working together on one project

Windows computers do not permit files to be open by several users simultaneously. Even shared databases only permit one user to open a record within the database to make changes to it at any given time. Others can view it, but they can’t make changes to it. This has been a computer file handling groundrule that has been in place as far back as I can remember and hasn’t changed as far as I’m aware of.

What you may have seen is an arrangement where one user edits a photo, saves it to disk, and then makes it available to another user at another PC where they modify or add to the photo, save it, and then make it available to the third user where they can do the same. This is a common work technique that is employed by many companies who use computers and computer networking. For instance, a newspaper has input being generated by many sources that one person has to assemble into pages to make up what is finally sent on to the pressman who prints it. The sources are pictures, text, and ready-made advertisements that are all in digital format and saved under separate file names. The reporters make up the text and frequently include photos. The photos are sent to one or more photoshop experts who adjust them as needed for printing. Sometimes only one person works on a photo, but often the photo can be worked on by several before it is ready for the press. When this happens, only one person is making changes to the photo at any one time. After they save it to disk another can open it and make changes to it.

Back when photoshop 3 was fairly new, computer networking on PCs was also a fairly new technology and the work flow that I described above was just becoming paperless and automated via these networks. I think that what you saw was an ad that told how wonderful this new technology was. —
Charley

"Dennis Reinhardt" wrote in message

Hi!

years ago I saw a TV-show talking about a "new future technology" showing Photoshop 3 or something with the ability to work with ie. 3 clients(each on a seperate computer) via network on one project… like the netmeeting-paintboard in good.

Is it something I can buy today or that is open source that will do that job? 🙂

kind regards!

I have to disagree with Charley. I don’t know about Photoshop, but an early version of Painter, back when it was Fractal Design’s, supported working on an image on multiple computers. It was later dropped.

One program still floating around the web is OpenCanvas version 11b72. Later versions of this program didn’t support multi users. You can still find it on the web as I stated before. Be careful though, there is a worm in some versions. The clean version has a file size of 967 KB. It’s a very powerful little program considering it’s file size. At one point a group five of us spread around from Australia, South Africa, Germany, New York, and California worked on an image all at the same time. The program tends to get a bit unstable at that point, for practical purposes, keep it to two or three. If you google the file name, it’s
oC11b72. That should find it for you. By the way, this was using Win 2000 and XP.

Tom

"Charley" wrote in message

Windows computers do not permit files to be open by several users simultaneously. Even shared databases only permit one user to open a record
within the database to make changes to it at any given time. Others can view
it, but they can’t make changes to it. This has been a computer file handling groundrule that has been in place as far back as I can remember and
hasn’t changed as far as I’m aware of.

What you may have seen is an arrangement where one user edits a photo, saves
it to disk, and then makes it available to another user at another PC where
they modify or add to the photo, save it, and then make it available to the
third user where they can do the same. This is a common work technique that
is employed by many companies who use computers and computer networking. For
instance, a newspaper has input being generated by many sources that one person has to assemble into pages to make up what is finally sent on to the
pressman who prints it. The sources are pictures, text, and ready-made advertisements that are all in digital format and saved under separate file
names. The reporters make up the text and frequently include photos. The photos are sent to one or more photoshop experts who adjust them as needed for printing. Sometimes only one person works on a photo, but often the photo can be worked on by several before it is ready for the press. When this happens, only one person is making changes to the photo at any one time. After they save it to disk another can open it and make changes to it.

Back when photoshop 3 was fairly new, computer networking on PCs was also a
fairly new technology and the work flow that I described above was just becoming paperless and automated via these networks. I think that what you
saw was an ad that told how wonderful this new technology was. —
Charley

"Dennis Reinhardt" wrote in message

Hi!

years ago I saw a TV-show talking about a "new future technology" showing Photoshop 3 or something with the ability to work with ie. 3 clients(each on a seperate computer) via network on one project… like the netmeeting-paintboard in good.

Is it something I can buy today or that is open source that will do that job? 🙂

kind regards!