Creative Cloud Libraries and AEM Assets

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In this video, you’ll learn about Adobe Experience Manager assets and how it integrates with Adobe Creative Cloud libraries for seamless collaboration. Let’s start by logging into Experience Manager assets with a user that has permissions to edit libraries. Libraries and AEM assets are used to share assets between teams or individual users. Designers, project managers, and technical marketing teams can use library assets within their Adobe applications, such as Creative Cloud applications and share finalized assets directly within those applications back to AEM assets. In this default view, you can see your personal libraries or the team libraries that you’re following. If you want to see all libraries that are shared with you and your team, you can click Browse All. Currently, in AEM assets, we don’t have any libraries set up, so let’s create a library for our branding and logo assets. Start by selecting Libraries from the left navigation, followed by selecting Create Library from the top right. Let’s provide a descriptive name for our library, keeping in mind that the assets we want to add are logos approved for use in our marketing materials. There are two storage options. Personal storage will create a private library that will only be visible to you. Private libraries might contain specific assets not yet approved for production or internal assets for designers that other team members do not need access to. Storage will create a team library stored within a project. A project is a place within your organization where you and your team can collaborate and share files, libraries, and more. To see this option, your administrator must create a project in the admin console and assign permissions to the users within your organization. Because the assets we want to add are logo assets, let’s create a library within our weekend project. Now that we’ve created a library, we can add some assets to it. There are two ways to add assets to a library. The first is to double-click into the library and select Add Elements from the top right corner. This allows us to upload files directly from our computer, similar to adding assets. The second and more common use case is to add assets already in AEM assets to our new library. We can navigate to assets from the left navigation and find the Weekend site folder with our logos. Then, within the folder, select the assets we wish to copy to the library. After selecting an asset, we can use the Copy to Libraries option in the action bar to add the selected asset to our approved brand assets library. Let’s add another one. Heading back to our library, we can see that our brand assets are now available. Next, let’s create a second library. This library will contain any potential assets we want to use in our Summer Adventure campaign for the Whistler Mountain Bike Tour. After selecting the Project Storage option and providing a name, let’s navigate to our Whistler Mountain Biking assets and add a few to populate the library. Now that we’ve created our libraries, let’s look at how we can use them within Adobe Creative Cloud. Since both libraries are stored within our weekend project, anyone with permissions for this project will have access to them in Creative Cloud applications. Let’s head to Adobe Express and open the file with the social media post for the Summer Adventure campaign that we’ve been working on. In the left navigation, we can browse all libraries that are shared with us. As you can see, we have both libraries that we’ve created listed here. We can click into the library to view its contents. For our post, I’ll simply drag an image from the Summer Adventure campaign library onto the canvas and adjust its size. I think this looks good. Now we can head back to the libraries list and grab the approved weekend logo from our branding library to complete the design. Regardless of the Creative Cloud application we’re working in, we always have access to the assets within our Project Storage. For example, if we design our social media post in Adobe Photoshop, we can access our libraries directly within the application. As we did in Express, we can drag and drop our approved logo from the library onto the canvas. Additionally, we can save assets to the library directly within Photoshop. The original bike image we’re using in our post is not in the Summer Adventure campaign library, so we can drag this asset within Photoshop onto the library folder. Back in AEM Assets, we can see this new asset has been added to our library. You can also export an asset from a library to AEM Assets. This is helpful when you add new assets to your libraries in Creative Cloud applications and then want to have a copy in AEM Assets. In our case, let’s export the image we’ve added to our Summer Adventure campaign in Photoshop to AEM. After selecting an asset, we can use the Export to AEM option in the Action Bar and then find the folder in which we want to store the asset. If we now navigate to that folder in Assets, we will see that our image has been added here. You should now have an idea of how you can use AEM Assets with Adobe Creative Cloud libraries to easily collaborate across teams. Thanks for watching!