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[Auto-generated transcript. Edits may have been applied for clarity.]
Today we're going to be talking about, um, Adobe Express web page specifically.

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I do have a presentation page that you are welcome to follow along with.

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Um, it might be helpful for you to make a note of this page or jot it down or pull it up on your computer,

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because there may be some interesting resources that you might want to access later.

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Um, and so if you would like to access the presentation page for today,

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you can go to RB, RBI slash I RC that's for innovation and research Commons Adobe CC.

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And that will take you to this presentation page.

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And once you load that onto your computer, you're actually already accessing an Adobe Express web page.

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So I use Adobe Express web page as a replacement for PowerPoint a lot.

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Um, it's very handy because it does create a permalink URL address.

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And what I do a lot is combine the permalink address.

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If you notice this express web page right up here has this, uh, it just has an automatic URL that gets assigned to it.

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It's kind of like an unlisted Adobe Express link.

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So it's hosted with Adobe, but it is a permalink.

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But it's also not very friendly and I don't and I can't really change that.

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So what I like to do is to pair that with the RB shortener.

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So that's your first little tip for today.

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If you want to give somebody an easy short URL to your web page, you can use the RB shortener or another shortener if you would like to.

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Uh, but you all have access to RB, you just go to a YubiKey in a browser, and then you can create a short URL to whatever you like.

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And that could be to your Adobe Express web page if you like. Um, that's just a little side note.

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Um, if you notice, when you, uh, load this short RB link, it will take you to this page and do a redirect.

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Okay. All right. So on this page, there are a lot of other resources that I won't necessarily go all through today.

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But that way you have this to refer back to um, and, and you can use that in the future.

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So, uh, what we're going to be mostly focusing on today is the Adobe Express web page.

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Um, there are a whole lot of other apps that you get access to through Adobe.

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You're probably already familiar with some of those, but there is a little app sheet here that kind of goes over everything you get access to.

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So take advantage of the Creative Cloud while you have access to it here at Auburn as a student.

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And then, uh, there's some other households kind of videos and things like that.

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Some information about Adobe Express. There's also, um, sort of step by step directions on how to sign into Adobe Express.

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So I'll walk you through that in just a moment.

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But you basically have access to Adobe Express after you just sign up for your Adobe ID, which you should already have.

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You guys are already probably using some Adobe products, so all good.

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And then Adobe expresses web based. So that makes it very easy for you to access you just you can access it wherever you have internet access.

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You don't have to download an app or anything. You can just go to express to B.Com.

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And then you'll continue with email because you already have an Adobe subscription set up with your Auburn email.

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So you'll use your Auburn email address.

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And then just make sure to choose a company or school account, and then it'll probably give you the Auburn Authenticate page.

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There's even a video here to help you in case you need assistance after today on how to log in.

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Uh, but I'm going to walk you through it today as well. But I wanted to point that out.

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That on this resource page are also the instructions.

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There is also a mobile app for Adobe Express, so this might help you for designing on the fly if you're away from your computer.

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So kind of keep that in mind. And then the best way to access Adobe Express is just to go to express started do B.Com in a browser.

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Um, I tend to use Chrome tends to work really well in Chrome.

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It'll work in other browsers too. It's fine. Um, but that's what I kind of recommend.

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But know that there's also a mobile app too. That kind of gets you started.

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And before we hop into express,

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wanted to just kind of remind you of some of the other things or make you aware of some of the other features of Adobe Express that you could use.

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Um, it has lots of templates to help you create social media graphics or fliers, anything from digital, uh, creations to print.

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You could use it to brand yourself. Maybe you make a teaser video for your portfolio and you use express to make that, um.

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There's even generative AI art features that you can create, um, in Adobe Express,

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and it's responsibly sourced artificial intelligence art, which is really nice.

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The, uh, Adobe Firefly, which you also get access to through your Adobe ID, is, um, only trained on Adobe Stock images as well as open source images.

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So if you're interested in AI art, that's a good, responsible way to use, um, AI art in general.

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It's also, you know, safe. It won't do anything inappropriate and that sort of thing.

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Um, you can even do quick things like, uh, edit PDFs.

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Uh, you can edit some graphics pretty quickly for your, um, photography needs.

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You're likely using Photoshop. You're sort of working at a higher level, but if you're on the go and have to do something pretty fast,

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um, this is this could be a good option or you're away from your computer.

