What is Adobe Creative Cloud Express?
Adobe Creative Cloud Express – formerly called Adobe Spark – is a cloud-based design platform for creating rich visual and multimedia content with little-to-no design or coding expertise. It is an excellent tool for digital storytelling. Design digital or print graphic projects, such as: social media graphics, website or blog graphics, flyers, postcards, newsletters, infographics, business cards, etc. Create multimedia narratives and digital exhibits with web pages.
In December 2021, Adobe rebranded Adobe Spark as Adobe Creative Cloud Express. If you previously created projects in Adobe Spark, those projects are still available in Adobe Creative Cloud Express.
Adobe Creative Cloud Express can be used from a web browser on your computer. A variety of different mobile apps are also available, depending on the type of content you want to create and your mobile operating system. Because the design application is cloud-based, your account and projects sync across your devices.
Adobe Creative Cloud Express is available as a freemium model, with a free basic version or paid premium upgrades. CSUF makes the premium version available to our students, faculty, and staff. Our CSUF premium subscription allows students to collaborate with each other on their shared projects, using the web version. Team collaboration is not yet supported on the mobile apps.
About This Guide
This guide is available to the public, however it is primarily designed for CSUF students and faculty.
What You Will Find In This Guide
This guide explains:
- what is Adobe Creative Cloud Express
- how to use this application to create graphics
- how to use this application to create videos
- how to use this application to create web pages
- resources available just to CSUF students, faculty, and staff.
Additional Resources to Learn More
- Adobe Creative Cloud Express: YouTube ChannelAdobe Creative Cloud Express publishes a robust collection of videos that walk you through various design project ideas and features.
- Adobe Creative Cloud Express: TutorialsThis is a smaller collection of basic, short, single task-focused YouTube tutorials from tAdobe Creative Cloud Express.
- Adobe Education Exchange: Adobe SparkThe Adobe Education Exchange is the free learning platform and community, designed by educators for educators, to ignite creativity in the classroom. This network provides access to free online courses, workshops, and teaching materials such as lesson plans and sample projects.
- Library Consultation or InstructionI am available to assist CSUF faculty and students. Book a consultation with me, or an instruction session for your class.
