Note:
If you uninstall the Creative Cloud Desktop app and reinstall it as part of some troubleshooting, the Libraries panel inside a Creative Cloud desktop app may stop working. To resolve the problem, see Libraries panel stopped working.
Creative Cloud Libraries makes the core design assets for your brand or personal projects available to you anywhere. Easily collect and organize images, colors, text styles, and other elements created in various Creative Cloud desktop and mobile apps. Then reuse and modify these assets across projects, devices, other Creative Cloud apps, and teams - all from your Creative Cloud Libraries panel.
Creative Cloud Libraries provides a mechanism to collect design assets from various apps, and is not limited to desktop apps only. You can capture inspiration, whenever it strikes, using the family of Creative Cloud mobile apps or even download assets from Adobe Stock.
You can organize design assets into multiple Creative Cloud Libraries. These assets may be based on brands, projects, types of assets, or even your personal favorites that you reuse to create your signature style.
| App | Support for saving assets to Libraries | Support for using assets from Libraries | Resource offering more information |
| Capture | Vector shapes, color themes, brushes, and patterns | N/A | Adobe Capture FAQ |
| Comp | N/A | ✔ | Adobe Comp FAQ |
| Creative Cloud mobile app | N/A | ✔ | Creative Cloud | Common Questions |
| Illustrator Draw | N/A | Images and shapes | Adobe Illustrator Draw FAQ |
| Illustrator Line | N/A | Color and graphics | Adobe Illustrator Line FAQ |
| Photoshop Fix | N/A | ✔ | Adobe Photoshop Fix FAQ |
| Photoshop Mix | N/A | ✔ | Adobe Photoshop Mix FAQ |
| Photoshop Sketch | N/A | Brushes | Adobe Photoshop Sketch FAQ |
| Premiere Clip | N/A | ✔ | Adobe Premiere Clip FAQ |
| App or service | Support for saving assets to Libraries | Support for using assets from Libraries | Resource offering more information |
| Desktop apps | |||
| After Effects | ✔ | ✔ | Creative Cloud Libraries in After Effects |
| Animate | ✔ | ✔ | Creative Cloud Libraries in Animate |
| Bridge | ✔ | N/A | Creative Cloud Libraries in Bridge |
| Dimension | N/A | ✔ | |
| Dreamweaver | ✔ | ✔ | Creative Cloud Libraries in Dreamweaver |
| Illustrator | ✔ | ✔ | Creative Cloud Libraries in Illustrator |
| InDesign | ✔ | ✔ | Creative Cloud Libraries in InDesign |
| Photoshop | ✔ | ✔ | Creative Cloud Libraries in Photoshop |
| Premiere Pro | ✔ | ✔ | Creative Cloud Libraries in Premiere Pro |
| XD | N/A | ✔ | Creative Cloud Libraries in Adobe XD |
| Creative Cloud Market (through the Creative Cloud desktop app) | ✔ | N/A | Creative Cloud Market |
| Web apps | |||
| Creative Cloud Assets | View & manage (rename, delete) only | Creative Cloud Assets | Store and share content | |
Add assets to a library
Creative Cloud Libraries provides a mechanism to capture design assets from a variety of
Mobile
You can add assets to your library using a growing family of Adobe mobile apps. Consult the learning resources for your mobile app to understand how.
Creative Cloud Market
Discover and add assets to Libraries from Creative Cloud Market. Use the Creative Cloud desktop app to browse and add assets from Creative Cloud Market. You can also add assets to a library using Creative mobile apps.
Desktop
Add assets to Creative Cloud Libraries on your computer using a Creative Cloud desktop app. Drag assets to the Libraries panel in the desktop app. You can also view and browse through the libraries on the Creative Cloud Assets page.
See the learning resources for your Creative Cloud desktop app for more information on using Libraries with it.
Use assets from a library in designs
Desktop
In a desktop app supporting Libraries, open the Libraries panel (Window > Libraries) and drag objects to the canvas.
Web
Browse and manage your libraries on the Creative Cloud Assets page. See Browse, sync, and manage assets.
Organize library assets in groups
Desktop
In a desktop app supporting Libraries, you can group library assets to organize them better in one of the following ways:
- Auto-generate groups when no group exists
- Create custom groups
Note:
You must be the owner or have edit rights to order the assets and groups within a library.
