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Adobe Express for All Penn Staters

All Penn State students, faculty, and staff have free access to Adobe Express. Express is an easy-to-use creative tool for designing standout content quickly and professionally.

With a built-in media library pulling from Adobe Stock, you can easily add engaging visuals to your work in seconds. Quickly create flyers, social media posts, edit impactful videos, craft webpages, collaborate with your team, and so much more. Learn more about real use cases of Adobe Express at Penn State below.

Adobe Express Use Cases

Creative Software for Penn State

Make the most of the free Adobe Creative Cloud account Penn State offers eligible students, faculty, and staff based on academic or workplace needs.

Access industry-leading creative software like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, and many more. Get everything you need to do great digital storytelling and data visualization with videos, interactive PDFs, games, web content, images, digital drawings, mobile app designs, and more.

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Explore how Penn State students use Adobe Creative Cloud

Maggie Condit-Summerson’s WMNST 106: Representing Women & Gender in Art, Literature, & Popular Cultures designed individual quilt square digital collages to create a collaborative quilt in Adobe Photoshop.See more.

Ray Watkins’ Spring 2023 ENGL 202C: Technical Writing and Communication students used Adobe InDesign to produce a set of standard operating procedures for Penn State’s Origin Labs. See more..

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Every semester, students in ENGL015: Rhetoric and Composition at University Park are given a culminating assignment and asked to create nontraditional rhetorical text: an infographic. Infographic Assignment

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