Adobe

First Time Installation for Students

Step One: Download the Adobe Software

1. Using a web browser, log into the CSULB Sign-On page.
2. When CSULB's Single Sign-On page appears, enter in your Campus ID and password, and then click 'Sign In.'
3. Click the "Software Depot" icon.
4. In the search bar of the Software Depot menu, enter "Adobe."
5. Add the app to your cart, and click the cart icon to check out.
6. Check out with your cart, and a fee of $20 will be charged for one calendar.
7. Follow the on-screen instructions to purchase, download and install Adobe Creative Cloud.

Step Two: Activate your Campus Email Subscription

1. Launch any Creative Cloud application (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc.)
2. Click on Help. You will either see an option to "Sign In" or an option to "Sign Out."
3. If you see the option to "Sign In," then click "Sign In."
4. If you see the option to "Sign Out," click "Sign Out." Once you have signed out successfully, click on Help > Sign In.
5. When the "Sign In" page appears, click on "Sign In Now."
6. Enter your CSULB email address, and click "Sign In."
7. Click on "Enterprise ID."
8. When CSULB's Single Sign-On appears, enter in your Campus ID and password.
9. Click "Sign-In."

• Valid for one calendar year as long as the student is enrolled at the time of subscription; students in their final semester will have access to their accounts beyond the date of graduation as long as they are enrolled when signing up.
• Adobe CC can be installed on personally-owned computers.
• Subscription can be renewed until separation from the university.

First Time Installation for Faculty and Staff

Step One: Download the Adobe Software

1. Using a web browser, go to Adobe Creative Cloud download page.
2. Click 'Sign In.'
3. Enter your CSULB email address in to the 'Email address' field, and click on 'Sign In.'
4. Click on 'Enterprise ID.'
5. When CSULB's Single Sign-On page appears, enter in your Campus ID and password, and then click on 'Sign In.'
6. Follow the on screen instructions to download and install Creative Cloud.

Step Two: Sign in to Creative Cloud

When the Creative Cloud application launches, it will ask you to sign in:

1. Enter your CSULB email address in to the 'Email address' field, and click on 'Sign In.'
2. Click on 'Enterprise ID.'
3. When CSULB's Single Sign-On page appears, enter in your Campus ID and password, and then click on 'Sign In'.

• To download, visit SSO and select the "Campus Software /Software Depot" icon.
• Faculty and staff may install up to two copies on personally-owned computers where they have exclusive use.
• This software may only be used for university business.
• Campus techs can assist faculty and staff to install Adobe CC on-campus computers.

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Acrobat DC Tips & Tricks with Chris Converse: Edit Your PDFs ( 13m 28s )
Learn how to edit your PDFs like a pro. Changing vector artwork, updating and changing photos, fixing typos, and moving objects around are just some of the many features you can do in Acrobat.

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Acrobat DC Essential Training (2 h 9 m)
This comprehensive course covers the most important things you need to know to create, edit, format, and share PDFs in Adobe Acrobat DC. Instructor Garrick Chow explains the Portable Document Format (PDF) and compares features in Acrobat Pro with features in Acrobat Standard and Acrobat Reader. He shows you how to create PDFs using source material from Microsoft Office, images, and scans. Garrick covers how to edit and combine PDFs. He demonstrates how to create fillable forms, gather comments, and review PDFs. Garrick also goes over how to protect PDFs by restricting printing and preventing changes.

Intermediate 

Acrobat DC: Using the Document Cloud Features (1 h 51 m)
An Adobe Document Cloud subscription provides users with much more than Acrobat. Using Document Cloud, you can access documents from anywhere, anytime, using any device. You also have a variety of tools to create and edit PDFs, gather signatures, and convert PDFs to other file formats. In this course, Chad Chelius shows how to access these features from the desktop version of Acrobat DC, a web browser, or the DC mobile apps: Acrobat Reader, Adobe Sign, and Adobe Scan. Follow along and learn how to organize files in the Document Cloud, share files with other users, obtain signatures quickly and easily, and more.

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Learn After Effects in 10 Minutes! Beginner Tutorial (10 m 8 s)
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Adobe After Effects CC in 15 Minutes – Tutorial for Beginners (15 m 34 s)
Adobe After Effects is used to create different compositions or animations for a bigger project you would make in Premiere Pro for example. In this tutorial, you will see an overview of all the tools in After Effects you need to know about and a cinemograph demonstration as a practical example for what these tools can be used for. 

