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  1. Creative Cloud User Guide
  2. Introduction to Creative Cloud
    1. Common questions | Creative Cloud
    2. Creative Cloud system requirements
    3. Creative Cloud file sync | Known issues
  3. Download, install, set up, and update
    1. Download Creative Cloud apps
    2. Open Creative Cloud apps
    3. Start workspace
    4. Update Creative Cloud apps
    5. Change the language of your Creative Cloud apps
    6. Uninstall the Creative Cloud desktop app
    7. Uninstall or remove Creative Cloud apps
    8. Fix errors installing Adobe apps
    9. How and when to use the CC Cleaner tool
    10. Apps available for download
  4. Manage your account
    1. Changes to Creative Cloud for individual plans
    2. Changes to Creative Cloud for teams plans
    3. Web and mobile access with new Adobe Creative Cloud plans
    4. Convert a Creative Cloud trial to a paid membership
    5. Reset your Adobe password
    6. Change your Adobe plan
    7. Update credit card and billing address
    8. View, download, or email your Adobe invoice
    9. Fix a failed or missed payment
    10. Identify your Adobe charge
    11. Cancel Adobe trial or subscription
    12. Cancel Adobe trial or subscription
    13. Find support for free and discontinued products
    14. Sign in to your Adobe account
    15. Sign in to your Adobe account
    16. Sign in to your Adobe account
    17. Sign in to your company or school account
    18. Understand Creative Cloud subscription terms and refund policies
  5. Creative services
    1. Using Adobe Stock in Creative Cloud apps
    2. Using Adobe Fonts in Creative Cloud apps
    3. Upload your fonts to Creative Cloud
    4. Creative Cloud Market is no longer available
  6. Collaboration and storage services
    1. What are cloud documents
    2. Cloud documents FAQ
    3. Create or convert files to cloud documents
    4. Set up cloud documents to use offline
    5. Revert to an earlier version of a cloud document
    6. Share your work for commenting
    7. Why can't I see my cloud documents offline?
    8. Creative Cloud Libraries
    9. Collaborate on Creative Cloud Libraries and folders
    10. Collaboration FAQ
    11. Sync your files using cloud storage
    12. Find how much cloud storage you have
    13. Set sync options
    14. Discontinuation of Creative Cloud Synced files
    15. Download Synced files and content
  7. Projects
    1. Projects overview
    2. Create and organize projects
    3. Access and permissions in projects
    4. Share projects
    5. Share assets in projects
    6. Reuse assets in projects
    7. Create new folders and libraries
    8. Move folders and libraries
  8. Organize libraries
    1. Create groups in libraries
    2. Delete groups in libraries
    3. Delete elements in libraries
    4. Move elements in libraries
  9. Creative Cloud mobile apps
    1. Common questions | Mobile apps
    2. Adobe Creative Cloud for mobile
  10. Enterprise and teams
    1. Enterprise Learn and Support
    2. Teams Learn and Support
    3. Quick start guide for team members
  11. Adobe Content Authenticity
    1. Content Credentials overview
    2. Use Content Credentials
    3. Adobe Content Authenticity (Beta)
    4. Inspect tool on Adobe Content Authenticity (Beta)
    5. Adobe Content Authenticity Chrome browser extension
    6. Content Credentials generative AI training and usage preference
    7. Connect accounts for creative attribution
  12. Generative AI in Creative Cloud
    1. Generative credits access and use

Learn how to reuse assets in projects.

Reusing assets helps you save time and avoid recreating from scratch. You can quickly place existing assets from projects into your working file.

  1. Go to File > Place Embedded.

    Photoshop (Beta) highlighting the “Place Embedded” option to insert a file into the document as a separate layer.
    Insert a file into your Photoshop document as a separate layer.

  2. Select Open cloud documents.

    Access cloud documents by selecting the “Open cloud documents” option in the file browser window.
    Open your cloud documents directly from the file browser.

  3. Navigate to the Projects tab to view all compatible files that can be placed into.

    Open the Projects tab in Adobe cloud storage to browse and manage files shared with you.
    Access your projects from Adobe cloud storage to view and manage shared files.

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