Creative Cloud Libraries let you gather design elements for specific projects, clients, or teams for use within any of your Creative Cloud apps. Libraries help ensure you and your team access the same elements for a project throughout its lifecycle – from creating initial imagery in Photoshop and Illustrator to mocking up website interactions in XD, or creating print collateral in InDesign.

Create and use libraries

Create and use libraries in Creative Cloud apps

You can view and use only the assets relevant to the app you are working in. For example, while you can add Photoshop layer styles to a library, those styles are relevant only to Photoshop.

Click the links below for details on how to create and use libraries in your Creative Cloud apps: 

 For step-by-step information on how to create and use Creative Cloud Libraries, see the style guide.

Use libraries in mobile apps

You can access Creative Cloud Libraries in all mobile apps such as Adobe Capture, Creative Cloud mobile app, and Adobe Fresco. Most mobile apps can use applicable library assets, but can't save assets to a library. In contrast, you can't use library assets in Adobe Capture, but you can save shapes, color themes, brushes, and patterns directly to a library.

Access libraries in your Creative Cloud desktop app

The Creative Cloud desktop app is a convenient place to manage and organize your assets in a workspace that provides more elbow room than the Libraries panel in applications. You can access Your libraries in the Files tab of the Creative Cloud desktop app.

 You can also access and manage your Creative Cloud Libraries in the Creative Cloud website.

Add Adobe Stock images to libraries

Access Adobe Stock images from libraries in a Creative Cloud app

Search for an Adobe Stock image directly from the library in your Creative Cloud app. When you've found an image you like, you can do any of the following:

 Drag the watermarked image from the Libraries panel to your creative project and use it as a placeholder. 

 License it directly in the Library panel using the cart icon.

 Add the watermarked image to your library using the plus sign, then license it once you are sure it is the right image.

Save an Adobe Stock image to your libraries

You can go to the Adobe Stock website and save a watermarked preview of an Adobe Stock image to any of your libraries. For more information, see Using Adobe Stock.

Create library assets using Capture in-app extension

With the Capture in-app extension in Photoshop, quickly turn images into various design elements, such as color themes, patterns, vector shapes, and gradients. These are automatically saved to your libraries and instantly usable in your current project, or other Adobe applications. Learn more.

Use libraries in the Creative Cloud Express app

Access assets from your Creative Cloud Libraries and the libraries shared with you within the Adobe Creative Cloud Express app. Learn more.

Access libraries in other apps

Share libraries with your team

You can share libraries with your team using the Creative Cloud website, the Creative Cloud desktop app, or any of your Creative Cloud desktop apps. Your team members need either a free or a paid Creative Cloud membership to use Creative Cloud Libraries. When you share, you can also give them either view or edit permission. For details on sharing, see Collaborate on libraries.

Use Creative Cloud Libraries to create and share design systems in Adobe XD

Creative Cloud Libraries help your team to centrally manage and distribute design and brand systems assets at scale in Adobe XD. To learn more, see Work with Creative Cloud Libraries in XD.

Browse and follow public libraries

Learn how you can browse and save publicly available libraries in the Creative Cloud desktop app and later use them for your brand and creative projects. 

Export or import Creative Cloud Libraries

Learn how to export or import your Creative Cloud Libraries to your other account.

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