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How It Works

There's nothing simple about large-scale content creation. But it's made easy with Creative Force. Here's how.

Disclaimer: No two studios are the same and your particular workflows and processes will reflect that. This is just one example.

A content creation workflow with Creative Force

Ready. Set. Go.

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Studio Manager
Define Your Workflows
This dictates the automatic flow of assets, requirements, stakeholders, and more.
Production Steps
File Naming
Asset Delivery
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Studio manager
Create Job
Ingesting product data automatically triggers the appropriate workflows, including required production types, style guides, post-production vendors, and delivery destinations.
Import Data
Create From Scan
Data Sources
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Sample Manager
Sample Check-In
Scan barcodes on your samples to check them in and print new barcodes, as needed. Samples can be checked in to any number of locations, sub-locations, or containers.
Scan Barcodes
Print Sample Label
Locations & Sub-Locations
Organize Samples in Containers
Alert Configuration
Alerts notify you of duplicate samples or missing data.
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Stylist
Styling
Your stylist will scan samples and see styling requirements, outfits, reference images, and shot lists.
Outfits
Reference Images
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Team on set
Photography
Directly integrated with Capture One, Creative Force makes sure no sample leaves set until all creative requirements are met.
Capture One Integration
Avoiding Incomplete Sets
Stream Photography
Automatic File Handling
Files are automatically named, tagged, and distributed.
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Art director and stakeholders
Final Selection and Review
Art directors or other stakeholders make their final selects and add mark-ups and instructions for post-production. All in the cloud, accessible from anywhere in real-time.
Final Selection Process
Mark-Ups and Instructions
Production DAM
Share for External Review
Assets automatically go to post, as defined by the workflow.
External Post Production
Post-Production Vendor
External Post-Production
Your post-production vendor automatically receives not just the image files, but also color references, visual mark-ups, and any instructions given by your team.
Connect Vendors
Color References
Mark-Ups and Instructions
Integrations
Data insights on vendor performance let you continually optimize production.
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Post-Production Supervisor
External Post QC
Approve or reject the work performed by your external post-production vendor and add comments for your internal team.
Auto QA and Alerts
Bypassing QC
Bypassing Internal Post
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Retoucher
Internal Post-Production
Color references, visual mark-ups, and detailed instructions are embedded with each file and displayed right in Photoshop.
Color References
Mark-Ups and Instructions
Hue Photoshop Panel
Assign to Retoucher
Tasks can be assigned to specific team members.
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Post-Production Supervisor
Internal Post QC
QC steps can be added or removed according to your needs and you always have a complete, visual version history available.
Auto QA and Alerts
Bypassing QC
Final Delivery 2
Final Delivery
All your assets are automatically named according to your specifications, enriched with metadata that can be used by your downstream services, and finally delivered to your DAM, FTP, or wherever you want it to go.
Asset Delivery
Integrations
Production Workflow Completed 🎉
Accurate, creative, and consistent assets – delivered much faster and without costly, time-consuming errors or manual tasks.
Digital Style Guides

Style guides in Creative Force are more than creative references for your production teams. They ensure consistency and enforce creative direction by intelligently managing photography requirements, post requirements, and automated file naming – and they appear automatically wherever they're needed throughout production.

Category Triggers
Category Triggers

Set category triggers for each of your style guides. Whenever product data with a matching category is imported, that product will automatically be assigned the appropriate style guide

Production Types
Production Types
Easily select the required production types for each workflow.
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Why top studios pick Creative Force

High-volume content production comes with its fair share of obstacles. Only Creative Force eliminates key complexities at every stage from vendor request to asset delivery.

  • automated file handling

    Eliminate time-wasting manual tasks

    Goodbye repetitive, error-prone tasks and outdated spreadsheets. Hello automated file handling and workflows.

  • manage-production

    Manage production, not problems

    Extensive integrations and intuitive collaboration tools let your team focus their creativity where it belongs.

  • collaboration

    Better content online, faster

    An intelligent and collaborative production flow dramatically reduces your studio lead time.

  • software

    Works with your existing software

    Our intuitive UI merges seamlessly with the software you're already using – like Capture One, Photoshop, and Slack.

  • scale

    Built to handle production at scale

    A thousand products or a million – with Creative Force you scale your throughput, not the complexity.

  • reporting

    Make data-driven decisions

    Data is captured throughout production and formatted into actionable reports to improve studio operations.

Is Creative Force the solution for you?

Talk is cheap. Let us show you how Creative Force can bring real value to your studio operations and help you overcome those time-stealing, costly challenges. You can explore pre-recorded demos on your own or reach out for a guided tour.

  • End-to-end workflow solution
  • Works out-of-the-box
  • 24/7 support in less than a minute
  • SOC 2 Type II certified
  • Native and custom integrations

Questions? Let's ... expand.

How does Creative Force work?

To simplify things a bit, Creative Force enables and elevates what we call flow production – a collaborative and continuous way of producing content at scale, where assets are moved individually through the many stages of production, as soon as they're ready.

This is in contrast to traditional batch production, where a single production stage is completed for all assets before they advance to the next step. Flow production eliminates bottlenecks and hold-ups, and Creative Force supercharges that concept with automation, metadata enrichment, integrated review tools, and so much more.

How is Creative Force different from other studio software?

Let's first differentiate between studio software and studio management software. Creative Force is studio management software that optimizes the processes around specific areas of studio operations, like sample management or post-production management – in some cases by integrating directly with studio software your team uses daily, such as Capture One or Photoshop.

Other studio software solutions do a fine job of solving problems within particular, well-defined areas of operation. But only Creative Force takes a holistic approach to studio operations and provides the tools to effectively increase productivity and visibility across the entire content creation process.

Read more about how Creative Force compares to some alternatives out there

Who can use Creative Force?

Creative Force is built to meet the needs of brands, retailers, and commercial studios engaged in high-volume content creation for eCommerce or editorial projects. If you work professionally with any of the above, chances are you'd see remarkable improvements to your workflows with Creative Force.

Every team from studio intake to styling to capture to post-production and beyond will benefit from the extensive workflow automation, increased production visibility, and many collaboration tools.

Read some of the many great Creative Force reviews here

What makes you sure I’ll see positive results using Creative Force?

From the get-go, we'll work with you to analyze your specific business needs to determine exactly what kind of an impact Creative Force will have on your unique processes, lead times, throughput, and resources.

If we don’t believe you’ll see immediate, measurable improvements in the areas you wish to optimize, we’ll let you know. We're not interested in anything less than 100% satisfied customers.

Speaking of satisfied customers, we invite you to check out our case studies. You'll find them on our website's aptly named Success Stories section.

How long does it take to get up and running with Creative Force?

There's no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to studio operations, so we'd be foolish to make any timeline promises until we've analyzed your particular needs. That said, we're big fans of getting things done as quickly as possible while maintaining the highest quality possible. It's kind of our MO. A personalized onboarding experience and our Creative Force Academy allow us to accomplish exactly that.

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