Re: Creative Cloud Adobe
Mina Spartin
Hi, I'm trying to save an illustrator document to Adobe Creative Cloud (I have a backup saved on my desktop, but obviously would like to save to creative cloud too so it auto-saves, I can share etc), but it won't let me do it?
It just says auto save has been disabled for this document please save it manually. But when I click save or save as and try to save it, it won't let me. I went into the auto save settings and it is enabled for every few minutes, so its definitely on. Can someone help me figure out how I can save it to Creative Cloud please?
We are sorry for the trouble. In addition to Ton & Monika's suggestion, you may manually drag & drop the Ai document in the Creative Cloud Desktop app under the File section > Your Files. By doing this, it will get converted to an Illustrator Cloud Document and will have all the functionality of a Cloud document.
Adobe Experience Manager Assets is a digital asset management (DAM) solution that can integrate with Adobe Creative Cloud to help DAM users work together with creative teams, streamlining collaboration in the content creation process.
Adobe Creative Cloud provides creative teams with an ecosystem of solutions and services to help them to create digital assets. It includes desktop and mobile applications, cloud services like storage with desktop sync or web experience, and marketplaces like Adobe Stock.
This article focuses primarily on the first two aspects of the collaboration needs. Distribution and sourcing of assets at scale is briefly mentioned as a use case. For such needs solutions, consider Adobe Brand Portal or Asset Share Commons. Alternate solutions such as Experience Manager Assets Brand Portal, solutions that can be built based on Asset Share Commons components, Link Share, using Experience Manager Assets web UI should be reviewed based on specific requirement.
Assets web interface with areas for external parties secured by Experience Manager Access Control setup and with necessary IT / network configuration adjustments, giving these external users access to Experience Manager.
Work-in-progress or creative work-in-progress (WIP): A phase in asset lifecycle where an asset undergoes multiple changes and is typically not yet ready to be shared with broader teams.
Final asset: An asset that has gone through all approvals/metadata tagging and is ready to be used by the broader team. Such an asset is stored in DAM and made available to all (or all interested) users. It can be used in marketing channels or by creative teams to create designs.
Minor asset update/change : A quick and small change to a digital asset. It is often made in response to a retouching or minor editing request, asset review, or approval (for example, reposition, change text size, adjust saturation/brightness, color, and so on).
Major asset update/change : A change to a digital asset that requires considerable work, and sometimes must be done over a longer period of time. It typically includes multiple changes. The asset must be saved multiple times while being updated. Major asset updates typically cause the asset to enter a WIP stage.
Creative user: A creative professional, who creates digital assets using Creative Cloud apps and services. In some cases, a creative user may be a member of a creative team who may use Creative Cloud, but does not create digital assets (like a creative director or creative team manager).
DAM user: A typical user of a DAM system. Depending on the organization, a DAM user can be a marketing or a non-marketing user, for example, a Line-of-Business (LOB) user, librarian, sales person, and so on.
Experience Manager and Adobe Stock integration provides Experience Manager users with the ability to search, preview, license and save, assets from Adobe Stock into Experience Manager. Licensed and saved Adobe Stock assets have selected Stock metadata, which can be used to search for them with extra filters.
Working with assets saved from Adobe Stock into Experience Manager in Creative Cloud. This integration is independent of Adobe Asset Link, but Adobe Asset Link recognizes these assets saved from Stock that way, and displays additional metadata and Stock icon on these assets in Adobe Asset Link extension UI in Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign. The files are available for browsing, opening, and so on - because they are regular Experience Manager assets when saved to Experience Manager.
Creative users working in Creative Cloud apps with Adobe Asset Link extension present, in addition to having access to already-licensed assets from Adobe Stock into Experience Manager, can also use Creative Cloud Libraries panel to search, preview, and license Adobe Stock assets.
Assets from Adobe Stock licensed and saved into Experience Manager become available to the broader teams accessing Experience Manager Assets deployment, whereas creatives licensing assets from Adobe Stock via Creative Cloud Libraries panel make them available to themselves only by default in their Creative Cloud account.
