Chapter 9

The beauty of CC Libraries is that you can save images, color swatches, text styles, and other elements created in the various Creative Cloud desktop and mobile apps in a library, and then you can access these elements in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator, as well as other Adobe apps, at any time. These assets can also be grouped to make searching for them much easier. You can even save content from a document to use in another one. In this chapter, we’ll go through the various ways to add content to your a library, and how to manage your libraries and assets within them. When CC Libraries were first introduced, I couldn’t use them quick enough! As someone who travels a lot and often receives requests to work on existing client files, having all my essential assets stored in CC Libraries means all I need is an internet connection, and I can access these files anywhere for any project. As a rule, I create libraries for all my client projects, and libraries for specific types of files, including assets downloaded from Adobe Stock. It is so easy to add, edit, and remove assets from CC Libraries that once you start using them, accessing them will become second nature. Another great benefit is being able to share libraries and have libraries shared with you, which is what the Adobe Creative Cloud is all about—creativity and collaboration. By the end of this chapter, I hope you start building your own CC Library workflow and that you use it like a champ!

InDesign Fun Fact #10

Although InDesign is at version CC 2019 (at the time of writing), it is actually version 14.0. Since the first version, it has gone through 27 versions (including updates like 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4) to get where it is today. It’s also had some fun code names—look for those in the chapter 12 introduction.