in this video I'm going to tell you why I personally stopped using canva and started
using Adobe Express hi everyone I'm Andrew Kan and I used to work at TubeBuddy where I grew
their YouTube channel from about 6,000 subscribers to over half a million during that time I used a
lot of different softwares to help create YouTube thumbnails including tubebuddy's own free YouTube
thumbnail generator since that time and after I would use design softwares like canva if you
don't know what canva is canva is a free graphic designer that you can use on your mobile device
or on your desktop similarly Adobe Express lets you do that too you can use it on your mobile
phone or desktop and really design anywhere now in full disclosure I am an adobe Express Ambassador
but before I was even an ambassador I made videos about Adobe Express and even mentioned this since
I've seen many other YouTubers and influencers say canvas easier than Photoshop and you'll never
need Photoshop again I can see why Adobe wanted to create their own browser-based designer so
look however you feel about adobe's Creative Cloud Express one thing is true the competition between
Adobe and canva offers us as creators more free tools now I never got to that canva video and the
reason is is I really never was the right fit for canva let me explain my biggest issue with canva
is while it's a great software it just wasn't the right tool for me and if you've been watching my
content for any amount of years you'd know that one of my signature phrases use what works best
for you and for me canva wasn't what was working best transparently I was using Photoshop until I
saw Adobe Express one day I was scrolling through Twitter saw an ad for it and I thought Hmm this
looks interesting so I gave Adobe Express a try what I didn't like about canva I was starting to
like an adobe Express and let me explain as a long time Photoshop user one of the things I liked the
most about Adobe Express is just how integrated it already was with the Creative Cloud Suite that
I've been using for years my libraries my fonts all of the things I had saved within the Adobe
Cloud was already there and ready for me to go in Adobe Express compare that to using canva I'd have
to manually bring it over every time anytime is on a new team anytime he's working in a new project
and it just became tiresome now I am sure there are ways to remedy that but for me I was really
only using canva when my clients wanted me to not because I liked it personally but with Adobe
Express a lot of my clients were already using the Adobe Creative Cloud and one of the benefits
of Express is it does have a free version but it also has a paid version that's included in the
Creative Cloud so a lot of my clients already had it and I was already more familiar with it
than canva on top of that I really like what adobe's doing with Express I think some of the
tools they've come out with such as the scheduler the font suggestion feature and even just the
palette tools and free color options they provide is really more in my speed than it was when I was
using canva now they are similar in the fact that they have a lot of templates and to Canvas point
it has been around longer and so it does have more templates I find that the templates that
adobe Express has I tend to use more personally another thing I like about Adobe Express is its
last use of the Adobe stock Library there are so many images that have been uploaded and approved
for use whether you're both on the free or the paid version and for me and my clients one thing
that my good friend Rob alasaba said is that there is such a diverse amount of stock photos there's
not just people that look like me the other thing on a personal note when it comes to Adobe stock
images is that there's a lot of amazing images that are very diverse all right I'm Filipino I'm
Asian and they have a lot of images that are very diverse all right from you know people uh from
all sorts of backgrounds and ethnicity and it's just a really good representation of the world
um here um inside of adobe Express all right and that's important to me because as I'm designing
I don't want it just to be of my reflection I want it to be a reflection of everyone who is
out there and everyone I can work with and should work with and that was a huge leg up
for me with Adobe Express the final nail in the coffin for canva for me was really that
ability to use Adobe Express because it's already included in the Creative Cloud and for my clients
who really weren't using canva for anything more than Graphics Adobe Express covered all of their
needs and more and for me I want to be able to teach you watching something that you can elevate
your skills with over time whether you're a big beginner an advanced user Adobe Express has a
pathway for you not saying that canva doesn't but I have friends who create canva content and one of
the questions they always get asked is when should I move to photoshop that's not something I want to
be able to say with the product with Adobe Express they're already built in ways that you can learn
the skills and express and then take it over and I think that upgrade path is so important but hey
that's just my opinion you know I always say use what tool works best for you so if Adobe Express
is the tool for you let us know in the comments or if you think canvas a little bit better let me
know too if you want to get started using Adobe Express check out that video on screen for five
beginner friendly features that you can start creating content with today ultimately Adobe
Express got me excited for creating Graphics again and that is priceless for me so with
that said I'm Andrew Kan, and if I Kan use Adobe Express to create YouTube art then you Kan too!