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Libraries: Manage your resources

Libraries: Manage your resources - Illustrator Tutorial

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Libraries: Manage your resources

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- [Instructor] The libraries panel in Illustrator is a powerful way to store different design elements in an easily-accessible pane. Once you store these in the library, you can quickly apply them across multiple documents. Library elements are stored in the cloud, so they're easily accessible from any computer. Libraries let you collect a system of elements in one place in order to assemble layouts more quickly, just like responsive design works. Using libraries, we can save project content, such as graphics, simple or complex, text formatting, and colors, and share that same content between apps and with others. You can turn almost anything into a library item. Once you turn an item into a library element, it's available in any Adobe application, and it's synced through your Creative Cloud account. This is super helpful, since it allows you immediate access to commonly-used assets. You can create as many libraries as needed to help organized commonly-used assets for different…

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