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Does the Adobe CS suite of products come with a version control system that integrates natively with products such as Illustrator / Photoshop allowing action and/or layer level specific version control?

Is there software for this or am I mistaken?

Hennes
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Chris Marisic
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Yes, there was Version Cue.

Version Cue enables users to track and manipulate file versions and metadata. Users can see previews of older versions and can restore or delete versions at any time.

It integrates with Adobe Bridge. Note that – as far as I am concerned – it does not have "layer" specific version control. The only drawback anyway is that Adobe discontinued it with CS5.

Users of CS5 may continue to access a Version Cue Server from CS3 or CS4 with WebDAV.

For more info you can read the Adobe Drive 2 FAQ.

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Another possibility is PixelNovel's Timeline. It's not free, but it uses a standard Subversion repository and integrates with Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Dreamweaver has it's own Subversion capabilities built-in.

It's not layer level specific either. I doubt that most such tools would be, because most will be designed to operate on the entire Photoshop file. Anything that did what you wanted would be so PS-specific and tightly bound that the repositories would probably only hold PS blobs. Repositories would be PS-version specific and probably ultimately unusable outside of PS itself. Considering that most people don't work in a Photoshop vacuum, something like that would be less useful than a program that could integrate with the entire suite and could storage and manage all the associated files with a particular project.

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