Adobe Tutorials

Getting Started with Acrobat

1. Getting started with Acrobat DC
2. Get to know the interface
3. Create PDFs
4. Create PDFs from Microsoft Word documents
5. Edit text and PDFs

Doing more with Acrobat

• Reorganizing multi-page documents
• Convert PDFs to other file formats
• Share a PDF for commenting
• Convert scans to searchable, text-based PDFs
• Fill and sign PDF form

Linkedin Learning provides video tutorials on a variety of topics

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• Linkedin tutorial: Acrobat DC Essentials
• Linkedin tutorial: Creating Forms in Acrobat
• Linkedin tutorial: Creating Accessible Documents in Acroba

Learn how to use Adobe Acrobat in the classroom

The Adobe Education Exchange is free for everyone at UofL, and it provides a wide range of self-guided courses to learn processes, theories, and use of the Adobe tools.

In the Adobe Acrobat for Teaching and Learning course, you will:

• Understand how Acrobat facilitates better reading and accessibility for all learners
• Understand how to use Acrobat to manage the consistency and quality of your and your students' documents
• Learn ways to share and collaborate on documents, as well as protect and secure sensitive information
• Be able to edit, annotate, organize and adjust your PDF files - and teach your students to do the same

Access the Adobe Acrobat for Teaching and Learning course.

Getting Started with Aero

1. Download and install on iOS, Android, or desktop

Mobile apps

1. Learn the Aero interface
2. Learn augmented reality (AR) workflows
3. AR interaction design
4. AR audio design

Desktop app

• Create AR in Aero desktop
• Learn the Aero desktop interface
• 3D space and navigation
• Using Surface Anchors
• Import assets into Aero desktop

Getting Started with After Effects

1. Learn the After Effects interface
2. Working with compositions
3. Create and animate text
4. Select and animate layers
5. Render your work

Doing more with After Effects

• Track facial features
• Adding special effects to videos
• Working with 3D
• Design a Hollywood-style title sequence

Linkedin Learning is free for all UofL students, faculty and staff.

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• Complete an online course about After Effects

Getting Started with Animate

1. Types of Animate documents
2. Learn the Animate interface
3. Using the drawing tools
4. Create a symbol
5. Animating with a motion tween
6. Export standards

Doing more with Animate

• Using the Actions Wizard
• Layer parenting
• Use HTML5 component

Linkedin Learning is free for all UofL students, faculty and staff.

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• Complete an online course about Animate

Getting Started with Audition

 Watch a recorded webinar covering all the basics on Audition

1. What is Adobe Audition
2. Record an audio file
3. Make selections and editing recordings
4. Create multitrack sessions (for podcasting and audio mixing

Doing more with Audition

• Adjusting audio levels
• Removing background hiss
• Removing noises and sounds
• How to make your voice sound better
• Creating your own podcast

Linkedin Learning is free for all UofL students, faculty and staff.

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• Complete an online course about Audition

Getting Started with Dimension

1. Move and arrange 3D objects
2. Change the camera view
3. Edit the look of objects
4. Set environmental features
5. Composite a scene
6. Export in 3D for web, AR, and more

Doing more with Dimension

• Create photorealistic compositions
• Apply 2d art to 3D models
• Dimension for Photoshop
• Dimension for Illustrator

Getting Started with Adobe Express

• How to access Adobe Express
  • Go to Express.adobe.com
  • Select Sign In
  • Select Log in with school account
  • Enter your UofL email address that begins with your User ID, such as "fmlast01@louisville.edu"
  • Select Company or School Account
  • Enter your UofL password if prompted

Adobe Express Image tool

• Use the Adobe Express image editor
• Create images from text using Adobe Firefly

Adobe Express Webpage tool

• Use the Adobe Express webpage creator (video tutorial)
• Creating an Express webpage
• Adobe Express webpage tutorial (text)
  • Create a table of contents for an Express webpage

Adobe Express Video tool

• Use the Adobe Express video creator (text)
• How to create a video from Adobe Express Video (video tutorial)

Getting Started with Fresco

1. Learn the basics of Fresco
2. Create your first illustration
3. Changing parts of a drawing
4. Paint with digital oils
5. Paint with digital watercolors that stay "wet"

Doing more with Fresco

• Turn photos into illustrations
• Make an editorial collage
• Make a watercolor painting
• Make a comic-style portrait
• Drawing with vectors (iOS only)

Linkedin Learning is free for all UofL students, faculty, and staff.

