Adobe Express 2023: New Way of Content Creation with AI

1. Introduction: Ever wanted to create stunning visual content that stands out but always have been held back by the complexity of Graphic Design Tools. Hi, I'm Evan, creating graphic content for over four years. I've create a visual content for many different occasions, event Flyers, to social media posts. I'm also a video editor. I mainly specialize in Adobe Premier Pro, but have been a fan of Adobe Express for simpler stuff such as Instagram stories. So why an Adobe Express course? Adobe Express isn't all in one video, Design and graphic tool to make Content Creation easy, quickly and easily make stunning social content, videos, graphics, and resumes, no matter your skill level or background, this course will guide you through all the fundamentals of Adobe Express. Will cover everything from basic editing and customization, Video Editing, and even using Adobe Firefly with Adobe Express. With clear step-by-step tutorial, practical assignments, you'll be creating your own stunning visuals in no time. First, we'll go through the fundamentals of Adobe Express. You'll learn the layout and the interface of the web app. Then we'll move on to creating a Flyer. After that, you'll learn how to create your own video edits. Next, we'll move on to a low more advanced features such as Adobe Firefly integration with Adobe Express. Finally, you'll learn how to create your very own Instagram Post. So what are you waiting for? Enrolling our Adobe Express course and unleash your creativity, the world is your canvas. Would Adobe Express? 2. Account Creation and Setup: So when you first get to the Adobe Express welcome screen, you're meant with this lovely page. There's some animation that's going on here that describes what you can do with Adobe Express. There are some examples of what you can create with Adobe Express. And there's the joint, the free Beta button. You want to click there. You're going to be met with this sign-in screen. So if you've never used any of the Adobe products before, you want to click on Create an Account. In here, you can create an account with Apple, Google, Facebook, or your own email. So you choose the method you want to sign in with. Once you sign up, you're going to be redirected to this page. This is Adobe expresses dashboard. You have everything you need all in one place. And we'll go into detail of what everything is and what everything does in the next videos. 3. Exploring Adobe Express Interface: So when you first start out and Adobe Express, you're met with this dashboard. Here you can see different sections. Let's start with the one on top. On the very left, you can see a button that will always take you to the starting point, this homepage. Next to it, there's a search bar where you can search everything from inspiration to examples of Design Step bit to your specific needs. For example, let's type in tennis and see what pops up. As you can see, there are bunch of different options and bunch of different things that we can choose from. There are some templates, photos, videos, backgrounds, and Design acids, all related to tennis. On the left, you can specify exactly what you're looking for. Files. This option searches through your files that you've created an Adobe Express. Because we don't have any files named tennis, nothing would actually pop up right now, templates, this can be your starting point when creating a design. Starting with a blank canvas is always scary. So it's nice to have a template to help you out photos. This option, you can look through stock photos that you're free to use in Your Designs. Libraries where you can create your own collections of acids are colors that you can reuse across your design. Because we don't have a library named tennis. Nothing would actually pop up brands. You can create brand kits specific to your brand. You can add a custom logo, color palette, or Design acids, videos where you can choose stock Videos, backgrounds after you variety of images that you can choose from for your designs. Indesign acids, individual pieces that will make up your own unique design. As at the time they're coordinating, this version of Adobe Express is in beta. There's a give feedback on Discord button. Next we have a helper button that contains a link to Adobe XD discord. A place where you can report a bug and give feedback on the translation of the pages. Next, we have our notification center and a collection of all the Adobe web apps and services. There's also a help center button for what's new and support. Finally, we have a button that takes you to the Adobe Cloud Center and your Account button where you can go to your settings or logout. Let's now go back to the dashboard by using the top-left button. On the vertical bar on the left, there are few more things that we can do. The very top one takes you to the creation of your canvas a little lower. There's again a home button that we're already familiar with. Your stuff button contains all of your files that you've created. An Adobe Express explore button that takes you to many different designs that others have creative for inspiration and use as a template. This schedule button where you can schedule your social media post directly from Adobe Express. We will go into detail of each menu as the course progresses. At the center, you can see all of the options of what we can create with Adobe Express. There's a personalized for you tap that analyzes your likes and goals from what you search and create. Social media, video, photo, document, marketing, and generative AI. A little lower, you can see it gets 30 section where you're presented with various options from different kinds of designs that we just learned about, personalized to your needs. Your also presented with actions that utilize Adobe Firefly. Adobe is very own AI that assist you in Design Creation. We will explore these options in the following chapters. Finally, there are some suggested quick actions and featured templates so you can start exploring your options. You can also specify what size are kind of design you're looking for. At the very bottom of this green, you can see recent designs that you've created for easy access. Now that you've learned the layout of the dashboard, you're ready to create your own amazing Designs. 4. Practice: Create an Adobe Account: Your first assignment is to create an account with Adobe Express. So this is your chance to pause the video and try it out for yourself. And now I'm going to do it myself. You can follow along if you want. So I'm going to go to adobe.com slash Express. Click the Join the free Beta. And then we're going to create an account. So I can create an account with Apple, Google, Facebook, or your own email. I'm going to choose Google. Once you choose your credentials, you're going to be met with this dashboard and you're done with the assignment 5. Adobe Express vs Canva: So, you know, Adobe Express. So you've probably researched a little bit about graphic design and what kinds of simple tools you can use to create your own designs. So you probably have heard of Canva, the direct competitor of Adobe Express. So in this video we're going to compare Canva and Adobe Express. And what's Canva missing and what the differences are, what the pros and cons are. So without further ado, let's get started. One of the biggest things that Adobe Express stands out in from Canva is AI, Text to image generation and Text Effects. This is just simply not a feature in Canva. Canva has its own AI and it's trying to make use of it. However, it's not as good as Adobe Firefly at the moment. So let's look at AI in Canva. It's actually just your personal assistant that has some features that can help your workflow. So here you can have magic, right? Which is brainstorming with AI. This is a peak feature, while in Adobe Express Text to image generation and Text Effects are free for everyone to use. You can add a textbox or you can share. These are some of the actions they can write in here. And AI will do for you. There are bunch of different actions that AI can do for you. But for example, add shape, add circle. You can also go to elements. And going here and add a circle in two clicks. So I'm not sure how useful AI is an cameras. Now, let's go to homepage and see the homepage and compare it to Adobe Express. It's a little more graphic. There's just like on Adobe Express selections for you. Docs, whiteboards, presentations, social media, videos, websites, and more. And there's an endless amount of sizes and stuff that you can create with Canva. And these, as you can see, a very similar to Adobe Express. I think it's a win-win from both sides. And can see tabs such as Projects, templates, brand hub, and apps. All of these are available on Adobe Express. Other than that, Let's go into Instagram story for example, and see what we have available at hand. So here we straightaway have the templates, just like an Adobe Express. You can also choose styles. This one is not really available on Adobe Express. With this simplicity that Canva offers. This is basically them offering you brand gets in brand identities. For your design. You can go to elements. The element tool is quite bigger than Adobe Express, and you can search elements here. There's some suggestions here. They're also, the photos and videos are not separated firms elements here, so it's all in one place. There's also audio, tables, charts, frames, and collections of elements, and special day photos. Let's go to Text. This is actually a very similar, There's just no Text Effects for the text and there's a convenient brand hub tab. There's also Upload so you can upload your elements. You can also draw on the canvas. And there are third party apps. The third party apps are also available on Adobe Express. You go, here's some differences of Adobe Express and Canva. Adobe Express is really nice because it's integrated with the Adobe System. So you can easily import your AI files and export them to get easily import AI files. But at the moment, Canva is more widespread. But people are really becoming interested in Adobe Express because of the AI. And how much more they simplified the process of creating your own posts 6. Graphic