Libraries save time in Adobe Express

Adding images from the web into libraries – shortcut Just a short note to show how you can make use of the Adobe express libraries feature and deal with an issue of grabbing images from the web and adding them into a library without having to first download and then upload into the library location. … Read more

SMOOTHIES Episode 24L2

Here are the main topics: Fades Dissolves and Speed Changes in Premiere Pro – Video Editor 12 days of creativity | Adobe for Education Windows shortcut keys you never knew about And here are the tidbit teasers Microsoft EduDays 2025 – register now Sign up for next year’s Eduday with Microsoft – Free relevant PD … Read more

Streaks, Shorts & Subtitles – Premiere Pro

In my previous post I mentioned that the new Social Media Law for under 16 year olds had passed in the Australian Parliament and included some information about the law. It’s a good step and is still a year away so there is time for refinement. While the focus of the law is about preventing … Read more

Create a digital Christmas Card

These are fun to do and now with AI you can combine that family photo with some creative genius help from a digital artistic sidekick. Click the button below to get started building your card. Here is the one I created on the right. One is a static printable Christmas card and the other is … Read more

Adobe Podcast V2 Enhanced Audio

I was pleasantly surprised when I went to podcast.adobe.com and found that my request to gain access to enhanced speech version 2 had been approved. If you work at a school and have access to the education version of Adobe Express or the Adobe Creative Cloud, go to Adobe Podcast | AI audio recording and … Read more

Panda Diplomacy – Giving Back

熊猫 Xiongmao is Panda in Chinese. I have adopted the persona of a “Panda Dad” as I balance out the “Tiger Mum” in our parenting Yin and Yang life model – a model shaped by our own temperaments and characteristics rather than any conscious effort to shape our parenting and coaching style. I can’t draw … Read more

Adobe Portfolio and Lightroom

I take a lot of photographs and many of those photographs are taken on a mobile phone. I use Lightroom CC to make sure that those photographs are stored within albums so I can share them with people. Lightroom is part of the paid creative cloud suite from Adobe. If you have the creative cloud, … Read more

Add your signature to a PDF form using Adobe Express

Adobe Acrobat has some amazing document automation tools but, in many cases, people will send through a form as a PDF document expecting the recipient to print it out, sign it, scan it and resend it with the signature on the document. There are a variety of ways to get around this if you don’t … Read more

Adobe Creative Challenges – Quick, Fun Learning

I have just completed the May challenge. Here was the challenge… Here was my effort… If you click the link below, it will take you to a remixable version of my effort. https://new.express.adobe.com/published/urn:aaid:sc:AP:c78eba6a-deba-473b-9e79-826124336f56?promoid=Y69SGM5H&mv=other …and here is a video about the little add on to the original challenge. All of this software is free for our … Read more