Adobe Releases ‘Creative Cloud Express’, A Canva Rival For All Skill Levels
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During the most recent Adobe MAX conference, the software firm revealed exciting plans to take Photoshop and Illustrator to the web, no subscriptions required.
As it turns out, it’s not stopping there: just announced is Adobe Creative Cloud Express, a unified web and mobile product that takes the best of the Creative Cloud suite and Acrobat PDF tools, condensing them into a nifty, easy-to-use app.
Familiar features such as Adobe Sensei and the AI/ML framework known and loved in apps such as Photoshop are included in Express, with the aim to enable its users to easily express and explore their creativity via, and on, the web.
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Although it’s aimed at people who want to build their own personal and/or professional brand, anyone can use it. As Adobe itself puts it, there is “no learning curve,” putting the app on the ranks of popular user-friendly client Canva.
“Creative Cloud Express is perfect for people with no creative training. But it’s also a great addition to the toolkit of creative professionals,” writes the firm.
“If you just want to make a social media post, produce a simple flyer, resize an image, or craft a quick thumbnail image for your Premiere Pro video, Creative Cloud Express is the fast and easy way to go.”
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Flyers, social media posts, marketing assets, and promotional materials can be easily designed thanks to the vast choice of templates and images from Adobe Stock available to use. A simple drag-and-drop function allows for ease of use, while Shared Templates and Shared Brands ensure consistency even between collaborators.
Assets can also easily be remixed and personalized, with the software allowing users to swap in their own image to be used in the graphic. Adobe will do the rest of the work, such as applying the filters and effects to help it blend right in.
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Additionally, integration with the Creative Cloud library means that users will be able to take an asset from another app—Photoshop, for example—and use that within Express.
TechCrunch reports that this new app has replaced Adobe Spark, a similar app used for creating social graphics, short videos, and websites.
Free users can access up to a million images and other assets, including templates and fonts. Premium features, including more than 175 million Adobe Stock photos, 20,000 fonts, and access to other applications like Photoshop Express and Premiere Rush, for US$9.99 per month or US$99 per year.
Creative Cloud Express will also be included in existing Creative Cloud Single App plans as well as the Creative Cloud All Apps plan. It’s now available today on Adobe’s website as a web app, and in the Apple App, Google Play, and Microsoft stores as a mobile app.
[via Adobe Creative Cloud]
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