Easy Animation with Adobe Express: Unleash your GIF Creativity

1. Introduction: Want to bring your content to life with animation and effortlessly remove backgrounds from videos. Like this. Learn the easiest way to animate anything with this Adobe Express class, whether you're a complete beginner or an experienced designer. My name is Kate Silver, I'm an Adobe Express Ambassador and top teacher on skillshare. Together we will unlock the full creative potential of Adobe Express. I'll teach you how to create fun and easy animations that will grab your audience attention. We will dive into the world of AI generated text effects, turning your static CTA's into dynamic storytelling. Gifts are everywhere, easily convert any file into an animated gift, making your content more engaging than ever. Not an animator, no problem. I'll teach you how to easily animate your Adobe CC files like Photoshop or Illustrator. Not a designer, also not a problem. Watch how AI texted template transforms your words into stunning designs. Good news. There's an Adobe Express mobile app and it's super handy. I literally designed this in 5 minutes from the comfort of my own pole. Have a collection of video clips that need to flow as one. I'll show you the easy way to merge multiple videos to make it cohesive, need to make changes to your PDF. I'll show you the super easy way to edit existing PDFs with Adobe Express. Say goodbye to distracting background and choose from many dynamic backgrounds that Adobe Express offers. And finally, I will guide you through the process of adding all these fantastic animations, gifts, text effects in a video. Creating content that is truly phenomenal and perfect for Tiktok reels, Instagram, Youtube. Are you ready to unleash your creativity and bring your content to life and Bola? Let's get started. 2. Goodbye Fear of Animation!: Welcome my friends. I'm thrilled to embark on this animation journey with you. If you've ever wanted to create animations, but felt that the options were pretty daunting and overwhelming, You're not alone. I've always wanted to create animations as well, and I felt pretty intimidated by animation, to be honest, until I found this tool that makes animation pretty effortless and easy. I hope you'll share in my enthusiasm. Toil, let's dive into the world of animation with Adobe Express. 3. Downloading Adobe Express: Hey guys, welcome to the super practical, super quick and easy Adobe Express course. So I'm going to show you all kinds of really fun graphics to create, a gift converter, stickers, animations, just real quick things. Now if you don't have an Adobe Express account, then head to the link in the description I think I wrote, Sign up to Adobe Express. It will take you to a new page where you get to choose from different memberships with Adobe Creative Cloud. So you can either have a whole package and have access to other Adobe software like Photoshop, Illustrator in design, Premier Pro, et cetera. Or you could choose to just have Adobe Express that is Tody up to you. Now, go ahead and create an account, create a membership and you'll get a free trial. And without further ado, let's get started with Adobe Express. 4. Animated Text Effects - AI: So you can click on Get Adobe Express free. And I'm already signed in, so I'm good to go. If you click on home, you are greeted with the home page which has a lot of information out there, a lot of things. We can do Instagram flyers template here, we can do text to image, which is the new AI generated Adobe firefly technology, which is cool. We have text effects which is so awesome actually, which we'll do in a minute. We'll look at a whole bunch of other stuff. Actually, if I go to my stuff, your stuff, see all the different things I've been working on recently. This is what we'll create right now. It's a little sticker which is pretty cute. And it took me, I think, less than 5 minutes to create this so easy, thanks to Adobe Express animation. I love just a simple, quick animation. Even though I do know a little bit of adobic after effects to create animation, this is just faster for that simple purpose. I've also added this in my newsletter substack called Control and Shift to celebrate the first one month of my newsletter. Feel free to sign up. The link is below, but no pressure, right? So let's get back to Adobe Express. I would like us to go back to home. We're going to head to Text Effects. You can either type a prompt and describe the text effect that you would like to generate, but for now we're going to keep it simple and we're just going to recreate the one that I created. Because I think it's so easy, it's so quick. And it's quite cute, isn't it? Right, we can go ahead and click on any, I might select this yellow, shiny gold metal drip. You can choose another one. It doesn't really matter for now. Wow, that's cool. That is very great. Now I'm going to start by making this a bit bigger and I would like us to type something. I'm going to type like this. I might make it a little bit bigger, so there's more space. There we go, something like this. You get to decide what works for you. Then I would like us to make sure that we select realistic, because the effect we'll be using, we'll need a realistic. But I love this effect, great. Now if we go to Sample Effects and we click on View All, we'll be able to see all the really cool effects that take a little bit of time to load because I is generating and it's taking a little bit of time. Wow, that's diamond glitter. Nice. Let's click on liquid Mercury basically, have a little play, have a little look at all the different effects that you like. Awesome carved wood. Well, that's interesting so far, right? I would like us to scroll down and furry dog, let's click on that T's. See what that gives us. Oh my God, that is so creepy. Please do not use this. Just kidding. That's quite funny actually, Let's scroll down and find the one that we actually want, which is rose, gold, surprise. Surprise. If you've done my courses, you know, I love, actually I love glitter too. Yeah, I like that. Choose your own, obviously. It's up to you if you want, There are different variations of that, different samples. Pick whichever you like. Great. Now I'm going to click on this little arrow. There's a bunch of stuff we can play with. We can change a font if we want to. We can reduce the size. Whoops, Make sure you select your text first. Then we can reduce the size. Make sure it's a little bit bigger because we're going to add a shape afterwards. And I want to make sure that we can see the whole shape. Something like that. I think scroll up so we can see. Great. Then if you wanted, you could add an outline. But I don't really like that that much, not for me. What I would like us to head to is shape already. It's suggesting me a color which is so pretty. I love this color combo because sometimes if you struggle with colors, then Adobe Express just helps you. Right then we can change the size of the shape and make it bigger. Then here, if you click on Show More, we can look at different effects. I think I might make the shape, the size a bit smaller so you can see a bit better. Yeah, we can change the shape. There are so many nice shapes, right? I love these, So cool. Just like that. You have a design and you've done barely anything and you have a design which is awesome. I believe this is the one I've used. If I look at my previous one, yes. If I