Design Basics: Imagine a world without colours, logos, or even your favorite apps Interface. Ray, enter the dynamic world of graphic design. Today we'll dive into its basic principles. First things first, what is graphic design? It's DRM practice of planning and projecting ideas and experiences with visual and textual content. Let's break down the core principles every aspiring designers should know, balance and alignment. Imagine a seesaw. Both sides need Way to stay balanced, right? Similarly in Design, bounce ensures stability and structure, whether it's symmetrical or asymmetrical, everything has its place. Contrast opposites attract attention. In Design, contrast can be achieved using colors, shapes, and sizes. It helps and emphasize and drawing attention. Repetition. Repetition creates rhythm and can establish authority and consistency. Think of brands and they're consistent use of colors, fonts, and logos. Proximity, things that are related to stay close. Proximity helps and creating a relationship between similar or related elements, making the design feel organized. Hierarchy, which part do you want your audience to look at first? Second, third, hierarchy guides the viewer's eye across the design. Space. Space doesn't always mean emptiness. It can highlight or give breathing room to elements, making your Design feel open and modern. Now with these principles in mind, remember that tools are just as crucial while pencil and paper can be a starting point, software like Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign have become industry standards. Colors set the mood from the calming blues tune energetic reds. Understanding color theory is a must. Topography isn't just about choosing pretty font, it's about legibility, tone, an even spacing. And lastly, always keep your audience in mind. A good design is not just pretty, but functional and user-centric. So embark unit graphic design journey. Remember, practice makes perfect. Start with the basics. Stay curious, and keep experimenting 7. Module Wrap Up: So I just wanted to quickly come on here to review what we learned in this chapter and tell you what we're going to learn in the next module. In this module, we learned how to create an account with Adobe Express using different methods, such as Google, Facebook, Apple, or your own email. And we also learned about the dashboard over Adobe Express. To navigate the dashboard easily and go to our homepage and know just where everything is. We even looked at some templates very briefly when we searched up the tennis word. And now we know our options of what we can create an Adobe Express. So let's actually get to it and create all Flyer next. So in the next chapter we will explore Flyer Design. Well, you might need to know for Flyer Design what kind of assets you might want to use in general, just tips of creating Flyer Design in Adobe Express. 8. Introduction to Flyer Design: We're going to unravel the Art of Flyer Design, the pivotal role of Adobe Express and creating captivating Flyers and a sneak peek of what we're going to learn in this module. Flyers have been an integral part of marketing for decades and they continued to hold their ground in the digital era. But what makes them Flyer truly effective? Well, there are five key elements. The headline, visuals, Content, call-to-action, and contact information. Your headline is your hook. It must be catchy and informative. It's what pulls the reader in. Visuals are crucial for engagement. They attract attention and set the mood for the information that follows. The content must be clear, concise, and it should convey your message effectively. The call to action guys, your reader on what they should do next, like visit a website or make it purchased. Lastly, your contact information. Let's your reader know where to go or who to contact for more information or to act upon the call to action. Now that we've laid out the basics, let's talk about a tool that makes it Flyer Creation, a breeze. Adobe Express. It's a powerful, user-friendly designed tool that doesn't require you to be Graphic Designer to create professional and compelling Flyers. Adobe Express offers an assortment of templates that catered to various themes and occasions. It's packed with a variety of fonts, color palettes, and even a library of free to use photos. Moreover, it provides a simple drag-and-drop interface, which makes it a hit among beginners and professionals alike. You may be wondering my Adobe Express. More. With Adobe Express, you have all the necessary tools at your fingertips. It allows you to focus on the creative aspect of your design without worrying about the technical details. Its versatility allows it to be used for both personal and business purposes, making it a favorite among many with the combination of the basic elements of Flyer Design and the use of Adobe Express, you have the potential to create stunning, eye-catching Flyers that can captivate your audience and effectively deliver your message 9. Step by Step Guide to Designing Flyers Part 1: So now that you have a basic understanding of Adobe Express and what we can do with it, it's time to actually create our very own Flyer. So to start off, you can see the Flyer option here. It even gives you the dimension of the Flyer. But first we want to look at some inspiration just to have an idea of what we might want to create. In order to familiarize ourselves with all the tools for Flyers that Adobe Express has to offer. We're actually going to create a flyer for our inspiration. Let's search Up Tennis and see what pops up. So we can see straight away that these are all different sizes. So these might not all work for the Flyer. But we can see some inspiration and the vibe that most of the tennis Flyers and graphics give off. So let's look. So for example, I like this one. I think this is the Flyer size. So we can see that most of it is green and has a rounded kind of font. It has something to do with the tennis court and the ball. So I think this is enough inspiration for us to have a go at it ourselves. So now let's go back to our homepage by clicking the top left button. And let's go to Flyer. If you want, you can create from scratch, but we're going to browse templates and look for one that we might want to use as a starting point. So you can straightaway see that all of these are about different topics, but all of these are all one size and they're all Flyer size. So you can see these are all different kinds of topics. And we can actually use these as a starting point for our tennis Flyer. But it might be a little more complicated and complex to bring it to the tennis theme that we want. So instead of just scrolling through and hoping that you will bump into something tennis related, we can click Search Flyer here. We can type in tennis. And you can filter. You can use a filter to filter by price and the type of the graphic. We want to use free. Because it's a Flyer. We don't actually want an animated template or a video template. And because it's a single Flyer, we don't want multiple pages. So let's see here. All of these kind of have the same kind of vibe. So for example, here they use some texture as well as here. Most of these, like some of them are very graphic. These Graphic ones have the same kind of layout. All of these Graphic ones have same kind of similar kind of vibe. Like tennis rackets and balls. Them the kids one's mostly have photos. I like this one. I think I like the stars, I liked the layout. We'll change it up a little bit. But I feel like this would be a good starting point for our design. And you're free to create anything. We'll just explore some options that I want to show you to really widen your tool set in Adobe Express. So first, for example, these stars are grouped, rate, want them to be individual elements because I like them as individual stars, but I don't want both of them, right. So I will delete these ones. I will only leave these two. These are now usable as separate stars. So let's leave these aside for a second. They're going to come in handy a little later. So what I recommend is to start from the Broad and really narrowed down to details later. So the biggest element here, the most eye-catching thing here is the photo. This photo is really nice, but I want to change it. I click on the image. And let's go to Media. Here you can see a bunch of different photos, stock photos that you can freely use an olive Your Designs, and actually post them to Social Media Here you can see these are free with the premium, Adobe Express. All the rest of these are free. And you can see these are divided by categories. So like seasonal people, flat lays, etcetera. So again, we can't see our own category right now. If we're actually tennis, to not spend hours trying to find something tennis related. Research Up Tennis here. And look at that. There are bunch of free options and some premium ones, but the free ones, they're really decent ones, right? So here, if we wanted to go with a photo, here we can, here you can choose a photo. So for example, if I wanted to change it to this, I can click here. I click on the photo, right, and I click on Replace page background. This photo is a little too big. You can try to place it by double-clicking the photo. Let me show that again. By double-clicking, you open the options again of the background photo. But you can see it's a little too big for our design. So let's go with something else. For that. We go to elements and we actually have the backgrounds option. We've talked about this previously, but it basically is a bunch of images again, but they're mostly graphic and specifically designed to be a background. So again, we search Up Tennis. You can see these are much more suitable for our design. I feel like because they're not to attention grabbing, but they're also, they look kinda cool. So let's go with a graphic here. Let's go with this one. And it automatically replaces the background. And I will click twice to reposition the image. The way I want it. I want the ball a little bit closer to the center and not this much. But somewhere around here, maybe taken the shadow a little bit. And this has good, I think maybe a little more in there's a little