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Library panel essentials

Library panel essentials

If you often use the same assets, like layer styles and fonts, or colors and gradients, even brushes or graphics, then the Libraries panel can be a powerful way to store these different design elements so that you can quickly apply them across multiple documents. Another advantage of using the Libraries panel to store assets is that they're automatically saved in the cloud so that you can access them from any machine where you sign in with your Adobe ID. You can also share libraries with other people. Let's start by creating a library from a document and then we'll see how easy it is to customize the contents of a library. We have several different layers in this document. So we have a gradient applied to a shape layer. We have a number of additional solid color shape layers. One of them has a layer effect applied. Then I have a photograph on a layer. We've also got some type layers and some additional shape layers. Now in the libraries panel, we could simply create a new library and…

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