Continuing on with the How to get the most from Adobe series, we’re moving on to a very little known online application called Adobe Spark (Update 9/2022: Adobe has changed this to Adobe Express). Spark is an online creator for images, graphics, social media graphics and even making an online blog page to share your photos from a trip, vacation, event or anything really.
The key to Spark is that it takes care of the creative stuff for you, so all you really need are the photos. Most photographers aren’t good designers, which means they typically add text (using bad fonts or improperly spaced lettering) or layouts that don’t really show off their photos very well. And Spark takes care of all of that for you.
I love teaching and photography... In that order. I feel that enjoying photography, and photo editing can get WAY too complicated. So my personal mission (and favorite thing to do), is to create education that simplifies the process of taking great photos, and how to edit them to get the results you’ve always wanted.
Great series, Matt! I use Spark Page all the time for photo stories and even tutorials. You can also embed final Spark Page projects into your existing web site, something I do often on Behance (http://Behance.net/jimbabbage) and my photography website (http://jimbabbage.photography). That way you keep your main domain name top and center all the time. The Spark tools are also available as mobile apps on iOS devices. Thanks for making these videos!
Matt,
Should I add a copyright to my images that I might place in Spark?
Hi Matt,
I had completely forgotten about Adobe Spark, I saw it mentioned a few years back and never got around to checking it out.
Thanks for reminding me. 🙂 I am in the process of setting it up.
I did one (a rather lengthy one), quite easy.
Thanks for giving me the nudge Matt!!
Thanks Matt.
I’ve known about SPARK for a while, but never really went looking at it seriously. You’ve given me a nudge (aka a kick in the butt?) to got do a webpage particularly as I am just back from a trip
For me this is a quick and fairly elegant way to make a 1 page storyboard using Lightroom assets and text and simply embed the page in my own website.
For example: https://thelightcavalry.blogspot.com/p/bowie-in-jersey-city.html
I suppose I could make a whole website out of single Spark pages.