wanted to, I could go back to shape. Back to shape again. Make the size maybe a little bit bigger. There we go, Beautiful. I love this. I'm pretty happy with that. Then I'm going to go back to the arrow. Whenever I'm done with one section, I go back to that arrow, scroll down, and this is a list of all the options. We're not going to do shadow, but we are going to do animation. Click on animation. And this is actually my favorite part. There's so many different ones we can use in out. I quite like looping for this. The one I used is the first one, Bob. I think it looks great. Love that breathe flicker, just like that. It just looks so good. I'm going to choose Bob because I think it's great. If I click on the play, I can see my little sticker that I created, which is awesome. Now if I wanted to save this as a PNG with a clear background, I can go to Background Color and select background. Then I can click on and I can transparent PNG. But unfortunately it will not include the animation. It will just PNG, which is fine because I can also use this as a PNG and animated later in another software. I'm just going to click on downloads. Let's see, Beautiful. Now I'm going to download it again, but this time as an MP four. With the animation, I can choose the size. Sometimes I need to reduce the size because sometimes some softwares or platforms don't allow for such a big size. Actually, I can do 720. Then downloads. Let's have a little look. There is my animated sticker which is awesome. Again, I can use this for all kinds of things like my newsletter and it looks so cute. Feel free to have a little play and create all kinds of animations. There's so many more to choose from. When you're done, you can just click on this arrow and then go to your stuff. It should save all the recent projects you've worked on. Nice. 5. Create a Banner Ad: Okay, let's go back to Adobe Express and create yet another little sticker. I'm just going to go on Create. I can choose all kinds of sizes, well, there's a lot of sizes could select square for now. Then I can start adding stuff from here if I wanted a template for an Instagram post, but I would like to create yet another sticker. If I wanted to create a sticker, I could go to Elements and have a look at all kinds of elements that I can create. Background, I could click on View All for Nature, let's say. And choose a background. I love these lobsters. Actually, these little fish are nice. Let's pop it in. Reduce the opacity if I wanted to. And click on X. Now I would like to add some texts. And I'm going to click on, I can write Sign up here. What's cool now is that Adobe Express is going to give me a bunch of recommendations, which is nice for the font. Then if I want it, I can go to Text Effects and choose the text again. But it might be a bit much. In this case, I can go back to shape and choose a shape that yellow again, but I think it's a bit much. I might go back to shape and I might just go for white, plain, old white. Increase the shape size. I'm liking that so far, and change the shape. There's so much to play with as you can see here. It's so easy to design. Well, I quit like that. Actually heard this. I can't decide the simple one. Simple, Let's go simple. Then I might go back to the text. I don't know if I want italic. Maybe semi bolt. There we go. So it's not italic. I wonder should change a color. If I go to Phil, I could go with the eye dropper and choose that orange. That's quite nice. If I want it, I could have a little outline that's black, it pops up a bit more. I can increase the thickness or reduce it or remove it. I can add a little shadow to the text. Classic move. Lift, just to give it a more three D effect, quite like strong. I can also customize it. Change the angle, the distance. There we go. I think that's better. The blur and the color might make it a little bit less dark, more like a grayish. There we go, Go back then. If I wanted I could add an animation. Maybe. Let's look at in. Oh, that's fun. So many fun ones. That's fun. So easy to create an animation or sticker or a call to action. It's just incredible, Love it. I might just select this one because why not? I like it. Yeah. If I like this again, I can download this this time as a video. It doesn't have a clear background. Click on download later, I'm going to show you how to convert all these videos we're saving into a gift or a. If there's debate on how to pronounce that word, that's that. Go back here and I've got some more stuff under my stuff, some more things to play with. 6. Animated Icon Page 1: Let's do a little bit more sticker creation. I've personally created a few more stickers, animated stickers for my intro video. I want to play more and design some more with you. Because I think for me personally, it's the most fun part. We're going to go to plus and we can choose square. We're going to head to elements. I'm going to type learn because I'm a teacher and it's quite an important topic. We're going to scroll down and, ooh, I love this one already. Let's grab that and close, let's see what other stickers we have here related to learn I used earlier, a brain one. I'm going to try and find that one that's so cute. Where is the brain one that I liked earlier. This is super cute as well. Let's pop it in there close. For some of these, you might have to have access to the pad Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. There is my little brain one, awesome. Now if I wanted, I could also add another page and duplicate it. Now I have to, I want I can have different variations of that I can make. This can have all of these together in one little animated sticker. Or I can go to the second page and one of them at a time, select this, delete, and just have the brain and big and maybe have some text underneath it. I have this and then change the sizes. Great. Now I'm going to add some animation to these by just clicking on one of the icons, scrolling down and going to animation going to Can play with these. I'm going to go back, actually I'm going to go to looping. And honestly my favorite one is Bob. I just think it looks good. I'm going to now select another one. And I might also go to animation and also go to looping, I think. Let's try brief. And I'm going to go to the book. I'm going to scroll down. Go to Animation Looping. And I might also select Bar, because I just think it looks so cute. Now when I press play, I have a little animation. I'm thinking maybe I could add a circle behind it. Let's see how that would look like. Let's go to Elements Shapes. I'm going to go for a plain, old circle. I think I'm going to make it bigger. What color should we go for? I'm in the yellow vibes recently. I'm going to go to fill there is my yellow that I've used previously. Now to move the circle to the back, I can either use my Photoshop in design, shortcuts, commander control, left square bracket, or I can just move it from here in the layers fun. I think that looks really cool. I like that less press play. That looks so cool. Now I might actually change the animation of this one. I'm going to select that, I'm going to go to animation. I'm going to delete the existing animation because I want it to bob like the other ones, They're all bobbing and they're all cohesive. Now let's press play. I'm obsessed. I am obsessed with Adobe Express and all these little stickers and emojis that I can create, right? I can either keep it as is or I can