, charts.

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And we're not going to have any music charts here, but bar charts, you can sort of it's a little bit like,

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um, a mini Excel chart because you can choose a bar chart and then you can put in the items here.

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So this might be, uh, guitar, this one might be piano.

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That sort of thing. So then it will you can see how it like, uh,

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updates the chart here so you could adjust and fix the chart how you want to and that and that kind of thing.

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So that's, uh, the chart to delete something from your design, you just select it, press delete on the keyboard and that's how you can get rid of it.

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So those are the main, uh, sort of features of creating your digital sign, uh, design.

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Make sure you include all of the requirements of the, um, assignment, having your slogan, your motto, your mission statement.

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Uh, nice imagery that makes sense with what your topic is. You might want to brainstorm that as, like, an outline first and that kind of thing.

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Um, and come up with sort of like, uh, you know, a motto and unique text to go with that.

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Okay. So let's say that you are now finished with your digital signage, um, and you're happy with it.

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You're ready to download it and turn it in. What you would do is you would go to download.

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And then it's going to give you the option to either download as PNG or Jpeg.

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And that's what you want. Um, and then that's what you would just turn in.

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So we would just send save it to your downloads folder, or when you hit download, you could drag it to your desktop and then submit it to canvas.

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If this is a group project, if you need to work together on this,

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you can share your designs with other people and you can give them X access to um, edit and you can just type their, um, Auburn email in here.

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Um, they need to have their Adobe ID set up in order for this to work, but once you share the file with them, they can also edit it.

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Um, and you can change the access that you give them to the link and all of that and let them edit.

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So, um, that's a nice feature too, if you need to do this together.

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Um. Another item to note is that, as mentioned, Adobe Express saves as you go.

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But you may be wondering where how do I get back to this screen again if I leave it and come back?

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So to get back to the home screen of Adobe Express, and I recommend that you do this when you're done working on your design for the day,

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click the little colorful A logo for Adobe Express to get back to the home screen, and that will sort of force it to do that one last save.

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to get back to your design or next time you close after you close out and you want to log back in and you just log back in@express.adobe.com,

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you'll click on your stuff. Once you click on your stuff, you will see your design right there.

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And then you just click your design to get back into it. Okay.

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So that's how you do that. Okay. So um, that part basically concludes the basics of Adobe Express.

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I'm going to come back in just a second and show you some additional features that sort of go above and beyond,

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but I wanted to kind of give you the quick and dirty version first,

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and then the last thing I want to do before I do that is explain to you how you can get assistance with this project after watching this video.

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So we have a space in the library called the Adobe Creative Space, which actually is linked here on the Adobe, uh, uh, website.

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But I can also just take you to the, um, uh, our page, which is just a hub that ICRC Adobe for Innovation and Research.

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Comments. If you go to that page, this is our Adobe Creative Space web page.

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Um, we are located in the first floor of the library.

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We have Adobe Student consultants who are available to assist you with your questions on these projects.

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Um, and you can find their schedule over here on our website.

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So check our website first. Make sure somebody is actually scheduled to be there.

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We try to cover most of the hours between, say, 8 a.m. and usually around 8 to 10 p.m. at night.

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Um, but check first. Um, the consultants have specific specialties listed, but any of the consultants can help you with Adobe Express.

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It's basically Adobe Starter application. It's web based drag and drop.

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Pretty intuitive. Um, so all of the consultants can help you with that.

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They can also give you design feedback so they can give you feedback on how does the design look.

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Um, you know, does it meet the parameters, you know, of the assignment?

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If you share the assignment, uh, you know, the parameters with them,

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they can kind of help you look at that and make sure you're good, that sort of thing.

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Uh, let you know if the colors you've selected are good and and that sort of thing.

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Also, when you're choosing things like colors, just stick to like 3 to 5 basic colors.

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Keeping it simple and using good design in general is good, making it, uh, readable, not putting too much text on the screen.

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Um, all of that is helpful. Now also notice that you can come over in person to the first floor on the help desk, or you can also hop in on zoom.

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So you can just pop into the zoom room.

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You can share your screen, they can share their screen, you can ask questions, talk to each other, all of that.

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So if you're not able to get all the way over here, um, then that's a good option too.

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So that's how you get assistance. All right. So, um, the next thing I wanted to show you, um, that really concludes most of it.

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But if you want to, if you're interested in going a little further, um, I can, uh,

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talk to you a little bit more about Adobe Express and give you some ideas for making your project even better.

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So once you do have a design created, something that's really cool about Adobe Express is once you have it created,

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you can duplicate that particular design and then you can resize it.

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So we could resize this for, say, something like Instagram post resize it.

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And then of course we would make some adjustments. All of that. Maybe we don't need that one.

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Maybe we don't need this one. All of that. Okay.

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So now what we can do. And maybe instead of like an actual image we want to use something else.

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Um, here's some other tips to kind of help you go above and beyond.

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So we have text. Let's go ahead and maybe add some text here just so you can see what are some options here.

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Um, and uh, also what we can do under the text, um, is we can add text effects.

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So that's kind of an option. Or if we choose the text we've already created and scroll down, then we have text effects here.

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And let's say maybe if it's music and I'm talking about like acoustic guitar, things like that,

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maybe I want the text to look like wood because maybe I'm going to put like an acoustic guitar with it.

