Some of the main Adobe Creative Cloud applications, including Illustrator, Photoshop, and Fresco, received significant updates this week. The main update and built-in feature of each of these apps is Asynchronous Editing, AKA is a new feature called “Invite to Edit”. With this feature, users will be able to work with asynchronous edits between friends and colleagues “on any surface”. It also includes desktop, iPad, and iPhone apps – not to mention Android.
To take advantage of this new feature, open your app (update) and find the button right next to the magnifying glass on the top right of your screen. Check out a demo of how it works in the video below.
This allows users to edit projects with relative ease, assuming they can all access the Internet at the appropriate speed. According to Pam Clark of Adobe, “This is a huge time saver for teams working on projects together.” Hopefully, it works as suggested in the preview.
This update also adds Present Sync for Photoshop. This should make working on multiple platforms a lot easier than before. These are the kinds of features you might assume were present in the first place, given that we work with cloud-synced app systems in many other ways – but they’re here right now!
ALSO NOTE: For asynchronous editing to work, you must first save your PSD or AI file as a cloud document. Also, make sure that all participants are running the latest version of the application with which documents will be edited and collaborated with.
UPDATE: This asynchronous editing system should work on all platforms except iPhone, where you can only launch the invite-to-edit system with Fresco. It could be obvious, but YOU NEVER KNOW.
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