How to Sign In to Creative Cloud Express (Adobe Spark)

Posted on by Emily Zieg

Creative Cloud Express (formerly known as Adobe Spark) is Adobe’s web-based platform for content creation. You can use it to create websites, presentations, and more. Here’s how to log in with your Simmons account to use this service.

  1. Go to https://www.adobe.com/express/ and click the sign in button on the top right.

2. In the box that for your email address, type simmons.edu only (NOT your Simmons email address) and hit Continue. This will redirect you to the Simmons SSO page.

3. Enter your Simmons account info. Once you log in, you will be redirected back to Adobe.

If you are already logged into adobe.com, you can access Express and other web-based services from the apps menu.

Make a Learning Journal in Adobe CC Express (Adobe Spark)

Posted on by Bridget Fong

Updated 2/14/2022

The first step is to make sure you are logged into your student Adobe account. Adobe Creative Cloud Express can be found here: https://express.adobe.com/sp. Your home page should look like the image below.

Click on the pink plus sign in the top left corner to start a new project and select Webpage from the menu, under Create new.

From here, you can add a cover photo, a title, subtitle.

Click on the plus signs to add elements like text and images. Format text by highlighting it to bring up the text menu.

Format an image by clicking on it to bring up the image menu. You can have it display inline (small and centered), take up the full width of the page, or create a “window” that only displays part of the image.

Adobe CC Express offers some themes for styling your learning journal. Click on Themes in the upper right corner to select a different theme.

Sharing

When you are ready to submit your journal, click on the Share button at the top of the page. You can either Publish your Express page (make it available to anyone with the link) or Invite a specific Adobe account. If you choose to publish your page, you will need to update the link every time you add a journal entry.

Headers and Banners in Adobe Spark

Posted on by sherbul

Making your headers and banners shine can give your website or profile the professional boost it needs to get noticed. Adobe Spark is an easy to use program in the Adobe Sweet where you can easily create graphics, websites, and social media posts that will be sure to stand out.

In this quick tutorial, Claudio Zavalla Jr. teaches you how to create eye-catching headers and borders for all of your blogs and social media accounts.

What is LinkedIn Learning/Lynda?

Posted on by indelici

LinkedIn Learning/Lynda is a site that offers video courses taught by experts about business skills, software skills, and for what you are probably here for… creative skills!

As Simmons students, we have access to the site which is a great resource for learning and freshening up on skills. There are courses on Adobe programs, specific skills and techniques, networking, productivity, industry standards, the list goes on.

In order to access the site, head over to lynda.com (LinkedIn Learning) and follow the “sign-in” link. From there, choose the option “sign in with your organization portal” using your Simmons login and password.

Voila!

The full courses can be rather long, but they are broken up into digestible sections that are a few minutes long.

Take this Illustrator 2021 Essential Training course for example.

The full course is 5.5 hours…

But the sections are only a few minutes each.

If you are looking to learn something specific, you can browse through the contents of the course and jump to where you need to be.

Per usual, the Lab Agents are always here to help you out and walk you through any issues you may be having. Happy learning!

Keyboard Shortcuts for Adobe Programs

Posted on by indelici

Check out a compiled list of the Default Keyboard Shortcuts for Audition, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Premiere Rush, and Spark.

What are keyboard shortcuts?
A keyboard shortcut is a key or combination of keys providing quick access to a particular function within a computer program.

Why do people use keyboard shortcuts?
Keyboard shortcuts help you get things done faster and easier! Essentially, it’s doing actions you may normally do with your mouse with your keyboard instead… (think pressing the space bar when pausing/playing a Netflix show.)

Each Adobe program allows for you to customize your keyboard shortcuts, but for now, here are guides for default shortcuts for various Adobe Programs you may find yourself using!

Audition

Illustrator

InDesign

Photoshop

Premiere Pro

Premiere Rush

Spark