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Content Creation with Adobe tools

What are Adobe tools and what are they for?

The Adobe Creative Cloud offers a variety of digital tools that afford faculty the ability to create engaging content that can help meet the needs of the modern student.  The digital tools allow students to showcase their learning in creative and engaging formats.  Perhaps the traditional research paper can, for instance, be re-imagined as a documentary project with interviews and graphics supporting any stated data. 

Adobe’s Frequently Used Digital Tools

  • Adobe Express: A suite of apps for creating graphics, web pages, and short videos for social media, easily and quickly. It’s aimed at marketing and social media professionals, as well as amateurs and beginners who want to create cool content.
  • Photoshop: Use Photoshop to edit and compose raster (not easily scalable) images, graphics and text in multiple layers; edit and render text and vector graphics; and create and edit 3D graphics and video.
  • Illustrator: Use vectors (instantly scalable) to create everything from simple graphics, such as logos, icons and infographics, to complex illustrations, and everything in-between.
  • After Effects: Create visual effects, motion graphics, and composited imagery.
  • Adobe XD: Vector-based UX tool for prototyping web and mobile apps.
  • InDesign: Page layout tool that’s used primarily for print, but also has digital publishing capabilities.
  • Lightroom: A good tool for a photo studio or photographer that needs to handle large numbers of images. It doesn’t have all the image editing features offered by Photoshop, but that does make for a simpler interface that’s easier to use for standard tasks.
  • Premiere Pro: Comprehensive video editing tool, based on a visual timeline, to edit everything from commercials and music videos to TV series and feature-length movies.
  • Rush: An all-in-one, cross-platform video editing software that processes and uploads video clips quickly, ideal for social media content creators.
  • Dimension: Tool for mocking up, compositing and rendering photorealistic 3D images based on 2D and 3D models, photos and textures you have imported from elsewhere, including Adobe Stock. 

How can you access and use Adobe tools?

Log in to TUportal and under TUAPPLICATIONS on the left hand side menu, click on Adobe Creative Cloud. If you have not already subscribed to Adobe Creative Cloud click and follow the ITS Adobe instructions. 

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