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Adobe Express
Formerly Adobe Spark

Overview

What is Adobe Express?

The vendor states Adobe Spark allows users to create beautiful graphics, web pages, and video stories in minutes, offering free themes, fonts, and images, as well as editing. Imagery assembled or created can be presented through Spark Post, Spark Page,…

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Pricing

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Free

$0.00

Cloud

Premium

$9.99 / $99.99

Cloud
Monthly / Annual, prepaid

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Let’s Add Fun & Creativity To Learning Materials using browser apps - Session 2

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Adobe Creative Cloud Express Browser Demo

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Design a YouTube Thumbnail Using Adobe Create Cloud Express on the desktop

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Set up a template for a YouTube thumbnail with Adobe Creative Cloud Express on the desktop

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Let’s Add Fun & Creativity To Learning Materials using browser apps - Session 1

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Introduction to Adobe Creative Cloud Express #CreativeCloudExpressAmbassador #Ad

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Product Details

What is Adobe Express?

Adobe Creative Cloud Express (formerly Adobe Spark) is a unified task-based, web and mobile product designed to make it easy to create and share beautiful rich multimedia content – from social media posts and stories to invitations to marketing materials like logos, flyers and banners. Creative Cloud Express enables drag-and-drop content creation, to empower users to express their creativity with just a few clicks. It includes thousands of high-quality templates, premium Adobe fonts and licensed Adobe Stock images.

Adobe Express Features

  • Supported: Start from thousands of templates for social media graphics, stories, and thumbnails, as well as posters, flyers, business cards, and logos.
  • Supported: Choose from royalty-free Adobe Stock photos, images, icons, backgrounds, and design assets.
  • Supported: Get a desired look with effects, filters, textures, and overlays.
  • Supported: Cut out backgrounds without having to outline a subject.
  • Supported: Resize and reflow content to fit any size for Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, banners, and flyers. The content will adjust using Adobe tools.
  • Supported: Create attention-grabbing content with features to animate text and photos.
  • Supported: Upload a brand logo, fonts, and colors and apply them to any design with one tap.
  • Supported: Trim, crop, resize, and convert videos.
  • Supported: Choose from over 20,000 licensed fonts from the Adobe Fonts library. Start from text templates that feature curved type, grids, and font pairs.

Adobe Express Screenshots

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Adobe Express Videos

Introducing Adobe Creative Cloud Express
Getting started in one minute with Creative Cloud Express

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Adobe Express Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Chinese Simplified, Spanish, Japanese, German, French, Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian, Korean, Dutch, Chinese Traditional, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish

Frequently Asked Questions

The vendor states Adobe Spark allows users to create beautiful graphics, web pages, and video stories in minutes, offering free themes, fonts, and images, as well as editing. Imagery assembled or created can be presented through Spark Post, Spark Page, and Spark Video. Adobe Spark is available through a Creative Cloud subscription, free with the Starter Plan, or on a single product license via the Team or Individual plan.

Canva, Wix, and Picsart are common alternatives for Adobe Express.

Reviewers rate Contract Terms and Pricing Model highest, with a score of 9.5.