more space here, right? So I feel like tennis net and this rectangle clash. You're going to select the rectangle and click on ungroup. And now we have this rectangle separately and we're going to delete it by pressing Delete. And now you can see the font is clashing with the background because it's black on very dark blue. Let's change the color of the font by clicking on the text and selecting a different fill. I will select the weight one for now. So we want to ungroup this because there's a rectangle element. We don't want that. And there's some more texts grouped. And you can only change the color of each individual element. So you need to ungroup them. So just select every single one and change the color. So I just selected all of these. I'm going to bring it down here. And I think we need we play both doubles and single mattress text. So I will just delete that. And let's say here, it needs to be centered this, and this needs to be centered to this, just like this. So all of these need to be centered to each other. So for now, let's take these stars over here and feel like the ball is low, too much in the center. I feel like this is better for Flyer. Let's make this smaller and will continue working on our Flyer. And the next lesson 10. Step by Step Guide to Designing Flyers Part2: Let's just center everything to each other, starting from tennis club. So here we go. Now we can just select both of these elements because they're already centered to each other. You can see this line right here, that this is centered to this. We need to actually check that is centered to here as well. Right now you can see that it is. You can also see that the height is the same height from the elements from tennis club to the games every Sunday at 07:00 P.M. is the same distance from bringing your own equipment. So now that we've established that, it's very nitpicking, almost. The location goes a little below that. It's also center it and bringing it closer. Right now it's a little bit too cramped up for my liking, because this is a header and the headline should actually separate a little bit. And this announcement bring your own equipment should be a little more separate. Just like this. I like this. I will leave it like this. And finally, we'll grab these stars. We can put them wherever we want. So I think put them here to fill up the space a little bit. And this is my Flyer. So pretty much everything that you need to know is grabbing and selecting elements that might fit your design. And it's all about trying and seeing what works and what doesn't. And you can always change up here, Design 11. Practice: Create Your Flyer: For this assignment, you have to create your very own Flyer. It can be Flyer about just about everything. It can be something about space. It can be some event in your neighborhood. It can be real or it can be fictional. It's totally up to you. I just want you to experiment with the elements and stuff we learned in the previous lesson. So you can either create one from a template or create one from scratch. Right now, you can pause the video and try it out for yourself. Or we can continue together and create a totally FUN Flyer together. So for that, I'm going to click on Create from scratch because I feel like this could be very FUN. Just to start off, we're going to go to elements and just to gain some inspiration or just to see what our starting point can be. We're going to type in space into backgrounds and see what's out there. So let's see, these are pretty cool. All these are really nice. Very many options. I just want to see if there's something less busy, not too many distractions that will take away from the announcement. So you can see, the more you scroll down, the less related it is to space. It can be some totally random themes, but there's also sometimes base. So I think I'm gonna go with one of these right here on top. Really like this one. It's kinda like minimalistic but also like something about it. Screams Flyer to me. So I'm just going to double-click on here to adjust the space, the Image. And I want the astronaut to be a little bit on the right one, it right weighted. So because I'm thinking the textual goes here. So I want the astronaut to counterbalance the texts that it's gonna go here. So maybe, maybe just like this, you can always tweak it. You can always come back to it. So now let's add some text. This is going to be a basketball game in space, so we want to add text. These are generated Text Effects, and we're going to explore this in one of the next modules. This utilizes Adobe Firefly. The Adobe is very own AI. This is actually very FUN, but let's go to your add your text button. And let's add the name of our event. That's going to be basketball. And I'm going to put it right here. I'm going to option click drag to have another tech, to have another textbox. Alright, going to write in space. Right now, it's very not contrast the blends in with the background and you can't see anything. So we're going to make it white. So let's go here. And again, you need to select every single textbox individually. Make it a little smaller. Maybe let's select them more funky font. Let's see if it offers us anything here. Let's see maybe here, really like this one. I feel like it's kinda funky, kind of futuristic, cartoony. Just what we need for this Flyer. Once make both of them this font. On the left, you can see the name of the font. I just copied it by clicking Command C, and I pasted by selecting the text, and I press Command V. Then we can select the font. Right here. This is an extra outline, it's kinda thick. We can just do this, make it a little bigger, maybe, maybe a little smaller because this.in the graphic, kinda wanna utilize it. Take basketball little to the right, right about. There is kind of nice like that will do for now. Am going to option click drag. And we're going to write the date of our event is going to be totally a made-up event to try and show up, please. So I feel like this font is kind of funky. You can see just by clicking on the text or bunch of recommended fonts. And every time there are different And I kinda like this one, but it's kinda like too much and doesn't go well with this font. I think I'm just going to stick with this. You can also press View All to look through these fonts. And then you can press here to see similar fonts that are like that font. For example, this one's kinda nice. Thin. Maybe we can bold it. Maybe like this. Oh, this is actually nice. Maybe we will go with this one. Let's see. I'm just trying to align it. And to align it, you click here. He selects left alignment because I want them to be all aligned here. Whoops, I accidentally grabbed it. So to undo that, I wanted to press Command Z. Right now, all evenly spaced. And we have our gate here. I think I'm going to make it a little smaller. And let's have a call to action. Let's add it by option clicking, dragging. And let's try it for reservations. Give us a satellite call. Because you know, a made-up event, you might as well go full out. So let's select a different font though. I feel like that's a little too much. This is a little to condense for my liking. I just want something simple. Maybe this, this could work well. Let's separate this here. Press Enter. Here's our call to action and see if this is all evenly spaced. Yes. And let's add the bottom. Have a little side note with a very small font size. Like, you know, the classic fine print. That's what it is. Fine print. I keep forgetting the word for it. Here. We can say, Bring Your Own water. And then let's give them very fine print, saying that the event will actually run in 2044. But make Your very small, so very small amount of people can actually see that. So maybe a little bigger. Let's center it to the text first. And then let's center it. Let's group this by clicking Group on the left. And then we want to align it to the center. You can align it here by clicking this button. And as you can see, it's already centered. And you can also double-check this by just grabbing and dragging it. And if you see this pink line at the center running through the entire canvas, this means it's centered. So I'm just going to leave it like this. I'm pretty happy with this design. To export it, you just click Download on the top-right. You're served with these options. Png, JPEG, and PDF. Pdf is best for documents, as it says here. It's also really good for printing. That's how you usually receive your printing document. Jpeg. Jpegs are smaller and P&G's, this is the way we want to Export, usually for social media posts and just for digital documents that you're not going to print. So you can select between PNG and PDF if you're actually going to print Your Flyer, I really recommend selecting PDF and you just click download and it's there to download. And after waiting a little bit, you have your own design, your own Flyer, just right here. I'm pretty happy with this design. Again, you can keep playing around with the fonts, with the spacing, with, you know, the text and what you want to write. It's all in Your hands. I just wanted to show you a quick examples of what you can create in just a short, quick assignment, and I'll see you in the recap video. 12. Module Wrap Up: In this module that you've learned all about Flyer Design and Flyer Design and Adobe Express. And little tips on spacings of the texts, the fonts, the design elements, choosing a stock photo or choosing a background. What's the difference is between those two? Just having FUN with the Flyer, Design yourself in the assignment. So next up we're going to focus on Video Editing and Adobe Express. And I hope to see you there. 