px and GIF files do not animate as a cover image.
When you are done editing, click Save as Draft to continue working or click Publish to post your project in the Behance website.
FIGURE 3-16: Create a cover for your image.
Bonus! Adobe Portfolio
In addition to sharing your work on Behance, you can take advantage of Adobe Portfolio. Adobe Portfolio offers you the opportunity to easily build a beautiful visual resume. You can customize layouts and segment your own categories in extensive galleries of work. One of its greatest features is its compatibility with Behance. Build once in Behance, and your project automatically appears in your portfolio and vice versa.
Follow these steps to open and explore Adobe Portfolio:
1 In your browser, go to https://portfolio.adobe.com/.This opens a browser window with information about you. This is also the location in which you can launch Adobe Portfolio.
2 Click View Adobe Portfolio in the upper-right of the screen.
3 If you have an Adobe ID, you have access to Adobe Portfolio and you can get started by clicking the Edit Your Sites or Create Your Site button in the middle of the screen. If you have not yet used the site, you may be directed right to the layout page.
4 In the next window, you are provided a selection of layouts, as seen in Figure 3-17. Click any layout you are interested in. The rest is easy: Simply follow the instructions provided directly to you on the screen.
5 As with Behance, you can choose to save your project when you are done or publish to the Adobe Portfolio site.
The support community is one of the best places to go if you need help with a technical issue, or if you just want advice on how to better create your work. Each app has its own support forum that is supported by helpful users like you as well as staff from Adobe. Use this resource by selecting your app of interest in the left column and then using the Search This Community search box at the top, as shown in Figure 3-18.
FIGURE 3-17: Choose from a selection of different layouts to start your portfolio.
FIGURE 3-18: Get help from the community by searching existing issues, or post your own question.
If you can’t find what you want, create your own post by selecting the Post to Community button in the upper right. Answers come quickly so you will want to check the Email Me checkbox at the bottom of your post message textbox.
It’s Not Just Apps!
Wow … and you thought the Creative Cloud was just a collection of applications! As you can see, there is so much more to take advantage of when you have a subscription to the Creative Cloud. In the following minibooks, you find out how to use the applications to bring your designs to reality.
Chapter 4
Using Common Menus and Commands
IN THIS CHAPTER
When you work in Adobe CC, you may notice that many menus, commands, and keyboard shortcuts are similar across the applications. These similarities can help you migrate more easily from one application to another. This chapter provides an overview of some of the common menus, dialog boxes, options, shortcuts, and preferences that exist in most or all of the applications in Adobe Creative Cloud.
Discovering Common Menus
When you work with applications in Adobe Creative Cloud, you may notice that many of the menus on the main menu bar are the same. Similar functionality makes finding important features easy, even when you’re completely new to the software.
Menu items contain features that control much of the functionality in each application. A menu item may also contain features that are related to a particular task. For example, you might save from the File menu, or change your text in the Type menu. Some of the menu items that commonly appear in the Creative Cloud applications include the following:
File: Contains many features that control the overall document, such as creating, opening, saving, printing, and setting general properties for the document. The File menu may also include options for importing or exporting data into or from the current document.
Edit: Contains options and commands for editing the current document. Commands include copying, pasting, and selecting as well as options for opening preferences and setting dialog boxes that are used to control parts of the document. Commands for spell-checking are also common parts of the Edit menu.
Type: Contains options related to type and typesetting, such as font selection, size, leading, and more.
View: Contains options for changing the level of magnification of the document. The View menu also sometimes includes options for viewing the workspace in different ways; showing rules, grids, or guides; and turning alignment snapping on and off. Snapping helps with precise placement of selection edges, cropping marquees, slices, shapes, and paths.
Window: Contains options primarily used to open or close whatever panels are available in the application. You can also choose how to view the workspace and save a favorite arrangement of the workspace.
Help: Contains the option to open the Help documentation that’s included with the application.
