Photoshop co-editing

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#1

I received an invitation from Adobe today to help beta test a new Photoshop co-editing feature. Supposedly, it allows multiple people to access and work on the same Photoshop file simultaneously.

To me, this seems like the equivalent of Fender developing a guitar that multiple people can play at the same time. Is this a Photoshop add-on that people have been clamoring to have?

There might be an unfortunate niche creative group somewhere that could use this dubious feature, but it’s not something I would ever wish to have. I’m going to pass on beta testing this feature, and I don’t want to pay extra for it if it arrives in the next release of Photoshop.

I suppose this public post will rule me out of getting similar invitations from Adobe, which is just fine.

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#2

Much like cooking, I’d love to have several people standing around stirring my soup :wink:

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#3

Not heard of this one ha ha I’m not really into photoshop most of my work is in InDesign.

But if it’s like other software, you can probably invite others to edit certain layers and lockdown other areas.

So Just B does the Raster editng
Smurf is assigned the Text Layers
etc.

And then a reviewer has to approve each.

I doubt you’ll be able the same pixels/text at the same time as someone else. You’d be assigned areas to edit.

That’s how it works in my head anyway.

#4

This sounds like a really bad idea.

#5

I’ve seen how features like this come about. It usually starts in a boardroom, not a design studio. The big stakeholders, the ones buying 100 or 1,000+ licenses get asked what they’d like to see.

So the options on the table might be:

  • “Would you like Photoshop to finally have proper print features like a Pages panel or bleed/slug support?” (Useful for actual designers, but too obscure for most decision-makers.)
    or
  • “How about letting multiple people edit the same file at once?” (Terrifying for designers, but music to the ears of stakeholders: ‘We can finish projects faster! Ten people on one file!’)

Guess which one gets picked?
And just like that, another 10,000 seat renewals.

It’s less about what makes design better, and more about what sounds efficient in a pitch deck. Whether it actually works in a real-world creative workflow is another story entirely.

The share for review in InDesign is still the pits. And lots of InDesign features added over the years have never been ‘uppped’ to improve them. They get put in, the