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Maybe it's going to be sort of warm wood type background or type environment.

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And now, you know, this did a pretty good job. It looks like wood.

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So this makes a really unique text, you know, that nobody else would have.

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That would be really cool. Um, so there's that. Also some other unique things that might be fun is the text to image.

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So we can use generative AI art inside of Adobe Express, uh, to create our own, uh, images.

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So from here we can describe something like maybe, maybe want a cute music note character.

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Cartoon style. Something like that.

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And then we have some options on here about what type of content do we want it to look like?

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Is there a certain style we want? Um, you know, I'm just going to leave it as it is for now.

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We can always adjust it later. Let's go ahead and hit generate.

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So this is using Adobe Firefly, which is Adobe's AI modeler.

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It's only trained on Adobe Stock images and open source images.

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So it is, um, copyright friendly. Um, it's not you're not violating any copyright by using this.

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It's royalty free. Oh. Very cute. So he's.

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This one's pretty cute, but there's some other options, too. Over here.

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This one looks more like a whistle, but this one's pretty good.

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So this could be a fun little thing. So you could use it to create something novel and unique like this.

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If you can't find that in stock, you could ask it to create it. Um, just check the AI art, make sure it's kind of doing what you want and all of that.

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And you can also adjust it by choosing what style like this is art.

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We could choose chosen photo. If we're looking for real humans, then we could, um, have it, have it do photography.

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So, um, that's an option for kind of going above and beyond, uh, other things that you can do.

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Then you can also resize to say, um, a, uh, a flier, eight and a half by 11 flier.

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You could resize the social media and get that deployed, all of that.

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Um, so lots of kind of options there, which is, which are pretty fun.

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You can even translate into different languages. So that might be helpful.

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Um, in some clinical settings is it will translate to whatever language you want, uh, whatever text you have up on the screen.

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Also, this is a great tool for you to use in your careers because, um, Adobe does give Adobe Express away for free to all nonprofits.

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So if you end up working in a nonprofit area, um, even if you don't express is something like $10 a month commercially out in,

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out in the world, and a lot of clinics may not have their own graphic designers.

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and this is an easy tool that you can use that is still powerful and can create lots of different things.

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You could use this to create your own presentations.

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Uh, use this in other classes, um, all kinds of neat things.

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You can also upload your own photos, by the way.

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So if you wanted to use your own items because you are marketing something very specific, that is an option as well.

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One other item I wanted to show you, that kind of goes above and beyond addition to generative AI art and text effects.

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Um is the logo maker. You may want to have it help you make your own logo.

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Um, you can do that yourself by using the icons and the shapes in the text, and then group them together and choose your colors.

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And then you search logo maker. There's kind of a little hidden, uh, logo maker wizard, which is really fun.

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And you give it a name. You give it what industry it is, and then maybe a slogan.

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Uh, therapy. Uh, for all.

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It's health care. So we'll go ahead and choose that. Or if it was education, you could choose that.

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And our slogan is going to be something like. Melodies for the mind.

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Uh, quick little tip to. I actually used copilot.

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We all have access to Microsoft copilot at copilot dot Microsoft.com.

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Uh, to use generative AI language model to generate some possible slogans.

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So that was kind of a fun thing that I did. I, I combined some of them that it came up with afterwards and picked what I would liked.

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So melodies for the mind, music therapy for all health care.

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Let's go ahead and hit next. Now it wants a style.

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How would you describe it? Um, in this case, minimal.

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Any of these could work. Um, you know, for music therapy, it could be like a little more elegant.

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So I may pick that, but any of these could work, and you can decide what style you want for yours.

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So I'm gonna choose elegant for mine and then hit next.

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So we'll look for that and we'll think about what kind of music might work.

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That people might like. Maybe this one that we saw before.

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You know, because it kind of includes several different instruments and stuff like that.

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You know, do we like any of these? Um, I don't know, maybe something like this one seemed pretty cool.

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It's given me a nice little logo with some, uh, you know, a nice sort of comms color scheme.

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You know, blue is calming, right? And not against a stark white background, but a slightly yellow background.

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Very soothing music therapy for all. Very clearly written as like the place where it is happening.

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And melodies for the mind is in a nice script, and if we like it, we can go ahead and hit download.

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or you could also open in the editor and continue working on your particular logo and uh, and adjust it further.

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But that's how you can kind of mash these tools up and put them together by using, uh, you know, the logo maker to kind of help you with that.

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All right. So I'm going to X out of that. And with that, that basically concludes, um, our session on Adobe Express and a learning,

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uh, how to use it a bit express to create things like digital signage.

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It has lots of other things that you can use in it, such as presentations, videos, um, you know,

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you can even set up your own brand for yourself, you know, and market yourself all kinds of neat things.

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And for small businesses, it works out great because you can also schedule your own social media right in here, just like Hootsuite.

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So some great opportunities there. Um, to get assistance.

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A reminder that you can see our Adobe consultants, um, just look at their schedule here.

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Come on over to the library. First floor. No appointment needed.

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Just walk in. Uh, first come, first serve. And then we also are available via zoom.

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Um, if you need assistance. Okay. So, uh, best wishes for your project.

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Uh, let us know how we can help more. Have a great day.