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After Effects CC 2023 Essential Training (4 h 21 m)
Adobe After Effects enables you to create amazing visual effects for film, TV, video, and the web. It’s a very powerful tool, but how do you get started using it? In this course, motion designer Alan Demafiles guides you through the essentials of using After Effects. Learn how to use layers and shapes with transformation levels, masks, nesting, collapse transformations, and much more. Explore animation in After Effects with keyframe interpolations, the graph editor, time remapping, expressions, and so on. Go over the tools and techniques you need to create transparency for compositing, and then find out how to work with a wide variety of effects. Learn about creating and rendering basic 3D effects, then dive into the intricacies of 3D geometry, including renderers, features, Cinema 4D, and more. Discover ways to work with trackers, then finish up by learning to render your creation using the Render Queue or Media Encoder.

Getting Started with After Effects for the Non-Video Pro (3 h 2 m)
Adobe After Effects is the standard for motion graphics—a must for anyone who wants to create motion designs for the web, video, or any type of screen delivery. However, many nonvideo professionals feel intimidated by After Effects because it looks so different from what they are used to. In this course, Luisa Winters covers the basics of After Effects in a nontechnical way. Explore the most essential component of animation—keyframes—and different keyframe interpolation techniques. Discover how to animate text and text properties such as opacity and color. Find out how to build and animate masks and use masks from other programs such as Illustrator and Photoshop. Finally, learn how to export your work for a variety of formats using the Render Queue and Adobe Media Encoder.

Intermediate

Learning After Effects 2022 (2 h 2 m)
This course, designed to thoroughly initiate and inspire beginners, covers the basics of Adobe After Effects 2022. Instructor Mark Christiansen introduces you to the core terminology of After Effects and of film, video, and motion design. Then Mark moves on to explore the After Effects interface and the fundamentals of working in After Effects: building compositions, working with layers, animating, adding effects, designing in 3D, and rendering. Mark employs these techniques to walk through a sample project, demonstrating how everything comes together in an actual workflow. He shows you how to import a Premiere Pro sequence, customize and add motion to text, match a moving camera, distort a layer, animate an Illustrator logo, and add dimension to a design.

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Learn How to Use Adobe Audition in 8 minutes! (8 m 45 s)
In this video, learn about the absolute essentials on how to use Adobe Audition and get you ready in 8 minutes.

Getting Started with Adobe Audition – Complete Beginner Tutorial (21 m 8 s)
This Adobe Audition tutorial is a getting-started guide for beginners. You will learn all the basics you need to know to get started with this powerful audio recording and audio editing software. Starting with a microphone, the means to connect it to your computer, and ending with a look at audio effects such as EQ, compression, noise reduction and more!

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Audition Essential Training (4 h 15 m)
Discover how to professionally edit and mix audio with Audition CC 2019. In this course, instructor Paul Murphy begins by going over several fundamental audio production terms and discussing how to import different kinds of media. He then continues with a more detailed overview of the software, including topics such as fixing common recording issues, editing and improving your sound elements with effects and the Essential Sound panel, integration with Premiere Pro, and finally, exporting your mix. If you have traditionally completed audio work inside your editing system, then this course can help you take your audio mixes to the next level by showcasing powerful tools and expert techniques.

Intermediate

Audition: Third-Party Plugins (1 h 35 m)
While Adobe Audition is an incredibly powerful and versatile application, you can strengthen and extend its built-in capabilities with third-party plugins. In this course, Paul Murphy shares some of his favorite plugins, when to use them, and most importantly, how they can significantly enhance and accelerate your audio post-production work. Explore how to repair audio with iZotope RX and leverage a selection of key plugins—including Trash 2, which you can use to add distortion to sounds—for creative sound design. Plus, learn how to work with some of the tools and features in Neutron, the mixing plugin from iZotope.

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A Dreamweaver Quick Tutorial (12 m 53 s)
A quick tutorial on getting the basic feel of using Adobe Dreamweaver, build an HTML file and apply simple Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) code.

