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Create and manage cloud-based libraries to help you access asset

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like brushes, fonts, and swatches from other subscription-based Adobe apps.

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To open the libraries panel, in the menu bar, choose window > libraries.

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To understand libraries, you'll need to understand that libraries are stored in your creative

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cloud account. And so in order to see your current libraries that you have,

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you'll need to be logged in with your Adobe ID. Libraries are similar to collections

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except items in libraries are stored on the cloud so they're easily accessed

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in other Adobe subscription-based apps. Now as you might suspect, this is

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going to use up the megabytes and gigabytes in your cloud storage. Now how much

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storage you have is going to vary depending on how much you were given with your plan, or

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how much additional storage you have purchased. Libraries in your creative

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cloud app or here in the libraries panel can be shared with others,

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imported from others, or even collaborated with. The libraries that you

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have are synced across all Adobe subscription-based apps like Adobe

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Photoshop. So whatever libraries are showing here in Adobe Bridge,

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you're also going to see them in Adobe Photoshop. At this time, libraries

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are not available in Photoshop Elements. Now, if you feel like your libraries are

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not syncing in the Creative Cloud, then click on the Sync icon in

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the libraries panel to open up the Creative Cloud and change the settings to

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sync your libraries. As with other panels here in Adobe Bridge, the Libraries

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panel has some unique characteristics. For example, if you have a lot of libraries in

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your libraries panel, and you want to search for one real quick, you can start typing

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in the search bar and it will bring them up. Let's say I wanted to find some brushes

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that I know are named Kyle. I just typed in those two first letters

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of the name and it's bringing up all these brushes that I have saved in my libraries panel.

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While you are searching, you can also filter your search by clicking on the filter icon.

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You can also sort your results. and then over here on the right, the

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path and tree icon gives you alternate ways to create new folders of files within your

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library. and then if you click on the view icon, you can toggle between

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the list view and the grid view. To cancel out of the search,

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click on the x icon. At the top of the libraries panel, you

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may or may not also see a list of recent libraries that you've interacted with. But always

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at the bottom of the libraries panel, you will see the entire list of libraries that you

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have access to. We've already talked about this Sync icon down here at the bottom left. Down

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here at the bottom right is the Add Libraries icon. This icon will give you

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options and ideas for adding more libraries to your collections. To view

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the contents of a library, simply double-click on it in the Libraries panel. Next

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we're going to take look at how to work with libraries. But first I wanted to mention that

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one of the biggest benefits, like I said before, is that libraries can be shared across other

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subscription-based applications. So for example, if you have an Adobe Photoshop

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subscription plan and then you also have Photoshop for iPad, libraries can

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come in handy. With that in mind, let's continue on here. In

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the libraries panel, if you want to create a new library, I'm going to go back

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to the main library screen, and then click on either create a new library here at

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the top or I'll click on the new library icon and click on create new library

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from there. Give your library a name. I'll name this library,

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favorite papers, and then click create. From here,

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you'll see a note that it's time to start building your library. Because my library's named favorite papers,

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then you could probably assume that I'm going to go ahead and put some papers in here. I'll go to my

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kits folder and I'm going to grab some of

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my favorite papers. I'll just click and drag from the content

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panel into the Libraries panel, and that will add that to my library. Now remember

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earlier, I mentioned that libraries store content in your creative cloud account.

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From this view right here, you could assume that this brown paper is on

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my hard drive on my computer and it's also in a library in my creative cloud account.

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So putting items into libraries doesn't move them, it's simply copies them.

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So you could literally create libraries for anything that you want.

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I'm just going to put a handful of papers in here. And now that I have this library

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created and it's sitting in my creative cloud account, if I open up Photoshop for iPad,

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I can use these papers in this library to create a scrapbook page. Now within

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a library that you created you can also add groups. So I'm going to click off of all of

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those items. So none of them are active. And then down here at the bottom-right corner,

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I'll click on the new group icon. It's going to ask me to name the group, and I'm going

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to name this group Solid Papers. And then I'll click and drag these

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papers into that group. And again I will click off to make sure that nothing

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is active, and I'll need another group. This one called patterned papers.

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And I'll click and drag these two papers into that group. So that's

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just to show you that you can organize the items that are within a library that you've created.

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So let's go back here, because I also wanted to show you that you can rename a library

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by right-clicking in windows or control clicking on a Mac on a library and

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choosing rename. Rename the library and then press enter or return to commit the change.

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and then of course you can also delete libraries. To do that right-click in windows

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or control click on a Mac on a library and choose delete. Click delete once

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again to confirm, and then it's going to be gone forever. This is not something that you're able to undo.

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So that should get you started with libraries in Adobe Bridge. It's not really something that's useful

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for everybody, but for those who use it, it's extremely helpful. We'll not be talking

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anymore about this panel in this class, but I'll see you in the next video. This has been Jen White.

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