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Hi and welcome to this video. We will delve into ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager assets and the powerful capabilities of ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express. Today, we’re all about enhancing our content creation and editing workflow directly with an AMS that’s using ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express, streamlining the process to be more efficient and user friendly.

ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express, now fully integrated with AMS, UTS, offers an array of intuitive editing tools. This integration is a game changer for marketers, addressing the urgent need for quick, cost effective and diverse content production without sacrificing brand integrity. Let’s start by editing existing content in AMP assets using ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express in assets. Let’s browse the asset we want to edit. For this, we’ll select an image of a landscape that we want flipped horizontally and make a little bit more vibrant.

And then select open with ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express from the action Bar. To access the embedded ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express directly within AMP assets. I’ll quickly adjust the size in ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express so we can see the entire image.

And there we go. And now we have access to use the full ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express suite to make desired edits, which can range from simple image adjustments to sophisticated image alterations using ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Firefly. For this example, we’ll keep it simple and simply flip the image horizontally and make a few adjustments to the vibrancy of the image.

And there we go. That looks great when satisfied with our changes. We can save it as a new asset or save it as a new version. I’ll save it as a new version of the same asset in assets.

Note that when saving as a version, we can always use Am assets version history to see prior versions of the asset and even revert back to a previous version if needed. So don’t be scared about making changes to your assets, as the previous versions are just a click away.

So, as you can see when leveraging ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express an Am assets, content reuse is enhanced through direct editing of assets in an. Now let’s create new content in assets with ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express. For this, let’s make a social media post for our Icelandic adventure in and assets. We’ll navigate to my workspace and click create on the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express banner. You can start with a blank page or select from a range of stock or brand approved templates, but I’ll start with a blank page.

I already have the Am assets enabled in ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express, so it’s easy to pull in existing brand assets from an assets. So let me go ahead and locate and pull in the approved weekend logo from an assets.

Next, I’ll use ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express as text image to generate a brand new image. I can under the prompt.

And ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express does the rest.

We can look through some of the options and, let’s see.

I like this one.

Lastly, let’s add some promotional text to the image.

So that’s a little bit hard to see. So I can easily change the color of the text and even add an outline so it pops a little more. That’s pretty good, but I don’t love the font.

Let’s try out a few options. ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express recommends.

Oh, I like this one. Yeah, let’s choose that. Okay, the new image is ready. Now. Let’s save it back to assets so we can use it in our marketing campaign for our experience Iceland adventure.

And there we go. This new image is now saved. Back to Am assets. We can verify that the new image is there and ready for use by navigating to the Experience Iceland Adventure folder.

And there we go. Our new image is here.

So as you can see, the ability to create new assets directly in and assets using ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express is simple but powerful features significantly reduces the time and effort needed to create assets, streamlining your content production process and enhancing efficiency.

Lastly, let’s check out how for quick edits, ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express an AMS is your go to tool.

This approach is slightly different from the previous, as it doesn’t open ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express itself, but rather exposes several commonly used functionalities of ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express directly within AMP assets. In this example, we’ll want to remove the background of a mountain biker image so we can use just the mountain biker to help create new assets with different backgrounds. So let me find the image that we want to edit.

I’ll select the image and click into its details and once in the details view, the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express Quick Actions menu is available. Clicking on it, we can see we have functionalities like resizing, background removal, and format conversion. These features, while a subset of the full suite, are ideal for swiftly tweaking brand assets.

So first, we can remove the background.

Which automatically pulls only the mountain biker from the image.

And yeah, that looks great. And then we can simply crop the image so it’s a better fit.

Lastly, let’s save the image back as a new asset so we can use it later to create some new marketing collateral.

And there you have it. ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express and AMS is a powerful tool for creating and editing content. Whether you’re starting from scratch or working with existing assets.

Before we go, let’s take a look at how to set up ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express and AMD assets. If you haven’t already, to enable ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express related actions in and assets, a simple setup is needed. As an administrator, head to AMD assets, then to Settings Creative Cloud and make sure that your organization with ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express is selected.

This is a one time global setting for all users.

Thanks for joining us with these ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Express features now at your disposal in AMD assets, you’re all set to enhance your content creation and editing capabilities in a way that’s both efficient and user friendly.