DocumentationAssets Essentials Guide

Get started using Adobe Experience Manager Assets Essentials

Last update: June 8, 2023
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Managing your digital assets using Assets Essentials requires only three simple steps:

  • Step 1: Upload and view assets.
  • Step 2: Search and download assets.
  • Step 3: Manage and organize the assets.

To use Assets Essentials, log in at https://experience.adobe.com/#/assets. When logging in, select Company or School Account. To receive access, contact your organization’s administrator.

In addition, more reference information that can be helpful is understanding of the user interface, list of use cases, and known issues.

Receive access to Assets Essentials

Adobe provisions the solution and adds the designated person from your organization as an administrator. The administrators can provide access to various users from the organization by using Admin Console. For requests related to your access, contact your organization’s administrator.

When logging in, after providing the credentials, Assets Essentials prompts you to select an account. In this case, select Company or School Account to proceed.

Configure Assets Essentials

To open preferences, click on the avatar in the upper-right corner of the user interface. You can switch between the light and the dark themes in the solution preferences.

If you are part of different organizations, you can also change the organization and access your accounts across various organizations.

To change your Experience Cloud preferences, Click Preferences.

Preference to switch dark and light theme

Assets Essentials use cases

The various digital asset management (DAM) tasks that you can accomplish using Assets Essentials are below.

User tasksFunctionality and how-to information
Browse and view assets
  • Browse the repository
  • Preview an asset
  • View renditions of an asset
  • View versions of an asset
Add new assets
  • Upload new assets and folders
  • Monitor upload progress and manage uploads
  • Resolve duplicates
Update assets or related information
  • Edit images
  • Create versions and view versions
  • Edit images
Edit assets
  • In-browser edits using Adobe Photoshop Express
  • Crop for a social media profile
  • View and manage versions
  • Use Adobe Asset Link
Search for assets in the repository
  • Search within a specific folder
  • Saved searches
  • Search for recently viewed assets
  • Full-text search
Download assets
  • Preview asset
  • Download assets
  • Download renditions
Metadata operations
  • View detailed metadata
  • Update metadata
  • Create new metadata form
Integration with other solutions
  • Use Asset Selector in Adobe Journey Optimizer
  • Adobe Asset Link for Creative Cloud
  • Integration with Adobe Workfront

Next Steps

  • Watch a video to get started with Assets Essentials

  • Provide product feedback using the Feedback option available on the Assets Essentials user interface

  • Provide documentation feedback using Edit this page edit the page or Log an issue create a GitHub issue available on the right sidebar

  • Contact Customer Care

Related Articles
  • Understand the user interface
  • Release notes and known issues
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