Hello and welcome to this lecture where we'll talk about something that's going to dramatically change
the way we work in Photoshop and that's cloud the documents, the subject isn't all that exciting from
a visual standpoint.
It may be a bit boring, but trust me, this is one of the biggest changes in Photoshop.
Twenty, twenty one.
Let's jump straight into it.
Before we get into all of that, let me briefly explain what cloud documents are.
When you save a file to your computer, you're saving it on a hard drive or on the solid state drive.
And this is the if your computer, let's say, catches fire or some sort of accident or your data is
destroyed, then that's because the information was stored on a physical device.
If you're old enough, imagine burning a CD with your photos, all your movies.
If you break that CD or if you lose it, that's it.
The information is done for.
But then comes the cloud, Dropbox, Google, Driveby Cloud and many other services are now doing the
following.
You save you the files, your hard drive audit, says D, but they also automatically upload that file
to the Internet.
They basically clone it, they duplicate it and every time you save it, the file on the web gets updated.
Now if something happens to you, that computer be at the mechanical failure or the whatever, the file
is safe and sound on the Internet.
The clone is 100 percent protected because it's not stored on one single computer that's prone to malfunctions.
It's actually stored on thousands of computers, thus being completely safe.
Now, besides, the safety feature files that are saved on the cloud are easier to share.
You don't have to use a file sharing service like we transfer or whatever else.
The file is already on the web.
The only thing that you need is a download link.
This is especially great for the places where Internet upload speed is quite slow.
Finally, for people like me who work on several devices, my home computer, my office computer, my
laptop, because I save all my files to the cloud, I always have them with me.
That means I don't have to waste any time with the USB sticks or the constantly e-mailing files to myself.
That's the value of the cloud.
It protects your data in case something happens to one of your devices.
It helps you share those files with the world and you always have the information at hand.
Well, as long as you have an Internet connection, that's the only potential downside.
Now, Google Drive and Dropbox are the biggest players in the game, but Adobe wants to play, too.
And this is actually the biggest difference between these two Photoshop plans.
The photography plan only comes with twenty gigabytes of cloud storage at the moment of this recording,
of course.
But if you buy the more expensive option, which doesn't come with Adobe Lightroom, by the way, you
get one hundred gigabytes of cloud storage, that's actually quite important as you're about to see.
Before we move on to another part of this topic, let me tell you that with Google Drive or Dropbox,
you can save any document to the cloud no matter its format or the file size.
Adobe's cloud is geared towards creative work.
This means images because these and what not.
One final thing.
Adobe isn't trying to directly compete with Dropbox or Google Drive, which, by the way, they offer
up to three terabytes of cloud storage.
Now, Adobe is trying to make our lives easier as designers, so that's their angle for cloud documents.