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Designing a First Website with Dreamweaver CC (2 h 14 m)
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Dreamweaver CC New Features (2 h 54 m)
Discover the new features in Adobe Dreamweaver CC, the powerful web development and design software. This course covers the enhancements and additional tools added in the 2017 and 2018 MAX versions of Dreamweaver CC. David Powers begins with the streamlined Find and Replace bar, which is designed for quick find and replace operations. He also shows how to use find and replace in multiple documents, including advanced operations on a specific tag, as well as finding and selecting multiple elements in Code view. Next, he covers PHP support, explaining that Dreamweaver now supports PHP 7.1, and showing how to set the default version of PHP in Preferences, as well as how to set the version of PHP for an individual site. He wraps up with an overview of Dreamweaver CC 2018 MAX and the new undocking feature for Windows.

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Adobe Illustrator for Beginners | FREE COURSE (3 h 17 m)
Learn how to use Adobe Illustrator for beginners in this free course. Start by mastering the Illustrator basics, and then learn to create effects, patterns, and more. This free Adobe Illustrator course is aimed at helping beginners learn how to use Adobe Illustrator easily and quickly. You don’t need any previous knowledge of the software, and you don’t need design or illustration skills. We’ll start right at the beginning and work our way through each topic step by step. If you’ve never opened Illustrator before—or maybe you’ve opened it and struggled—this course is for you! By the end, you'll know how to draw in Adobe Illustrator, how to make a pattern in Illustrator, and so much more.

Learn Illustrator in 5 MINUTES! Beginner Tutorial (6 m 13 s)
In just 5 minutes, learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator and its common techniques. It also goes over keyboard shortcuts to make your workflow much easier.

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Illustrator 2023 Quick Start (59 m)
Adobe Illustrator is an industry standard vector graphics editor and design program, and if you work in graphic design, you will likely need to use it. In this short introduction course, award-winning designer Kladi Vergine teaches you the basics of how to get started with Adobe Illustrator. Learn about the difference between vector and raster graphics, then go over how to create a new document draw using shapes, and draw using lines. Explore how to build complex designs and use colors and gradients. Find out how to add text to your artwork and apply effects to transform paths. Plus, learn how to export and share your work.

Illustrator for Non-Illustrators (3 h 22 m)
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Illustrator 2023 Essential Training (5 h 8 m)
Adobe Illustrator can be used to accomplish a broad array of design tasks, from the creation of intricate logos to eye-catching billboards. For this reason, this course teaches core concepts and techniques that can be applied to any workflow for print, the web, or assets that will find their way into other applications. Instructor Tony Harmer covers the essentials of Illustrator 2022, including workspaces, layers, shapes, and 3D effects. Tony discusses vector graphics—paths, strokes, and fills—and shows how to use the essential drawing tools in Illustrator. He demonstrates how to combine and clean up paths, as well as organize them into groups and layers. Tony also covers text editing, working with color, expressive brush drawing, effects, using Illustrator on the iPad and desktop together, and much more.

Illustrator One-on-One: Fundamentals (17 h) 
Learn how to use Adobe Illustrator 2021 in the first of three comprehensive training courses by industry pro Deke McClelland. Deke demonstrates how to work with artboards; how to draw with the Pencil, Curvature, and Pen tools; and how to organize color with swatches. Deke also covers drawing shapes, adjusting strokes, formatting text with variable fonts, painting freeform artwork with or without a tablet, and more.

Introducing Illustrator (6 h 34 m)  
In this course, acclaimed instructor and Illustrator expert Deke McClelland will teach you the most essential stuff you need to know, in the order you need to know it. You can learn how to comprehend the interface, manage artboards, and draw a perfectly smooth curve just to your liking. You can also learn how to make complex shapes from simpler ones, apply your intended color and appearance, and create any text that you need. Illustrator can be fun, and by the end of this course, the program will be your reliable ally for creating the illustration you want. 

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Adobe InDesign Tutorial for Beginners | Become An InDesign Pro (14 m 29 s) 
Welcome to the InDesign tutorial for beginners. InDesign can be used for anything print-related, PDF presentations, interactive documents, and much more. This walks you through the absolute basics of this program.

Learn Adobe InDesign in 9 MINUTES! | Formatting, Tools, Layout, Text Etc. | 2020 Beginner Basics (9 m 49 s)
Learn the basics of Adobe InDesign in less than 10 minutes while being guided step by step on how to create your first pages in InDesign. By the end of this video, you should be able to make your own aesthetically pleasing program.