The most common users of Adobe Express are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe Creative Cloud Express has been a great tool for my personal brand within my org. My company does not use the service, however individual sales teams are allowed to use it to put together marketing graphics for LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, etc. I utilize the app over the webpage due to its ease of use. Within a few minutes, I have new marketing material I can post on my personal social media that ties into my business. Being able to personally put together marketing material without having to hire a team is cost-saving, and given the user-friendly platform on the app, it's easy to accomplish.
  • Ease of use
  • Lots of templates already established
  • Free options available
  • Professional looking marketing material for new users
  • web platform is difficult to use, stick to app
  • the function which allows you to change fonts using the circle, great tool but you can never go back to a previous font so scroll very slowly until you find something you like
  • I don't see a LinkedIn post option, just a LinkedIn story option
It is perfect for a single user that doesn't want to hire a marketing team. I use it to post all of my recent real estate closings, utilizing pictures and graphics to highlight the transactions. It may not be appropriate for somebody that has a large marketing budget and a team familiar with Adobe PhotoShop. Adobe Creative Cloud Express is great for smaller teams/individuals, and it may be a little too amateur for larger teams with budgets.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe Creative Cloud Express has helped with creating event invitations and announcements for use on our different media platforms. We have tried other office applications that didn't give us the desired results and were harder to integrate. Another huge benefit is that we are able to create directly from an iPad. This makes proofing ideas a snap. If someone wants to add or change, it is as easy as handing them the tablet and we are off to the races. I tend not to use the app on a phone, except for proofing. I prefer a larger screen to realize my project and make sure it displays on a phone screen as well. Adobe Creative Cloud Express and Apple mobile products work together well.
  • Adobe Creative cloud Express has a great selection of templates.
  • There is a vast number of fonts to choose from.
  • I like the stock clip-art that is available.
  • I had trouble resizing images. My images came out disproportionate.
  • I could not find a fast way to save to WordPress.
  • Other than above, it is a very lightweight app that is easy to use.
I find Adobe Creative Cloud Express helpful in creating invitations and announcements for our events. Although my needs are very limited, Adobe Creative Cloud Express can be used for marketing purposes, art design, and posters. Keep in mind this is a mobile app. which makes it extremely portable and very easy to share with a team.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I love using Adobe CC Express for quick and easy graphics. As a graphic designer primarily, I of course use the entire Creative Cloud suite. And it's nice having the full versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, etc, and the multitude of tools included in them. But sometimes it's nice to have something quick and easy for putting together a Facebook post, without having to sift through the hundreds of different tools to knock out something simple.
  • Simplicity of use
  • Interface is great for people who are familiar with Adobe tools
  • The price is great as it is included in a package I (and most designers) already pay for
  • Canva has a better interface, in my opinion... I like that this one is friendly to Adobe users, but I would likely recommend Canva to someone who's never used design software for a complete beginner.
  • Removing the background from images doesn't always work well. I almost always need to switch to Photoshop for this.
  • The touch screen interface could be better; graphics on mobile apps are tough in general but specifically, the iPad interface could use some improvement.
I would recommend Adobe CC Express, especially if the colleague were an established Adobe user. The interface is designed so that anyone familiar with Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, or any other Adobe software products, will be familiar. This is a product that competes with Canva, but it's great to have the simplicity of Canva with an interface that feels familiar from day one.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We began experimenting with and implementing Adobe Creative Cloud Express in an attempt to make a more dynamic online curriculum for our students and programming recipients. The hope was that it would provide us with a more fluid and visually dynamic alternative to a typical presentation/slide platform like Powerpoint or Google Slides.
  • Integration with abundant Adobe suite of services and platforms
  • Fluid, scrolling content as opposed to static slides
  • Nice inclusion of video, photos with more visually-centered focus
  • Limited text, font stylings and customizations
  • Limited integrations with other non-Adobe apps and platforms compared to best in class products
  • Limited customization, even in paid version, when it comes to styling, visual accents, coloring, etc.
It is a great option if you are already invested in the Adobe Suite of services. But, as a standalone product, it is not necessarily worth the cost when compared to best-in-class alternatives that provide more visual customization, ready-made templates, and the ability to seamlessly integrate with other platforms, media sites, and content hosting sites that help to create the kind of dynamic content that users expect to see these days.
Abid Sheikh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have designed different social media posts and Facebook page covers for my clients. This product help us grow my client business with help of attractive flyers posted on different social media platform user get attract and place an order for featured product. I have also designed different logos for my clients.
  • Drag and drop.
  • Defuse templates.
  • Free photos.
  • Pricing is bit higher.
  • Expensive hardware requirements.
  • Customer support to be more proactive.
This tool is best suited for digital marketing make flyers, brochures, posts, banners, etc. To attract customers there are multiple predefined templates available for user to select make necessary amendments and create your own template. This tool also suited for logo designing. I found this product beneficial, only less appropriate thing is pricing.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to create and share social media graphics and videos for the University Athletics social media pages. This makes it quick and easy to post information faster and provides a steady stream of templates and design choices that increase engagement with our social media followers, as well as our athletes.
  • Lots of good designs and templates
  • Easy to use
  • Several exporting options
  • New updates allow for more editing choices
  • More templates could be good
  • More sports options
  • Needs better save points to allow us to revert to a specific point of editing
I think Adobe Creative Cloud Express is great for those who do not have a lot of experience with graphic design or photography. I use it to post quick and easy images and information on social media. I would not recommend it to be used for more advanced graphics and more detailed posts.
Tom Mulhern | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used the newly updated Adobe Creative Cloud Express, and the previous version of Adobe Spark since it's initial launch. It is an amazing resource for our team to create professional images, videos, and other digital design elements quickly and easily. We use it for social media content, email and blog headers, promotions, and so much more. It is a valuable resource for any team of any size.
  • Professional Templates
  • Various size and format options
  • Easy to access cloud based projects
  • Access to Adobe creative elements
  • Template database interface
  • Smart resize to adjust elements to proper size