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Um, it'll help you create video and audio, even short animations, things like that.

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And you could combine these things with the web page, because anything that you can create sort of within Adobe Express,

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you could then download and then post on to your Adobe Express webpage.

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You don't have to know any code at all for Adobe Express web page.

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It actually doesn't use HTML, so you can't get in there, sort of tweak the code and that sort of thing.

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But because it's so easy to use is very simple to set up.

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And, um, you know, it's it's a little limited in some ways, but it's super quick, super easy to set up.

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Uh, fantastic for tossing a bunch of photos up there that you want people to review, and then you send them a quick link.

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Um, and it it does give you a permalink, which is very nice.

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Um, in general, Adobe Express is all online.

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You don't have to take up storage space on your computer for these types of things, which is nice.

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There's even a social media scheduler and there's even a brand center.

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So you can sort of set up your own brand and then apply that to everything that you create and express.

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So that's kind of a fun thing to a lot of small businesses use this as sort of their all in one solution because they can set up their brand,

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do their scheduling, do all their social media, print fliers, digital signage, all that kind of stuff.

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And if you want to go further with express, there's a user guide link here.

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So if you're looking for something really specific, maybe about Adobe Express web page,

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you're not sure if it does what it is that you're thinking, you can go to that user guide.

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There's also a YouTube channel, um, that uh, only talks about Adobe Express.

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So those are very good as well. And then also on this page I wanted to show you before we hop into express, um,

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there are a lot of other features of express to feel free to, you know, investigate these on your own as well.

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Later. Um, here are some new features that are pretty recent, just in the past year or so.

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And then I wanted to especially show you, um, you also get access to Adobe Stock images.

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You guys are creating your own, which is great, but just be aware of that for your other projects and things like that.

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Um, I wanted to show you are Adobe Express, uh, or Adobe Creative Space page.

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Um, because if you need assistance after today for your Adobe Express web page, um,

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then we have Adobe Student Consultants who work at a help desk, and that is located on the first floor of the library.

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Um, they also manage a zoom room at the same time. So let me just kind of show you that link really quickly.

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Um. And the best thing to do, though. Um, any of them can help you with express.

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Some of them may have more experience with web page than others.

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A lot of them, they know sort of the more intricate apps, you know, such as Photoshop and Illustrator and InDesign and Premiere Pro and all of that.

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Um, but if you stuck on something, they are very good at troubleshooting and helping you figure things out.

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And most of the time, like two students, especially one who's very familiar with Adobe products in general and helping

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and has experience sort of helping people with the apps can figure things out.

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So the first thing to do would be if you need assistance after today would be just to check our schedule here on our website.

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Make sure somebody is actually scheduled to work.

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Um, at the time that you'd like to come get assistance, and then you can either come over and get assistance in person on the first floor,

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or if you can't quite make it over to the library, you can also hop into a zoom room.

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So whenever they have a schedule that's listed here, they are available in person and via zoom.

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Um, so you could share your screen. They could share their screen, um, all of that.

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You can also, uh, click on their pseudonym to see what their specialties are.

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Any of them can help you with Adobe Express, so you don't have to necessarily do that.

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Um, you know, for this project.

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But if you are working in other apps and you might need assistance and other apps that you want to learn, um, it's, it's a good idea to check.

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And when a consultant who has that specialty listed to get assistance at that time.

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All right. So that's the Adobe creative space. Um, and then also on this resource page, I wanted to show you at the end,

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I have a little video here and also a step by step process for how to add anchor links.

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So if you want to now Adobe Express web page doesn't really have like a ton of navigation that it comes with that you can alter.

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Um, and like I said, it's not built on HTML. It's built on Adobe's design code, so you can't get in or tweak it and that sort of thing.

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But anchor links will work. So what you could do for your web page is set up basically like a table of contents at the top,

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and then all you do is use the H2 header feature of the web page, and then you can link to that particular header down on the page.

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So when you click the table of contents it'll bump you down the page. So it's one sort of long page.

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And then you can also build in a back to top and put an anchor link at the top so people can kind of navigate back and forth.

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This video shows you how to do that. It's a little bit tricky.

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It's not too bad, but it is sort of a step by step process.

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So and to make sure I showed you that resource, in case you have a long web page with a lot of content,

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you might want to add a table of contents with those anchor links.

