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January 6, 2026
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No Instruction Manual

  • January 6, 2026
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Prior to me opening up Creative cloud, my co-worker informed me that we would be using the Creative Cloud applications at our company. My co-worker also elaborated that there was no instruction manual to assist a person (PDF instruction manual for download) in finding out how to properly run these applications. I said "alright, I will be down there to see what you are talking about. When I arrived, I told her that anything you purchased, had to have a instruction manual. How else is a person to learn the application? After opening up the Creative cloud and typing a question into a box......I was taken back. Utterly taken back. Adobe, a large size company with some really good products had no PDF instruction manuals for Preimere Pro 2025 or After Effects 2025. If you needed answer to a question, you had to type out the question and then acquire an answer with broad definitions for all sorts or questions. After doing some extensive research, Adobe felt that using ask a question, receive an answer was a better learning tool for everyone. Adobe stopped issuing instruction manuals a few years back. You were left with this truly useless "ask a question, and ascertain a broad answer for many other questions" method.  None of the purchase Adobe illustrations, advertisements does is state that there is no "Instruction Manual" provided for almost all of the 2023, 2024, or 2025 apps. Nowhere does it tell you you just have to learn on your own. Truly a worthless set of applications. What if Samsung decided to sell you a Smart TV, without a instruction guide or a Galaxy Smart phone without a user guide. How would you operate the device? Exactly my point, Adobe does the same thing. Figure it out....somehow. Learn on your own approach.

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John T Smith
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 6, 2026

Some Tutorials to help you get started... I have saved these links as I see them in messages, so you will need to click and view to find ones that will help you do what you want
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https://www.adobe.com/learn?locale=en&learnIn=1
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/view-all-tutorials.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/get-started.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/user-guide.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/tutorials.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/support/premiere-pro.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/view-all-tutorials.html
https://adobevideotraining.com/premiere-pro/introductory-courses/
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/premiere-pro-tutorial/td-p/10974406?page=1
https://community.adobe.com/t5/video-lounge/tips-amp-tricks-to-become-a-premiere-pro-power-user-with-abba-shapiro/td-p/10900149?page=1
https://community.adobe.com/t5/video-lounge/video-series-real-premiere-pro-secrets-by-cut-to-the-point/td-p/10900176?page=1
https://community.adobe.com/t5/video-lounge/podcast-art-of-the-cut-coup-53-editor-walter-murch-ace/td-p/10887889?page=1
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/how-to/premiere-pro-nesting-sequence-cc.html
https://community.adobe.com/t5/video-lounge-discussions/premiere-pro-effects-explained-for-beginners/td-p/12626342
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/faq-editing-terminology-and-getting-help-with-premiere-pro/td-p/12727667
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/faq-delivering-videos-for-all-screen-formats/td-p/12777989
https://community.adobe.com/t5/video-lounge-discussions/foundations-of-video-the-art-of-editing/td-p/12807950
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/faq-how-to-create-a-countdown-widget-in-premiere-pro/td-p/13863337

R Neil Haugen
Legend
January 6, 2026

The best book on Premiere (both "e" and printed forms available) is still Jarle Leirpoll's "The Cool Things in Premiere Pro" ... it's several years old, 1200 pages, and gives the most information still on professionally getting stuff done fast around.

 

Next is the online documentation for using Premiere in the Productions mode, and is the best online documentation yet produced by Adobe for anyone running Premiere either in Productions or the old stand-alone project mode. Also mainly written by Jarle, I might note ...

 

Premiere Pro Productions Introduction

Using Productions in Premiere Pro

Adobe Long-form and Episodic Best Practices Guide 


Jarle’s blog expansion of the pdf Multicam section: Premiere Pro Multicam

 

And to repeat, everyone using Premiere in any fashion should read that "Using Productions" and "Long-form and Episodic ...".

 

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
creative explorer
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 6, 2026

@alexanderv_1965 any graphic designer you hire should know how to use many of the applications that Creative Cloud offers from Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign to Acrobat, Premiere Pro and even After Effects! 

There are many books on this applications, to YouTube videos, Linked Learning and even the Adobe Helpx tutorials. If you open any application, right within it, there should be tutorials as well. 

For example:

Creative Cloud: https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/creative-cloud/apps.html

Premiere Pro: https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/premiere/desktop.html

Photoshop: https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/photoshop/desktop.html

Illustrator: https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/illustrator/desktop.html

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Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 6, 2026

Online Help is getting worse by the day.

Does mot have a search with the app-help itself.

Most screenshots have been removed and replaced by text.

I sometimes have to resort to an old CS4 or CS6 manual.

R Neil Haugen
Legend
January 6, 2026

Yea ... what a pain. Sigh.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...