add a little learn words in between. I want to see what that looks like. I'm not sure yet. Let's go to Text. And click on a Text. And there it pops straight in the middle. How easy is that? Now I'm going to type in all caps, I'm going to select it. May make it a bit bigger, maybe a bit smaller. Actually, maybe move it to move it, click away, and then click again. Let's see what a Job Express suggests. Let's click on that. I quite like that. Let's see what else. Ooh, that's fun. But actually I quite like the first one. I think that was kind of nice. And then I'm going to go to Phil, because I do think I want it to be white. Let's see what that looks like. Hmm, I'm not sure, actually. White or black. They both look cute. Maybe if I go for the white, then I think I want to go for another font. Ooh, that's cute. There we go. It's more informal. I like to be informal, and more fun and playful. The world is serious enough, right? I really like that. It's super cute. Now let's click on play and see that is nice. Love that. If I wanted, I could also add an animation to my texts. If I select my texts and I go to animation, let's see, Don't love that. I want something subtle play. I think that's all right. Let's see how it looks like if I learn back. If I move the learn behind the others, apparently the book has a little yellow thing. I'm going to move it in front of the book behind others. O that is interesting. I love it. I think I'm pretty happy with all of this. Nice. The only downside so far, I think of Adobe Express, which I think Adobe is working on it, is that I can either save this with a clear background as a flat sticker just like that, which is also nice. I go to click on Transparent PNG and click Onload. Or if I wanted it to be in animation, in a video, in animated movement, then unfortunately, it doesn't work with a clear background yet. But stay tuned. If I wanted to save it as an animated video where it moves like here, then I would have to add a white background and then I can download it as a video. I'm a little bit sad that I can't export as a gift or an MP four with a clear background yet. But rest assured this will come up soon. So I can click on Download. And there we go. Now let's see what that looks like. There is my PNG, which looks so cute. I might use this for my intro videos, you might recognize this. Let's see what the MP three looks like. Oh, that is so cute. I'm obsessed. Really great. I'm going to pop this with all my files. 7. Animated Icon Page 2: If we go back to Adobe Express. If you remember correctly, we did have a second page. Let's start animated this one as well, the little brain. Let's go to animation. I want to flicker perfect like there's an actual storm. I think this is pretty great. Perhaps I might add some text to. Let's go to Text Skills, Why not make it a bit bigger? Click away and pop it a bit more here. And let's see what they recommend. That's nice, actually. This time I quite like the black. I might add a little animation for my text. Select my text, scroll down, go to animation. Maybe flicker as well and see cute. Now I might select both and make them a little bit bigger. Because if I save it as an animation, it will save it as a square, remember with a white background. Or I could save it as a sticker PNG with a clear background but it doesn't move. I'm going to go and download this. Remember you can also choose selective pages or all pages, we have multiple. I'm going to choose selective pages, it's just this one. I'm going to click on Download, and that's going to be saved like this. Let's have a little look now. My movie sticker. Cute. I'm going to remove the background color and I'm going to save it as just a flat sticker. G download. G download. Great. Now I have a big collection of stickers. You may have some you may not have seen that I created without you watching. It's amazing. You can use the in videos and newsletters and anything that is super fun. I hope you enjoy it. And you made some really cool stickers as well. And please show them to me, because I love them. I'm always happy to see some colorful, cute stickers. 8. Adobe Express Mobile App: Okay guys, so well done on creating all these little cute animations and graphics. So if you go to your stuff, you can view all the things you created, which is nice. Now I have some really good news. There is an Adobe Express mobile app, which means that you can design anywhere from your mobile phone, which is awesome. Personally, as a content designer that works from home alone, it can get pretty lonely sometimes. So I love going out and about and sitting at coffee shops for my breaks or working there. And one of my favorite things to do is sipping on a delicious coffee. Looking at other people to remind myself that I'm still part of the human experience and that I'm not alone in this world. And my computer and design graphics on my phone with the mobile app of Adobe Express. And that's what I did today. And I created a few different things while sipping the delicious coffee. So one of the graphics I created is this, which is pretty simple, but pretty cute, isn't it? And this so easy to make. I think it took me less than 5 minutes to make this, and I was barely concentrated, barely had to think much. The app is really nice. What I did is I recorded my mobile screen. You're welcome to go ahead and grab your phone and download the Adobe Express mobile app in the app store or wherever you download your apps from. If you're using an Android, just sign in with your Adobe Creative Cloud account details. And then you can either sit back, relax, and watch what I'm going to show you, or you can do it with me and we can play along and design together simultaneously. That is totally up to you. Now let me just show you an example. Enter full screen, and yes, it's going to be black because this is the size of my phone. I used an iphone. I'm just going to play this and show you a little example of the things we can do that are so easy, like animating this text. Over here, I press play and I can just choose from a bunch of animations just for the text. This is just a little preview to the tutorial that will together to create this graphic. This is what will create now this gorgeous graphic. Let me grab my phone, Open Adobe Creative Cloud, and show you the way. Okay, so I've got all my projects here in Adobe Express, and I'm going to start creating a new document. Click on this plus here, and I'm going to click on More under Start From, I'm going to select Backgrounds. Great, now I'll get to choose between Trending, Background, Stationery, and whatnot. I'm going to choose Organic and click on More, because it's nice, I can choose from all different options. Let me choose warm Organic Backgrounds and click on More. Wow, can we just appreciate how gorgeous all these backgrounds are? Just stunning. And I feel like they're all my favorite colors like these pastell pinks, love those. I really like this one. I'm going to choose that one. Once you see the V, you can click on Add One and they will open it up. I'm going to choose original size. And done automatically, the text will come up. We'll start adding text so we can double click and start editing the text type 50% of online sale. Gosh, it feels like every banner we create is very sales. And it's not so much my vibe, but I think this is practical for people with businesses. They often want to sell stuff or create a call to