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Okay. All right. So that is essentially the the resources that are available on this page.

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We also have prerecorded videos. Um I'm going to give you a recording from uh today um, as well, um, that you guys can keep.

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Uh, but we also have additional, uh, videos that go more into express.

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And, uh, I have one that specifically on web pages as well.

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But you guys are getting an updated version because there's some new stuff in Adobe Express, which is really cool.

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All right. So what we're going to do is we're going to go back up to our Adobe Express, uh, section here, and we're going to hop into Adobe Express.

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And get started with making a web page.

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So you can either follow along on this page by finding this little video here, and then clicking the link here.

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Or you can just open a new tab on your computer and go to express that adobe.com.

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So I'm going to go ahead and click here, which is the same as going to express I do B.Com.

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And I'm actually going to sign out so you guys can so I can walk you through how to sign in.

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I'll give you a second to get there. It's a really good idea to, uh, follow along if you can.

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If you're not able to follow along today, that's all right. You'll get a recording from today if you need to review it.

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And some people more comfortable just watching and then trying it on their own later, that's totally fine.

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All right, so from here, you want to sign in with Adobe ID or sign in with email.

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You don't want to choose any of these other options. You have an official Auburn subscription.

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So you will put in your entire Auburn, uh, email address.

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So we'll do that. And then we will hit continue.

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And then at this point, you want to make sure you choose company or school account because you have an account with Adobe through Auburn.

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So it's an enterprise level account, and you want to make sure that you sign in to Adobe Access properly, um, so that you get premium access.

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If you just go and randomly make a personal account using even if you choose to use your Auburn email, it won't log you incorrectly.

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So make sure you choose company your school account. And then this is correct.

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We should get the Auburn login screen. This is single sign on.

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This is what we want to see. Put in your Auburn username and password and then you should be into Adobe Express.

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So I'll give you just a minute to kind of get logged in.

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While you're getting logged in, you can also check to make sure you're logged in by clicking your profile on the upper right.

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Make sure it says Dot at Edu. Um, and it should say also that basically you have premium access.

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Uh, your premium access includes things like stock audio and video, which is available inside of Adobe Express.

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We don't get access to audio and video through Adobe Stock through stock.adobe.com, but we do get access to some within express.

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So that's another little advantage that you can, uh, you know, take advantage of.

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Um, let's take a minute to look at the interface here for just a minute of Adobe Express so we can search for things up here.

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We can search for files we've previously created. Uh, we can just search for photos, design assets, web page templates.

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So this is new, um, just in the past, uh, few months, actually.

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So I'm going to show you two ways of making a web page.

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Essentially, I'm going to show you from scratch first so that you can thoroughly understand what are all the features that you get.

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And then I'll also show you the web page templates so you can be more informed when you choose a template,

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if you want to choose that or if you want to make your own, then you can do that as well.

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But also here on the interface you can see it gives you suggested things to start.

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You can create videos, you can create some nails, all that kind of stuff.

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Um, you could create teaser things to post to, um, advertise your webpage.

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Notice there's also the generative AI art that I mentioned here.

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Um, a quick note about generative AI art in general.

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That would be important for people sort of who work in your area to know, um, when you do use the generative AI art in Adobe,

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it is, uh, basically commercially safe because it is only trained on its own Adobe stock.

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It's not violating copyright by what it's been trained on.

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Whereas Midjourney stable diffusion, some others like that are violating copyright because they've just been trained on random images that they've,

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um, you know, scraped from the internet and they didn't have the rights to get trained on those things.

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So Adobe Firefly is a much safer tool to use.

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You may have noticed it's available in Photoshop as well. Um, however, keep in mind that the other side of the coin is true.

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It's commercially safe, but you cannot copyright anything that you created with an AI,

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so that's important for you to understand as designers and as photographers.

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If you alter your images using AI, you'll be able to copyright just the parts that you created as an author or an artist,

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not the parts that you alter with AI. So you there are some artists you know, who will not use AI in their final designs,

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because they want to have the ability to copyright the entire image.

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That would be particularly important if you are working with a client in the future.

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So keep those things in mind. AI art can be great for getting ideas, doing mockups.

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Maybe have a client do a mockup of what they're looking for.

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Great. You know, but your final product, if you're wanting to copyright it, you're not going to be able to do it if you use AI art.

