
Underneath, you’ll find more five-color palettes you can try out. The left circle lets you change one of the colors and the right circle lets you shuffle how they’re used. If you click the Colors, two circular icons show you the current color palette (comprising five colors) for the design. Once you’ve selected your template and image, you have access to several tools, including Colors, Animation, Background, Resize and Design. When working with images, you can perform various tasks, such as autotoning, cropping, or straightening images, or removing a background from a photo. Click on one you like and then click on the button on the bottom that reads, “Create from this template.” And you’re on your way! There are tools that let you customize the templates, many of them with drag-and-drop functionality.Ĭreative Cloud Express is free, but with a $9.99 per month subscription, you’ll also have access from within the app to 20,000 premium Adobe fonts and 175 million royalty-free images from Adobe Stock.įor my exhibition notice, a gallery invite for a show of work by a fictional artist, I simply typed “still life” into Adobe Stock, and a vast array of still-life images, including animated images, came up in the results. When you start using the program, you’ll find lots of examples of layouts, which are actually templates that you can use for your own work. I found that using Creative Cloud Express worked very well for creating both still and animated digital notices. Though notices for gallery or museum shows were once either sent through the mail or printed in newspapers or magazines, today they more often appear in digital form.

For both, I used the web-based version of the program. Both needed to be relatively easy and not too time consuming to produce.

To find out, I created two types of content for fictional artists: a notice for a gallery exhibition and a promotional video. I wanted to see if Creative Cloud Express could be a useful tool for artists, particularly as a way for them to promote their work.
