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[Terry White]
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Adobe Creative Suite Podcast.
My name is Terry White, and in this episode,
we're going to take a look at how we can share files
with our clients, our colleagues, our friends,
without having to have them be Adobe experts.
In other words, we don't want them to have to own
particular pieces of software to see our files.
We don't want them to have to create accounts
and log into specific things.
We basically just want them to be able to look at the work we're doing
in an easy manner without having to go through too much hassle.
Well, luckily there is a great way to do that with Adobe Creative Cloud.
Now, I'm going to jump right in and show you how to share 3 files.
I've got a Photoshop file, an Illustrator file,
and an InDesign file,
and what we want to do is have our customers be able to look at those files,
again, without having to know anything about Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign,
or Creative Cloud.
What I've done is I've installed the Adobe Creative Cloud Connection.
That's this little icon on my menu bar here,
and it says all my files are up to date.
If you pull that menu down, it will give you the option
to open your Creative Cloud folder, because your folder is actually
on your hard drive, so I've got that folder open here,
and here are my 3 files.
I'm going to go ahead and select all 3 and drag them in.
This is typical file management
just like you would do on your computer,
because you are doing it on your computer.
And you'll notice that for a brief second there,
it's showing me that it's syncing these files,
and then when it goes to a green checkmark
that means that the file has been synced to my Creative Cloud account.
Now, with your Creative Cloud account, you get 20 GB of storage.
You can put anything you want in that folder
up to 20 GB worth,
and again, the files are still on your hard drive.
Even if you disconnect from the internet or go offline,
they're still on your hard drive to work on, so that's not some weird folder
that only works in the cloud.
That is an actual folder on your hard drive.
Now, if we go to our web browser,
we can go to creative.adobe.com,
and this is where you log in with your Adobe ID,
the same one you used to log in with Creative Cloud
to access your apps, and here,
you'll see your files area, and you'll see
the 3 files I just drug into that folder.
Because it's synced to Creative Cloud, I can also access those files on the Web.
Now, I can click on this Illustrator file.
It will show me the Illustrator file, even if I didn't have Illustrator installed.
It's also showing me a color swatch library,
and that got generated automatically.
If I download that library, I can actually install it
in Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign,
and use those colors to complement other designs
where I'm going to use this file.
I'm going to go back up.
We saw the Illustrator file.
Here's the InDesign file,
and the beauty about the InDesign file is I can actually
page through a multi-page file.
It's great.
I can look at this file, again, without having to have InDesign installed,
because I am doing this in the web browser
where Creative Cloud is rendering the file for me.
And last but not least is the Photoshop file.
Now, the Photoshop file has some magic behind it,
because it actually allows me to work with the layers in this particular file.
I can go to the layers area and see that there are 2 layers for this file,
kind of a before and after.
If I turn off the after layer,
then I can see the before layer.
This allows the client to actually walk through the layers
and see different phases of the design
of different concepts.
Now we want to share the file,
and I can take any one of those 3
and actually share them, so there's a little share icon for each one.
When I click the share icon, I get the ability to mark the file public.
Now, of course, public meaning someone would still have to know the URL
to get to this file, so just making it public doesn't mean
everyone instantly sees it all over the internet.
But when I make it public, I now have the ability
to allow my clients, customers, friends,
to add comments to it and/or I can allow them to
download the file if I want.
But there's no need for them to download it.
I just want people to look at it.
At this point, I have the ability to click,
to put in an email address and send that email
directly through Creative Cloud.
Or I can merely copy the link, and then I can put it in my own email program
or post it on my website or wherever I want to share that particular link,
perhaps on Twitter, and that way people can then go
and look at this file, turn the layers on and off,
comment on it, and all they need is a web browser.
They don't need to know what Photoshop is, InDesign or Illustrator.
They don't need to know what Creative Cloud is.
They don't even need an Adobe ID.
They just click on that link, and it shows up
in their browser,
whether they're working on a desktop computer
or a mobile device such as a tablet or a smartphone.
The Creative Cloud website is also very mobile friendly.
That's how you share files with the Creative Cloud,
again, whether you're sharing to an existing creative
that you're working with, which maybe you give them the ability
to download the file, or you're just sharing it for proofing purposes
and you want feedback, and again,
the beauty of it is they just get a link,
they click on it, it opens their web browser, and it takes them right to the file.
They don't have to log in. They don't have to do anything special.
That's it for this episode of the Adobe Creative Suite Podcast.
My name is Terry White. Thanks for watching.
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