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Working Together For some very obvious reasons, the ability to collaborate on projects is more important now than ever before. The same tools that used to help you work more efficiently with someone in the next cubicle now are essential to keeping businesses going when you're working from home. For InDesign users, the June release has made that a good deal more effective for both creatives and their clients. We think the concept of Share for Review will become as important as Round Trip Editing did in the early days of Adobe's Creative Suite. Using a simple web link that can be secured by a password or limited to certain Adobe ID logins, clients can view and offer feedback on an InDesign project in any web browser. Their comments will be brought into the original document for you to peruse when it's next opened. They don't need to download any special viewer software and you don't need to leave the document to see their input. One of Creative Cloud's most useful collaboration features is shared libraries. It lets members of a team share everything from color schemes to fonts, logos, and other key branding elements. Creative Cloud Libraries have come to Adobe Spark, a simple tool for creating great social media graphics with a minimum of time and effort. Though it originated as a super meme-generator, Spark has become the go-to app for institutions and businesses to graphically spread their message on social media. So the need for shared libraries became obvious. Though this may be a bit of a semantic stretch, the way Adobe apps collaborate together received some attention, as well. On the desktop, one of Lightroom's most useful features was to easily call up Photoshop to do some of its unique magic on an image. When you save the changes in Photoshop, the image is instantly available back in Lightroom. This round-trip editing is now available on the iPad in the mobile versions of the two applications.