It is always difficult to maintain the style and output requirements throughout your assets or to closely follow the requested retouching details from different customers. This will now be easier with the reference images, auto QA, and variants fan out feature in Hue.
Reference image alert
First, your admin must set the reference images rules in Gamma under the Client level. This alert can be set to appear based on the Style Code, Category, Product Code, or Job Code. If a task has the matching conditions, HUE will alert you - the retoucher with an Eye icon like below. When you hover over the icon, the tool tip will appear as View reference image.
This gives you an opportunity to see how the product or a similar product has already been edited as a reference before you begin retouching an image. You can also select different filters to find the image you want.
Auto QA
In the previous article about the HUE Photoshop panel, we walked through the presets which are output requirements for the images. These presets will enable the HUE auto Quality Assurance feature.
After exporting the file, the auto QA will give you a green tick if the requirements are satisfied, and an orange mark if the requirements are not met.
File format
File extension
DPI
Color profile
Bits Per Channel
Dimensions
Background color
Cropping
Depending on the workflow for post-production setup, if ‘Override Auto QA’ is enabled, you can upload the images normally. If not, Auto QA won’t let you upload the images unless you change the unmatched requirements.
Variant fan out
With a single click, Hue will automatically create a new file format according to the setup in your presets. You can keep all the core retouching effects and Hue will take care of the outputs for you.
Click 'Fan out', Hue will then show you 2 options:
Duplicates: HUE will keep all the work that you have done on the image and make a copy with the respective dimensions as per the setup in your presets
Blanks: HUE will create a completely blank file so you can start working again
Click the Settings wheel, you will be able to see the additional functions when duplicating files. Both are selected by default.
Scale to fit canvas
Center on canvas
When both boxes are checked, the following scenarios will happen after the file is created:
If the aspect ratio of the Variant is equal to the Main: Hue will resize the image to fit the dimensions of the workfile canvas as defined in preset.
If the aspect ratio of the Variant is proportionally taller than the Main, Hue will action in the below order:
Resize the variant image so that the height equals the height of the workfile canvas/crop.
Then, center the image on canvas by aligning it to the horizontal middle of the canvas.
If the aspect ratio of the Variant is proportionally wider than the Main, Hue will action in the below order:
Resize the variant image so that the width equals the width of the workfile canvas/crop.
Then, center the image on canvas by aligning it to the vertical middle of the canvas.
When creating a variant, HUE will remember the previous export option that the user chose, whether it’s a preset or manually changing each specification, and then apply it to the next task.
If there are no previous export options or the preset doesn’t define the file format, then HUE will apply the default specifications as below:
format: JPG
qualityPercent: 100
progressive: true
embedColorProfile: true
Bulk export and Bulk fan out
Hue will detect how many files you need for this particular task. After finishing all of your edits, you can click Fan Out All to apply the effects on all variants. Then click Export All to export all the images from Photoshop.
Copy feature
HUE allows you to copy the product codes and the instruction notes.
