- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you
how to manage your libraries
which includes not only renaming a library,
but also moving and duplicating elements
between libraries and finally restoring deleted elements.
So notice, if you will, if I click on the side
I'm at the top of the panel, that'll see a popup menu
of all the libraries that I've created so far.
Obviously, your libraries and mine will differ.
Now, you do have the option of creating a new library,
if you'd like, but at this point, I should probably
take a moment to assign a real name to my library.
And you can do that by clicking on a fly up menu icon
in the top right corner of the panel
and choosing rename, in my case, my library.
Now I find that you have to give it a click
or at least drag over it to make sure the name is selected
and then I'll just go ahead and call
this guy design elements.
And then I'll click rename in order to rename that library.
Now notice that you can view the contents of your library
as icons, or if you will, thumbnails
or as lists as we're seeing here
in which case you'll see little Ais
next to each one of the graphics to tell you
that they come from illustrator.
Alright, I'm going to switch back to the thumbnail view.
And now let's say you want to take one of your elements
and you want to either move it or duplicate it
from one library to another.
Then let's say I go ahead and grab the word
design right here.
Then I can right click on it.
And notice we have this move to sub menu as well as copy to.
If you choose duplicate, you're going to duplicate
the element inside this library.
But let's say I want to copy it.
I'll go ahead and choose copy to and then random junk.
This happens to be in one of my libraries.
And I'll go ahead and switch over to that item
and you can see the word design represented as a thumbnail.
What do you do if you make the mistake of
deleting a bunch of elements and then you decide
you want to bring them back?
In that case, I'll go ahead and switch over to
design elements once again.
I'll click on this first item, the color brown right here,
and I'll shift click on shadow one
in order to select everything that I've saved so far.
And then I'll drop down to the little trash icon
in the bottom right corner of the panel and click on it.
And you can see, for a moment, I have an undo button,
but it quickly fades away
in which case, panic might set in,
but here's what you do.
You click on the fly up menu icon once again
and you choose view deleted items.
And that's going to launch your default web browser
and it's going to take you to a list of items
that you've deleted to this point in time.
And you can see that I've gotten rid of a bunch of objects
but I can see these most recent six right here.
And I'll just go ahead and select them like so
and then click on the restore button.
And as you can see here, I need to confirm that operation.
And you also have the option incidentally of selecting
items and permanently deleting them if you prefer.
In which case, once again, you have to confirm this time
by clicking on a dangerously red button.
Alright, I'm going to go ahead and switch back to illustrator
in which you can see that every single one of my elements
has been restored.
Alright, and finally while we're at it,
you can share elements or libraries with other users
as long as they have access to the creative cloud
and of course, the internet
by selecting the item you want to share
and then bringing up the fly up menu icon once again
and choosing share link
which will again launch your default web browser.
Now notice, by default, everything you create is private,
but if you click on this switch, you will make it public.
Now these additional options will probably change over time.
So all I'm going to tell you for now is that if you
check or uncheck one of the boxes,
you'll need to click the word save
in order to update your choice.
Then, just go ahead and copy that link
which very likely won't work in the future,
at least in my case, because it's very possible
I'll end up deleting this object.
However, you can preview it just by clicking on
that link like so in which I see thumbnails of the elements
I've shared so far.
And incidentally, I could switch back to that previous tab
and hide that panel and then I could see a larger thumbnail
of any one of these items just by clicking on it like so.
And that is how you manage libraries as well as
how you restore deleted elements and share them
using the creative cloud.