action whatever you feel is right for you. Okay, So we could align it to the right, left, but actually I quite like center. Now we're going to go to FX and go to Shape. And already looks gorgeous with this color. Let's see what else it has to offer the shape. Wow, that's gorgeous. I really like that. That's quite nice. Okay, now I can choose the color. Maybe I'll go for a white or the blue. What's nice is it suggests a bunch of colors. So I don't have to think too hard. Maybe the white was better or the copper. The pink is nice. Maybe a few other grays, but I don't like these that much. Okay. I think the blue is the way to go. The problem now is that I can't see my text because the text is also blue. We're going to change that in a bit. Just click on Done again. Now we can go to Color and select Text and make it white. There we go. Click on Done when we're happy. Actually, I want to change the text font because I don't love it. By the way, if you go to style, you can play with this. This is so cool. You can just scroll with your little fum while you're sipping your coffee. And look at all these different cool styles and wow, I quite like this style. It's quite nice. I found this very satisfying to just scroll through this. Now let's go to Effects Shape and just add those colors again in those graphics. Yes, that rectangle. And go to Size, and maybe make it a little bit bigger. Let's go to Color, Select the Shape and make that blue again. And click on Done. There we go. Now let's go to Spacing. Let's change the shape so it's a little bit bigger, it's quite nice. The line is the space between the line here. Play with the letters, then click on Done when you're happy. If you want to, you can change the size again. Then last but not least, my favorite part is the animation part. You can click on animation and it will allow you to animate the text. Oh, I like that one. That one is nice. Once I've decided, I can click on Done. I can click on Play. Awesome. And there is my gorgeous graphic. I'm going to click on this icon to save it, and I'm going to export it as a video. Click on Downloads. There go. It's saved to my camera roll, Voila's my mobile app. 9. GIF Converter: Okay, so now we're going to move on to one of the most exciting and probably cool things that Adobe Express can do is converting videos, any video, into an animated gift or jiff, however it's pronounced, you tell me how you pronounce it, actually. And sometimes I log into Adobe Express just for this purpose. Take some videos and convert them into a gift so that I can use them for my newsletter. Again, I can show you some examples. Let me log on to Kate Silver, Substack Control and Shift. And you'll see this is a gift that I created from a movie, from an MP four and I converted it in Adobe Express. Same for this one. Same for this one. We're going to be converting a couple of videos, grab your own videos, and grab some of the files we've been working on, like this one or like this one. We're going to create these MP four videos into a gift and it's super easy. Let's head back to Adobe Express. If you go to home and you scroll down, you'll see lots of quick actions that are very cool. Let's just go ahead and click Convert to Gift. This is where you can drag or drop your videos, select your file, Maybe we'll start with one of the stickers we created together. I'll start with this selected click on Open, and now this video will be a gift. Now I can choose large, medium, small. And this will depend on the platform or the app that you're going to publish this to. Sometimes it can have a file size restriction. Do it accordingly, then I'm going to click on download. It's going to take a while it's doing its thing, it should appear in my download now as a gift. Let's have a little look. Just going to head to download and I will see this gift. Awesome. It's pretty. I'm just going to drag it from my downloads and pop in in here. Right. Maybe I'll make a little folder for all my gifts and I'm going to pop all my gifts over here. Beautiful. Let's create a gift from, maybe this one. Again, going back to Adobe Express. Close this again. Click on Convert to Gift. Select the file MP four. Make sure you select P four because it has to be a video. Click on Open again, choose the size you want. The medium, large, small. Click on download and it's converting. And there it is in my downloads to gift file. Ooh, I love that. That's so cool. Since it's a gift, it means you can just add it to a website, email, newsletters, and whatnot. Right now that we've converted these graphic designs, now I'm going to show you that we can also do it with a simple video. I do this quite a lot because I love taking little cuts of my videos and converting it into a gift. So I'm going to go back to this, close this Select convert gift again, click on Adobe Express. This is where you can also select any file you like. You can even film yourself with your phone. Any video will work. Let me choose this one. It's me typing one of my end design files if we wanted to, we could also change the length and make it smaller. Maybe if I don't like this part, I just want that part. Now, I'm going to click on downloads. There is my third gift ready to be downloaded. Great, let's have a look again at my downloads goods. I'm going to pop it in. The gift folder that I created, You can see are three gifts so far. You can see, I love that. It looks a bit gifty, Like this detail. I quite like it actually. That's some gifts that you can add to any website. Looking cool. I also created an animated flyer with Adobe Express. Give away flyers for competition to win a free skillshare membership. And so I used Adobe Express because it's so quick, it's so easy, and it looks good. Sometimes MP four doesn't work and I need a gift version. Let's say I want to include embedded into an e mail, into a newsletter on certain social media. Then I would convert it into a gift as well. Let's convert it into a gift, shall we? One last time, I promise. Click on Convert To Gift and click on the animated flyer. You, hopefully you will have created a few by now because it's so fun. Click on Open and Downloads. And I'm going to go back to my downloads and it's going to pop up here, but as a gift rather than a video, so it works like an image that I can pop anywhere. It's a small file, There we go. I have a few little gifts and these are awesome. I hope you love this tool as much as I do. I use it all the time. It just makes my life way easier. So feel free to post any gifts that you've created, any flyers, any animated sticker that you created with Adobe Express and pop it in the course project below. I would love to have a little look. I love seeing other people's creativity and create like a big creative melting pot and hub. 10. Merge Videos: Since we've just converted videos to gift. What we could also do on that topic of quick actions and videos is merge videos together. And I find that very useful, especially let's say you filmed yourself or a Tiktok or reel on your phone and you would like to a few videos together. Let's say you filmed with a camera and you have a few that you want to add together, or even some flyers that you've created here. Like the ones we've created, you can just merge them all into a single video without even having to open any video editing software. It's pretty quick. I would still edit videos in Adobe Premier Pro, but when I need to do a quick