Have you ever worked on a creative project with others online? It can often consist of sending files back and forth in emails or messages. Downloading a new file just to make a revision, and uploading the file again before someone else can do the same—the process feels clunky and inefficient at times.
But if your team's projects were made in Photoshop, Illustrator, or Fresco, you'd be happy to learn that Adobe has just streamlined that workflow for you.
Collaborate on the Cloud
Photoshop product manager Pam Clark posted to the Adobe blog with a feature update to Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fresco.
Now sitting in the top right corner of each program's respective user interface is the new Invite to Edit feature. In a process very similar to sharing in Google Drive, you can click the button to open a textbox for you to type the email of who you would like to add to the project as a collaborator.
All collaborators have edit access to the document and its version history across supported devices. For Photoshop and Illustrator, that's PC and iPad. For Fresco, it's those same two platforms, in addition to iPhone.
Only one person can work on a shared cloud document at a time, but the changes they save will sync with all collaborators automatically. You can access your shared cloud documents on your Adobe Assets page and in the Creative Cloud desktop app.
In need of new brushes for the season? Kyle T. Webster, a senior design evangelist at Adobe, has released the 2020 Winter Brush Pack for Photoshop and Fresco.
The same post also detailed the addition of Preset Sync to Photoshop for Mac and Windows. Turn it on and the settings for your brushes, swatches, gradients, patterns, styles, and shapes will be retained. "Synced brushes will be coming soon on the iPad version," Clark writes.
Additionally, if you're an artist that's often on-the-go, you'll be happy to learn that you can now rotate the canvas in Illustrator on iPad.
Adobe Makes It Easier to Work Remotely
It's easy for digital creatives to bash Adobe when we've seen them dominate the digital multimedia software market for so long. But you can't fairly write Adobe off as cash-grab company when it consistently adapts to how its users have changed their workflow over time.
This new feature update to Photoshop, Illustrator, or Fresco comes only five days after Adobe Spark added Shared Brands. Now that it's becoming more normal to work with people exclusively online, it would seem the company is doing all that it can to make online collaboration a little more seamless.
Keep your fingers crossed; perhaps we'll be seeing cloud editing come to all of Creative Cloud apps in the future.