13. Introduction to Video Editing: In this module, we're going to be exploring Video Editing and Adobe Express. So to start, you can select the size of the video you want and what you want to create. Or either you can use this option to start creating your video from the very Scratch. So there are standard videos and social videos. And below that, you have your quick actions where you can trim Video, re-size Video, convert to Jeff, and many other options that you can do without going into editing at all. Below that, you can also see the feature templates. This can really help when you're just starting out with video editing, especially because it can be really overwhelming. So Adobe Express offers many, many good options that you can choose from. And just below that, there's a feature to Adobe Stock videos just to have a look at what kind of material you can have and you can use without actually importing your own videos. To wrap it up. In this module, we're going to learn all about Video Editing, Adobe Express. Well how to trim, how to put things together, how to add Effects, how to add text and animated. So yeah, I'll see you in the next lesson. 14. Editing Videos with Adobe Express Part 1: So let's start looking at the features of Video Editing and Adobe Express and what we can do with it, and maybe even create our own little edit. So I want to create an Instagram real for today. So we can either browse templates or create from scratch. I want to create my video from a template. As we can see on the left, we have the templates opened up for us and we can choose from any of that we want just to use it as a starting point. You can also filter your templates by price and by type. The price is all free or premium. And the types are animated templates, multiple pages and Video templates. And we want to look at Video templates for this one. Let's see. We want to create a fashion view that will show off different fashion elements, maybe something like this. So we might want to look around for something that really stands out to us. This is very interesting, but this doesn't fit our theme. I think I'm gonna go with this one on the very top. And when you click on it, you can see a larger window. You can either add as pages to this existing project that we just created or we can create a new project that we will import it into. We want to add it as pages to this project. So let's look at the template right here as well in the timeline. Just to see how it plays. This window might be a little overwhelming, but because we already are familiarized with Adobe Express, it should feel familiar. So here you have your main canvas. This is where you're going to be viewing your video and you're going to see your result. Next you have your timeline. Here. You can see the video clip here on top separately. Here you can see the video with all of the effects and the text that's on there. You can play the video by pressing the Play button. And this little line shows where you are in the video. You can also add a scene here. Here on the right. You can extend the timeline or shorten it, does just makes it easier. If you're looking for a specific frame. Here you have your scale option. You can also choose to display or to hide layers. Next on the left, we have the Video Details. This is just like the image details or element details just for the video. So here you can replace it. You can duplicate it, you can delete it, can change the order. Source info, crop. Change the volume or muted. If you don't want any sound, you can speed it up or slow it down. You can choose the opacity. For example, in this template, it was turned down a little bit. Let's turn it up. You can choose the blend mode. The blend mode helps you blend the layers better together because we have only one layer here is not actually going to change anything. You can also flip it both ways. You can also fit the video to your Canvas or fill the video tier Canvas and didn't Effects. You have bunch of different effects to choose from. Just changes the color of your video. So next, we can color graded as well. Here you have your classic photo editing options, and then next you can choose an animation for your video. This is mostly used for when you're adding elements, but you can also animate your own videos. So this was just an introduction to your workspace just to get you familiar with the Video Editing aspect. Because I know it can be scary and I know it can be overwhelming. So I just wanted to give you a little tutorial before we actually start and edit the video together. 15. Editing Videos with Adobe Express Part 2: So now that we're familiar with our layout and have an understanding of our workflow a little bit. Let's actually start and edit our real. So just like we said in the previous lesson, we're going to make it about fashion. So let's see, we already have one video here. I don't think I'm going to leave this text, but let's leave it just for now. And let's focus on choosing the clips that we want to use in this video. So let's go to elements. So let's go to Media. You can see a bunch of options for stock videos. Here. As always, you might already be familiar with the concept at how it works. So here you can see a bunch of categories, small business, fashion and beauty, food and drink, outdoors, etcetera. So as we decided, are going to focus on fashion and beauty. So let's click on View All and see what's out there. So as you can see, there are 227 videos in total that we can choose from. So let's see here. So these are about makeup. Some of these are shot in the studio solid. These are more natural and I want to go with a low, more natural look for this one. It might take a little longer to low because these are videos and they're usually high-quality and they're usually in for K as stock videos. So let's go with this one as our second clip. And so to add this as a new, we click on Add Scene. And we have a black screen here. We can click on this and add the video in here. So let's see what we have here. You can see there's a little jump cut. And let's actually make this shorter. So because Instagram Reels are usually 15 s, we are going to want to cut it to 15 s. Let's see. It goes from here. Let's actually delete the text while we're added. Let's select the text, just clicking and then shift clicking. The wrong thing. Here we go. Now, we don't have any texts, we don't have any animation. We can make this clip a little shorter. So let's see. For a shortcut, you can actually press space for the video to start playing. So here it goes from this video and just jump cuts to here. Pretty simple, pretty easy, in a good start. So here you can press on plus just to add a scene in-between these two videos. If you want to do that. You can also rearrange your clips. So let's actually make this a little shorter. And see, make it the same time. Maybe. Here we go. It goes from here to here. And I'm pretty happy with that. Let's find a few more clips to use. So let's add a scene. I think I'm going to use this one. Let's choose it. Let's shorten it to maybe 2.3 s. And in total, we can see the time. The video is. The video at the moment is 5 s long. We want it to be these 12 s, ideally 15 s. So let's add a new scene. Let's select the video. So you can see the video is horizontal. So we can scale it up. Here we go and reposition it just by clicking and dragging. You can play the video to check. Let's see, maybe we want to use this part of the video. So let's see where that part is. So here we can trim the clip Up to this point. And now in our real is going to start here. And I think you'd go and she goes out of frame a little bit. And this is where I'm going to cut it. So now our real is 7 s. Let's see a few more. Let's add this clip. Let's see. Let's trim it. Make shorter. Let's add another one. Make this one a little smaller. And so let's select a last clip. That's going to be our ending. I think I'm gonna go with this one. Let's make it a little shorter. Here we go, and here is our entire real. Let's see, Let's play from the start. Here we go, our 12 second real. And in this video, we just edited the video. In the next lesson, we're going to add some texts, some animations, and some Effects to spice up your real 16. Editing Videos with Adobe Express Part 3: So now that we have our real for Video to add some FUN things to our video. Let's go to the start. Let's go to the first clip. And let's imagine this is a real that a fashion brand has created selling their clothes on Instagram. So let's add some text and let's write shop. Now, let's select a more luxury font. For example. Maybe this one, this one looks good. Let's position it below the model. Let's make it a little bigger. Then let's select maybe a different color. Let's try it. Maybe a little bluish color. And this panel is just your classic panel, just like we saw in the previous module. Here you have the font, the size font. If you want to underline the alignments, the bullet points, the line spacing. Here below, this is what we're interested in, deer, you can add the animation. Add a shape, outline to your text, add a shadow or add Text Effects, which is a Firefly feature that we're going to explore in the next module. So let's keep it like this. And I want to add an animation to this text. So let's add an animation. And here you have a variety of animations that you can choose from. So let's choose drift. And this just means it's going to drift away from our scene. Here. You can see their options for the animation. There's a duration, which means how long the animation will play. So usually, usually 2.5 is nice and slow and steady. Just to have that smooth effect. You can also have a personality for your animation. You can do soft, smooth, strong, energetic, or loud. Let's keep it an energetic, and you can select the direction of the drift. It's also keep it to the right because we're going to the right and it kind of almost takes us to the next clip like an arrow. Here. I want to add another Text. Want to write limited availability. Let's choose another font. For example, this one. I like how this one looks, and it's the same one that we use previously. So it adds a nice continuation in a nice flow because this text is hard to see right now. Because the background is kinda busy with the dress and with the background being uneven. I want to add a shape around the text. And I want to add a rectangle. And let's Click it one more time to select the shape size and select a different shape fill. So I'm pretty happy with that. Let's also select an animation. I think we want in an animation. So remember we had the drift to the right. So I think we, if we have something coming from the left, it will add a nice transition for the Text. Let's see. Let's actually select drift. And it already