thing like this, I like to use Adobe Express files can be up to 1 gigabyte, which is pretty big. So anyway, I'm going to click here. Going to go back to my Adobe Express files. If we wanted, we could clip all these three videos together. What I'm going to do is the little clips that I have of myself, myself setting up a tripod, and me typing again. I'm going to select those three videos. Feel free to select three videos of your own making. Or even then you've collected from one of the free websites like Pia Bay, for instance, you can click on Open and click and shift to select multiple videos. By the way, press Play Mute. Perhaps those three videos will now be glued or merged into a single video, which is awesome. That is nice. If I wanted to, I could also add more. I could also add some of the flyers or some of those videos, like maybe this one. Since it's another size format, it might be different, but I can drag it and move it around. That's going to be my video. It's like me typing tripod. Typing again and sign up here or something like that. Then all I have to do is download or even better, I can click on Open an editor Now, I can even start adding stuff, which is cool. Like I can even go to my stuff now and perhaps pop the sticker I've just created. Yes, I can add to one of the stickers I created, Click and drag again. I can animate this and whatnot. Because I can really animate this video. I can pop things together, I can make a collage of literally everything we've done, and even add some more elements and more graphics, which is really cool. A little heart, and this one might be a bit too big. This video, I'm going to crop it down and make it a bit smaller. Do the same for this. I can click and drag and make things a bit smaller, more bite size. Let's see, Let's play that. That's a simplified video editing version. Feel free to play with this and create some really cool graphics and then post them in the project section. I'm going to click on download now. I'm going to download this and it's going to be one beautiful video. I'm going to open it up in my downloads and have a little look. That's great. I've made a little video in no time, and it was really easy. And I got to add all my animated stickers or some of them at least. 11. Animate CC Files: Hey guys, let's get ready for the next part of Adobe Express. That is super cool. And for me again, this is going to be life changing. And that is to animate CC files, which means you can quickly animate any Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator file. Now usually let's say you would design, or an illustration in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, that normally you would have to use Adobe After Effects to animate them. Adobe After Effects is amazing, but it's hard to learn. It can take a little while. Adobe Express has come up with a really quick way to animate your CC files. And that's what we're going to do now. Now if you haven't used Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator yet, I teach a course on that for absolute beginners really easy. But without further ado, let's go ahead and select this quickly. Animate your CC files and text and select upload PSD or AI file. Now I have an Adobe Illustrator file handy, obviously shoes, since my background is shoe design. But feel free to take any Adobe Illustrator file that you personally have and click on Open. It's doing its thing, it's converting my Adobe Illustrator file into an Adobe Express file. Okay, let's click on Open. There we go. I can already select a shoe. I can go to Animation. I can click on any of them. Just like that, the shoe will move, which is awesome. Wow, that's so cool. I think I'm going to go for my best friend Bob. Again. Surprise. Surprise. I'm going to go to looping Bob. There we go. And I'm going to apply it to all my shoes, I want them all to. Bob. Select this, select animation loop. And Mr. Bob, I'll do the same for this. Perhaps I can click and shift and select those three shoes simultaneously, so it's much faster. Then in one click, I can go to animation looping. And Mr. Bob, if I press play, I've just animated my CC file, my Adobe Illustrator file, which is awesome. This is just so cool. Obviously, if I wanted I could add some elements. Can click on View All and see what they have to offer. Just add some stuff in there. And who liquid forms? I can click on that, I can add liquid and have the shoe melt, select the liquid, pop it in there and I could move the layer to the back and it looks like there's a liquid that's pretty cool. I just invented this on the spot, so I'm not sure about that. I'm going to delete that and press play. And I've animated my CC file. This is amazing. Gosh, I like the smelting gold drip, whatever it's called. So much so that I've decided I'm going to add them to all my other shoes. And I'm going to duplicate it using my gorgeous shortcuts. So I'm going to select one of the drips and I'm going to go ol option and drag and pop it in there. Again, make sure that the layer of the gold drip is below the layer of the shoes. Again, Alt and drag. And I'm going to pop it in here. Alt and drag and pop it in there. That's amazing. Now currently the shoes Bob, but the gold drips, don't. I'm going to animate all the gold drips and I'm going to add a Bob to all of them. I'm just going to click and hold down the shift key and select all the gold pieces to animate them all in one click altogether. I'm going to go to animation again, my friend. I'm going to go to looping my best friend Bob. Now I'm actually going to add a second animation to my gold rips going to go to. I might even add bunge. If you increase the number of bounces, it will be more apparent if I press play. Now there's bunge and bobbing, which is awesome. If I wanted, I could add text, I could actually add text effects because there's a text effect called gold drip. And I think that would look so cool. I'm going to start typing animate CC because that's what we're doing. And then I'm going to resize it and move it around if I want it to now press Play, something like that. Maybe you can design something a little bit more cool and then post it in a project section. Let's see what you got. Let's see your design skills. I love this. It's amazing. I had so much fun. Have fun animating your CC files. 