In many creative environments, the absence of structured team asset sharing leads to confusion, inefficiencies, and inconsistent design outcomes. Designers often manage their assets individually, resulting in duplicated effort and difficulty maintaining consistency across projects or departments. Without a clear distinction between personal and shared resources, teams may unintentionally use outdated or incorrect assets. This fragmentation becomes more problematic as teams grow or operate remotely, making it harder to align on common visual standards and workflows. Lack of visibility into asset status or update availability further complicates collaboration and quality control.
Asset Organization
The product’s asset organization features are built around a flexible Teams system that allows assets to be shared by department or project, ensuring clarity and structure. Team Owners and Managers have granular control over distribution, selecting which teams receive each individual Asset Pack, whether Brushes, Swatches, or Settings, with the ability to create multiple distinct packs per asset type. Within Illustrator, a compact, ‘traffic light’ themed Astute Manager panel provides a clear, at-a-glance view of asset status, making it easy to identify and apply updates as needed.
Avoid frustration
Organize assets by department
To address this, the Astute Manager Pro service introduces a flexible Teams system that organizes assets by department or project, ensuring clarity and correct distribution. A clear differentiation is made between local user-only assets and shared team assets, helping users manage their personal setup without affecting broader team resources. Team Owners and Managers control the flow of asset packs, choosing which teams receive each set, and can create multiple packs per asset type. This granular control allows for high specificity, whether targeting internal branding teams or cross-functional project groups, ensuring the right people have access to the right tools at the right time.
Complete Asset Management
The system supports both native Adobe Illustrator assets, such as Brushes, Swatches, Symbols, and Graphic Styles, and assets specific to Astute Graphics plugins, including Texturino Textures, Reprofile Profiles, VectorFirstAid Checkups, and Phantasm Halftone presets. These two asset domains are managed in parallel, giving users a unified way to organize, distribute, and maintain everything they need for Illustrator within a single interface. Asset packs can be named, renamed, and enriched with simple metadata text, aiding team communication.
To further support efficient workflows, a compact, ‘traffic light’ themed Astute Manager panel within Adobe Illustrator offers immediate visual feedback on asset status. Users can instantly see whether any of their packs are up-to-date (green) or are outdated (red). This unobtrusive interface keeps teams synchronized without interrupting the design process, allowing designers to stay focused while maintaining full awareness of asset consistency and availability.