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InDesign 2021 Quick Start (44 m)
Get started with Adobe InDesign over your lunch break. In this 
short introductory course, instructor Kladi Vergine covers the bare basics of how to use InDesign. Kladi shows you how to create and set up a new document. She covers setting up and saving document presets. She explores how to use Master Pages to quickly insert repeating content. Kladi discusses how to create, name, arrange, and lock Layers. She walks you through how to use Adobe Color Themes and how to set up multiple-grids layouts. She demonstrates how to import text and images, then shows how to create graphic frames and place your images in them. Kladi steps you through using Share for Review and the new Locate Color workspace. She covers how to export your files for print or online publication, as well as how to set up an interactive PDF with hyperlinks and interactive buttons. Kladi concludes by teaching you how to preview and test any interactive elements directly in InDesign.

InDesign 2023 Essential Training (5 h 19 m)
InDesign is an essential tool for design firms, ad agencies, magazines, newspapers, book publishers, and freelance designers around the world. In this course, InDesign expert David Blatner presents a thorough explanation of the core features and techniques that make this powerful page layout application fun and easy to use. He provides a foundation upon which advanced skills and workflows can be built. David shows you how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage documents and pages, work with text frames and graphics, export and print finished documents, explore creating interactive documents, and much more. You can also use the example files and challenges that accompany the course to practice what David explains.

Intermediate

Introduction to Graphic Design: InDesign (1 h 23 m)
Graphic design is a complex art that touches everything from digital marketing campaigns to the packaging of your favorite snacks. The Introduction to Graphic Design series covers the concepts and software that every designer needs to know and explains how they fit into a typical graphic design workflow. In this installment of the series, instructor Tony Harmer delves into Adobe InDesign, providing an overview of the InDesign skills that every graphic designer should
have in their tool kit. To lend these concepts a real-world context, Tony shows how to apply these skills to create a project: a brochure for a fictitious vehicle. Learn all about working with layers, creating guide layouts to aid the creation of a balanced design, importing data, styling tables, and much more.

InDesign Quick Tips (23 m)
This collection of quick Adobe InDesign videos is designed to show you workarounds, demonstrate helpful tricks, and explain useful features. Discover ways to create swatches of color, add page numbers to your document, and precisely align and distribute a series of objects such as photos or paragraphs. Explore how to place graphics in a layout, how to export your document as a PDF, and more.

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Adobe Lightroom Classic Beginner Tutorial: Intro Guide to Learn The Basics (How to edit photos) (11 m 43 s)
A vanilla tutorial on the basics of Lightroom and brief introductions to its various tools. An easy walkthrough behind the process of editing, especially when you are beginning your project and ending it. 

Intermediate

Lightroom Tutorial BASICS | Photo Editing Masterclass (17 m 53 s)
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Lightroom Classic Essential Training (3 h 46 m)
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Lightroom Quick Start (43 m 9 s)
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Lightroom Quick Tips (17 m)
This collection of Adobe Lightroom quick tip videos is designed to show you workarounds, demonstrate helpful tricks, and quickly explain useful features. Discover quick ways to remove spots, lines, and other distractions. Plus, explore how to smooth wrinkles, tone down reflections, whiten teeth, and more. 

Intermediate

Lightroom Quick Tips: Portraits (15 m)
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Adobe Media Encoder CC Tutorial (3 m)
The Adobe Media Encoder CC will save you time when exporting and rendering video sequences from Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects.

Adobe Media Encoder Beginner Tutorial (12 m 4 s)
Do you ever feel frustrated when you export a large file from Premiere Pro or After Effects because the program interface gets locked up and you cannot do anything else until the export is completed? Or do you simply want to convert many audio or video files between different formats? Adobe Media Encoder can solve these problems and this video will show you how to use it and improve your workflow with it.

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Motion Graphics for Social Media (1 h 34 m)
Improve your social media impact by creating eye-catching content. The most successful social media channels and campaigns are video-based, combining clear communication with solid motion design. In this course, instructor Andy Needham walks through four hands-on projects that demonstrate how to effectively create motion graphics for your branded video content using Adobe After Effects. Learn how to create an animated logo, design and animate titles and lower thirds that can be easily repurposed, create effective transitions, and animate call-to-action elements like a Subscribe button. Plus, learn how to combine these techniques to maximize engagement and conversion and use Adobe Media Encoder to export your projects for specific social media platforms.

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Learn Photoshop for Photographers! (Beginner Tutorial) (9 m 21 s)
A quick guide to getting started with photoshop along with demonstrations of its tools to make your pictures look better. Do not miss a second or you will miss some valuable information! 

