The Adobe Creative Cloud by LinkrUI Connector enhances your creative workflow by providing seamless integration between your DAM and Adobe Creative Suite applications like InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe Express, Premiere Pro, and After Effects. By offering robust features like editing metaproperties, sync assets, and Collection Management, LinkrUI ensures that your projects are always up-to-date and well-organized without having to leave Adobe.
Supported Applications
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Express
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe After Effects
Key Features
Browse, Search, and Filter Assets
Utilize LinkrUI to easily navigate through your DAM, using browsing, searching, and filtering capabilities to find the assets you need. You can search, filter, and check asset details, including metadata, and access your Collections assets directly within Adobe Creative Cloud without leaving the application.
Drag and Drop Functionality
- Simplify your workflow by dragging and dropping assets from the DAM directly into your Adobe CC projects.
Save and Update Assets
- Effortlessly save new assets or updated versions back to the DAM, ensuring your projects always have the latest resources.
Sync Updated Assets
- Keep your working documents up-to-date by syncing assets from the DAM. This feature is especially useful when changes are made to assets, eliminating the need for manual updates.
Wide Application Support
- LinkrUI supports key Adobe applications such as InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and After Effects.
Enrich Assets with Metadata
- Add or edit tags and metadata before uploading assets back to the DAM, enhancing asset organization and searchability.
Assign Collections and Tags
- During upload, you can assign assets to specific Collections and apply custom tags and metadata.
Saving App State
- LinkrUI remembers your last state when you close the panel, allowing you to resume work seamlessly.
How to Download & Install Plug-In
- Download the For macOS or For Windows
- For Windows: make sure you unzip the ZIP file.If you are having difficulties with the Windows installer a zxp can be used.
- For MacOS If you do not see the Extensions option, you likely need to run Photoshop using Rosetta. This can be done by enabling "Open using Rosetta" in the application's info page. See here for additional instructions.
- Run the installer and restart the Adobe application.
- Make sure the LinkrUI panel is opened. Access the plugin under Window > Extension> LinkrUI.
- Click Yes to proceed.
- Enter your name in the Name field.
- Enter your email address in the Email field.
- Enter you activation key.
- Activation keys are available through your Bynder Customer Success Contact.
- Activation keys are available through your Bynder Customer Success Contact.
- Click Activate.
- Once activated log in to your Bynder account and access your Asset Bank.
- Click Authenticate.
How to Use the Connector
- To search for assets you can enter search terms and filter Collections or lightboxes.
- Click
at the top of the panel to filter the assets by tags, file types, or your available smart filters.
- Click
- Select the appropriate values and click Show results to filter your assets.
- You can also use the search bar at the top of the panel to find the asset(s) you're looking for.
- Toggle the view at the bottom and select
to see metadata and other details for selected assets.
- You can also upload new assets and update your preferences.
How to Uninstall the Connector
- For Windows: Use ‘add/remove programs’ in Windows settings.
- For Mac: Remove the '/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CEP/extensions/LinkrUI' folder from the root library directory.
How to Set Preferences
Make sure the LinkrUI panel is opened.
- Go to Window > Extensions > LinkrUI to enable it.
- Click the linkrui_menu.png button and check one of the options below:
- Asset Size: Adjust thumbnail size in the gallery view. The default size is 120px.
- Local Asset Purge Interval: Set a time for local assets to be purged to manage disk space efficiently.
- Local Asset Cache Folder: Select Choose to select the folder where the cached assets can be stored on your local machine. Click Clear Cache to empty the folder and remove all cached assets.
- Link Updates: Decide how the plugin handles missing links, with options for automatic re-download, prompt download, or no action.
How to Change the View
Two types of views are available in the asset overview panel in the Connector.
- Grid View: The grid view shows the thumbnails of the assets and a small part of the asset title Click the
to enable the grid view.
- List View: The list view shows more asset information and can show more assets compared to the grid view. Click the
to enable the list view.
How to Add Bynder Assets to Your Adobe Content?
- Navigate to your Bynder Portal.
- Locate the Bynder asset you want to add to your Adobe content in the LinkrUI plugin using the available filters and search bar. You can also open a Collection to find the asset you're looking for.
- Drag and drop a Bynder asset to your Adobe content. Depending on your Adobe software, there may be additional steps to place the image into your actual content.
How to Upload Your Adobe Files to Bynder
With the LinkrUI plugin you can add your Bynder assets to your Adobe files without leaving the Adobe Suite. Ensure the Adobe file you're working on is saved.
- Click
and click Upload New Asset.
- (Optional) Change the name of your new Bynder asset in the Name field.
- (Optional) Add a description for the new asset in the Description field.
- (Optional) Add metadata for the new asset in the Metadata field.
- (Optional) Add your asset to a Collection by selecting the available collections in the Collection section.
- Scroll down in the Collection section to load more collections.
- Click the Upload to upload your Adobe file as a new asset to your Bynder portal.
How to Link Assets in LinkrUI
LinkrUI facilitates linking assets from the DAM to design files. This feature ensures that assets are up-to-date and portable between different users and machines. Adobe applications require assets to be stored locally, and LinkrUI manages these assets' synchronization and updating.
Note: When a user accesses a project file that has broken links, Smart-Linkr can automatically detect and relink them.
InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator
Assets are linked live, meaning updates are automatically reflected.
Adobe Express
Place Bynder Assets inside an Express document. Export a document into the DAM (jpg, png, mp4, pdf)
- Effortlessly place assets inside an Adobe Express document.
- Save time finding assets by using the collection, filter and search features
- Sort and filter your assets by file types, smart filters, tags or metadata
- Update existing assets. You can access and use previous versions of the edited asset inside LinkrUI
- Export documents into the DAM in various formats:
- JPG and PNG: Export the current page as an image.
- MP4: Export videos.
- PDF: Export multi-page documents as PDF files.
Premiere Pro, After Effects
Asset linking is local, and project files are not currently portable.
Troubleshooting
Check Connections
Use this option if you're experiencing issues with the LinkrUI connector to make sure the Connector is connected correctly.
Uploads
Click this option to see the Adobe files uploaded to your Bynder portal. If the Upload screen is empty, no files are being uploaded.
Refresh
This option will refresh the panel of the LinkrUI connector. Click this option if you're not seeing the thumbnails in the Connector or having other issues.
Logging
This option allows you to set the level of logging.
Select the Logging dropdown.
Select one of the available options and click OK to save the option. The LinkrUI also has automated logging built in.
About
Click this option to see which version of the LinkrUI connector is installed.
Contact Support
Click this option when you need technical assistance with the LinkrUI connector.
Tip
Click Reset Preferences to return to the LinkrUI connector's default setup. This action can't be undone.
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