I'm sure most designers out there have the latest Adobe Photoshop CS2 installed on their machine, but if you are like me, you dutifully ignored the Adobe Bridge and Version Cue products. Well, I'm here to tell you that they are pretty sweet. Used in conjunction, you and your team can have the equivalent of a developer's software revisioning repository. If you've heard of CVS, Subversion, or Visual Source Safe, this is kind of what you have... only from a designers perspective. Once installed and projects are setup, you can see all of your team members projects on the network by browsing in Bridge. Also, you can preview PSD's as well as old versions of files with ease. As you are working in Photoshop, rather than saving off Widget_v1.psd and Widget_v2.psd and Widget_v2.bak... you simply 'Save a Version' from inside Photoshop. Then later if you have some sort of emergency crisis, you can check out your previous versions simply by rolling them back.

Now, I know some of you are saying, whoa I can do this for free with Subversion. While that may be true, if you already have the Adobe Creative Suite, you already have this software, and I'm here to tell you the usability of it is superior from a designer's perspective. Also, you aren't limited to Adobe products, you can drop any file in to your Bridge project and every save will be a new revision.

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