With the Creative Cloud, Adobe introduced an online service that includes programs, services, and distribution options, and which had fundamentally change the design process for digital content. The cloud is the center from which users can access desktop and tablet applications, services, and share their work with others. This offer opened up completely new opportunities for creative users to create and output digital content.

Adobe Creative Cloud

The Adobe Creative Cloud, is a solution that fundamentally changed the process of designing digital content. In parallel to the announcement of the Creative Cloud, Adobe also introduced six new touch apps for creating digital content on tablet devices. These apps offer all tablet users professional creative options and use hosted, cloud-based services to exchange files, display them on different devices and transfer them to Adobe Creative Suite 5.5.

The Creative Cloud gives users completely new creative expressions. It provides them with services that fundamentally change the use of creative tools based on touch interactions and deepen the connections between creative people around the world.

In the first phase of the Creative Cloud, the focus was primarily on the innovative adobe touch apps, which made tablet devices an integral part of the creative design process. The Creative Cloud becomes the starting point for the display, exchange and synchronization of content created with the Adobe Creative Suite and the adobe touch apps.

Today, Adobe Creative Cloud involves more than 20 desktop, mobile applications and utilities for photography, video editing, web and many more. The Creative Cloud (CC) is how Adobe trying to make a wide array of its programs under one service. Instead of buying each product or software, you pay a monthly subscription fee for the Creative Cloud utilities. The price differs depending on how many apps you use. It also includes other services to promote your creative workflows, such as 100GB of cloud storage, a customizable portfolio website via Adobe Portfolio and much more.

Despite the fact that Adobe Creative Cloud has various features, the software has capabilities for beginners and professionals. This is why it's unique and suitable for users with no experience in photography, videography, design and web development. Adobe Creative Cloud is made up of the following applications:

1. Photo apps:

1.1 Photoshop Lightroom:

Lightroom is a cloud-based service that enables you to edit, organize, save, and share your photos via any device.

Lightroom edited

1.2 Photoshop Lightroom Classic:

Lightroom Classic is a powerful desktop app which provides all the necessary tools for you to bring out the best in your photos. Enhance colors, remove any distracting objects, stitch photos together to create a panorama, and share them in a many way.

Whales inside a cup: photoshop classic

1.3 Photoshop:

The world’s best software for creating, and editing pictures, sketches and illustrations. You find photoshop at the heart of just about every creative project.

Photoshop is so powerful

1.4 Photoshop Express:

It facilitates photo editing, creativity, and sharing so they stand out on social media and everywhere else. It has numerous features which can be used to enhance photos.

Photoshop express interface

1.5 Photoshop Camera:

This new, intelligent app set the magic of photoshop inside your camera. It understands the best lenses and filters for your photos before you even take the shot.

Photshop camera filter

2. Graphic Design apps:

2.1 Illustrator:

This vector graphics software is used by the majority of designers and artists to create everything from elegant web and mobile graphics to logos, icons, book illustrations, and product packaging.

Deer

2.2 InDesign:

Adobe InDesign is a layout and page design software. It is used to create and publish books, digital magazines, eBooks, posters and interactive PDFs.

Read your eBooks anywhere

2.3 Dimension:

Dimension is used to create engaging 3D content faster by incorporating high-quality models, materials, and lighting. It makes it simple to build brand visualizations, product mockups, packaging designs, custom logos, and other creative work.

3D castle

2.4 After Effects:

It is a motion graphics and visual effects software intended to create unique transitions, movie titles, and intros. It has the ability to remove objects from a clip, start fire, make it rain and much more.

2.5 Acrobat DC:

Adobe's Acrobat Reader DC is a program that you can use to open and read PDF files. It is available for computers with Windows, MacOS and Linux as well as for mobile devices. Use the program to add notes and markings to your documents, rearrange the pages within the file or convert the file to another format. Protecting your PDFs with a password or sharing them with other people is also possible with Acrobat Reader.

Portable Document Format

2.6 Spark:

Adobe Spark is a service which you can only use via their website or the mobile app for Apple and partially Android. It allows you to create social media content, individual websites and videos with very simple means. Spark is designed to create fast, modern, and uncomplicated content right on the go.

2.7 Capture:

Convert camera elements from your real life with your device, directly into assets that you can use in Photoshop and Illustrator.

Capture your perfect moments

2.8 InCopy:

This is a text editor that focuses in particular on working together on a document through close collaboration with Adobe InDesign.

2.9 Bridge:

For many professionals, Adobe Bridge is one of the most frequently used tools for sorting and viewing digital photographs and other media.

Adobe Bridge interface

3. Video apps:

3.1 Adobe Premiere Pro:

Premiere Pro is a software for video-editing. It combines features which grant you the possibility to promote your video’s audio quality, change its color grading, and implement motion graphics.

Video editing with the adobe P.P

3.2 Premiere Rush:

With the Premiere Rush app, you can edit videos entirely on a smartphone or tablet and then share them via social media channels. If you still want to continue your work on the PC, this is also possible thanks to cloud synchronization.

3.3 Audition:

With Adobe Audition record voiceovers, instruments or sounds and edit and mix them together into a soundtrack. Everything you need for audio editing in one.

Editing voice-records

3.4 Animate:

Animated graphics and objects are used on many websites. Since animation via Flash is not supported on all internet devices, Adobe offers the Animate software to create and edit such objects using CSS3, HTML5 or JavaScript.

Minions

3.5 Character Animator:

Bring your character to life and animate it in the form of live videos or normal videos with the Adobe Character Animator.

3.6 Media Encoder:

Easily render your Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Character Animator, Audition or other files in your desired formats using this software.

Media encodering

4. Illustration apps:

4.1 Adobe Fresco:

Fresco is the new painting and drawing program from Adobe on tablets, which was eagerly awaited by many and finally came on the market in September 2019.

Draw on your Tablet

4.2 Illustrator Draw:

Create beautiful free-form vector designs on your mobile with this app, it makes you turn your ideas and thoughts into production-quality artwork wherever inspiration strikes.

Owl-King

5. UX & UI apps:

5.1 Adobe XD:

XD is undoubtedly the Adobe tool of the hour. Adobe vigorously stirred the drum for the release of the new screen design and prototyping tool. It seems that Adobe is determined to establish XD as the new industry standard and to push competitive products like Sketch out of the market in the long term.

Adobe XD

5.2 Dreamweaver:

Dreamweaver, part of the Adobe Creative Suite Collection, is an easy-to-use website creation tool.

6. Illustration apps:

6.1 Adobe Aero:

With the new iOS app Adobe Aero, the development of augmented reality applications should be possible without previous knowledge.

Augmented Reality

6.2 Substance:

This software is the complete suite for object texturing and material authoring for 3D design. Explore Substance and bring your ideas to life.

3D Deer

6.3 Mixamo:

Without any previous knowledge in the area of 3D modeling or rigging, Mixamo is the right tool for you to get many different animated 3D characters for games, films and more.

7. Social Media apps:

In this category, you find Premiere Rush, Spark and Photoshop Camera.

27 Adobe Creative Cloud software you need to start using