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Asked: 2026-05-10T13:32:30+00:00

This might seem like a stupid question I admit. But I’m in a small

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This might seem like a stupid question I admit. But I’m in a small shop me plus two designers. Our backups are getting out of hand because they just copy/paste files if they need to make a change (version).

I was all set to try Subversion to handle all of our files my text (code) files and their photoshop/illustrator and asset files. That is until I noticed there was a new version of Adobe Version Cue v3. We’ve tried previously to use version cue but it got complicated and the designers quickly stopped using it.

Looking for anyone that has some experience with version 3 of Version Cue.

Thanks for the great feedback. Maybe I should have asked what’s the best tool to use for Versioning Photoshop and related files. I did notice the binary file issue and was worried about trying to explain it and keep it ‘working’. I signed up for the beta at Gridiron thanks for that!

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  1. I have used Subversion for this exact thing, and Theo is right, you have to remember to lock your files. I am on CS2 and so have not used Version Cue, but I have not been able to find a whole lot online about other folks using it either, for some reason. The other problem I had using Subversion related to disk space. Subversion stores an alternate ‘shadow copy’ of your files in your working directory. For Photoshop and Illustrator this is normally not that big of a deal, but I was using Premiere and After Effects as well, and the disk space required for the shadow copies doubled my disk usage. You might also check out Gridiron’s new Gridiron Flow product, which John Nack raves about. I would love to use it – it’s due out about now, and it will likely run in the several-hundred dollar range, I think…

    Update 3/6/2009: Gridiron Flow is out, and it does versioning on a single machine, but it’s not clear from their demos whether it does collaborative versioning. Also, I just stumbled across this very good comparison of subversion, git & mercurial for managing a home directory – including various versions of large Photoshop files.

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