selected the direction of the clip of the transition to make it nicer. So one more question that might arise here is, how do I have the same Text here? Translate this clip. Well, one of the limitations with Adobe Express is you can't just extend here. So it goes onto here and it's just the same texts because it's different scenes. You actually need to create the same thing here. So what we're gonna do is we're going to select limited availability. And we're going to go here, paste, make this the duration of the scene. And let's just remove the animation just so it stays right there. And it's all seemingly one thing, but it's actually two different elements. Let's move on to the next clip. Here, I want to add some element that will add some more movement to this video. So let's see, maybe this ribbon could be nice. Let's see, maybe we put it here. It matches her hair, matches the ribbon. Let's make this a little smaller. Here we go. It maybe we can add an animation We can add a looping animation, which means it's going to play the entire duration of the clip. So let's see what we might want. And I think I'm going to go with jitter, but I'm going to make this element a little bigger. Here would go. And you have it. And it's almost like a cartoony kind of vibe. I think I want to remove it. So it disappears when the face crosses over the line. So let's select the element. And let's cut it right here. It's just going to disappear. And actually when that happens, I think I want another element to come in. So I want this one to come in, going to make it a little bigger, going to turn it around. Put it right here. I'm going to option, click, drag and rotate it around. Let's select, let's select each element one by one. And let's select the pulse animation. And let's actually speed it down. Just so it's not overwhelming to the, I select. This animation is well, let's like pulse, slow it down. Let's see how it plays. And we want this to come in later. After, after this pink element, this appears. So here we wanted to put it here. Let's see. Here we go. Maybe a little even closer here. Here we go. Let's select the other element and do the same thing. Just click and drag and place it. Here we go. Think I'm pretty happy with this real I don't want to overwhelm it. So I think I'm just going to leave it like this. Let's watch the entire thing just to see if we're happy with it. And think I'm happy with it. Yes, I think I like it. So I'll see you in the assignment three 17. Make Your Own Video: So for this assignment, I just want you to experiment with Effects, with some texts, with some animation. And add those, and add those things to a video of your favorite season of the year. It can be either Your Own Video or it can be stocked Video for him. Adobe Express, it doesn't matter, I just want you to experiment and how foam with it. So now is your chance to try it out for yourself and pause the video. Or we're just going to get started and you can do it with me, and we can do it together. So for this one, I want to create a YouTube video. I'm going to create from scratch. So let's see. My favorite time of the year is summer. So here to here, I'm going to search up summer. And we're just going to see what pops up. For example, these vertical videos or no, because they're vertical and they're not suitable for a YouTube video. Here we have some good options. I like surfing, so this might be an option. We've got some classic lagoon vibes. And let's see. I think I'm gonna go with this one, this surfing one because it hits close to home. So I'm going to click on fill the video, just so it fills the entire frame. Let's play the video. Let's see, this is just surfers catching the wave. Want to add some text to this video. So let's click on texts and add texts, and I'm going to write summary. Let's select a more summer vibe kind of font. For example, this one. I wanted to change the color of the text to probably some shade of yellow just to represent the classic sun, yellow blues. And let's go to elements. Let's write in summer and see what pops up. I actually like these to think I'm gonna go with this one. I'm going to change the summers font color just to match this one. Going to do this with a color picker tool. I'm going to click here and go here. So let's see, dragged down Summer little bit. Let's center the Sun. Puts summer text underneath it. And here we go. Let's add an animation to our Sun. I want it to be a looping animation, and I wanted to spin. Again. There are different options of animation. Let me show you by upping the intensity, the difference between these. You can see this one has a momentum in the beginning, then slows down. This one's a little more aggressive. And they all just wary by the type of animation. So this one, for example, swinging back-and-forth from the energy, would think I'm going to go with the soft one and I'm going to bring down the intensity a lot. I think this is kind of good, maybe a little slower even. You can, of course change the direction of your spin. But I'm happy with the clockwise spin. So let's see, let's add an animation to our summer as well. Let's add an animation. Let's make it pop. And let's see what that looks like. Here we go. I'm going to select an animation for this one. Selected out animation, and let's select drop. And what this is gonna do is going to create an effect that makes it seem like the sun is triggering the summer to pop. As you can see, the sun goes down and that triggers this summer. Here we go. Here's your assignment. I can't wait to see what you create, what your favorite seasons are. And I'll see you in the recap video. 18. Module Wrap Up: So congrats on finishing another module. This module we learned all about Adobe Express and Video Editing. How to edit your own little real. How to add Effects, how to add elements, how to add some animations to your video, and how to put everything together and create a nice looking video. So in the next video, we'll look at Adobe Express with Adobe Firefly. What Firefly is, how it's used, what kind of features are available in Adobe Express that come from Adobe Firefly, such as Text to image generation and Text Effects. And we'll look at the power of AI. You apply it to graphic design. I'll see you in the next module. 19. Introduction to Firefly: In this module, we're going to focus on Adobe Firefly and what features you can use Adobe Firefly in Adobe Express. So to start off, I want to tell you a little about Adobe Firefly itself. The service itself, not within Adobe Express, but independently, just to see its possibilities and to have some contexts when you use it in Adobe Express. So Adobe Firefly, it is trained on a dataset of Adobe Stock along with openly licensed work in public domain content where it copyright has expired. So basically it's not stealing any Art. And it is all licensed. Along with that to give you a little context of what's going to happen in the future with Adobe if there are any concerns that you might have with the use of Adobe Firefly, Adobe will introduce did not train tag for creators who do not want their content used in model training, the tag will remained associated with Content wherever it is used, published, or stored. So anything you create with these tools that we're going to learn about belong to you. And it will not be used to train the AI if you don't want to. What can you actually do in Adobe Firefly? So right now, the features that are available in Adobe Express are Text Effects and Text to image. There are also available on Adobe. Firefly is on page. What isn't available on Adobe Express is generative fill, which allows you to use a brush to remove objects or painting new ones from test it. Text descriptions. For example, you can see here, they took out the coat with a brush. They selected the area that the code was in. And they can select this area. And actually right at text prompt that will change this area into something that you want. Next. We also have generative re-color and you can recolor your artwork really easily with this feature. What isn't available but will be in the future hopefully, is 3D to image, which is basically texturizing your 3D models and creates a 3D scene using a text prompt. And extend image where you can select an area. It will extend the image for you and it matches really well. And This feature is actually available in Photoshop AI if that's something that you're interested in or you can wait for an access later when Adobe Firefly releases it. So now that you know what we can do with just Adobe Firefly, let's go back to Text To Image and Text Effects. Text to Image means you can write a text prompt and the AI will actually generate an image according to that text description. Or where Text Effects means you can apply styles and texturize your text in real time with a text prompt. So let's now get back to Adobe Express and to our dashboard. If we scroll down actually you can see these features are right here, text to Image and Text Effects. So in this module, we will learn about both and how to apply those to your design and how you can really get creative with these Adobe Firefly features in Adobe Express 20. Text to Image Feature Overview: Let's first look into Text to image generation in Adobe Express using Adobe Firefly. So here you can straight away see the prompt window here where you can generate your own images right from your dashboard. You can also see what other users have created. You can see their exact text brahms that they used. For example, this text prompt is really specific and the image quality is really, really nice as well. So let's see a bunch of different prompts. In of course, if you put in the same exact text prompt as these, it is not guaranteed that the text to Image generator will create the exact same version. It will always create some variation of it. So let's try our own text prompt. Let's write a futuristic city that is taken over by aliens. And let's see what it generates. We just click Generate and wait for it to appear here. Here we go. We can see this is clearly matching the text prompt really well. And you can see different variations of this. On the left. You can click on Load more for it to generate more images. So this one