PICMONKEY’S REAL-TIME

COLLABORATIONAt today’s rapid digital marketing pace, small businesses needa better way to create impactful designs for their social media,
websites, and online ads. That’s why PicMonkey, the leading photo
editing and design platform, created real-time collaboration. It’sa game-changing way to create images that power your brand —think of it like Google Docs for design.

SHARED SPACES
A place in PicMonkey’s cloud storage to house images
and organize them into folders, invite your team, andassign permissions.

SIMULTANEOUS EDITINGMultiple users can edit the same image at the sametime on different computers.

COMMENTING
Users can comment directly on images.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONSWhat does “real-time collaboration”
mean?
“Real-time collaboration” means that more than
one person can be in the same image, at the sametime, editing together, viewing changes in realtime and commenting.

How is collaborating in PicMonkey
more than just file sharing?
Simultaneous co-editing (a.k.a. real-timecollaboration) is the shining star among ourcollaboration features. When you’re editing
an image in PicMonkey, the people you’recollaborating with can see the edits you make as
you make them. And you can see what they’re
doing to an image, as they do it.
And file sharing in PicMonkey is different thanfile sharing in an ordinary storage app because
both the assets and the environment in which you
create them are in the same place. That means
you don’t have to go digging through third-party
file storage to find the image you want, or try toremember where someone gave you feedback
on your work—was it in email? Text? Slack?
Everything is in one, centralized place: the design
environment, your contributors’ comments, andall your files.

/ PICMONKEY’S REAL-TIME COLLABORATIONIs this like Google Docs for design?
It is. As with Google Docs, you can co-create with others,simultaneously. You see their profile pics pop up on screen
when you’re editing; you see what they’re doing and they
see what you’re doing. You can comment directly on theimage file. And you can set roles and permissions, andgenerate shareable links with specific levels of access to a
PicMonkey Shared Space, much like Google Drive.

How will the addition of this feature positionPicMonkey among its competitors?
Most of our competitors don’t offer real-time collaboration.
PicMonkey’s customers, teams of small business owners
or solopreneurs, want to create sophisticated designs
that reflect their brands professionally. Often, thatmeans working with others—teammates, partners,
freelance designers—to produce creative assets together.
PicMonkey’s tools enable a brave new world of efficientcollaboration without the need to upload, download, email,or wait for someone to send the file you need right now.

How will real-time collaboration change theway people work?
Collaboration lets you work the way that you want towork. No more uploading and downloading files to send via
email, no need for multiple apps to create assets—that kindof efficiency yields more mental space for the important
stuff: creating great designs. Collaboration also improves
the quality of output by letting you instantly tap into thecreative flow of others. You stay flexible and open to new
ideas when you’re getting substantive contributions, notjust comments, from your teammates.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONSIs PicMonkey getting into content
management software?
Our highest priorities are to add featuresthat help you get your work done quickly andefficiently. Call it whatever you want, but we’reexcited that new collaboration features are yet
another step in that direction.

PicMonkey released New PicMonkey
in fall of 2018—did getting off of Flashenable the collaboration features
you’re launching today?
Our entire product was rebuilt from the groundup in 2018 to support the powerful editing anddesign platform we have today. The power andpotential in “New PicMonkey” got us thinking
about adding real-time collaboration tools to ourplatform. That was an unprecedented idea, andeven today, it’s a feature that most competitors
still do not offer.

What does it cost?
The Collaboration tools will be part of customers’
paid subscription. There’s no additional cost for it.

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Why would I use this?
We’ve overwhelmingly heard two asks from our customers:a desire to work together on projects, and to centralize
assets. So, if you want to keep your all your designs, photos
and brand assets in the same ecosystem in which you create
them, while also seamlessly sharing ideas with colleagues
and co-creators, then you’ll want to use PicMonkey.

Why has nobody else done this before?
It’s been done in other product categories—notably
Google’s suite of office apps. But real-time collaboration for
design and photo editing is hard to do. You need a powerfulplatform that can store and manage images (and associatededits) efficiently, without slowing down performance,
and a sophisticated way to assign permissions. Last year,
PicMonkey completely re-architected its platform to enablemassive scale and speed. That’s why we’re able to deliver
real-time collaboration.

What are the limits?
We’ve architected our platform so that it works forinternal-only teams, loosely organized virtual teams, andclient-facing businesses. The clincher here is that you canshare your space and collaborate with people who aren’t
PicMonkey subscribers.

GETTING STARTED
If you’re new to PicMonkey, here’s a good way to test drive
our new collaboration features:

1. CREATE A SHARED SPACE AND INVITE PEOPLE
From the PicMonkey homepage, click Hub in the top navigation,and then click New shared space in the left panel. Name yourspace, and then click Invite to add other people to the space.
Note: Users don’t need a PicMonkey subscription in order to accessa shared space.

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2. ADD IMAGES TO YOUR SHARED SPACE AND
ORGANIZE THEM INTO FOLDERS
Click Create new folder from the shared space page and then upload
existing images. To learn how to create a new image in PicMonkey,
check out these tutorials:• Make a Design/ PICMONKEY’S REAL-TIME COLLABORATION3. COLLABORATE ON IMAGES IN REAL TIME
Once other people have joined your shared space, you can begin editing
an image together in the PicMonkey editor. You won’t be able to edit alayer that someone else is currently working on and vice versa.

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4. ADD COMMENTS
In the PicMonkey editor, click Comments in the left tab bar.
Click the part of the image you want to add a comment to and then click Add.
Any open comments on the image will be visible in the left panel.

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