About Version Cue projects and project management


    Designers, working alone or in teams, want to spend more time creating and less time managing projects. Taking the time to find the right file, validate the status of files, manually create and sort through file versions, save files to the correct locations, and communicate with team members and clients can easily undermine creativity and productivity. Yet these tasks are vital to successful projects. This is where Adobe Version Cue steps in.

    Adobe Version Cue is an integrated feature of Adobe® Creative Suite that lets designers automatically create and manage file versions, save version comments easily, collaborate on projects, share comments and file information with team members, and work with robust file-management features while working directly within Adobe® Creative Suite, Adobe GoLive® CS, Adobe Illustrator® CS, Adobe InCopy® CS, Adobe InDesign® CS, and Adobe Photoshop® CS.

    Seamless versioning controls ensure that no one will overwrite the work of anyone else, while preventing any one person from locking out other users who also need to work with the same file. Designers can use versioning as a way to retain different stages of their work and restore a file to a previous state or as a way to compare file versions with team members or a client before selecting a final version.

    Working directly from their own computers and within Creative Suite, designers can instantly share a Version Cue project with other people who are using Creative Suite applications or applications that support WebDAV. Designers can choose to share a Version Cue project with anyone or set options for a more controlled environment in which users have to log in to access a Version Cue project.

    Whether designers are collaborating with others or not, they can use the commenting features of Version Cue to maintain a descriptive history for a file every time they save a new file version. The Versions dialog box, which is available throughout most of Creative Suite, lets designers view thumbnails of all file versions alongside comments and dates for each version.

    Version Cue automatically embeds version comments, authors, and dates into a file as XMP metadata or file information. Using this metadata and also file information that users add to files in Adobe Creative Suite or Adobe CS applications, designers can quickly locate a file with Version Cue by searching keywords, copyright information, author, and titles. Or, to find the right version, designers can just visually browse graphic thumbnails of all versions.

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