is the most accurate one I feel like because we said aliens and we can see some creatures here. We can also see these. This one has an alien, I think, like a classic stereotypical one. Here we only see ruins. So you can choose, you can keep exploring, and you can keep on generating more and more stuff. Let's go back here and we can choose the content-type. So it will generate different kinds of styles for the content that you describe. For example, a photo. It looks a little more like a photo. You can also create a graphic one. So the graphic is more cartoony. And let's try out Art. And you can see these are all kinds of variations of the style we chose. And I think I want to go back to the original one. And we can also choose a style. For example, synth wave. Let's see what that does. It gives off more of a neon '80s kind of vibe. And it also changes the style of all of the images that were generated before. So feel free to play around with this. There are bunch of different kinds of styles. You can use this as a starting point. You can also enhance your texts from, for example, a futuristic city that has taken over by aliens is not enough for you. I also want to see flying cars. I know we saw some flying cars in the generated images by one to be specific. And I want them to be in every single text prompts. So I write and flying retro cars. Why not? Let's wait and see what it generates. And here we go. These are not really flying cars. There's one. Okay. There's a few more, I think because we said retro cars, maybe that doesn't really match the reality. It wasn't able to recreate it. But let's go with this one. And we can actually see that not only are there these options, they're also really, really different styles that really can change the entire field of the image. For example, steampunk should generate something really different and out-of-the-box. So, yeah, see, it's all golden. It's more steam punk. So feel free to experiment with this text to Image and be really specific with your prompt. And makes sure to specify what exactly you want and feel free to tweak around the text prompts. And I'll see you in the next video where we will talk about Text Effects. 21. Practical Guide to Text To Image: Let's first look into Text to image generation in Adobe Express using Adobe Firefly. So here you can straight away see the prompt window here where you can generate your own images right from your dashboard. You can also see what other users have created. You can see their exact text brahms that they used. For example, this text prompt is really specific and the image quality is really, really nice as well. So let's see a bunch of different prompts. In of course, if you put in the same exact text prompt as these, it is not guaranteed that the text to Image generator will create the exact same version. It will always create some variation of it. So let's try our own text prompt. Let's write a futuristic city that is taken over by aliens. And let's see what it generates. We just click Generate and wait for it to appear here. Here we go. We can see this is clearly matching the text prompt really well. And you can see different variations of this. On the left. You can click on Load more for it to generate more images. So this one is the most accurate one I feel like because we said aliens and we can see some creatures here. We can also see these. This one has an alien, I think, like a classic stereotypical one. Here we only see ruins. So you can choose, you can keep exploring, and you can keep on generating more and more stuff. Let's go back here and we can choose the content-type. So it will generate different kinds of styles for the content that you describe. For example, a photo. It looks a little more like a photo. You can also create a graphic one. So the graphic is more cartoony. And let's try out Art. And you can see these are all kinds of variations of the style we chose. And I think I want to go back to the original one. And we can also choose a style. For example, synth wave. Let's see what that does. It gives off more of a neon '80s kind of vibe. And it also changes the style of all of the images that were generated before. So feel free to play around with this. There are bunch of different kinds of styles. You can use this as a starting point. You can also enhance your texts from, for example, a futuristic city that has taken over by aliens is not enough for you. I also want to see flying cars. I know we saw some flying cars in the generated images by one to be specific. And I want them to be in every single text prompts. So I write and flying retro cars. Why not? Let's wait and see what it generates. And here we go. These are not really flying cars. There's one. Okay. There's a few more, I think because we said retro cars, maybe that doesn't really match the reality. It wasn't able to recreate it. But let's go with this one. And we can actually see that not only are there these options, they're also really, really different styles that really can change the entire field of the image. For example, steampunk should generate something really different and out-of-the-box. So, yeah, see, it's all golden. It's more steam punk. So feel free to experiment with this text to Image and be really specific with your prompt. And makes sure to specify what exactly you want and feel free to tweak around the text prompts. And I'll see you in the next video where we will talk about Text Effects. 22. Understanding Text Effects: So now that we've learned about Text to image generation, it's time to move on to Text Effects. So here we can see some examples. Just as usual. We can see different textures, such as sand. We can see the text prompts that give really detailed problems. For example, let's read this one, shiny light pink velvet fabric cushion, and it gave exactly that. So let's learn to create our own Text Effects. So here we have our texts generator window. So we can describe the text effect that we want. I want to create something like this. I want to see how it looks on Text because I feel like it could be PFK-1. So let's actually try this. So let's write Eastern carpet. And let's see what it generates. This is actually a really good attempt. Let's see some different variations. Let's see here, this kind of removed some elements of the letters. So I like this for this text prompt, but let's explore some different kind of customizations that you can do with this text. So you can choose the font that you apply, the Text Effect two, you have many different fonts to choose from here. You can also change how your texture is applied to the letters itself. So for example, this is loose. If we take it too tight, it will regenerate the image. So it will generate something a little more different with the same text prompt. Here you can see that the print is actually a little tighter as the, as the description said. And this actually might give us a little more cleaner look. We're not limited by only one print. There are also sample Effects that you can try out for yourself. There are already pre-made. So let's look what's in here. So for example, if you like chunky knit, you can just select it from already made Text Effects. And here we go. It just generates the text effect for you without needing to write another text prompt. So in the next video, we'll actually explore on how to implement this in your design. How to maybe mix different styles and Use Text Effects to its full potential. 23. Applying Text Effects in Your Designs: Now that you have a good understanding of Text Effects, Let's actually learn how to apply it to Your Designs in Adobe Express. So first, let's select a design that we want to add Text Effects to. So I'm going to use our assignment poster. I'm going to click on it. So after we open the project here, we click on Text to add some new Text Effects. So we click here and we select from the Text Effects are already available and premade. So let's see. As this is a poster about space, I want something futuristic. For example. Let's select glitch. This might be too much for this graphic. So let's select and write it ourselves. So let's ripe space. But in cartoon style and see what it comes up with. So we can see there are really futuristic looking ones on the left. For example, this one and this one. It's in cartoon style, so it pulled that off. Well, I really liked this one. I want to check this one out. I really like, I really liked this one. I want to check this one out. So let's see. Okay. And by double-clicking, I can change the text. For example, I can read basketball. Instead of that font that we chose. Basketball is going to be written in this font with the text effect applied. That's how easy you can change and great, even your own font, but in a very creative way. So let's put it instead of this Text, and let's Command X to cut the object. And we can select and delete this one and paste in place with Command plus V. So next, I want to involve multiple Text Effects. So let's actually create something else. Maybe we can select, this, will double-click to select individual Text. And then we'll go to Text Effects and write a prompt. So I want this text to be kind of like glass that you can see through. So let's say this is glass. You can see it's kind of giving us a metallic look on the left. But I think this is not bad. I feel like this one. This one is that bad. We can change the opacity of this text just to make it see-through. Because this is glass that's important. And here we go. We blended it with the scene. And right now we have to Text Effects in this Flyer poster. But as always, feel free to experiment and keep trying new things and see what stuff look like for yourself. Because every text prompt is unique. After every text prompt, the generated image that AI has produced might not ever be recreated. So I'll see you in assignment four 24. Practice: Use Text Effects and Text to Image: So for this assignment, I want you to utilize what we learned in this module to its fullest. So the assignment is to Use Text Effects and Text to image generation to create your own graphic. So it can be any image, any, can be any effect. There doesn't need to be any technical placement of the elements. I just want you to