Color Factory
The guide deals with the configuration of Color Factory to automate workflow processes in your DAM system.
- Getting started with Color Factory
- Requirements and routines for performing a fresh installation, or an upgrade, of a Color Factory system. Learn how to set basic service properties to get started creating powerful workflows.
- What is Color Factory?
- Color Factory system requirements
- Installing Color Factory
- First-time-configuration
- What you need to know about channels
- Creating a channel
- Adjusting basic channel settings
- Enabling or disabling channel features
- Monitoring and configuring the Color Factory service
- Color Factory editions
- The Clients view in Operations Center Status
- Updating from a 32-bit to a 64-bit version of Color Factory
- Color Factory Reference Guide
- Administrator's Reference Guide for Color Factory. It contains a complete overview of all the functionality in the Color Factory configuration and explains the capabilities of the server. This guide can be used as a reference when you build your workflows.
- Setting global server parameters
- Adjusting color and contrast
- Color Management
- File naming
- Handling of different input file formats
- Image editing and improvement
- Image ID settings
- Job Request Files and external XML formats
- Managing input and output of files
- Managing metadata
- Printing processed images
- Purging old content
- Routing and sorting files in folders
- Settings for special output formats
- Building workflows using Color Factory
- Learn how Color Factory can be put to use to manage your archived assets. This involves avoiding duplicate content, making sure metadata is kept up to date when changes are made and potentially also purging of old or duplicate assets.
- Avoiding duplicate content in archives
- Automatically purging old or outdated content
- Automating the migration of content from an old system into FotoWare
- Avoiding unnecessarily recompressing JPEG files
- Creating a standardized set of categories when receiving wirefeeds
- Filtering out files that have insufficient metadata
- Filtering out pictures with clipped highlights and shadows
- Making a one-time metadata update to your entire archive
- Preserving the original filename in a workflow
- Real-life example: How we publish wirefeed content on our FotoWeb demo server
- Replacing lo-res images with hi-res in PDF workflows
- Sorting assets according to who uploaded them
- Sorting files in a folder structure by year, month and day
- Splitting JPEG and RAW files in a workflow
- Structuring your assets in a meaningful way
- Transferring assets that have been used in production into a long-term archive
- Turning filenames into usable, searchable metadata
- Using database lookup to populate metadata fields with photographer information
- Integration and APIs
- Articles that describe how Color Factory can be integrated in workflows with third-party systems.