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So just keep it can keep that in mind. Um, there are also other quick tricks that you can do, kind of like in Photoshop.

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You can use generative fill or remove. Um, there are text to templates.

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You can create your social media templates really quickly. There's also text effects, all that kind of stuff.

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So a little side note about that to create anything in Adobe Express.

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Um, and to get all of the choices, you click the little plus sign on the upper left.

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And then you can just search for the suggested items.

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Um, or you can just, uh, search here, uh, within the, uh, description.

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So in our case, we might want to type in web page.

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And, uh, so we can find the correct web page that we want.

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Notice you can make all these other things and it knows what the resolution sizes are and everything.

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So makes it super fast. But we're going to want to go to the web page feature today.

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So make sure you hit the plus sign. And then what page. Web page is actually one of the sort of lesser known features of Adobe Express.

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So I'm glad you guys are kind of investigating it. It can be great for an initial portfolio.

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Now, the first thing that's going to come up is these are these templates.

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So we can take a minute to look at the templates. But we're not going to pick one yet.

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Make sure it meets the parameters of your assignment and what it is that you want.

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Um, but you can search through the templates by and look that has a portfolio option.

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You might check that out later if you like how it set up a class portfolio.

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Getting started with the template. But what we're going to do is create from scratch.

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The first thing we're probably going to want to do is name this so we can get back to it more easily.

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Web page or whatever it is you want to call it. Portfolio, something like that.

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if we go back to the home screen or if we exit out, we just can go to the folder called My Stuff.

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In the your stuff. So we'll click back into it to edit it.

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Uh, make changes to your, uh, web page and everything. Okay, so, um, it's a good idea.

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So that's a good thing to do as well. Now for this header image, you can choose either this full cover and pick a photo or upload your own.

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using the large widescreen resolution size is probably what you would use in express or, you know, Photoshop or whatever.

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Um, so I will do mine on. I'm going to do mine on soccer.

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The little crown means it's premium access which you do have.

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We have like the full license for all educational purposes so we can click our image here.

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And now we've got our header image and we can give this a title. So I might call this my portfolio.

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And then we might call this a soccer. And then we add a subtitle.

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Okay. And then it tells you to scroll to start writing your story.

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You're going to scroll down and as we scroll down, let's take a minute to see what our options are so we can add a photo.

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This would just be a standalone photo and we have some options for that.

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If you wanted some videos sort of on your portfolio, get it created embedded in there first and hosted and then, uh, just copy and paste that URL.

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You don't even need the embed code. It makes it super easy. There is a photo grid feature.

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This helps you sort of arrange your photos in a very nice way to sort of automatically, uh, put the landscape ones at landscape and portrait.

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One's a portrait and kind of put them together like Tetris and do a really good job with that.

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and so you can describe what's going on in the photo or whatever it is that you want to talk about your project that you did and all of that.

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Um, let's go ahead and just try to add some things to our page.

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So you kind of get a feel for it, and it's fine if you just make sort of like a pretend portfolio for today,

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just to kind of learn the features and play around with it. You might want to make your real one later okay.

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You would have a plan for how the order you want them in, you know, how do you want them organized all of that.

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Um, I'm going to keep going with my soccer theme. That's just going to be kind of easy to do.

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Just means it'll be sort of centered in the middle. Fill screen means it's as big as possible, and I can add a caption that's kind of nice.

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I could add some information about where I took this photo and that sort of thing.

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Window sort of just peeks through. That may not be as useful for you guys.

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Um, and those are kind of the options that you get for the photos. You can also move this photo up and down.

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You can replace it or you can delete it. So we'll go back to inline just to make it easier for us to see.

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the things that we are inserting on our page that's just helping you insert more things.

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you'll see a little gear on the bottom right hand corner, and if you click that, then you can enter the alt text for that particular image.

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on the ground person kicking soccer ball, uh, sunset in the background, something like that.

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Copy and paste the alt text into Adobe Express. All of you get access to Microsoft Copilot copilot dot microsoft.com sign in.

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It's a protected instance. It doesn't train on your content. That's that's another little tip for alt text.

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So let's add some text. So let's add some simple soccer text here okay.

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So if I wanted to link to this section I would have to make it either header one or header two size.

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There's also this little quote feature that's kind of nice. It just gives you a little stylized text.

