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Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fresco Gain New Collaborative Features

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Adobe today updated its Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fresco Creative Cloud apps to introduce a new "Invite to Edit" feature that allows for asynchronous editing between collaborators on all devices including desktop, iPad, and iPhone.


Multiple collaborators are able to edit a single shared cloud document one at a time after saving .PSD or .AI files as cloud documents. Shared cloud documents can be accessed on assets.adobe.com and the Creative Cloud Desktop app.

There's also a new Preset Sync feature for Photoshop that is designed to let users sync brushes, swatches, gradients, patterns, styles, and shapes on Mac and Windows, with synced brushes coming soon to the iPad version of the app. There's also a new Rotate Canvas option available in Illustrator for iPad.

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Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fresco can be downloaded from Adobe's website, and pricing on the software starts at $9.99 for Photoshop alone and $20.99 for Illustrator. The full Adobe Creative Suite is priced starting at $52.99.

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Wow, this sounds like a complete disaster.
How are you going to allow collaboration when you literally can't predict what someone else is going to change? This isn't a a simple excel spreadsheet (which collaboration also gets screwed up on), it's hundreds of layers with layer styles, hidden layers, different color workspaces... yikes.
 
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Nice. I know the company I work for is going to start ramping up our use of Illustrator so this is welcomed

macsound1 said:
Wow, this sounds like a complete disaster.
How are you going to allow collaboration when you literally can't predict what someone else is going to change? This isn't a a simple excel spreadsheet (which collaboration also gets screwed up on), it's hundreds of layers with layer styles, hidden layers, different color workspaces... yikes.
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Collaboration in these apps would work the same as almost everything else. I doubt any team working on a project together wouldn't communicate what they're working on at any given moment.

You're correct, since you can't predict what someone would work on .... but you'd talk to them and decide ahead of time.
 
macsound1 said:
Wow, this sounds like a complete disaster.
How are you going to allow collaboration when you literally can't predict what someone else is going to change? This isn't a a simple excel spreadsheet (which collaboration also gets screwed up on), it's hundreds of layers with layer styles, hidden layers, different color workspaces... yikes.
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I dunno, if only there would be some other design software to use as a reference... Newsflash, there is and it works fantastically. From what I understand from this Fine Article, even better than what Adobe's planning.
 
macsound1 said:
Wow, this sounds like a complete disaster.
How are you going to allow collaboration when you literally can't predict what someone else is going to change? This isn't a a simple excel spreadsheet (which collaboration also gets screwed up on), it's hundreds of layers with layer styles, hidden layers, different color workspaces... yikes.
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Adobe is well known for all kind of disasters. Agree. To me it looks like great marketing efforts without any substance for designers.
 
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klerke said:
Affinity
Don’t like renting my tools
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There’s a 50% off on right now as well for many of their iOS and MacOS products.

I’ve been using Affinity photo on their free trial and I’m impressed. I don’t do professional level photo edits so I can’t speak to complex features. But basic layering, masking seem to hold up against Photoshop.
 
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macsound1 said:
Wow, this sounds like a complete disaster.
How are you going to allow collaboration when you literally can't predict what someone else is going to change? This isn't a a simple excel spreadsheet (which collaboration also gets screwed up on), it's hundreds of layers with layer styles, hidden layers, different color workspaces... yikes.
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Well BIM software deals with multiple collaborative entities at once with the same concern.

One way it is recommended to minimize problems is to create modules that are linked and embedded in the main file, and changes are made on the modules individually. Does Adobe provide for this type of collaboration?
 
Great news for those who need it. (Not me).

I’d much rather have all Adobe apps as Apple Silicon native (will switch my 2016 16” Pro with an Air when that happens)
 
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They still haven’t fixed the slider bug or the program error bug.
 
Long live Adobe Creative Cloud - now... can I get (full versions) of Premiere or After Effects on iPad please..? I just want to see my iPad melt with furry.
 
That sounds like a really good new feature !

I was just about to cancel my sub because I've rarely used it.

Now, it appears I can potentially Farm Off certain tasks to others.
 
Fresco not on macOS yet. It has a version for Windows Surface.

Must give a shout out to Rebelle. They made an update to their app better than Procreate and Artrage. YouTube artists are raving about it.
 
So does this update the file in real-time as other people are working on it? Because as a designer that would drive me nuts and take design by committee to an extreme, lol.
 
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Digital Skunk said:
Nice. I know the company I work for is going to start ramping up our use of Illustrator so this is welcomed



Collaboration in these apps would work the same as almost everything else. I doubt any team working on a project together wouldn't communicate what they're working on at any given moment.

You're correct, since you can't predict what someone would work on .... but you'd talk to them and decide ahead of time.
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On a different note on the same subject, most design companies retain separate saved files labeled as versions so when they decide to backtrack to 2 weeks ago, you just open that file.

So when you get notes to change something or someone else needs to make notes, the first thing you do is duplicate the file, add a date and your initials, so the last round of revisions aren't lost and the changes Bob made don't overwrite Suzy's file, since she didn't need those changes.
 
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It would be great if it were possible to download Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition, and others, from the Mac App Store, as you can do now with the new version of Lightroom. I don't like the "super app" policy of Creative Cloud, which just hangs in the background all the time, wasting RAM resources.

In this respect, the Affinity package from Serif is a real winner, because it allows you to install the version both from the official site and from MAS.
 
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Richard Tillard said:
It would be great if it were possible to download Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition, and others, from the Mac App Store, as you can do now with the new version of Lightroom. I don't like the "super app" policy of Creative Cloud, which just hangs in the background all the time, wasting RAM resources.

In this respect, the Affinity package from Serif is a real winner, because it allows you to install the version both from the official site and from MAS.
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CC app has to be the biggest piece of malware going.
 
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