Adobe Express is a web-based application that enables users to create graphics, images, and videos using thousands of education-focused templates.
Studies show that incorporating tools like Adobe Express improves science visual literacy, raises the quality of visuals in lab reports, and boosts student confidence in communicating visually.
- Develops visual literacy and communication skills: Creating science images and videos with Express helps students learn effective visual communication
- Fosters creativity and critical thinking: Using Express’s flexible templates promotes creative experimentation
- Increases engagement and motivation: The ability to easily create and share compelling science visuals taps into students’ intrinsic motivation
- Specimen photo enhancement: Assign students to take microscope or macro lens photos of biological specimens, then use Adobe Express editing tools to clarify details, enhance contrast, and add labels. This practice improves observational and visual communication skills
- Science infographic design: Ask students to create infographics that convey key learnings from lab experiments or research projects using Express’s layout templates, color palettes, and text tools—practicing data distillation and visual representation
- Science image contest: Host an image contest where students enhance their best science-related photos with Express and share them in class or on social media, incentivizing creativity and broadening science communication reach
These projects help students build visual communication abilities, express creativity in science, and enable them to share their learning with broad audiences online.
- Use the Create button to start a new graphic, photo, video, or collage project
- Open the Templates tab to browse thousands of education-focused templates and jump-start your design
- Access the Edit tab for tools such as crop, resize, filter, adjust, text, stickers, logos, and animation
- Share your project by exporting, downloading, or posting to major platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo, Behance, and Creative Cloud, with options to set title, description, tags, privacy, and quality
- Join your class via the Classroom button and class code to access and contribute to shared templates and projects
- Browse the education-focused templates
- Add your own media from files or a camera
- Use the editing tools to customize projects
- Download creations or share them online
- Join your teacher's classroom for access to shared content