ADOBE: Moving Your Creative Cloud Assets


shortcutaub.ie/adobegrad

 

Use Adobe Student File Transfer to automatically transfer your creative assets from your assigned school account to a personal account. 

Student File Transfer performs a copy operation when transferring files from your school account to your personal account. If you need to re-run the transfer process again for any reason, you can do that for as long as you have access to your school account.

Note: Adobe Student File Transfer does not currently support Behance or Portfolio assets as part of its normal file copy process. These are separate, one-time file transfers, not file copy services. Additionally, Lightroom Cloud and Adobe Express have specific migration processes. Click the corresponding button below to learn more about a specific Adobe migration process. 

More information can be found at Adobe's Student File Transfer Frequently Asked Questions Site.

Before You Begin Student File Transfer Process Behance Portfolio Lightroom Express

Before You Begin

School Account:

Keep your school account credentials handy. You'll be asked to sign in.

Personal Adobe accounts typically provide 5GB of file storage. If you have more than 5GB of files in your school account, remove any non-essential files before starting the transfer or upgrade your personal account to an Adobe plan with higher storage capacity.

If you begin the process without following these steps, you may run out of space during the transfer. As a result, some files might not be copied, and you'll receive an email notification about the incomplete transfer. You can then free up some storage or upgrade your account. Then, restart the transfer process. Any files remaining in your account that have not already been transferred with be copied.

Personal Account:

You require a functional email ID to sign up for a new personal Adobe account. You'll be prompted to sign up for one if you don't already have a personal Adobe account.

More information about the student file transfer process can also be found here: Student File Transfer Frequently Asked Questions.

Student File Transfer Process

Student File Transfer from Adobe is an easy-to-use tool that allows you to transfer your assets in just a few short steps. 

1. Go to graduation.adobe.com and select "Get Started."

2. Sign in to your school account. If you are already signed in, confirm the school account details are correct or select "Sign in to another account" to switch to a different source account. If you are not signed in yet, you'll be asked to do so before moving on.

3. Sign in to your personal Adobe account. If you don't have a personal Adobe account, select "No, sign up" to create one.

4. Confirm the email address for both your school and Adobe personal accounts. The email address for your personal account will be used to send a results email when the transfer process is complete. If you prefer to receive the email confirmation at a different email address, select "Notify a different email." When the information on this screen is correct, select "Start transfer."

5. Once the transfer begins, you will see a confirmation screen. You can close the browser now - you will be notified when the process is complete.

Adobe student file transfer

6. When the transfer is complete, you'll receive a confirmation email with a summary of the results.

Adobe Student File Transfer

Note: Adobe Student File Transfer does not currently support Behance or Portfolio assets as part of its normal file copy process. These are separate, one-time file transfers, not file copy services. Learn more about how to use the Portfolio transfer service and move a Behance profile between accounts by reading the sections below.

Behance:

Your Adobe ID is your email address. An Adobe ID is what you use to login to Behance. You may have multiple Adobe IDs and want to associate a new Adobe ID to your Behance profile.

The instructions listed below can also be found on Adobe's Behance Help Center site.

A few notes before proceeding:

1. Confirm that your new Adobe ID is registered with Adobe.

2. Login to Behance.net using your Personal Adobe ID currently associated to your primary Behance profile.

3. Visit your Settings.

4. Click the Switch Adobe IDs option on the lefthand toolbar.

5. Click Use A Different Adobe ID. 

6. Enter the new Adobe ID you wish to use and the corresponding password. 

7. Click Confirm Your New Login.

You may want to change the email address associated with your Adobe ID if you have entered an incorrect email address or if you want to use a new primary email address. 

1. When logged into Behance, visit your Settings.

2. Click Edit this Adobe ID on Adobe.com > you'll be directed to visit your Adobe ID settings to change your email address.

3. Click Profile beneath your avatar.

4. Scroll down to the Account information and access section.

5. Click Change next to Primary email (Adobe ID).

6. In the window that appears, enter a new primary email address that you want to associate with your Adobe ID.

7. Click Save.

Portfolio:

The instructions listed below can also be found on Adobe's Portfolio Migration site.

Before you begin:

1. Go to portfolio.adobe.com and sign in with your school account.

2. Click on one of your sites.

3. Click on Settings in the left panel.

4. Click on Account & Region.

5. Under Use Another Adobe ID, select Use Personal Adobe ID.

6. Type in the new Adobe ID you wish to migrate your site(s) to.

7. Click Continue and then Done.

8. Check your email inbox under the new / personal account and click the link provided. 

9. Sign in to the new Adobe ID and click Confirm Migration.

10. All set! Click Edit your Portfolio to exit.

Lightroom:

Lightroom Classic is file-based content, so content can be transferred. Lightroom Cloud is an account-based service.

To move Lightroom Cloud content:

To take a backup of catalogs created using Lightroom Classic, see Adobe's article on How to Back Up Catalogs in Lightroom Classic. For Lightroom, you can take a local backup by enabling "Save all original images in specified location" in the local storage environment setting. For details, see Adobe's article on Setting Preferences.

Express:

Adobe Express is only available online when you are connected to the Internet, so there is not a way to keep any source files offline. You can either choose to migrate your projects from one account or profile to another, or you simply download the output of each project. More information on Adobe Express file transfer can be found in "Adobe Express files" section of Adobe's Transfer Files Across Accounts or Profiles Site.

To download file output:

To copy files to another account: