Adobe Tutorials
Adobe Creative Campus at UofL
The complete Adobe Creative Cloud suite of applications is now available to all University of Louisville students, faculty and staff. Learn more about using these tools for digital media assignment support.
Learn More About UofL's Adobe Creative Campus
All you need is a current userID@louisville.edu email address and password.
- Go to www.adobe.com
- Select Sign In.
- Enter your UofL userID@louisville.edu email address.
- Select Company or School Account.
- Enter your UofL password when prompted.
- Click on Install Creative Cloud app
Download these instructions: How do I access my UofL Creative Cloud account?
What is provided through the UofL enterprise license:
- All 20 applications allowing you to create documents, videos, audio, graphic design, photos, illustrations, websites, mobile apps, and more.
- Creative Cloud Libraries providing you with 100 gigabytes of cloud storage space for saving and sharing documents and assets.
- Adobe Fonts integrating thousands of fonts into all your projects.
- Adobe Portfolio allowing you to create a website to store and share your creations and your skills and abilities.
- Behance provides a public space for you to share and view shared creations from the Adobe community around the world.
UofL's Adobe license does not include: Adobe Stock, Captivate, Connect, or Experience Cloud.
- All current students, faculty, and staff have free access to the complete Adobe Creative Cloud suite of apps.
- Students who are enrolled for fall and spring classes will have year long access. Enrollment in summer and winter terms is not required.
- Faculty and staff who are active employees will have access. Retirees are not included in the license.
For more questions about or support with access, please contact the UofL IT Help Desk.
Account support for Adobe is available through the UofL Help Desk.
Access other technical support at the UofL IT Adobe Support home page.
Adobe Tutorials and Resources
Getting Started with Acrobat
- Getting started with Acrobat DC
- Get to know the interface
- Create PDFs
- Create PDFs from Microsoft Word documents
- Edit text and PDFs
Doing more with Acrobat
- Reorganizing multi-page documents
- Convert PDFs to other file formats
- Share a PDF for commenting
- Convert scans to searchable, text-based PDFs
- Fill and sign PDF form
Linkedin Learning provides video tutorials on a variety of topics
- Access LinkedinLearning
- Linkedin tutorial: Acrobat DC Essentials
- Linkedin tutorial: Creating Forms in Acrobat
- Linkedin tutorial: Creating Accessible Documents in Acroba
Learn how to use Adobe Acrobat in the classroom
The Adobe Education Exchange is free for everyone at UofL, and it provides a wide range of self-guided courses to learn processes, theories, and use of the Adobe tools.
In the Adobe Acrobat for Teaching and Learning course, you will:
- Understand how Acrobat facilitates better reading and accessibility for all learners
- Understand how to use Acrobat to manage the consistency and quality of your and your students' documents
- Learn ways to share and collaborate on documents, as well as protect and secure sensitive information
- Be able to edit, annotate, organize and adjust your PDF files - and teach your students to do the same