When no group exists, you can automatically organize the library assets into groups based on the type of assets such as typography, styles, images, colors, and more.
From the options menu of the library, you can Rename Group, Delete Group, or Delete Group And Contents. When you select Delete Group, the contents of the deleted group are moved to the ungrouped assets.
When viewing your library of groups, you can change the order of your library assets within the groups, as well as change the order of groups within the library.
Order library assets within groups
Drag and drop the library assets within the group or between groups to specify the order. By default, the assets are sorted in a chronological order - the recently added assets are listed at the top. When you change the order of assets in a group, the same order is visible across all applications and to the collaborators of the library.
Order groups within a library
Drag and drop the groups to order groups within a library. When you change the order of group in a library, the same order is visible across all applications and to the collaborators of the library.
Add note to an asset
Desktop
You can add a note to a library asset to provide a brief description of the asset or its usage. To add a note to an asset, right-click the asset in the Library panel, and then select Add Note. Enter the note text up to 130 characters.
Assets with note have a note icon. The note icon and the description are visible when you hover the mouse over the asset. You can also use the note content in the search field to search for related assets in the library.
You can Edit Note or Delete Note from the context menu of the asset.
Collaborate on or share links to a library
Desktop
Open the Libraries panel (Window > Libraries) in a desktop app that supports Creative Cloud Libraries. Now, from the panel flyout menu, choose Collaborate or Share Link. Choose Collaborate to share Libraries that contain campaign or product design assets that should not be released to the public. Collaborate also gives the option for recipients to add or modify assets in a library. Choose Share Link if you do not expect the recipient to add or modify assets in the library.
- Collaborate: While adding collaborators to a library, you can choose whether you want to give them Edit-level permissions (edit, rename, move, and delete contents) or View-level permissions (only view the contents of the library and comment on them).
- Share Link: You can create libraries that can be followed. Anyone who has the URL of such a library can follow it. Whenever you update the contents of the library, followers automatically get the updates across all supported Creative Cloud apps.
Web
In the Creative Cloud Assets left pane, click Libraries. Now, from the library folder menu, choose Collaborate or Send Link. Choose Collaborate to share Libraries that contain campaign or product design assets that should not be released to the public. Collaborate also gives the option for recipients to add or modify assets in a library.
- Collaborate: While adding collaborators to a library, you can choose whether you want to give them Edit-level permissions (edit, rename, move, and delete contents) or View-level permissions (only view the contents of the library and comment on them).
- Send Link: You can create libraries that can be followed. Anyone who has the URL of such a library can follow it. Whenever you update the contents of the library, followers automatically get the updates across all supported Creative Cloud apps.
Adobe Stock is deeply integrated with Creative Cloud Libraries. You can add a watermarked preview of a stock image to any of your libraries directly using the Adobe Stock website. Then, in Creative Cloud apps that support Libraries—Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Dreamweaver, and Dimension—you can drag the watermarked stock image from the Libraries panel to your creative project. When you're satisfied that the stock image is appropriate for your project, you can choose to license the stock image directly from within the Libraries panel.
Creative Cloud apps that support library-linked assets—Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign—take this integration a notch deeper. When you license the stock image, all linked instances of the stock image in your open documents are automatically updated to the licensed, high-resolution stock image without the watermark. For more information, see Using Adobe Stock.
Is there a limit to the number of libraries I can create?
Are all assets stored in Libraries usable by all supported apps?
What type of color information is supported?
Can I reuse any asset stored in Libraries across Creative Cloud desktop apps?
Most assets are reusable between the desktop apps. Photoshop layer styles are a notable exception; they are currently reusable only in Photoshop.
If you use an InDesign text style asset in Illustrator or Photoshop, those apps attempt to map the properties of the asset with the properties for text styles available in the host app. Any properties not found in the host app are ignored.
Where are the assets stored?
Can I share a library with others?
Yes. See Collaborate on libraries.
Do I need a Creative Cloud membership?
Where can I learn more about Creative Cloud Libraries?
You can learn more about Libraries with these resources:
Video tutorials
- How to get started with Creative Cloud libraries (overview)
- Creative Cloud Libraries in Illustrator and mobile
- Creative Cloud Libraries in Photoshop and mobile
Video tutorials where Creative Cloud Libraries are demonstrated in mobile apps
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