Adobe has brought collaboration to Photoshop, allowing users to work together on an image editing project in much the same way a team could work on a Microsoft 365 document or one within Google Workspace.
Adobe calls this “Live Co-Editing” and the company is opening up a beta-testing program for both the Photoshop desktop (beta) app as well as the existing Web apps.
Adobe isn’t saying how many people can work on a shared project at once. The company also isn’t saying how it will handle various scenarios where one person works on one part of a project, makes a change, and then rolls it back, adjusting the other collaborator’s workflow as well.
And while it might be valuable for a student to follow along while a teacher demonstrates something on a shared project, this new Live Co-Editing model also theoretically allows a client to peer over the shoulder as the creative develops the project, suggesting “helpful” changes. Still, at least a team of artists won’t have to send files back and forth.
Adobe isn’t saying when the feature will exit beta and officially go live.
