Daniel Jester

Daniel Jester

Creative Force Chief Evangelist

Daniel Jester is an experienced creative production professional who has managed production teams, built and launched new studios, and produced large-scale projects. He’s worked in-house at brands like Amazon, Nordstrom, and Farfetch as well as commercial studios like CONVYR. Creative-minded, while able to effectively plan for and manage a complex project, he bridges the gap between spreadsheets and creative talent.

Course Audience

This course is for those who will serve as the administrators of their studio's Creative Force account. As an admin, you’ll be responsible for working with members of the Creative Force team to get your account configured to the needs of your studio as well as integrating Creative Force into your creative operations. You will also have full access permissions in your Creative Force account, making you the primary contact point within your studio to update style guides, workflows, personnel information, and locations, or make any other changes to your account.

Description

As a Creative Force Admin, you’ll be one of the primary drivers bringing that new way of working to your studio.

That process requires taking your current, physical creative operations and translating them into a digital version inside Creative Force. This is actually a healthy exercise because it forces you and your teams to ask fundamental questions about your ways of working and why you do the things you do.

This course will walk you through part of that process. As you advance through the course, you will simultaneously be building out your Creative Force account. As part of this course, you’ll be required to do the following:

  • Configure your general workflow settings to determine how your assets will be produced
  • Set your Photography workflow settings to define how your assets will be selected and reviewed (and by whom!)
  • Set your Post-Production workflow settings to determine who will handle the Post-Production of your assets
  • Configure your Asset delivery to tell Creative Force the final destination of your assets

At the end of the course, you’ll have your workflows built to direct Creative Force to where and to whom to send your assets at different stages of the creative production process.

About this course

  • Free
  • 63 lessons
  • 10 minutes of video
  • 1.5 hours to complete
  • Creative Force Admins Certificate

Interested in this course? Email us at [email protected]

Upon completing this course, you will receive a certificate of completion you can share on LinkedIn or anywhere else you feel like sharing your accomplishment!

Course Content

    1. Introduction to Your Worksheet

    2. How It Works

    3. Our Recommendation

    1. About This Section

    1. Lesson Objectives

    2. Worksheet Activity: Workflow Questionnaire

    3. Workflows vs. Style Guides

    4. Planning the Journey of Your Assets

    5. Navigating to Workflow Settings

    6. Client Selection

    7. Workflow Name

    8. Production Type(s)

    9. Visual Settings

    10. How Color Reference Works

    11. Color Reference Availability

    12. Color Reference Option: Request From First Production Type

    13. Color Reference Option: Request From Specific Production Type

    14. Color Reference Option: Request from Product Type

    15. Color Reference for External Post

    16. Visual Settings Use Case

    17. Orbitvu Connection

    18. Activity: Configure Your Workflow Settings

    19. Reminder: Mark Your Tasks Complete

    1. Lesson Objectives

    2. Managing Photography Workflows

    3. Production Type Settings

    4. Defining Final Selections

    5. Final Selection Workflows

    6. Final Selection by Photography

    7. Pre-Selection by Position

    8. Final Selection by Web

    9. Activity: Configure Final Selection

    10. Defining Photo Review

    11. Photo Review Settings

    12. Photo Review with Daniel Jester

    13. Activity: Configure Photo Review

    14. Defining the Cut-Off Step

    15. Activity: Configure the Kelvin Cut-Off Step

    16. Reminder: Mark Your Tasks Complete

    1. Lesson Objectives

    2. Managing Post-Production Workflow

    3. Production-Type Level Settings

    4. Selecting a Post-Production Workflow

    5. Activity: Selecting a Post-Production Workflow

    6. Vendor Selection

    7. Bypass External QC

    8. Separate Mapping

    9. Maintain File Names for Final Delivery

    10. Auto QA Overview

    11. Auto QA Override

    12. Bypass Internal QC

    13. Variants Overview

    14. Fan-Out Step

    15. Activity: Configure Post-Production Settings

    16. Reminder: Mark Task Complete

    1. Lesson Objectives

    2. Navigating to Asset Delivery

    3. Selecting a Delivery Option

    4. Delivering Non-Selects

    5. Activity: Configure Asset Delivery

    6. Reminder: Mark Your Tasks Complete