Adobe makes it easier for multiple people to work on the same file in Photoshop, Illustrator, or Fresco. The three programs get a new feature called ‘invite to edit’, which allows you to enter an employee’s email address to access the file you are working on.
Employees will not be able to work with you on the file, but they will be able to open your work, make their own changes, save it, and sync the changes to your computer. If someone already edits the file, the new user can make a copy or wait until the current editor is finished. It’s not quite Google Docs style editing for Photoshop, but it should be easier than emailing a file back and forth.
The feature works with PSD and AI files stored in the cloud of Adobe. (It’s also available within Adobe XD.) It also supports version history, so you can reverse the course if a collaborator messes something up.
Adobe announced that this feature was already running in October. The company has gradually built more collaboration features into Creative Cloud – the service that connects its range of applications – in the hope of making the platform fast, simple and reliable enough for teams to rely on to move their documents. Adobe recently updated a related feature that allows documents to be sent to others for review.