Photoshop introduces Vector Layers and collaborative artboards in Creative Cloud

Design · 4 min read

Vector Layers enable precision vector editing inside Photoshop with anchor point manipulation, boolean ops and SVG export fidelity. Designers can now move between pixel and vector contexts without rasterizing and reimporting, which simplifies icon and interface asset creation.

Collaborative artboards bring real-time multi-user editing to Photoshop documents: teams can comment, lock layers, and follow cursors while working in shared cloud documents. Versioning is integrated so teams can branch and merge artboard changes similar to code workflows.

Adobe positioned these updates as a bridge between designers who prefer Photoshop’s visual controls and teams maintaining centralized UI libraries. The company released migration tooling for Illustrator and Figma assets to ease adoption into design systems.