Creative Operations

Adobe provides the following links as additional, supplemental information based on goals, use case needs, and discussions within lab sessions. This information is intended to augment the experience gained from the Customer Experience Lab curriculum.

Creative Cloud for Enterprise Overview  — What CCE is as an enterprise platform: professional apps, shared cloud storage, team libraries, and integrations with Workfront, AEM Assets, and Frame.io in a managed, licensed environment

CC Libraries for Teams  — Creating and sharing team libraries containing logos, colors, fonts, graphics, and motion assets across Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, XD, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and more; updating a library asset once propagates it everywhere it's placed

Creative Cloud + Workfront Integration  — How Workfront connects to Creative Cloud apps to surface task assignments, upload files directly to projects, and route work for review without creatives leaving their tools

AEM + Creative Cloud Integration Best Practices  — When to use Adobe Asset Link vs. the AEM Desktop App vs. Creative Cloud Libraries depending on workflow type, file volume, and whether the work is in-progress or final

Adobe Asset Link Overview  — The in-app panel for Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign that connects directly to AEM Assets, letting designers browse, search, check out, and check in files without switching to a browser or desktop app

Configure AEM Assets for Asset Link  — Setting up the AEM side of the integration: FPO (For Placement Only) renditions for InDesign direct linking, IMS authentication, Adobe Stock integration, and user access mapping

Check Out / Check In Workflow  — How Asset Link manages work-in-progress files: checking out an asset locks it in AEM, syncs it to the Creative Cloud desktop for editing, and checking back in uploads the new version while preserving the original

Asset Link with InDesign: FPO Renditions  — Placing low-resolution proxy images in InDesign layouts during production, with the full-resolution original swapping in automatically at output time — eliminating the wait for large files during layout work

Express How-To Tutorials  — Index of tutorials covering templates, brand kits, layer locking, collaboration, integrations, and content creation for non-designer teams

Setting Up a Brand Kit  — Creating a centralized brand kit with approved logos, fonts, colors, graphics, and templates; sharing it with teams at view or edit access so anyone can create on-brand content from a single source of truth

Create a Reusable Template  — Converting existing Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, or even PowerPoint files into Express templates; locking logos and structural elements while allowing text and image replacement within guardrails

Lock Layers in Templates  — Why and how to lock specific layers so non-designers can adapt templates for their channel or region without accidentally breaking brand structure

Effortless Brand Consistency with Templates  — How marketing, social media, and HR teams use locked templates to self-serve on-brand content at volume without routing every asset through a designer

Save & Share Templates  — Publishing finished templates to a brand kit or shared library so the whole organization can access them from within Express

Express + AEM Assets Integration  — Exporting completed Express assets directly to AEM Assets or other DAM and cloud storage platforms (Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box) from within the Express share panel

Frame.io Version 4 Overview  — What's new in V4: a complete redesign of the platform with Collections, rich metadata, a new streaming player with frame-accurate scrubbing, redesigned Shares, and expanded support for photography, design, and document workflows alongside video

Frame.io for Creative Cloud  — Frame.io included with Creative Cloud All Apps licenses: two users, five projects, 100GB storage, Camera to Cloud, and the full review and approval experience inside Premiere Pro and After Effects panels at no additional cost

Frame.io + Premiere Pro  — Sharing sequences via Quick Share directly from Premiere, receiving timecode-accurate frame-level comments as timeline markers, browsing Frame.io projects in the panel, and importing clips as bins — all without leaving the edit

Frame.io + Lightroom: Camera to Cloud  — Sending images directly from a camera to Lightroom via Frame.io's C2C standard at time of capture; eliminates card offload and accelerates turnaround for live event and studio photography workflows

Frame.io V4: Collections  — Grouping assets dynamically using metadata and filters to build review workflows, manage dailies distribution, organize deliverables by platform or release date, and share curated sets with stakeholders

Frame.io V4: Shares & Presentations  — Building branded, customizable stakeholder presentations from collections or individual assets with WYSIWYG theme controls, grid or reel layouts, security settings, and expiring links

Frame.io + Workfront Integration Overview  — How the Frame.io V4 and Workfront integration unifies creative management and work management: projects, assets, and users are shared across both platforms so creatives stay in Frame.io while coordinators manage in Workfront

Review & Approve with Frame.io Viewer  — How reviewers and approvers annotate images, video, PDFs, and Office files with frame-accurate precision in the Frame.io viewer, with approval decisions syncing back to Workfront automatically

Workfront Fusion Connector for Frame.io V4 (Beta)  — 25+ pre-built Fusion actions for automating handoffs between Frame.io and Workfront: creating Frame.io projects from Workfront campaigns, syncing asset status to tasks, and triggering downstream workflows without custom code

Frame.io Developer Platform & V4 API  — Early access to the V4 API for building custom integrations with MAMs, DAMs, and creative tools; automating asset organization, status syncing, and workflow triggers across the broader creative ecosystem

Workfront Plugin for Creative Cloud Apps  — Installing and using the Workfront plugin within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to view assigned tasks, upload files to projects, log time, and submit assets for review without switching applications

Workfront + Frame.io Integration Overview  — The architecture of the integration: Adobe enterprise storage as the shared asset layer, Workfront for project management and approval orchestration, Frame.io as the review surface for creatives and stakeholders

Get Started with the Frame.io Integration  — Setting up connected projects, uploading assets to Adobe enterprise storage, assigning reviewers vs. approvers, and tracking approval status across both platforms in real time

Firefly Generative AI Across Creative Cloud  — How Firefly is embedded natively across Photoshop (Generative Fill, Generative Expand), Illustrator (text effects, vector generation), InDesign, and Adobe Express — the same model powering each tool's AI features

Firefly Services APIs  — The programmatic layer for teams that want to automate content production at scale: Generate Image, Fill, Expand, Photoshop API, and Lightroom API callable from Workfront Fusion scenarios or custom pipelines

Custom Models Overview  — Training subject models (specific products, characters, objects) and style models (brand aesthetics, color palettes) on proprietary assets so all Firefly-generated output is on-brand by default across every tool where it's used

Workfront Fusion: Adobe Firefly Modules  — Triggering Generate, Fill, and Expand API calls from within Fusion automation scenarios to produce image variants, resize assets for channel delivery, and pipe results into AEM Assets or downstream activation tools