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So that's a good thing to do if you're trying to take people to different places, you know, where you maybe shot the photo and all that kind of stuff.

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You would say, uh, soccer page or something like that, and then link to whatever URL you want to link to.

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Um, we'll just link to. Um, we'll just link to something random.

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We'll choose to have it centered. And then now this is the active link to that to that web page.

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Remember I told you, um, you just have to put in the URL and then it's embedded so that there's an option and then photo grid.

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Let's do this. Um, so you can choose multiple photos for your photo grid.

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I'll just choose a bunch of random ones and see how it kind of resizes them and kind of puts them together a little bit nicely.

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You know, the, um, you know, the alt text and all of that added caption, that sort of thing.

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So that's a photo grid. Notice it does kind of decide the sizes for you.

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So it looks like it's cropped. It's um, that may not be what you want.

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We'll just pick like a couple 2 or 3, something like that. And we'll hit save.

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The glide show. What it does is it gives you a little bit of what they call parallax animation without you having to know any code at all,

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so it makes it a little bit more dynamic. And notice you can add a little caption here.

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You could add another photo. You could add text describing this photo, uh, even a button or a video or something from Adobe Express.

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Um, and see how does a little bit of animation there.

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So that's kind of a cool way to interact with your photos, you know, rather than being a little bit more static.

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So that might be a feature that you might want to check out. And then finally the split layout here we can add an image, uh, here as well.

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And then we can add some text over here. So this could be the sample text describing this particular photography project, how it was accomplished.

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I've had students use this as like a project, um, sort of container.

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So they were history class. They were tasked with creating a project that was like semester long.

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They had to show progress of their project over the semester. And so they used the express web page.

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um, and then some sort of description about the progress they had made to that point.

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And they just did that, uh, you know, sequentially throughout the semester so that by the end of the semester,

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they had this really great artifact showing all of their learning and their their semester

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project was essentially done by that point because they just kept adding to it as they went.

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That's a good thing to do with your portfolios, too, right?

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Uh, it's can be intimidating to keep them updated so, you know, have a plan for that, which would be good.

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Okay. And then you could also add from your stuff, if you had created things in Adobe Express, then you could bring those in.

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So that is also another option. Um, you may want to add some text here.

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you might think about if you want like an artist bio, um, you know, what information would be pertinent.

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Um, you know, to put on a portfolio, maybe, uh, maybe you put a little, uh, all rights reserved in your name at the bottom,

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something like that, you know, to, um, let people know that this is your work.

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design preview and and look at what your web page looks like before you really like,

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publish it and send it out to people. Right now we are in edit mode, so we've been editing this whole time.

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If we go to the little eyeball feature in the upper right hand corner, then we can preview it.

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And this shows us what our webpage will look like to people that we just send this link to.

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Um, this is the public facing part of the page. It hasn't been published yet.

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It's just, um, a preview, but I can use this to double check and make sure everything is working.

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Always check and make sure your links are all working properly.

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Yeah. And then to get back out of the preview mode, you have a little X on the upper right hand corner.

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So you can just x out of that. Now you're out of preview mode.

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Um this little play button, uh, by the way, just means, uh, you want to present this web page.

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Some people use this as a replacement for PowerPoint. So present just puts your web page full screen.

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That's the only difference. I tend to like to.

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Even if I'm presenting a web page, use the preview button.

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Um, or just, you know, use the regular public link as a tab, because I'd like to be able to open up other tabs pretty easily.

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This really goes full screen across your entire computer, which could be what you want.

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So that's an option. Now the most important part, after we have sort of constructed our portfolio, is to publish it.

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Right now, nobody else has access to this. It's just inside of our own Adobe account.

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Um, so to share it, you would hit the share button. Now, what's really cool is now you can invite collaborators.

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So if you were doing a group project and you needed to do an express web page together, you could do that.

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They just have to also have an Adobe ID set up. Um, so that's a feature for you guys.

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This is a, uh, individual project, so you don't need that yet.

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But just keep that in mind for other group projects.

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You can do that with anything in Adobe Express except for the video.

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You can't do that yet. Invite collaborators. But the graphics, um, and, uh, the web page, you can do that.

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So but notice there's an option to publish to web.

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So that's what we want to do. We want to publish this page.

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nobody else is really going to see this web page unless we share the link with them.

