Adobe Creative Cloud Express is the starting point for multimedia presentations. It is browser-based and therefore works across all computers and devices. For the best experience, we recommend using a fast browser such as Chrome or the Mobile Apps when designing large multimedia projects.

1 Getting Familiar with Adobe Express
2 Create a Video
- 2.1 Sharing Your Video
- 2.2 Download a video
3 Create a Webpage
- 3.1 Edit and Publish Adobe Express Webpages
4 Frequently Asked Questions
- 4.1 Is there a mobile app?
- 4.2 Related articles

Getting Familiar with Adobe Express

Adobe Express is a “freemium” tool. Anyone can create a free Adobe account and use Express, but certain features are locked for premium users.

Fairfield University has licensed Adobe Express for students with limited licenses available for faculty and staff use.

Free Adobe accounts should use a personal email - not @fairfield.edu or @student.fairfield.edu. Faculty and staff may submit a request to ITS to upgrade to a licensed account.

For students and licensed faculty/staff, open any web browser, and navigate to express.adobe.com
Enter your Fairfield University email address
Choose Company or School Account
You will be redirected to Okta. Sign in with your username and password.

Create : Start a new project from scratch or use a template (social media and ads, video, photo, document, webpage, print).
Home: See your recent projects and get inspiration from featured templates and ideas.
Your Stuff: View, organize, and edit all your saved or ongoing work.
Brands (Paid Feature): Set up brand kits with logos, colors, and fonts for consistent design.
Templates: Browse thousands of ready-made templates by category (e.g., Instagram, resumes, posters). Filter by use case or size.
Schedule: Plan and publish content to social media platforms directly from Adobe Express. Requires social account connection. Premium users get full scheduling access.
Learn: Tutorials, how-tos, and tips to help you use features or improve your designs.
Add-Ons: Content integrations like Adobe Stock and custom fonts (some features require premium access).

Create a Video

Adobe Express Video provides a simple video-story tool for adding voice narrations to a series of images.

Select the Get Started button
Choose an option from the Standard Videos or Social Videos categories
Enter a Title for your video
Choose from any of the templates for inspiration. Templates provide guidance tips for video components based on what type you choose.
Learn how to create and edit videos under the Learn column on the right side of the page and watch this video.

Sharing Your Video

You can share you video with collaborators.

Select Share above the video:

Add people or groups: Invite others to collaborate! You'll need to enter the email they use for Adobe Express.
Set permissions in ‘Who has access.’
Get a ‘View-only link’
Convert to template to reuse this project.
Select ‘Show all’ for other places to share your content.

Download a video

Click the Download button to save your video to your computer.

Create a Webpage

Adobe Express Webpage is ‘web story’ tool that allows you to create and share projects that combine aspects of traditional slideshow and web presentations.

Select the Create a Project button
Choose Web Page from the list
Choose a template from which to start. You can also start from scratch from within a template.
Enter a Title and subtitle for your page
Choose content via the plus button under the title

Edit and Publish Adobe Express Webpages

Scroll down to add more content.

Click the plus button and then choose from the content types:
- Photo: Select from Adobe's list of Creative Commons images or upload your own. If you use an image from Adobe, the licensing credit will automatically be added to the end of the video.
- Text: Add a text element. This may include headings, lists, and links to external pages.
- Button: Add a button linking to another web page
- Gif: Add gifs from Giphy
- Video: Add the link to embed a video from YouTube, Vimeo, or Adobe Express
- Photo Grid: Creates a grid made of photos up upload or select from the Adobe list.
- Glideshow: Image behind each text element as the viewer scrolls through your page
- Split Layout: Image on one side, and text on the other
- Your Stuff: Add content from your uploads

Adding Final Touches

After you complete adding the content to your page, it's time for the final touches. Select a theme and music to set the tone!

Sharing Your Page

You can share you page with collaborators or publish it with view-only access or print it if there is no multimedia.

Select Share above the webpage:

Select Invite Collaborators: Invite others to collaborate! You'll need to enter the email they use for Adobe Express

Select Download above the webpage to download as PDF:

Please be aware that some features may not transfer well to PDF as Adobe Express page is designed for online viewing.

Select Share > Publish to Web to enter the details of your page before publishing and create a link

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a mobile app?

There are mobile apps for each element of the Adobe Express suite, but some are currently only available on iOS.

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