create them and put them on the canvas and see what they look like and see if you're happy with your result. Now is the opportunity to pause your video and try it out for yourself. Or you can join me and we can do this assignment together. Right now. I'm going to go down here. And I want to start out with Text to image generation. Just because then I'll have a better idea of what I want my text to be. So I want to create a graphic for furniture store. So I will start out by writing of furniture. Furniture store. Next, I want to be a little more specific. So let's actually say bright furniture store just to make sure it's a bright store with good lighting, just to make sure it's a bright and name graphic. It's also indicate that we want pastel colors. Dry pastel. Let's write also high-end, luxurious brands. So I think I'm happy with this prompt and let's just go for it. Let's see what it generates. So let's see, this is a nice generation, but the pastel colors, I feel like it focused more on the pink elements of the pastels, whereas I was more imagining very neutral colors, everything is beige and shades of different pastel colors. And this is a little too vibrant for my liking. So let's see some more different options. So let's actually, I think we should specify that we want neutral colors, pastel, neutral colors. And let's regenerate. So this is much better and it includes many different shades of different pastel colors. So I'm happy with that. We can also see some other generations. This is nice. This is nice as well. I like this one as well. I, but I think but I think I'm going to go with this one. And so to finish our assignment of we just need to create some texts, any Text using Text Effects. So let's see. Let's select the cushion moon. I feel like this would be fitting because it's a furniture store. So let's write furniture store. Now. Open. As you can see. And as you can see, it generates the text. It generates the texture that the effect right on top of it in real time. And I think I'm going to change the font for not is now open. Going to make this smaller. And let's select this rectangle. Rectangle, drag it onto the canvas. Accidentally added two, we just need one. So let's make this image a little bigger. So the floor areas a little bigger so the text fits nicer. You don't have to do this because the ultimate goal is just essentially you playing around with the Effects and Adobe Firefly in Adobe Express. But I just wanted to make a proper example. So I am trying to make sure that it's perfect. So I'm going to option click drag. And we want a different font for the end of the announcement. So let's write now open and let's command a select the text. And let's select the font and turn off the effect by clicking Remove effect. So instead now we have the basic text. We can make it a little smaller. And I think this is good. The texture is kind of show that it's a furniture store. The letters are literally pillows. So I think I'm happy with that. So this was our assignment for this module. And I'll see you in the recap video. 25. Module Wrap Up: In this module, you have learned how to use Text to image generation and generate your own images and Text Effects to apply on your texts in Your Designs. So in the next module, we're going to learn how to create an Instagram Post. Utilize Adobe Express to its fullest potential when creating an Instagram Post. And how to schedule your own design directly into your social media account for it to post automatically at your desired time. I'll see you in the next module. 26. Creating an Instagram Post Part 1: So in our last module of our Adobe Express course, you will learn all about Instagram Post creation and scheduling. So let's get started. You want to go to Social Media tab. We can actually see different kinds of social media posts. On the very top you have the popular tab, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and all the different social platforms. So in this module, we're interested in the Instagram tab. And here you can see all of the different options for Instagram and what you can create for Instagram. So in this module, we're going to create an Instagram square Post. You can also create an Instagram story, real carousel, a story add, just a basic, add a portrait Post or a landscape Post. And all of these, as you hover over, you can see this size at the very bottom. And you don't even have to Google it. It just tells you right here. Once you click on here, as usual, create from scratch or browse templates. Once you click, it will automatically create the canvas size just to fit that Post. And you can start creating straight away. 27. Creating an Instagram Post Part 2: We can actually start creating our Instagram Post. For some inspiration, let's go to templates and see what we can make. Let's see, There's all kinds of templates for any kind of social media posts that you would need. So let's see. We've already did fashion in another module and we already did space and sports. So let's maybe do a party. So I want to use this template as a base. And I'm just going to delete a couple of things that maybe I don't really want to use. So it's going to be a night party. I think we can leave this text right here. Actually, instead of that, I'm going to Text. Actually instead of that, we're going to leave this text, but we can, but we will also apply a Text Effect. Let's see, as this is the party. As a party, I want to be a little funky. So I'm going to select balloon should give us a balloon effect on this text. So you can see it transformed. I was hoping for a different kind of vibe and also the night turned it, the end turned into an H. So let's try a disco ball instead. I'd kinda like the texture better, but again, it turned the n's to x's. So maybe it's because of the font. So let's do Command Z. Command Z again, maybe select a different font that will be easier for the generator. So let's see. Let's try disco ball again. Here we go. This produces a very nice result, much nicer than the one we previously tried. This is because the text effect doesn't actually see it as a font. It transforms it into a shape and it just outlines the shapes. So in that case, it was hard because the end was really close. Like the left and right lines were really close and it was kinda weird. So actually having a wider font makes it better for the text effect. So okay, I like this and think I'm just going to make this text white and put it underneath, make it a little smaller so it matches. Also, let's change the background because this kind of clashes right now. Let's make this something a little more neutral. Let's see, maybe, let's see actually in the media maybe there's something there for us. Let's type in party. And I don't think I want to use a photo. So let's see, let's go into backgrounds. Let's type in party. Maybe there's some nice graphic that we could use. Maybe this one, maybe be a little busy. Yeah. Let's see. This is all kind of beach vibe. I don't know if I wanted to go for it yet. This might be nice. Yes, I like this. This is kind of synth wave, matches the 80s with this font. Let's make this bigger. And it matches this grid perfectly. And I think I'm just going to leave these, I'm going to delete the x's. And I kinda like this layout. So I think I'm just going to leave it as it is. Let's select the text, make it a little bigger. Let's take this down a notch. Take this here. Honestly, just playing around with it right now. Might wanna do this ticket up a little. And I'm happy with that. Let's delete this sex. Delete this because it doesn't really match. I'll leave DJ Jennifer, I'll leave the date. I'm pretty satisfied with this. So now that we have this Instagram Post, we actually want to schedule it. So in order to schedule it, you click on Share, you click on Schedule Post. Here you have a bunch of different options. You can either schedule it, you can select the date and the time, and those social media posts will go live at this time. Or you can publish now, which will publish it immediately to your social media page. And here you can select the channel. And you can connect your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, or LinkedIn. And we're interested in Instagram for now. Here you have the option to connect to Instagram, which will take you to this pop-up screen. And the profile that you want to post two has to be a business profile for the scheduling feature to work. And by clicking connect via Facebook, you are prompted to login to your Facebook. Then you can go through the steps to connect your Instagram. So once you connect your Instagram, you can add your caption here. And it can be any caption within 2,200 characters. You can also write Up first comment, which will be your very first comment under your post. So there's no competition. Rush to be the first comment and you have the same options for the schedule. It will just schedule at the certain time that you select. You also have the option to save it as a draft. And you can preview your Post right here. You can also add multiple images for it to be a castle, but this is not what we wanna do right now. Click on Save as a draft, and let's save it as a draft for now. Here you go. Here you go. Now learn how to create your very own Instagram Post and how to schedule it to Social Media 28. Adobe Express Add-ons: So in this lesson, I just wanted to quickly show you what are Add-ons in Adobe Express. For that, I will go into one of our designs that we have created together. So Add-ons are basically kind of like apps for Adobe Express. And you can discover them right here on the left tab. So let's explore some of them together. We've got to colorblindness simulator. You can connect to Dropbox One Drive for easy file-sharing and saving. You can also discover artworks for Your Designs. There's also a 3D library which is very powerful. There's shapes and patterns that you can use, their many, many different apps. You can convert your designs into N of T's. You also have a helping hand in colors where you can generate tints and shades. Attention insight as well. That analyzes your design. Let's see, Let's start with the colorblindness simulator. I click on it, and I click on Add. And let's see