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So it's pretty safe for you while you're editing and while you're working on your page to go ahead and publish it.

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So we're go ahead and hit Publish to web. We may give it a title here.

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If this is your portfolio page, you know, credit yourself for your own photography work.

378
00:35:06,137 --> 00:35:10,427
We don't want to allow others to remix, you know, you don't want to share your portfolio with other people.

379
00:35:10,427 --> 00:35:14,476
You can turn on to show people who you are as an author.

380
00:35:14,477 --> 00:35:18,377
That would be fine. It just kind of puts your name at the bottom is all it does.

381
00:35:18,737 --> 00:35:22,966
Um, you can password protect your, uh, web page.

382
00:35:22,967 --> 00:35:27,106
I wouldn't recommend it in this case because you want people to see it. You want it to be more public.

383
00:35:27,107 --> 00:35:37,487
But note that you could do that. Um, one case where you might want to do that is let's say you have to submit a portfolio page to a contest.

384
00:35:38,117 --> 00:35:42,407
In that case, you might want to password protect it. You know, that could be an option.

385
00:35:42,407 --> 00:35:47,657
And then you give the people that you're submitting it to the password. But anyway you will just hit create link.

386
00:35:50,047 --> 00:35:53,257
Oh, and it looks like. Oh, no. It says is being, uh.

387
00:35:53,437 --> 00:35:57,157
Uh, if I another user. It's really not. I didn't share it, but that's okay.

388
00:35:57,517 --> 00:36:06,106
We'll just refresh. Sometimes a web based, you know, it kind of can mess up a little bit from time to time.

389
00:36:06,107 --> 00:36:10,157
So we'll just do a refresh and see what we got here, and then we'll try it again.

390
00:36:10,157 --> 00:36:13,486
Published a web and this is all correct.

391
00:36:13,487 --> 00:36:16,917
So we'll just hit Create link. Now it's going to publish it.

392
00:36:18,057 --> 00:36:23,217
So once it publishes your project, then this is your link.

393
00:36:23,247 --> 00:36:26,757
Again, you don't get to choose what your link is.

394
00:36:26,787 --> 00:36:31,077
That's why I showed you the RB shortener that I use. Or you could use another shortener.

395
00:36:31,557 --> 00:36:41,197
And then if you want to see like what your web page looks like in its final version, you could just copy this and then open up a new uh uh, tab here.

396
00:36:41,217 --> 00:36:48,807
Copy and paste it. And then this is the URL that you would then submit to people as your final portfolio.

397
00:36:48,807 --> 00:36:55,227
So it's not that edit link. You know, people make the mistake of going to the edit version and sharing this link.

398
00:36:55,227 --> 00:37:03,827
That is not correct. You have to publish it um, first and then you have to copy and paste this link.

399
00:37:03,837 --> 00:37:12,056
This is your final published, uh, link. Okay. Um, and then you also have, um, let's say you make some changes to it.

400
00:37:12,057 --> 00:37:16,357
So let's make a quick change. Let's just add another photo real quick.

401
00:37:16,407 --> 00:37:22,257
We'll add this one. Perfect. It's going to take a second to load and save.

402
00:37:22,887 --> 00:37:28,737
And again it saves as we go. Uh which is nice. But now notice I've made a change to my page.

403
00:37:29,127 --> 00:37:36,027
Nobody's going to see this change unless I republish my page with those changes.

404
00:37:36,297 --> 00:37:38,397
So that's a super important concept to understand.

405
00:37:38,397 --> 00:37:45,627
If you've never done any sort of web, um, management before, if you've never created a web page before and had to, uh, manage that.

406
00:37:46,047 --> 00:37:48,387
That's an important concept to understand.

407
00:37:48,837 --> 00:37:55,107
Um, if you want your professor and everybody else to see the edits that you have made after you've published it,

408
00:37:55,497 --> 00:38:01,767
you have got to go to the share button again and publish the changes and notice it prompts you.

409
00:38:01,857 --> 00:38:05,037
It says, hey, you made some changes, you might want to republish them.

410
00:38:05,277 --> 00:38:12,867
It does that. So in case you are not ready to publish those edits just yet, it's waiting for you to trigger that.

411
00:38:13,437 --> 00:38:17,337
Okay. So that's super important. Now your link does not change.

