Managing Animation Galleries in Microsoft Expressive Pixels (5 of 9)

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[Music] hi and welcome back in this tutorial we'll show you the various ways you can manage your animations expressive pixels has three different galleries where you can save and view your animations let's click on the menu icon at the top and we can see here my animations gallery the community gallery and device animations gallery in the my animation screen you can see sample animations that are installed with expressive pixels as well as everything you've created or downloaded every time you save one of your creations it will be placed here next the community gallery animations is where you can see the animations created shared and uploaded by others in the expressive pixels community you can now upload and share your own animations to the cloud too to do that let's go back into my animations and i'm going to upload my heart let's hover over the animation to see the options menu at the bottom i'll select the ellipses here and we can see now share to cloud gallery is one of the options now you'll want to be aware that if you're not signed into the cloud with your online account up here this will be grayed out if that happens just sign in again and then try again so here i'm going to share to cloud gallery and the check mark tells me it's been uploaded okay so now when i go back into our community gallery and click the refresh button at the top i can see my heart has been shared here and it's available for others to view and download as well so let's say i put something in the community gallery but i want to remove it for some reason again i can just hover over to see the options select the ellipses button here and select remove from cloud gallery just like that of course you can only remove your own animations if i try to select one that i didn't create i won't see that option here and don't worry when you remove one of yours from the community gallery it will still remain in your my animations gallery so you could continue making adjustments if you want now if you find an animation from someone else in the community gallery that you like you can easily download it to your own gallery by hovering over the animation and i'm choosing the bouncing beach balls and we can see here the little downwards arrow in the middle i'm going to select that and we can see that it's been copied now you have a new animation in your my animations gallery to use and make edits to as you like the third gallery is our device animations and these are animations that you have previously stored on the device you are using how many you can store at a time will depend on the amount of storage on your device and you can see your usage at the top of the screen here to store animations onto your device you will need to have your device connected either with usb or bluetooth and to double check that we'll go into the devices menu at the top and make sure our device has been connected then we'll go back into the my animations gallery i'm going to hover over our bouncing beach ball click on the ellipses menu button and select store to device great now when i go into my device animations i can see that the bouncing beach ball is here now i can play it on my own device okay now go ahead and share your animations with our community and download use and edit some of the cool ones that have been shared by others be sure to check out the other tutorials in our library and visit us at aka.mswac expressive pixels to find out more you