Adobe Tutorials
Adobe Creative Campus at UofL
The complete Adobe Creative Cloud suite of applications is now available to all University of Louisville students, faculty and staff. Learn more about using these tools for digital media assignment support.
Learn More About UofL's Adobe Creative Campus
All you need is a current userID@louisville.edu email address and password.
- Go to www.adobe.com
- Select Sign In.
- Enter your UofL userID@louisville.edu email address.
- Select Company or School Account.
- Enter your UofL password when prompted.
- Click on Install Creative Cloud app
Download these instructions: How do I access my UofL Creative Cloud account?
What is provided through the UofL enterprise license:
- All 20 applications allowing you to create documents, videos, audio, graphic design, photos, illustrations, websites, mobile apps, and more.
- Creative Cloud Libraries providing you with 100 gigabytes of cloud storage space for saving and sharing documents and assets.
- Adobe Fonts integrating thousands of fonts into all your projects.
- Adobe Portfolio allowing you to create a website to store and share your creations and your skills and abilities.
- Behance provides a public space for you to share and view shared creations from the Adobe community around the world.
UofL's Adobe license does not include: Adobe Stock, Captivate, Connect, or Experience Cloud.
- All current students, faculty, and staff have free access to the complete Adobe Creative Cloud suite of apps.
- Students who are enrolled for fall and spring classes will have year long access. Enrollment in summer and winter terms is not required.
- Faculty and staff who are active employees will have access. Retirees are not included in the license.
For more questions about or support with access, please contact the UofL IT Help Desk.
Account support for Adobe is available through the UofL Help Desk.
Access other technical support at the UofL IT Adobe Support home page.
Adobe Tutorials and Resources
Getting Started with Acrobat
- Getting started with Acrobat DC
- Get to know the interface
- Create PDFs
- Create PDFs from Microsoft Word documents
- 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
- Access LinkedinLearning
- Linkedin tutorial: Acrobat DC Essentials
- Linkedin tutorial: Creating Forms in Acrobat
- Linkedin tutorial: Creating Accessible Documents in Acrobat
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
Getting Started with Aero
Mobile apps
Desktop app
Getting Started with After Effects
- Learn the After Effects interface
- Working with compositions
- Create and animate text
- Select and animate layers
- 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.
Getting Started with Animate
- Types of Animate documents
- Learn the Animate interface
- Using the drawing tools
- Create a symbol
- Animating with a motion tween
- Export standards
Doing more with Animate
Linkedin Learning is free for all UofL students, faculty and staff.
Getting Started with Audition
Watch a recorded webinar covering all the basics on Audition
- What is Adobe Audition
- Record an audio file
- Make selections and editing recordings
- 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.
Getting Started with Dimension
- Move and arrange 3D objects
- Change the camera view
- Edit the look of objects
- Set environmental features
- Composite a scene
- Export in 3D for web, AR, and more
Doing more with Dimension
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
Adobe Express Webpage tool
- Use the Adobe Express webpage creator (video tutorial)
- Creating an Express webpage
- Adobe Express webpage tutorial (text)
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
- Learn the basics of Fresco
- Create your first illustration
- Changing parts of a drawing
- Paint with digital oils
- 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.
Getting Started with Illustrator
Watch a 7-minute quick start with Adobe Illustrator
- Getting to know Illustrator
- Create and edit shapes
- Drawing tools
- Selection tools, groups, and alignment
- Change colors, use swatches, and more
- Create and edit text
- Use layers
- Work with artboards
- 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.
Getting Started with InDesign
Watch a recorded webinar on the basics of InDesign
- Creating files
- Adding text
- Formatting text
- Adding images
- Working with layers
- Multipage documents
- Adding interactivity
- 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.
Getting Started with Lightroom
- Learn the Lightroom interface
- Getting to know the editing controls
- Adjusting light and color
- Crop and adjust perspective
- Make selective edits
- Adding effects
- 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.
Getting Started with Photoshop
Watch a recorded webinar covering the basics of Photoshop
- Learn the Photoshop interface
- Crop, straighten, and resize images
- Using layers
- Enhance and improve image quality
- Using the selection tools
- Adding text and shapes
- 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.
Getting Started with Premiere Pro
Watch a one-hour intro video to Premiere Pro
- Learn the Premiere Pro interface
- How to create a video project
- How to edit video sequences
- Add photos and images to your video
- Add titles and text to your video
- Add transitions between clips
- 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