412
00:38:17,667 --> 00:38:22,017
Your link will stay the same. Um, so that's very that's that's good.

413
00:38:22,017 --> 00:38:25,407
Just know that you have to republish the changes to that same link.

414
00:38:25,777 --> 00:38:29,557
Uh, once you give somebody the link, it's the same, you know, throughout.

415
00:38:29,577 --> 00:38:35,607
That's why I like to use it as a replacement for the PowerPoint presentations that I do along with these workshops,

416
00:38:35,877 --> 00:38:42,027
because then if anyone accesses this content in the future, they're always going to have the most updated version.

417
00:38:42,537 --> 00:38:46,527
I don't have to go and send them new PowerPoint file, whatever.

418
00:38:47,157 --> 00:38:48,627
So that's what's really nice about that.

419
00:38:49,077 --> 00:38:56,517
This is also a great solution if you are involved in like a student club or we have a lot of student clubs who used Adobe Express,

420
00:38:56,517 --> 00:39:01,947
you know, as their solution for their own graphic design, their own social media projects.

421
00:39:02,127 --> 00:39:06,837
You can create a web page as a short landing page for like a, um, you know,

422
00:39:07,047 --> 00:39:11,667
it's great as a temporary page that you just need for maybe like an event one time or whatever.

423
00:39:11,967 --> 00:39:15,356
Um, so lots of great things that you can do with the web page. Okay.

424
00:39:15,357 --> 00:39:15,687
Now.

425
00:39:16,607 --> 00:39:25,307
You may be asking, hey, I could see how you could sort of add text and change photos, but what if I want to change sort of the style of the webpage?

426
00:39:25,307 --> 00:39:31,757
So it's a bit limited in that. But here's something that you can do to adjust the style of your web page.

427
00:39:32,027 --> 00:39:35,027
You can go to these themes up here at the top.

428
00:39:36,607 --> 00:39:44,127
And over here on the left hand side, you have some preset themes that are already here.

429
00:39:44,137 --> 00:39:51,697
And if you choose a different theme, it's going to apply those particular settings throughout your web page for you.

430
00:39:52,147 --> 00:39:57,487
So that's very nice in in many ways and also a little limiting in some ways.

431
00:39:57,487 --> 00:40:05,957
Right. So when I applied the track, um, theme, it changed all of my fonts to that particular theme.

432
00:40:05,977 --> 00:40:11,257
I didn't have to go through and say, oh, this should be this font style, and this should be this font style and this size and yada, yada.

433
00:40:11,437 --> 00:40:17,347
It did all that for me, which is very nice. That's a great way to sort of refresh the look of your web page very quickly.

434
00:40:17,527 --> 00:40:22,267
It doesn't change anything on it other than just the style. Um, so that's an option.

435
00:40:22,657 --> 00:40:26,467
So you have these preset ones that you could choose, uh, which are pretty cool.

436
00:40:26,977 --> 00:40:31,567
Uh, something neat and clean usually works pretty well for a portfolio.

437
00:40:31,837 --> 00:40:37,207
Kind of depends on the vibe that you're going for. It may depend on the type of photography that you're into or that you do.

438
00:40:37,597 --> 00:40:40,927
Um, so you can think about that. Crisp is one that's just neat and clean.

439
00:40:41,107 --> 00:40:46,837
So that's an idea. Uh, check might be more for outdoor photography that might have a better vibe for that.

440
00:40:47,197 --> 00:40:54,067
Um, you know, so you have some options there. There are some new themes that they are adding to Express Web page.

441
00:40:54,307 --> 00:40:56,887
And notice these themes. You can also edit them.

442
00:40:57,367 --> 00:41:07,597
So if you wanted to go with, say, the bold impact theme and see how that looks, but then also edit it, you have some options to edit this theme.

443
00:41:08,047 --> 00:41:13,687
So you can kind of take this theme as a template and customize it a bit, and then apply that as your own theme.

444
00:41:14,197 --> 00:41:19,087
Notice it's got a spot for you to put your logo, which you could use Adobe Express to make.

445
00:41:19,087 --> 00:41:22,507
Or maybe you already have your own created. You could upload that here.

446
00:41:22,897 --> 00:41:26,307
You can choose the background, the title, the header, the footer.

447
00:41:26,317 --> 00:41:29,587
You can alter all these things. What style is header one?

