Embedding CC Library Components into Projects

How do you get all the great stuff in your Adobe CC Library Panel embedded into your projects?

Here’s the good part: you create some great Paragraph Styles and Color Swatches and you share them across a few Adobe CC apps. That makes everything in your life easy. You don’t have to recreate all that stuff. You just open the Library Panel, from app to app, and there it is. Say, you have a palette of 10 or 20 colors and they’re available, not just in a dozen or so Illustrator projects, but you can find them in the same Panel for InDesign and Photoshop (and other CC apps), too.

Here’s the bad part: You’re offline, you have a slow internet connection, or you have to share a file with someone who isn’t allowed to have Internet while at work, and your whole clever workflow system breaks down.

How do you embed those components in the CC Library Panel and get them into the Swatches Panel or a Style Panel, so it works for many people in many situations? In the CC Library Panel, rollover the component you need to embed (let’s pretend that it’s a color swatch). On a Mac, hold down the “control” key and click on the color. A menu pops up. From the menu, choose “Add to Swatches”. Check your Swatch Panel. Now it’s there! It’s like you found an Easter Egg!

How about if you have a bunch of Swatches to embed? Do you need to go through them one at a time? No. Use the familiar “command + click” or “shift + click” (Mac) techniques and embed a batch of colors.

Make your workflow fast and simple. Focus on the creative, instead.