Sharing & Collaboration

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Paint Forge lets you share a snapshot of a project with anyone via a read-only link, and keeps your work safe when the same project is opened from more than one place. Sharing requires a signed-in account.

Open the Share dialog from a project's card menu or from inside the editor to mint a read-only link. Each link points at a snapshot of the project that viewers can open without an account.

Expiry — choose 7, 30, or 90 days; expired links stop working automatically.
Password protection — gate a link behind a password (verified server-side; the canvas data isn’t exposed until the password is entered).
View count & last-accessed — see how often a link has been opened.
Open in Editor — viewers can load the shared snapshot into their own editor as a starting point.
Embed — an /embed variant renders the project for embedding in another page.
Manage links — update expiry, regenerate, or delete a link; copy it or open it in a new tab.

A link without a password exposes its canvas data to anyone who has the URL — that's intentional, so “Open in Editor” works. Add a password for anything sensitive. Link creation is rate-limited (10 links per hour).

Realtime Presence

When multiple signed-in collaborators open the same cloud project, you'll see live presence: colored avatar dots in the top bar and each person's cursor with a name label on the canvas (plus indicators for which slices someone is viewing or commenting on). This is awareness, not live co-editing — see Advanced > Realtime Collaboration.

Save Conflicts

Because a project can be edited from two tabs, two devices, or two collaborators, Paint Forge watches for the cloud copy changing underneath you. When it detects drift, a non-modal banner appears before your next save with a short “what changed” summary (layers added on each side, changed, unchanged). If a save actually collides, a conflict dialog shows side-by-side thumbnails of your version and the cloud version, and offers:

Save anyway — overwrite the cloud copy with your local version.
Reload — discard local changes and load the cloud version.
Merge automatically — combine both, or merge layer-by-layer / object-by-object.
Dismiss — keep working and decide later.

Your work is protected

Every destructive resolution (Reload, Merge, per-layer merge) first takes an automatic snapshot of your local state, so you can always recover from the Snapshots dialog if you change your mind.

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Open the Share dialog from a project's card menu or from inside the editor to mint a read-only link. Each link points at a snapshot of the project that viewers can open without an account.

Expiry — choose 7, 30, or 90 days; expired links stop working automatically.
Password protection — gate a link behind a password (verified server-side; the canvas data isn’t exposed until the password is entered).
View count & last-accessed — see how often a link has been opened.
Open in Editor — viewers can load the shared snapshot into their own editor as a starting point.
Embed — an /embed variant renders the project for embedding in another page.
Manage links — update expiry, regenerate, or delete a link; copy it or open it in a new tab.

Realtime Presence

Save Conflicts

Save anyway — overwrite the cloud copy with your local version.
Reload — discard local changes and load the cloud version.
Merge automatically — combine both, or merge layer-by-layer / object-by-object.
Dismiss — keep working and decide later.

Your work is protected

Every destructive resolution (Reload, Merge, per-layer merge) first takes an automatic snapshot of your local state, so you can always recover from the Snapshots dialog if you change your mind.

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Share Links

Realtime Presence

Save Conflicts