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Use the Quick Actions panel to introduce yourself to Adobe Express

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and potentially make short work of common tasks. To get to the Quick Actions panel,

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in the menu bar, choose Window > Quick Actions.

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In the Quick Actions panel, there are categories of actions. If you click on the down-facing arrow,

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you can see that there are actions for photos, for videos, or for converting your files.

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To use one of the actions, you have three options.

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The first option would be to click on one of the actions, 

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and that's going to open a dialog box asking you to drag or drop a file into the box.

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Another way you can use a Quick Actions panel is

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to click and drag a photo into it. I will click and drag this photo onto

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the remove background action. And just like that, the Adobe Express dialog box will open

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and the action will be performed. Let me show you one more way. 

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The third way to use Quick Actions is to bypass the Quick Actions Panel altogether. 

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You can right-click in Windows, or Ctrl-click on a Mac, on an image and choose

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Quick Actions, and then choose an action from there. You can do the same thing in the menu bar

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by activating an image and then choosing File > Quick Actions

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and choosing an action. I'll again choose Remove background.

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You'll notice that this Quick Actions dialog box says that it's powered by Adobe Express. 

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What's actually happening here is that once you click one of those actions, the file that you had selected is

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uploaded into temporary cloud storage. Adobe Express then performs the action 

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on those files that are in that storage. And then once the action is rendered, 

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you have the choice of either opening it in Adobe Express and applying additional

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edit or you can click Download, which will take it back out of temporary cloud

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storage and put the edited file in the downloads folder of your computer. 

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If you decide you don't like the edits, you can simply cancel out of the Quick Actions 

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dialog box, and the image will be removed from your temporary cloud storage, 

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and no edits will be saved to your computer. Regardless of what you do, your original file

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is not going to be affected. Again, I'll say that Quick Actions are powered

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by Adobe Express, which is an app that's intended to be used on a tablet or smartphone.

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But I could totally see it being helpful here in Bridge to say trim a video or possibly

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resize a video if you're wanting to share it with others. All of the things that you see

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listed here can be done on other Adobe apps. Some of the things, such as resize

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image and be done in different ways within Adobe Bridge. If you've got some time on your hands,

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make sure to check out the Adobe Express app and see what it can do for you. 

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So that's how to use the Quick Actions panel. This has been Jen White.