Adobe has launched Creative Cloud Express, a unified task-based, web, and mobile product that makes it easy to create and share beautiful rich multimedia content – from social media posts and stories to invitations to marketing materials like logos, flyers, and banners.
The new product allows users to drag-and-drop content creation, empowering every them to express their creativity with just a few clicks. It also offers thousands of high-quality templates, 20,000 premium Adobe fonts, and 175 million licensed Adobe Stock images.
Creative Cloud Express leverages Adobe Sensei, Adobe’s powerful AI/ML framework, and the cutting-edge technology behind Adobe’s flagship applications like Photoshop, Premiere, and Acrobat.
The product is a major boost to Adobe’s mission of changing the world through digital experiences by Empowering people to create and communicate. As the company marches forward on its mission, it acquired Frame.io, a leading cloud-based video collaboration platform in October and also partnered with IBM to introduce teens to basic design principles.
Creative Cloud Express makes it possible for everyone, independent of skill level, to make something great.
For all Creative Cloud subscribers who already use the company’s flagship applications, Creative Cloud Express adds significant value to the ideation process from creating mock-ups to ensuring brand consistency to publishing content on social media.
“Everyone has a story to tell and it’s our mission to empower everyone to express their ideas,” said Scott Belsky, chief product officer, and executive vice president, Creative Cloud, Adobe. “In this unique time, where millions of people are building a personal and professional brand, we’re excited to launch Creative Cloud Express as a simple, template-based tool that unifies the creation, collaboration, and sharing process so anyone can create with ease.”
“With Creative Cloud and Creative Cloud Express, we are meeting the demands of all creators and catalyzing the creator economy,” said David Wadhwani, chief business officer and executive vice president, Adobe. “Creative Cloud Express is the start of a brand-new journey to introduce first-time creators to Adobe creative tools while adding significant value to our current Creative Cloud subscribers.”
Key Features
- Simple drag-and-drop functions to quickly customize thousands of beautiful templates.
- 20,000 premium Adobe fonts and 175 million royalty-free licensed Adobe Stock images.
- Advanced search and discover capabilities, powered by the Adobe Stock Marketplace.
- “Quick Actions” powered by Adobe Sensei to remove background features from photos, trim and merge videos, turn videos into GIFs and convert/export PDFs in a few clicks.
- Shared Templates and Shared Brands to ensure brand consistency across teams.
- Seamlessly manage social media publishing workflows with ContentCal features, once integrated with Adobe.
- Integration with Creative Cloud Libraries.
The Creative Cloud Express is free to start and available immediately to everyone on the web at adobe.com/express and as a free app from the Microsoft Store, Google Play Store, and Apple App Store. The Creative Cloud Express premium plan with additional features is available for $9.99 per month.
The company also announced that Creative Cloud Express for Enterprise and Teams is coming in 2022.
