What are the real advantages of using version control from the designer point-of-view? In most cases, a good backup system is what they need. Use Apple's Time

What are the real advantages of using version control from the designer point-of-view? In most cases, a good backup system is what they need. Use Apple's Time Machine or Crashplan and backup every 15 minutes automatically. From a programmers point of view VC is great. We actually have the tools to deal with different versions of text files: find differences, resolve conflicts, merge, split off new versions, etc. And designers? What do they get beyond a more complex and opaque form of Backup. Sure it makes it easier to get the designers output into our programmers workflow, but the way this is usually sold is a Pain in the designers backside with no real benefit. If programmers want to win over designers to version control, we need to sell them on real advantages. We need to show them tools like pixelnovel's timeline that integrates SVN diretly into Adobe CS and provides an in app version viewer. Or Kaleidoscope.app which allows the visual comparison of image (and text!) files. http://pixelnovel.com/ (SVN only) http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/ (Git, Mercurial, SVN & Bazaar) However, even these tools only scratch the surface of the power that programmers gain from the pain of version control.