You’ll soon be able to edit Photoshop projects at the same time as others

Adobe is starting 2025 with a long-awaited new feature Photoshop feature. Adobe announced Tuesday that Photoshop’s newest experimental feature will be live co-editing, a tool that lets you and your team work together simultaneously on a project. Live co-editing will make it easier to collaborate with multiple people, organize comments, and implement changes without having to save and share the same file over and over again.

“We knew it was going to be a big technical challenge, and we wanted to make sure we did it the right way,” Steven Nelson, senior director of product management at Photoshop, said in an exclusive email interview with CNET. “We’ve heard from a lot of our customers that they want co-editing capabilities so they can better collaborate with their teams, clients, students, teachers, and more.”

Two or more designers can actively edit the project at the same time and see the changes being made in real time. (Nelson said there is “no hard limit” to the number of editors who can work simultaneously.) This feature raises the bar for Photoshop’s collaborative capabilities; Other editing software such as Canvas and Figma have had similar multi-user editing functionality for a while.

When you’re editing with multiple people, it feels similar to Google Docs, where each user has a different-colored avatar that lets you know where other users are and what they’re editing. You can see a complete history of the changes made by each user in the History panel. A small group of Photoshop users have already tested this feature, and Adobe reported that they enjoyed the smoother collaboration.

You can subscription To join the private beta now to test it and give feedback before a future release.

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This tool aims to help creators streamline their work, especially when they have multiple people providing feedback and recommendations on the project. You can set permissions on files to specify who is allowed to edit — a useful warning for creators who need to get feedback from large groups of people. For example, creators can share work-in-progress projects with customers and allow them to view and leave comments (but not edits) even if those customers don’t have a Photoshop subscription.

Last year, Adobe went All in artificial intelligence Through its Creative Cloud software, Photoshop acquired a number of… Generative AI tools And updates. Nelson said that while AI won’t be behind every update this year (including live co-editing), AI will “definitely” be an ongoing trend. He also hinted that a particular tool is powered by artificial intelligence, Perfect combination project It was demonstrated at Adobe Max last fall, and is one of the AI ​​innovations they will be working on this year.

“We have really exciting plans for 2025, with some amazing capabilities made possible by generative AI,” Nelson said. “We are always pushing the boundaries of what is possible, which will drive what we release this year and in the years to come.”

“This year, we’re committed to continuing to make Photoshop the best app for creative design and making it more intuitive, accessible, and powerful than ever before.”