: Is there a Github for Graphic Designers? How do Graphic Designers share work they put in the public domain? I'm looking for a site that provides publicly visible, collaborative behavior like

@Rivera951

Behance and DeviantArt don't do most of this? I believe Behance has versioning, and you can set things up so others can download the file.

Also there is versioning and file sharing available with Adobe Creative Cloud. The advantage in Adobe CC is that you can actually view the file before you download it, and you can see individual layers (at least I know you can do that with Illustrator files. I haven't looked at my PSDs there to know if layers are individually viewable)

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@Kristi927

Since GitHub supports PSD file viewing & diffing, there is no reason not to use it for collaborative graphic design.

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@Pope1402555

This topic is really interesting.

I think that we can take inspiration from the coding world on how to manage projects and teams for graphic design: coding reviews, commits, branches.

The main differences between coding and graphing are: tools and outputs. Both have many languages and grammars.

Have you tried GitLab gitlab.org for tracking and collaborating on graphic projects? It's like github but downloadable and installable on your serrver. It's about coding but maybe there is some sort of plugin/extension to customize it to the graphic world.

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@Caterina889

This answer is obsolete: Pixelapse don't exist anymore

Pixelapse comes pretty close.

Here's what they offer:


Public gallery
Downloadable source (e.g., PSD, AI, etc.)
Revision history
Commenting and annotations
Dropbox-like saving behavior


Here's what they don't have:


Licensing information for public works
Explicit "fork" behavior and "pull" requests


Here's a sample I added to try it out: pixelapse.com/artworks/92981-store

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@Michele215

I use DropBox/Google Drive and version changes manually (ie. V1.1, V1.2 etc. for each new/person amend). This is fine for most small projects and you can share folders with teams.

Unfortunately on large file sizes the space gets filled pretty quickly. You can archive older files locally though to handle this.

It's not ideal but as gose said... there really isn't anything yet that I've found does the job.

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@Shelley591

In terms of versioning, there aren't great products out there for that. Adobe used to have a product (maybe still does) but nearly all code versioning systems can't deal with tracking changes in binary files. They're really designed for text based documents.

You could use a product such as SharePoint or the like, but even those aren't great given how large PSD files can get.

The best you might come up with is 'asset management software'.

As for sharing work in terms of open sourcing it or public domaining your work, I'm not aware of a central web site for that. It's a good idea, though. There are a variety of places you can use for different types of works.


flickr allows you to share photos under a creative commons license
other stock photo sites such as www.sxc.hu/ let you share photos for free/open source
google fonts lets you share fonts you'd like to make open source: www.google.com/webfonts People on www.deviantart.com/ often share work as public domain or with creative commons licenses. dribbble.com/ is a place where designers show work and often will upload a PSD version for others to use.

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