448
00:41:29,587 --> 00:41:32,597
What style is header to uh what style is the quote?

449
00:41:32,617 --> 00:41:38,497
What do the buttons look like? What did the links look like? Um, you know, the photos in general.

450
00:41:38,617 --> 00:41:41,617
You know, how well, how are they sized all of that.

451
00:41:41,617 --> 00:41:45,817
So that is the edit theme option. You can give that and uh, give that a try.

452
00:41:46,057 --> 00:41:52,626
See what you like. Um, you might throw some content into your page first so you can see how it alters it.

453
00:41:52,627 --> 00:42:00,487
And then, um, maybe just a little bit of content enough so that you could tell what it's doing to your designs and then decide your theme,

454
00:42:00,487 --> 00:42:05,917
you know, and go with that. I'm going to cancel that because I don't really want to save any of these changes.

455
00:42:06,727 --> 00:42:13,117
Notice that in addition to choosing a theme and then editing it, you can also create your own.

456
00:42:13,597 --> 00:42:17,217
So this could be an option. You could create your own custom theme.

457
00:42:17,227 --> 00:42:24,667
Name it whatever you want. Um, decide from scratch what you want the background color to look like, the title, the header.

458
00:42:24,697 --> 00:42:29,487
You know, the style of the font, uh, the buttons, all of that kind of stuff.

459
00:42:29,497 --> 00:42:38,407
So, um, even just in the past couple of months that have Express's updated web page to kind of give you some more customization, which is really nice.

460
00:42:38,737 --> 00:42:43,167
Okay. So, um, that is essentially getting started.

461
00:42:43,177 --> 00:42:48,247
I'm not going to, um, change anything up with the theme, uh, for this particular portfolio.

462
00:42:48,517 --> 00:42:52,837
Uh, but that kind of gives you some ideas of, uh, getting started in the web page.

463
00:42:53,257 --> 00:42:57,167
Um, and, uh, web page is really fun. I enjoy it a lot.

464
00:42:57,187 --> 00:43:04,797
Again, I use it for like, all of my, uh, presentations that I do for my workshops because then everybody always has the most updated content,

465
00:43:04,807 --> 00:43:10,207
especially with something like Adobe changing, um, a lot changing frequently.

466
00:43:10,567 --> 00:43:15,216
Um, it's important, especially with the, I, um, you know, to be able to update it.

467
00:43:15,217 --> 00:43:18,637
And then everybody's got the most up to date content. So something I really like.

468
00:43:18,937 --> 00:43:23,287
It works well for a especially a beginner portfolio to get started in it.

469
00:43:24,067 --> 00:43:27,907
And then as you advance, you know, you might choose something else in the future.

470
00:43:28,177 --> 00:43:36,007
One other thing I would also say, no matter what sort of platform you choose for doing a portfolio for yourself,

471
00:43:36,397 --> 00:43:40,867
always have a backup of all of your content in that portfolio.

472
00:43:41,287 --> 00:43:49,867
Um, on in a cloud drive, either box or OneDrive, or on your computer on an external hard drive or something.

473
00:43:50,257 --> 00:43:58,117
Um, you wouldn't want to sort of take the content that you want to put in your portfolio, put it up on some website,

474
00:43:58,357 --> 00:44:03,577
and then maybe lose access to that website at some point, and then all of your stuff is stuck there.

475
00:44:03,787 --> 00:44:09,337
So always, always, always have your stuff for your portfolio, all of your content.

476
00:44:09,457 --> 00:44:13,257
Have a copy of that separate from your web page.

477
00:44:13,267 --> 00:44:18,157
That's good practice anyway, because you're going to want to sort of organize your files and your stuff first,

478
00:44:18,487 --> 00:44:25,627
and then upload copies of the pieces that you want to that particular website that helps you change out your portfolio.

479
00:44:25,807 --> 00:44:30,337
That helps you kind of keep it current and maintain master files of all of your stuff.

480
00:44:30,337 --> 00:44:35,557
So you probably want to keep like the PDF files as well as the Jpeg file that you then upload.

481
00:44:36,047 --> 00:44:40,607
To your web page to make it easier for it to load, faster for it to load, and so on.

482
00:44:40,727 --> 00:44:44,634
Okay. All right. So, um, I'm going to stop there and see if you guys have, uh, questions.