Adobe is making it easier for multiple people to work on the same file in Photoshop, Illustrator or Fresco. All three applications are receiving a new feature called “invitation to edit”, which will allow you to enter a collaborator’s email address to send them access to the file they’re working on.
Collaborators will no they can work on the file next to them, but they can open their work, make changes on their own, save it and synchronize those changes with their machine. If someone is already editing the file, the new user will have the option to make a copy or wait until the current editor is finished. It’s not exactly a Google Docs-style editing for Photoshop, but it should be easier than sending a file by email.
The feature works with .PSD and .AI files saved in the Adobe cloud. (It is already available within Adobe XD as well.) It also supports version history, so you can reverse the course if a contributor messes up something.
Adobe announced that this feature was being developed in October. The company has been continuously building more collaboration features on Creative Cloud – the service that unites its suite of applications – in the hope of making the platform fast, simple and reliable enough that teams can count on it to move their documents. Adobe recently updated a related feature that allows documents to be sent to others for review.