Intermediate

Photoshop Basics: Everything You Need to Know to Edit Photos (15 m 50 s) 
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Photoshop 2023 Essential Training (11 h)
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Photoshop 2021 Quick Start (52 m)
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Photoshop One-on-One: Fundamentals (13 h)
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Intermediate

Photoshop Quick Tips (33 m)
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Premiere Pro Tutorial for Beginners 2022 - Everything You NEED to KNOW! (UPDATED) (20 m 49 s)
Video editing has become a valuable skill in 2022, so it is important to stay up to date in knowing the basics of Premiere Pro to optimize your workflow and better refine your project. This tutorial is easy to follow, easy to understand, and great for beginners who are just starting out using this application. 

Premiere Pro - Tutorial for Beginners in 12 MINUTES! [ 2022 version ] (12 m)
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VIDEO MASTERCLASS | Your First Edit - Premiere Pro Basics, Pt.1 (57 m 30 s)
In today's Masterclass, Jason will guide you through the process of your very first attempt at editing in Premiere Pro. From import and selection options, to assembling your sequence and understanding tools in the timeline, this is meant to break the fear of beginning your editing/production journey in Premiere Pro.

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Getting Started with Premiere Pro for the Non-Video Pro (3 h 41 m)
Do you find yourself needing to edit video but do not know where to begin? If you use Adobe Creative Cloud, you have access to a great application—Adobe Premiere Pro—but it can be a little daunting to learn alone. This course can help you get started. It does not rely on any background experience with video production or editing. It just walks you through all the basics you need, from organizing your media to finalizing your project, with detailed instructions covering every step in between. You can get results right away and get up and running for your first project in Premiere Pro. 

Premiere Pro 2022 Essential Training (6 h 23 m)
Get up and running with Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019. This course helps beginners unlock the potential of this powerful video-editing program. Instructor and filmmaker Ashley Kennedy steps through all the fundamentals: editing video and audio, correcting color, adding titles and effects, and more. Her project-based approach lends context to each of the tools, allowing you to experience both the technical and creative sides of the editing process. She begins with a tour of the Premiere Pro interface, and then goes through the entire post-production workflow—including media import, editing and trimming, audio adjustment, applying effects, and output. By the end of the course, you should be able to hit the ground running and create your own professional video projects with Premiere Pro.

Learning Premiere Pro (1 h 34 m) 
Adobe Premiere Pro is a sophisticated and powerful editing platform, and if you are looking for a quick course that can help you get started fast, this short-but-sweet course is an ideal option. Senior staff instructor Ashley Kennedy provides a concise introduction to the world of Premiere Pro and takes you on a step-by-step journey through editing a simple video project. Ashley begins by explaining how to import, organize, and navigate media. She moves on to demonstrate how to select shots, perform basic editing and trimming, make basic audio adjustments, add simple effects and titles, and export a sequence. The course is designed to let you hit the ground running with your own editing project. 

Intermediate

Introduction to Video Color Correction (2 h 29 m)
Do you want to make your video footage look more vibrant, more accurate, or better fit the mood and themes of your project? Color correction helps you accomplish all these goals and more. In this introductory course, instructor Ashley Kennedy explains the concepts behind color correction and color grading, and she guides editors through the process of correcting contrast, color balance, and hue/saturation. Ashley uses real-world examples to stress the aesthetics, basic measurement requirements, and overall techniques of the color correction process. After a thorough introduction of how to correct individual shots, she discusses the importance of shot-to-shot correction, as well as troubleshooting common lighting and color problems to create overall “looks” for a film. 

Premiere Pro Quick Tips (51 m)
Learn new techniques to improve speed and efficiency while editing and performing everyday actions in Adobe Premiere Pro application panels. Instructor Christine Steele covers topics like Source, Program and Timeline panel editing techniques, streamlined effects and finishing skills, and alternative workflows and shortcuts that reduce repetitive actions. Christine shows you how to improve fluidity when performing tasks with standard tools, as well as learning to use less-well-known menu items. The course is set up for quickly learning new techniques, gaining speed while editing, and enhancing recall of the available tools and shortcuts. With Christine’s tips, you can improve your performance and agility in Premiere Pro, so you can stay focused on creative efforts and avoid more cumbersome steps to achieve a desired result.