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• Complete an online course about Fresco

Getting Started with Illustrator

Watch a 7-minute quick start with Adobe Illustrator

1. Getting to know Illustrator
2. Create and edit shapes
3. Drawing tools
4. Selection tools, groups, and alignment
5. Change colors, use swatches, and more
6. Create and edit text
7. Use layers
8. Work with artboards
9. Create and apply patterns

Doing more with Illustrator

• Freeform gradients
• Wrap, pose, and sculpt artwork
• Custom hand lettering
• Textile design with Illustrator and Photoshop
• Create patterns that tile seamlessly
• Creating a logo

Linkedin Learning is free for all UofL students, faculty and staff.

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• Complete an online course about Illustrator

Getting Started with InDesign

 Watch a recorded webinar on the basics of InDesign

1. Creating files
2. Adding text
3. Formatting text
4. Adding images
5. Working with layers
6. Multipage documents
7. Adding interactivity
8. Sharing completed projects

Doing more with InDesign

• Align and distribute text and objects
• Designing page templates
• Print bleed
• PDF for printing from InDesign
• Creating a sidebar
• Design a book
• Design a magazine cover
• Design an infographic

Linkedin Learning is free for all UofL students, faculty and staff.

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• Complete an online course about InDesign

Getting Started with Lightroom

1. Learn the Lightroom interface
2. Getting to know the editing controls
3. Adjusting light and color
4. Crop and adjust perspective
5. Make selective edits
6. Adding effects
7. Saving your photos

Doing more with Lightroom

• Raw vs JPEG photography
• Enhancing texture and details
• Removing spots and small issues
• Enhance a sunset
• Remove a color cast from a photo

Linkedin Learning is free for all UofL students, faculty and staff.

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• Complete an online course about Lightroom

Getting Started with Photoshop

 Watch a recorded webinar covering the basics of Photoshop

1. Learn the Photoshop interface
2. Crop, straighten, and resize images
3. Using layers
4. Enhance and improve image quality
5. Using the selection tools
6. Adding text and shapes
7. Merging and combining images

Doing more with Photoshop

• Retouching images
• Using filters to add effects to images
• Remove objects with content-aware fill
• Clean up images with the spot healing brush
• Hiding content in a photo or image
• Select and mask hair and objects
• Change the color of an object
• Understanding blend modes
• Create a miniature effect
• Using adjustment layers
• Swap people's heads or other objects

Linkedin Learning is free for all UofL students, faculty and staff.

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• Complete an online course about Photoshop

Getting Started with Premiere Pro

 Watch a one-hour intro video to Premiere Pro

1. Learn the Premiere Pro interface
2. How to create a video project
3. How to edit video sequences
4. Add photos and images to your video
5. Add titles and text to your video
6. Add transitions between clips
7. How to export and share new videos

Doing more with Premiere Pro

• Editing music in a video
• Green screen effects
• Rolling credits
• Recording a voiceover
• Adjusting colors
• Using Adobe Audition to improve audio

Linkedin Learning is free for all UofL students, faculty, and staff.

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• Complete an online course about Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Rush allows you to create and edit video and audio recordings on desktops and mobile devices.  Designed for ease of use, it is a great place to begin video and audio editing.

Getting Started with Premiere Rush

 Watch a recorded tutorial session covering all the basics on using Premiere Rush

1. Get to know Rush
2. Learn the interface
3. Learn the editing tools
4. Make titles
5. Exporting your videos

Doing more with Premiere Rush

• Improving audio
• Add transitions and other effects
• Crop, scale, and adjust clip size
• Create split screen video

Premiere Rush vs Premiere Pro

Premiere Rush and Premiere Pro are the two video editors available in the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of programs.  

Premiere Pro is the main video editor in the Digital Media Suite, since it provides the most flexibility and powerful set of tools.  

Premiere Rush is a video editor designed with ease of use and speed in mind. Available on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android, it can be used to quickly edit recordings and produce videos that do not need the more in-depth tools of Premiere Pro.  

If you find Rush lacks features you need or your video requires more work than you thought, you can export your Rush projects directly into Premiere Pro.  

• Once you do this, you cannot continue working on the project in Rush. You will have to finish your production in Premiere Pro.  You also cannot open Premiere Pro projects in Rush.

Edit Premiere Rush files in Premiere Pro

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• Complete an online course about Premiere Rush