12. Text to Template - AI: So at the time of the recording, suddenly lots of new Adobe Express tools appeared, which is awesome. I love it. I get bored very quickly. So I love when the software keeps updating itself. Thank you. Adobe. Now, some of them are exciting, some of them we've already covered like text effect, which I love as you may know. But for me, the most exciting one is text to template. Because this means that it will make my work 100 times quicker. Instead of having to design a template and having to scratch my brain, trying to find inspiration, trying to find the colors at work, and whatnot. I can use AI to convert my prompt, my text, into ready made templates. Now it is in beta, beta, beta stages at the time of the recording. Obviously, this will improve as the time goes on. You also have text to image and generative fill, which is amazing. But I have these two options as well in Adobe Photoshop and in other platforms. I'm less excited about these two. And I'm more excited about Text to Template, which will cover. Now let's start typing a specific topic or occasion. I'm going to write Invitation for cat birthday, of course. And let's see what it has to offer. Click on Generate, Agree To Terms. Make sure you read before agreeing as with everything. And click on Agree, Mixing Art and Science. Very cute. I can take time at the moment. In the meantime, take a deep breath through the nose and exhale. Might as well practice a bit of self care whilst we're waiting. Wow, these look so cute. I can't believe it. Join us for a perfect celebration if we want it. If we weren't happy with these, we can click on Generate More Results, and it will give us even more options. Wow, these are so cute. I have a hard time choosing which one I like most. But let's say I'm going for this one, I'm going to click on that, the template is loading. And then I'll be able to customize it accordingly and add details of my cat. Could even change the picture and add a real image of my cat. Could change everything. Really change the color of the text and whatnot. That's awesome, obviously. Now that you know how to use Adobe Express, thanks to this tutorial, I hope you're going to be able to design your own card, please. Please create something super cool and posted in the project section. I would love to see all your designs. These are so cool. 13. Remove background of Video: O ki eyes? Are you ready for one of the most exciting tools of Adobe Express? And that is removing backgrounds from videos? You heard it. Videos, Not just photos, which you can also do an Adobe Express, but videos. This, for me, has been a game changer. This means that I can now easily remove the background of any unprofessional video that I shoot in my kitchen and even in my bathroom if I wanted to, just like that, I can remove the background and make it look more professional or just make it look really cool and itchy. That's what we're going to do. Now. I'm going to bring up a video that I created from a previous Adobe Express tutorial. And I'm just going to show you how that tool works. I'm going to go here, start from your content. I'm going to go ahead and select the video. Now I need to make sure that the video is under 2 minutes, otherwise, I will not be able to remove the background, basically. If it's over 2 minutes, then this will come up. It will say unsupported video Remove Background is only supported for video is under 2 minutes. Make sure you trim that down to 2 minutes. I've chosen my video and it's less than 2 minutes, it's just a little sample. Then I'm going to click on Create New, and choose Original Aspect Ratio. Now it's going to load and it might take some time. In the meantime, whilst we're waiting to remove Background to show up, I'm going to show you a bunch of it quick edits that we can do. Even though for major edits I personally use Adobe Premier Pro to make high quality content. But if you're not a video editor, if you're a complete beginner, then Adobe Express is a great place to start. And it's quick and you have some very simple edits. Things like you can change the volume, you can mute it can crop, it can make it a bit faster, you can change opacity, you could add effects, et cetera. But for now, let's go to adjustments. If we want it, I can play around with this, Make it add more highlights, make it a bit more saturated, more yellow, more blue can sharpen it or blur it a bit brighter and change the contrast perhaps. Nice. Great. Now let's go back. I can see Remove Background is now available. That means I can click on Remove Background again. It might take some time while it's loading. In the meantime, we can go ahead and go to Media and have a look at a bunch of amazing backgrounds we can choose from. There's loads to pick from. There we go. The background has been removed. Awesome. Now I'm going to type maybe something like office and see what comes up. And now I can choose any of these and use it as a background maybe this one. Now some are available just for the paid membership and some aren't. So have a look which are available to you then. I'm just going to click on it and it will appear here. I can click and drag and make it bigger. Now I just need to move this layer behind myself. It looks all right. It doesn't look perfect, but it looks all right. If I wanted, I could change the adjustment of the image so it looks a bit more realistic, or I can choose another image. Let's try changing the adjustments. If I select myself, the subject, I can go to adjustments again. I can play around with the saturation and maybe make it a bit more blue. It looks more like it's part of this image. I can also blur it a little bit. Who, not too much. Just a tiny bit. Just so it looks a bit more like a part of. And maybe reduce the sharpen a little bit. That looks a little bit more realistic. Now if I don't like that, I can go back to media and choose, of course, another image. Maybe this one. Click and drag, Click, click and drag. Make it bigger. Now I can move this just behind this. That's another option. Now go back to my image, my layer, and again, change the adjustments. Because I think for this one I maybe need to sharpen it, maybe remove the blur, maybe change of warmth. Yeah, that's pretty cool. There we go for removing the background of a video. Now stay tuned because in the next section we're going to learn a whole bunch of other video editing tools for beginners in Adobe Express and it's super easy. We're going to learn how to trim or split videos, how to add animations, how to time animations, and how to add basically all the animations we created earlier to make a really cool animated video. 14. TikTok Video: All in 1: Now in the next section, I will show you how to create a super cool, super easy video that you can add to your Tiktok, to your reels, to your Youtube shorts. And literally, I made this, I think the whole video I made, perhaps in 20 minutes. And I'm sure you can make it if it's a shorter video. And I'm going to show you what we're going to make it now. It's going to be a holistic video that covers adding all the animations we've created and placing it in a single video that I've just filmed with my phone. Have a little look. Hello my friends. In this Adobe Express tutorial, we will discover the effortless world of animating with Adobe Express. We will be creating all the super cute and awesome animations that you see right here. And we'll be converting any image or video into a gift. We will discover text effects that are AI generated and built in Adobe and how to animate. We will be removing the background of videos like this one. And finally, we will learn how to merge all of these newly acquired skills together in a single video with animations, with text effects, with removal of background, with everything read. Then one last thing. We will be editing existing PDF, which is super cool and it takes zero time. Are you ready to level up your value? Obviously, I had to add some cats in there because I'm a massive cat lady. Right, Let's get started. I would like you to film your own little clip of you talking into your camera. This can be wherever you want in your bathroom, even outside, wherever. Just make sure it's a clip that's under 2 minutes. And let's go ahead and open Adobe Express. Now, again, we're going to go to the home page and we're going to go to start from your content. I would like you to pick that video that you created. I'm going to pick mine and click on Open Click on Create New, and click on Original Aspect Ratio. Now it might