How to sign into Adobe Creative Cloud on the web

If you or a student are trying to access Adobe Creative Cloud, you can do so at the main adobe.com website. Here are directions and a short video.

  1. Go to https://www.adobe.com .
  2. Click Sign In.
    the adobe.com page with the sign on button selected
  3. Enter your CU email address (Faculty, staff, and students all use the commonwealthu.edu email address, while Athletics personnel use their school specific email address).
  4. Click Continue.
    the Adobe Sign in page with the email address filled in with the CU email address and the Continue button highlighted
  5. On the CU Single Sign On page, make sure your email address is there.
  6. Enter your password.
    the CU single sign on password entry box where you should enter your CU password and click Sign in.
  7. Click Sign in and acknowledge any alerts from Microsoft or Duo 2 Factor Authentication.
  8. Once signed into Adobe.com, click Apps to access your available applications. You can click Install to install them to your device.
    on Adobe.com you can click the Apps icon to access all your applications and install them
  9. Click your profile icon to see how many generative AI credits you have left this month. 
    account details accessed by clicking the profile icon at upper right of the page. including generative AI credits that reset monthly
  10. You can also install Adobe Creative Cloud application from this menu. This application lets you manage all your Creative Cloud apps easily with one desktop application.
    install the Adobe Creative Cloud desktop application by accessing account information by clicking the profile icon at top right of the page and selecting Install Creative Cloud Desktop
  11. You can click the waffle icon to access shortcuts to all your web apps.
    access all apps by clicking the waffle icon at the upper right of the page

Here is a video of this process: https://cupmediasite.passhe.edu/Mediasite/Play/10b000a0a9d3486380865e0b4c6cae5d1d

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