Tips for getting started

New to Creative Cloud? Here’s what you can do for free:

Get a free Creative Cloud membership and try the entire collection of 20+ creative desktop and mobile apps — including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign — free for 7 days. Learn more

With a free membership, you’ll also get access to free fonts and learning content as well as starter plans for the following apps:

• Adobe Fresco for digital drawing and painting
  
• Adobe Spark for easily creating social media content in just a few steps
• Adobe Premiere Rush for quickly creating, editing and sharing online videos
• Adobe XD for designing and collaborating on user experiences for websites, mobile apps and more
• Adobe Scan for creating PDFs from paper or whiteboards
• Adobe Acrobat Reader for reviewing and working with PDFs

See all the benefits of a free Creative Cloud membership.

Here’s what you can do if you’re a Creative Cloud member: 

Your Creative Cloud licence allows you to install your apps on up to two devices. So if you’re away from your primary work computer, just log in to the Creative Cloud desktop app and re-install your applications on another machine. Learn more

If you don’t have your fonts installed on your home computer, don’t worry. You can easily access over 15,000 fonts in three easy steps. Learn more

Use Adobe Capture on your mobile device to turn photos into production-ready colour themes, patterns, vector-based shapes, 3D materials, type and customised brushes that you can use in your other Creative Cloud apps.

Create and discover unique colour themes for all your creative projects with Adobe Color. 

Make graphics, web pages and short videos with Adobe Spark.

Browse Adobe Stock to find images, graphics, videos and other assets in the event that you can’t schedule a photo shoot or create original work from scratch..

Tips for team collaboration.

Keep conversations going with video communication apps including FaceTime, Skype, BlueJeans, Zoom and What’s App or non-video tools like texting, Slack and email.

Invite team members and clients to create projects with you. Or share branded templates with people across your company. It’s simple with Adobe Spark.

Adobe Fresco is a powerful drawing and painting tool that’s easy enough for anyone to use. If you like working on your iPad or Surface, use Adobe Fresco as a whiteboard to capture and share meeting notes with colleagues.

For UI/UX design teams, Coediting (beta) in Adobe XD lets you and other designers design and iterate in the same document in real time. Cloud documents let you create a design system and keep your entire team in sync and designers can use the Whiteboard plugin to ideate together. Learn more about working remotely as a team with XD.

Easily share Creative Cloud documents, assets and work in progress with colleagues and clients thanks to integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Gmail, Jira, Asana and Workfront. Learn more

Share Creative Cloud Libraries to make sure everyone has access to the same design assets. Libraries let you re-use colours, icons, logos and more across all your Creative Cloud apps so you can save time and maintain brand consistency. Libraries also integrate with PowerPoint, so it's easy for teams to design presentations remotely. See how

If you use Creative Cloud video and audio apps, check out our Work from Home Guide for tips on collaborating with your team and keeping projects on track.

Tips for reviewing and approving creative work.

Use video conferencing tools like BlueJeans or Zoom to present your concepts to colleagues and clients and get real-time feedback.

Export your design files as PDFs and share them for review. You can even import comments from a PDF review into Adobe InDesign to easily manage the feedback. Learn more

If you use Adobe XD, you may already know that you can easily share your design or prototype for review. But did you also know you can place an Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator file in XD and use the same review capabilities? Learn more

Tips for publishing creative work.

Create graphics, web pages and videos once and share them to social media, the web and more using Adobe Spark.