take a little bit of time for it to upload and it might look a little bit weird. In the meantime, whilst it's loading, it's currently loading, we're going to start preparing our media and have a look at all the stuff. We're going to add, our branding, our elements. Let's click on your stuff. We'll see under files, all the previous Adobe Express documents we've been working on and all the gorgeous animations we created together. And other ones that you probably created without me, hopefully, hopefully it unlocked your creativity. And it was hard to stop you from designing and creating. Well, that's what happened to me. Anyways, later on, we'll be clicking and dragging, and popping these in our video, which is cool. Now, if you go to brand and libraries, this is where you have access to other Adobe Creative Cloud libraries. Mine are Adobe Indesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop libraries that I've previously created. So make sure you select any of your ones or you can create a new library and make sure that you have all your brand assets that you'll be needing for your video. I'm going to click on my brand and this is where I saved all the assets. Now because I'm an Adobe Express ambassador, I have access to assets and I'm also a skillshare, top teacher. But please use your own. 15. Splitting into Clips: Create. My video is ready to be loaded. I'm going to select it and I'm not going to remove the background just yet. Let me show you what I'm going to do. Let me show you the original file that I created. If you look at the original file that I created, you'll see a bunch of little clips over here. What I've done is I've gone ahead and split the clip in different clips. That's because sometimes there's some pause or I lose my words or my train or thought, or I'm breathing, gossiping for breath. I've gone ahead and trimmed this with trimming, you can click here and drag and trim a clip. Or click and drag it and make it longer. Obviously, if you regret what you just did, you can use my favorite best friend shortcut, undo command or control zet. You can also click here and add an additional scene if you want to. If you want it to, you can write, click and duplicate a scene. Now the most important part here is split. This is what we'll do with the file that we've been working on. I would like us to trim wherever needed. Split as soon as you can see here, I'm looking like a deer in headlights. If I wanted to trim that, this is where I can right click and click on Split or the short cut. There we go. Moving on to the next section, somewhere over here. Right click, split again. Right click split again. Right click split. Go ahead and split wherever it makes sense for you. This is how I've split mine previously. 16. Edit Layer Timings & Duration: Great, now what we're going to do is we're going to start by popping some of the brand assets over here. Now I'm going to go again, your stuff. My brand. And I'm going to select this Adobe Express logo. And I'm going to click and drop it away. Now if I accidentally click here, oh, it did work, but sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it replaces the image. If that happens, just undo anyway. I'm going to go here. Click and drag there. Now the great thing about your stuff is that if you go back here, you have access to all the files that you've been previously working on. The only caveat is that for some reason right now, it doesn't display the animation. We can pop them in, but without the previous animations we created. Unfortunately, we are going to have to animate this again. But no biggie, it doesn't take a lot of time. And it's quite fun if we can select this and go to Animation. You know me, click on Looping, and my favorite is Bob. I just love that one. But feel free to choose any to your liking. Now if I wanted I can change a speed as well if I wanted to. So it's really fast, it's less. Let's go back and click away if we wanted to. Let's add a second acid. Go back to my brand. This time I'm going to add this and I'm going to click and drag, and pop it over here. I'm going to click and drag and resize this. Great. Now I'm going to add a little animation. I'm going to go to animation And slides, awesome. If I click on play now this is awesome. But what I can also do is change the timings of each asset because I don't want them all to play at the same time. I'm going to select this, then I'm going to go here, Show Layer Timing. That means that I can click and drag and change the timing of an animation. I can make this the whole time, so it's on the whole time. Or I can make it only half the time. I can decide now it's there, now it's gone. That's pretty fun. Let's go back to this layer, because I want that to start a little bit later. I'm just going to click and drag. Now if I press play, there's this Adobe Express comes later. Now one last thing. If I go to animation. I want a duration to be a bit longer. That means that it will last a bit longer. It will be a bit slower if I want. I can also make it smooth. It's more smooth, so let's breast play. Awesome, Great. Now the last thing for this mini clip is I'm going to select this background. And I'm also going to animate this. I'm going to animation in, and I know from experience that shrink is pretty good. I can select SmokifeI, press Play. 17. Animated Text Effects: Okay, that's my first section. Now, in the original one I created, I created lots of different sections. One is where I add all the little previous animations that we created, which is what we'll do now. Then we add a big animation that covers the whole video, the whole screen. Which is, it's good because it's like a separation. Then we're going to add text effects and I generated. Then we're going to start removing the backgrounds and creating a few different versions of background removal. Okay, let's go to the next section, go back to this click and go back to files and start popping all the animations we created. I'm going to start with this, I'm going to click and drag and click on Add As Image. There we go. Oh, it has the white background which I don't want, doesn't look that good. If I wanted to, I could actually write, Click and Edit in a new window, then make sure the background color is no background color. And then obviously make sure I save it. Or alternatively, I can select this and just click on Remove Background. I find this a little bit faster then obviously I'm going to animate it. I'm going to go to animation looping. And my favorite Bob animation Click away. There we go. I have got my first little animation. Let's start adding some more. I've got my gift converters. I'm going to click and drag, Add as image here, it's hiding. I'm going to click and drag and add that over here. And then of course if you need it to remove background, go for it. Then I'm going to go to animation looping. And my favorite Bob friend. Okay, I press play, they're bobbing, which is fun. Let's add this animated sticker. Click and drag. Click, Add as image. I just want to tell you that if you accidentally did this and it replaced your actual video, just undo and no harm done. Commander controls it, right? I'm going to pop it in here. Add as image. Click over here and rotate it, potentially popping everything and moving everything around. Making it really fun. As usual, I'm going to click on Animation looping, and Bob love that. Great. Now, last but not least for this little