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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 Acrobat 3D, Adobe GoLive
®
, Adobe Illustrator
®
, Adobe InCopy
®
, Adobe
InDesign
®
, and Adobe Photoshop
®
.
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 into 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 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.
Related Subtopics:
Choosing a Version Cue environment
Understanding Version Cue projects and folders