what it looks like. For a colorblind person. If there's enough contrast and if it's legible, maybe bring your own water is unreadable. So we would have to change this to have a larger contrast. Next. It can look through different kinds of colorblindness, especially here, you can't read this at all. So this means we would need to change, bring your own water Text. So next, let's explore onDraw and just click on it. And I click on Add a can explore all different kinds of illustrations that are already made for you to use. You can also change the color of the vector if you want. So maybe make it purplish. You can just add it to your design. In it is right here. So next, let's see one of this. So here we have different collections that we can use. Squiggles, hand gestures, social icons, different special days, and different inflatable letters, abstract. And you can see there are a bunch of different options they can add to your design and in different colors as well. So next, let's see motives. And you have here a bunch of settings to create your own pattern. So for example, I'm happy with this. Click on Add to page. It automatically adds the element right here. Maybe even we could put it right here on the moon. Why not? Next? Couple of more things that I want to look at is clipping mask probe, which is extremely useful in Adobe Express because this is not a feature like it is in Canva. But in Canva you have also your limitations. In terms of what kinds of frames you can have. Here. You just upload an image and you select a mask that you want that image to fit. Two some really creative options. And feel free to explore it by yourself. There are really some funky ones. Yeah, this is really useful. You can also create your own clipping mask right here. So one more that I want to look at is color designer. This basically aid you in choosing your colors for your design. For example, it grabbed the orange. You can look at the shades of this color. Look at the color harmonies, which is really useful when you're trying to choose your color palette for your design. So it's going to offer you that match the certain rules and graphic design when you're choosing colors. So yeah, feel free to explore all of these Add-ons by yourself in your own time. These are just the ones that are really useful for me that I use personally. And I really hope you take the time to explore all of the rest of the Add-ons. And I'll see you in the next video. 29. Create your Instagram Post: So for this assignment, our goal is to create an Instagram square Post and schedule it to your own social media. So this is the time when you can pause the video and try it out for yourself. Or you can keep watching. And we'll create an Instagram Post together and schedule it. So in order to start, we're going to create from scratch. And for the background, I actually want to Use Text to image generation. And let's select Image size square. And let's type in Bob Ross style background. Let's click on Generate. This Instagram post is going to be an invitation to a painting night. So that's why I wanted to go with something well-known, maybe a well-known style. We'll see what it degenerate. That's great. That's actually exactly what I want. It. It's a background, it's not too busy. It has very nice colors. There's actually a little bit of a space for us to put in our text. Let's see if you more options. But I think this one is actually the best one. So let's go with this one. So next, I'll look at the templates. Just for some inspiration. Let's type in pink night. Maybe something will pop up. Not really. So let's type in something else. Let's just make it a little broader and type in pain. You go, there's a workshop. And I don't actually see like the vision that I want. Maybe this one looks like what I want. I think it's best if I just do it from scratch myself and execute my vision. So, and never be afraid to try that and to actually experiment. If you don't see something in the templates, just go for it and see what you come up with. So let's see, let's go to Text and maybe we'll look through the logos a little bit. Maybe there's some logo type five that wiki use for this invitation. Let's go into seasonal. Maybe not in seasonal, but maybe this one. Let's ungroup this. Let's delete this. And we can do this. And let's type in paint. Night. I actually liked this font, so I'll keep it like that. Let's change the text color to white. Prairie here has kinda nice. Let's make Your bigger, right? And let's option click drag and lots writing the date, and let's write in the date. So for example, those 606, 2023, that sixth of June. Let's select a different kind of font. I like this. Yes. Kind of like a painting style vibe. It's actually put a night a little closer to paint. Put this maybe right here, maybe somewhere here. Let's align this. Let's align this to the right line, this tonight. Let's also make this a little bigger. To make this a little bigger to fill in the Canvas alone more really like the placement. Maybe it's not too bad. Yeah, I'll leave it like that. Let's look at some elements. Let's look at some Design assets. Just to fill in the Canvas a little bit. Not this kind of vibe. Maybe a red and pink brush painting. Here we have a different element that kind of fit. It's better. Why not? Just having FUN? So this could be it. Let's look at some more elements. And if we can't find anything, that's okay because I'm pretty satisfied with this. Maybe we could make this work. No, this is already too much. Here we go. This might be nice. This is very nice. Here we go. This was the missing piece. There's always, when something's not clicking, Just keep looking. You'll find the thing that makes it Click for sure. Take this all higher. Make this smaller than here. I'm going to command X, Command V, just to take it in the, in front of this layer. Go take this whole higher. I'm pretty happy with this. So now to schedule it with Click on Share, click on scheduled Post. And let's select a channel. Select Instagram, and let's select the date. So I want it to go live on the first August of 2023 at 01:00 P.M. let's write a caption. Let's say you're invited to paint night DM us for reservations. And more info. Here we go. That's my caption. I want to leave first comment empty. So let's preview the Post. This is what it's going to look like on Instagram. And instead of the schedule button being grayed out, you will actually be able to click on it and schedule your posts. So you go, this was your assignment. I'm really excited to see what you come up with and what kind of social media posts you will come up with. Again, it doesn't have to be an invitation. It's just what I came up with. It can be about anything, can be ON awareness Post. It can be about you. It can be about nature, about cats, dogs, whatever you would like. So I will see you in the recap video 30. Skillshare Course Project: Welcome to your capstone for your skillshare Course and for your final assignment, Your task is to create a poster about your favorite musician using Text to image generation and templates. So I just want you to, as always, have FUN with it. Don't take it too seriously. We're just here to learn and experiment and can be something really basic. I just want you to use those tools in any way that you want to. Now is the chance for you to pause your last assignment video and try it out for yourself. Or we can go ahead and do it together. So to start, I'm going to go to the for you tab and click on Flyer and browse templates. So let's see. Let's type in music to templates. Here we go, we have a bunch of different options. I want to choose something with a photo so I can add my photo. And my favorite musician at this point is Peggy Gu. I'm going to go and search up on Google. And let's choose a photo to use on the Flyer. I'm going to copy Image. Go back and I'm going to press Command V to press, to paste the image. I want your place, this image. So let's see. I want to ungroup this to leave this element going to command X, command V to put over Peggy, I'm going to delete this image in this text. Here you go, Let's put it back. I'm going to press here and say Move to back. In the back of everything. Let's do this. Here we go. Put the nice pattern over it. I'm happy with this. Make this a little bigger with, let's also move this back. Move backward. So it's not over any of the other elements but just Peggy. Sound going. So I'm going to leave all of these. So I'm going to leave all these musician names. I'm going to leave the date, the location, and where people can buy tickets from. I'm just going to generate an image using Text to image. Let's create a park background and see what it comes up with. So this is actually what I want it. So let's imagine this is the web Lee Park, and let's put this to the back. Let's delete this purple background. By ungrouping. Move the pattern, just delete this. Put back the pattern, crop the image a little bit, just so it's not over the park, not too much. Let's actually put this to the back. Let's put back the pattern here as well. Center this here, the pattern is perfect. Right here. That's fine. Here we go. We have our posterior using Text to image generation and templates. So thank you for joining me in this course, and I really hope you enjoyed it. 31. Course Wrap Up - Next Steps: So here we are at the end of Adobe Express course. Thank you so much for taking it, and I really appreciate you taking your time to learn with me and hopefully you have enjoyed it. So just to recap, we have learned about Flyer Design, Basics of graphic design, and how to create your own Designing Adobe Express, how to edit your own videos and Adobe Express specifically how to create an Instagram real. We have also learned how to combine Adobe Firefly with Adobe Express and utilize to its fullest potential. Finally, we've learned how to create. Finally, we've learned how to create an Instagram post and schedule it to your own social media channels for it to post automatically. I really hope you continue exploring Adobe Express and graphic design and maybe even move on to Adobe Illustrator and the future. Give it a go. Keep experimenting and keep creating. And hopefully I'll see you in other courses.