thing, I'm going to add my favorite little fellow over here. Love this one. I'm going to click and drag, I'm going to add an image, pop it in here. Now feel free to remove the background. If it's white again, then I'm going to go to animation in this time and choose Tumble, because I want to make it a little bit different. I'm also going to make the duration longer. I'm going to play with the rotation, so it's a bit more funky. Let's click on Play and have a look that's really cool. If I wanted I could click on each individual layer and time it differently so that some come up after. Great, Moving on to the next one. And that will be a big holistic gift or animation that covers the whole page. We can click away, scroll down, and look for one of the ones we've created. I'll just use this one. I'm going to click and drag and click on Add As Image. Then I'm going to click and drag and play around with it and make it so that it covers the whole screen. And obviously I don't want it to cover the whole animation. Just a part of it. I'm going to click and drag and just make it a little bit shorter. Great, let's add an animation to make it fun. Click on in, I quite like shrink again. Click on that and look at that, how fun. Great, now we're going to move on and we're finally going ahead to text effects, AI generated text effects. So we're going to go to Text, we're going to click on Add your Text and type text Effects. Obviously if you want it, you can zoom in the screen. If it's too small, I'm going to make it a bit bigger. Click and drag pop in here. Let's see what Adobe Express suggests. This is pretty, this one might make it a little bit smaller. Now I'm going to scroll down and we're going to be applying text effects, shape, and animation to it. So let's click on Text Effects. If we can select the gold drip, takes the second load. Awesome. Now let's click on the little arrow, scroll down, and go to Shape. I want this shape, but obviously feel free to pick your own shape. I'm going to click on this and I'm just going to reduce the shape size a little bit. Now I'm going to change the color by going to shape fill. And I want to go with something pink, because obviously I love pink. Oh, what about this one which is recommended? A perfection. That's what I want. I'm going to click away and then click over here. And last but not least for this one, I'm going to add an animation perhaps in. I'm going to add bungee, why not? Now if I want it, I can elongate the duration it's floating there. That's quite fun. Can even add more bounces. That's so fun. There we go. I'm happy with this one. I'm going to click away, select it again, and maybe make it a bit shorter, the duration. Great. Now feel free to add another one in the original one I created, I added this which is the balloon on the pink balloon with a yellow background. So feel free to add that as well if you want to follow me. I'm moving on to the next section where I'm finally going to remove a background. 18. Adding Animated Backgrounds: Let's go ahead and select this and click on Remove Background, and select all the remaining pieces, and remove Background. Select this and remove Background for all of them because it might take a little bit of time to load. In the meantime, have a few sips of coffee and I'm going to show you what we're going to do next. We're going to be removing a background, but we're going to add these really cute smiley animations. Because I just think it looks cute, there's a little bug. For some reason I seem to have disappeared. My video, my face is not there, but it is there when I export it. After that, we're going to be adding another animation. And finally I'm going to add a cat, because obviously I'm going to add a cat picture, being a cat lady and everything. All right, so let's see what is up with our video. There it is, the background is gone. How awesome. Right, in this section we're just going to change the color of the background and make it pinky winky. And add some emoji, some smiles, because I think that's super cute. But later we're going to change it with an actual image. Right? Let's select it and click on Background Color. Maybe this one, that's a little bit much. Yes, cohesive. Let's choose this one, perfection. Now let's go to elements. I would like us to type Smiley, obviously. Feel free to choose any icon or emoji or whatever that you feel is good. I'm just going to choose this cute smiley Emoji. I'm going to pop it. Whoops, not there, but there. It doesn't replace my self. I'm going to click and drag. I can resize it if I wanted to. Now I'm going to go over here and add a little animation. My best friend bobbing Bob. And then click away and it's going to Bob. Great. Now I'm going to show you a shortcut that I teach all the time in all my Adobe courses and that is for duplication. That is Alt option and drag. And now it's duplicated. Now I'm going to resize it. I'm going to a drag and add another little one. Select this old click here, Alt drag, and now they will all be animated just like that. My next slide is done, let's move on to the next one. Maybe make it a little bit bigger. We can even click on Background and see who we could've used an existing smiley background. That's also cool, but we can try and find a background over here if we wanted to. Or we can go to Media and click on videos, let's say. And click on Technology. Because I found some really cool ones in particular this one. I loved it. We can either just click and it will appear here. Or click and drag. And then click and drag and resize it. Just make sure I pop it underneath myself. And how press play and wow, that's cool. That is cool. Cool. I am super happy look at all these changes. Great. Let's move on to the next one now. Obviously, feel free to play around with all these. In my one, I combined emojis with that special background. In the next one I chose an office, and then I added some more emojis. And then last but not least, I found a cat image. Of course, feel free to type cats and see what comes up or type anything that makes you smile and pop it as a background. That's quite funny. Anyway, now that you've done this, well done, Have a little play with everything, change the animation, add some other text effects, design some new MGs, add some new backgrounds and make it your own. And just like Dad, you've created your very own influencer, Tiktok Youtube short video. So you're officially an influencer now. And that wasn't that hard, was it? Now, Last but not least, click on download and download it as an MP four and it will do its thing and well done, how exciting. 19. Well Done my Friends!: Congrats my friends on completing this Adobe Express animation clause. I'm super happy for you. I hope this will have alleviated any uncertainty you might have had about animation. And that it will help you unlock your creativity and bring your content to life. Now, I would love to hear what your thoughts were about this clause, what you would like to learn next. What was your favorite part of this clause? Please leave a review because it would really help me. I love hearing from my dear students, like you now to stay notified on class updates and competitions I'm launching. Feel free to follow me on Skillshare and then for even deeper connections and even more tips and tricks and shortcuts. Subscribe to my e mail newsletter. Control and Shift Unintended. The link is below. And voila see you soon.