To design an efficient workflow between creative and marketing/line-of-business (LOB) teams and choose the best support capabilities, it is important to understand when and why assets are stored in DAM.
Storing assets in DAM makes them easily accessible and findable. It ensures that the assets can be used by numerous users across the organization or ecosystem, which includes partners, customers, and so on.
Most organizations choose to only store assets that are relevant to the downstream marketing/LOB processes (publishing to channels like web channel via Experience Manager Sites or other channels served by Adobe Experience Cloud - Marketing Cloud, Advertising Cloud, and measured by Analytics Cloud, providing to users/partners, and so on). In addition, organizations store assets that may be subjected to a review/approval process in DAM. This way, DAM stores mostly assets that have high chances of being used, and avoids storing idle assets.
Storing assets is also subject to technical and resource utilization considerations. DAM provides additional services around stored assets, including extracting metadata, versioning, generating previews/transcoding, managing references, and adding access control information. These services consume additional time and infrastructure resources.
As a rule, only updates to assets that are relevant to the broader set of DAM users should be stored in DAM. It ensures that users (marketing and similar functions) only see relevant versions in the DAM asset timeline.
Typically changes related to major milestones in the asset lifecycle. For example, the initial marketing-ready asset or an official update based on request/review provided by the creative team should be stored and versioned in DAM.
Experience Manager Assets supports two types of users based on their access to the Experience Manager Assets deployment. Typically, users inside the enterprise network (firewall) have direct access to DAM. Other users outside the enterprise network would not have direct access. The user type determines which integrations can be used from the technical standpoint.
Typically, in-house creative teams or agencies/creative professionals onboarded to the internal network have access to the DAM instance, including Experience Manager login. Experience Manager and network infrastructure can be set up to allow direct access to external parties - usually trusted organizations like agencies working for a client - to have access to Experience Manager over network, for example, via VPN or IP allowed list.
Experience Manager desktop app provides a network share for assets opened in the native app. By default, all the changes done locally are uploaded to Experience Manager automatically after a brief while. With such a configuration, frequent saves during the work-in-progress phase would all be uploaded into Experience Manager and versioned, creating a large amount of network traffic and potential scalability challenges - not to mention unnecessary versions in Experience Manager.
If you use Network File Shares to manage digital assets, just using the network share mapped by Experience Manager desktop app could be seen as a convenient substitute. When transitioning from network file shares, Experience Manager web interface provides a rich set of Digital Asset Management capabilities that go well beyond what is possible on a network share (search, collections, metadata, collaboration, previews, and so on), and Experience Manager desktop app provides a handy link to connect the server-side DAM repository with the work on desktop.
Avoid using Experience Manager desktop app to manage assets directly in the network share of Experience Manager Assets. For example, avoid using Experience Manager desktop app to move/copy multiple files. Instead, use the Experience Manager Assets web UI to drag folders from Finder/Explorer to the network share or use the Experience Manager Assets Folder Upload feature.
Students, faculty, and staff can advance their digital communication skills with access to Adobe's creative cloud programs. Bowie State's status as an Adobe Creative Campus reinforces the university's commitment to advancing digital literacy skills throughout our curricula to give students an edge in the competitive modern workplace. The University strives to continually provide our community with powerful tools and resources that foster innovation and is honored to be the first historically black university in Maryland to participate.
Students: Place an order for Adobe CC via the Software Distribution site. Faculty and staff: Click the link below to submit a request for access to Adobe CC. Note: if you already have been issued a Creative Cloud license and want to install it on a new or second computer, please follow the re-installation instructions.
The Adobe CC software is available to the UNC-Chapel Hill community through an Adobe Enterprise subscription model. To begin the installation process, you need to uninstall all old Adobe products from your computer. To uninstall the Adobe software, visit the adobe.com article: Use the Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems.
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