  • Image replace function is glitchy sometimes
If you need to create stunning graphics quickly and access them easily than Adobe Creative Cloud Express is a great solution for your team. With Adobe Creative Cloud Express, you can easily collaborate with your graphics team to create professional digital media easily. Often times I use the tool to start my layout of a design, and then I transfer that design to Photoshop or Illustrator.
Janae Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is being used mostly by content creators across our sister stations. I am the only one that uses it on the Sales/Digital Side. It is great to use for quick graphics and videos that I need to make for our social media and website. I also use it to create web banner ads as well as Facebook ads.
  • There is a great design asset library, including free photos, icons, and illustration graphics.
  • Great for keeping your brand consistent across documents.
  • Great crowdsourced templates to choose from for quick unique content creation!
  • Great new photo editing tools to quickly customize a photo.
  • The tool panels unnecessarily cover the workspace at times.
  • The text shapes haven't really changed since I started using it, but it's still useful with the icons tab.
  • The structure of the workspace changes a lot, sometimes without notice. It affects the UX sometimes, but it's normally somewhat easy to adjust to.
Adobe Creative Cloud Express is well suited for social media and website/ blog use. Its branding tools are great for continuity across documents that are quick and easy to implement. They just recently added photo editing tools that can produce some really great graphics. It's mostly for quick and easy graphic creation, as well as videos. Adobe Creative Cloud Express could also be used to create more complex projects, but you may reach a few limitations within the tools, especially with video editing.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Adobe Creative Cloud Express for projects with middle school students. I think it's important for them to learn how to use graphic design tools, and Adobe Creative Cloud Express is a kid-friendly option with a lot of different design choices. I use it in my classroom, and all of my students sign up with free accounts.
  • Design
  • Template Options
  • User-Friendly
  • Editing is not always easy
  • Movement and size-changing does not work like Google
  • Final product has watermark without paid subscription
It's a really easy online design tool, so I would recommend it to anyone! I particularly like to use it in the classroom because I think it's a little easier than Canva--a tool that I would say is very similar. There are slightly fewer options, which can make it a little less overwhelming for kids.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I'm not sure whether Adobe Creative Cloud Express is used across the organization, but we use it within the marketing department of our faculty. It helps us create our own templates that we can share between users so we can keep our branding consistent across many social media accounts. It's easy to share our concepts with teammates and get feedback so we can further develop ideas.
  • The user interface is really simple and straight forward.
  • The product is being continually updated and seems to be responsive to users "wish list" items.
  • It's super easy to create a brand, so you're always using the right fonts and colours.
  • Adobe Creative Cloud Express's video possibilities could be improved - I'd really like to see more options for animating text. Animoto is a great example of this. But the video is already improving, so perhaps these options are coming!
  • Sometimes images don't download properly from the web app and I have to download using the phone app and then transfer to my desktop for scheduling.
  • It would be cool if there was an approve / feedback option, so you could request feedback from a team member without having to share a link and send a separate email.
I love Adobe Creative Cloud Express for almost all my image creation needs. When I want to do really detailed work, I still use Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. I wish Adobe Creative Cloud Express had a better slideshow-type video option, with animated text (like Animoto). I've created workarounds where I create animated images in Adobe Creative Cloud Express Post and then added them to a Creative Cloud Express Video, but that's a bit of a pain.
Paul Gully | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe Creative Cloud Express is primarily used for our clients' work where we need to create graphics and assets in real time at events. With its mobile app, we are able to easily update and complete assets for social media whilst at live events and sports fixtures. It has solved the problem of us being able to complete this work quickly and easily in real time, enabling us to enhance the quality of the work and the services we can offer.
  • Ability to work in real time and on the fly
  • Quick and easy to use
  • Separating brands out and setting up templates for each accordingly
  • Great starter templates when needed for inspiration
  • Having better use of layers to build graphics
  • Some expansion of the video editing side - especially overlaying text
  • More stability and reliability for the mobile app version - sometimes non responsive
Adobe Creative Cloud Express is a great tool for quickly building up templates and designs. Especially suited for social media assets. It is very quick to learn and get going, with some great inspirational templates. So for a quick work flow and creating good designs, it's a great addition to other programs you may use. If you are just looking for quick and basic videos this is the answer, but if you would like a bit more depth to your editing and features, this would not be the best answer. Overall you can achieve some amazing end results, especially for your social channels.
Aniket Kumar Chaudhary | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a content writer and digital marketer, I have to stand out from the crowd with the unique graphic ideas that help me and my organization to grow. Adobe Creative Cloud Express is an easy-to-use graphic design and content creation tool. It has an image editor, a website builder, and a video-making tool capable of creating simple, yet beautiful and impactful content that requires no prior design skills or spending time learning their forms. In short, Adobe Creative Cloud Express is an all-in-one web application for creating and sharing visual stories that will amaze your audience from whatever device they access.
  • Templates: Once you select the template, just edit it according to need, which makes it a huge time-saver.
  • Intuitive design: In case you don't want or can't find a template that you like, you can freely design in Adobe Creative Cloud Express. The software focuses on very straightforward functionality, with custom fields and alignments of buttons with very clear labels. The whole design is quite intuitive and guides users from one step to another without the need for many instructions.
  • Autosave: It may seem unimportant, but the fact that Adobe Creative Cloud Express saves all the changes you make automatically and constantly frees you from any worry.
  • Includes free high-resolution images from Unsplash, as well as prepaid high-quality stock photos from Adobe Creative Cloud Express.
  • No skills needed: It is incredibly easy to use in that you don't need prior knowledge.
  • Content and print management offered.
  • In the free version, all pages and videos are branded with the Adobe Creative Cloud Express watermark.
  • Access to Android is limited to the graphics creation tool.
  • Videos are only 30 seconds long.
What sets Adobe Creative Cloud Express applications apart is that they are much easier to use than most Adobe tools. Unlike its more popular and specialized counterparts, like Photoshop, Premiere Pro, or Dreamweaver, the Adobe Creative Cloud Express learning process is so easy. Among Adobe Creative Cloud Express Page, Post, and Video, each task has its own iOS app in the app store, but only Adobe Creative Cloud Express Post is available for Android at the moment.
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