It’s a heart breaking experience and it is one that Adobe has addressed in many of their most recent updates, allowing all (if not, the majority) of your progress to be recovered (irregardless of if you saved right before the crash) after a surprise crash or shutdown.

The most frustrating thing to happen when using the many creative apps is to have your computer suddenly and crash on you and lose not only your progress, but time that you simply can’t get back. These and other Creative Cloud applications also allow you to utilize the assets that are already stored from within your libraries and save them back for use when you are back at your desktop or laptop. Spark is one of the newer applications that is pretty powerful in letting users easily make and edit video on the go and even make beautiful customized social media posts. Capture allows you to use your smartphone to capture swatch themes, patterns, and even brushes that catch your eye when you are out and about.

Comp CC allows you to make gestures to create shapes, place holder boxes, and text boxes to create your own layouts, mock-ups, and wireframes on the go on either your phone or tablet. There are a lot of great apps available such as Adobe Comp CC, Capture, and Spark. Lately I have been taking huge advantage of some of the great applications available to CC members which allow for a great connected workflow away from the desktop or laptop.

This platform is great for designers, illustrators, and animators, allowing them to create animations for many different web platforms. Adobe Animate is fairly new and was previously Adobe Flash Professional. Experience Design changes the landscape for UX designers, giving them an all in one wire-framing and prototyping platform to bring their creations to life to not only view, but test before sending off to app developers to launch. Some of the most powerful and useful applications that are exclusive to CC users are Muse, Experience Design, and Animate.Īdobe Muse has become a favorite app for me and my projects as it allows visual designers to take their vision for responsive website designs and bring them to life without having a strong background in coding and allowing. There many applications that have spawned since Adobe dropped the Creative Suite and many are invaluable now and extremely innovative, allowing for a much more productive and time-saving workflow. Whats great about having your files inside of the Creative Cloud is that you are able to make changes to them, save them, and have the changes made across all of the applications that they appear in by re-syncing to the cloud.Įarlier this year, Adobe made included a huge addition to CC Libraries, and that came in the form of allowing users to search through the Adobe Stock Library from within CC Libraries, allowing you to preview stock photos in your application and decide whether or not to purchase the image(s) seamlessly without once having to go into your web browser. The primary focus of CC Libraries is having the ability to store any of your creative assets, such as color swatches, images, vectors, and even Character Styles to the cloud for use across a variety of programs. So let’s break down CC Libraries and what this brings to the creative workflow. This feature alone is reason enough to make the switch to CC and I can make an article with this feature alone.

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