With a longer development period comes A LOT of new updates! All Gamma, Kelvin, and Hue updates have been released today, and the Chroma mobile app updates for this sprint will be released in a few days.

In addition to these release notes, we will be publishing CF Help Center knowledge base articles in support of some of our key updates as well (coming soon!). Happy reading 🚀

First up, we have some highly anticipated overall Creative Force updates:
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Are you looking for a way to change the location of an entire rail or box of samples all in one go? Never fear, Containers are here!

You can think of Containers as a grouping of samples that you want to apply bulk actions to (ie: change location, check in, or check out). Typically, these groups of samples physically coexist IRL in boxes or rails filled with samples, therefore you can create “Box” or “Rail” type Containers for your samples in Creative Force.

Easily create Containers and add them to locations and sub-locations. Generate Containers from pasted list or auto-generate them.

Print individual container label barcodes or an overview of all Containers:
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Scan your printed container barcode to add samples in a flash! We recommend using our mobile app:

Pro Tip: If you add samples to a Container in a ‘check-in’ location, your samples will be automatically checked in.

Rest assured, if you’re scanning samples outside of the mobile app, you can also work with Containers using Gamma as well:

But wait, there’s more to this story…
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With this new release of location barcodes, you can also print out location barcode labels or a full location overview to really streamline sample management.

But how do we use these location barcodes? And what do they have to do with Containers?

Here are a couple examples to try out in our mobile app or scanning with Gamma:

Bonus Points: Scan location barcodes to bulk change the location of a container filled with many samples! (‘Place container’ shown below)

We have also added ‘types’ to locations, giving you and your team further context in production (see “Stock Room” location type example on the label above).

Location types can be added to both locations and sub-locations.

When managing image requests in Creative Force, sometimes there are different requirements or information needed when working with internally captured images or vendor provided imagery.

This is where we’ve introduced conditional logic based on “Source” (Photo Production or Vendor Provided). You can find this available in:

Speaking of source, if you’re looking to change the source for upcoming Creative Force products, we can now also change the source on a product level.

Creative Force will analyze your selected products and, if applicable, prompt you to make decisions about like segments based on client, brand, and source parameters.

Next up, we also have all new functionality for Editorial as well!

Just as some of our customers produce Editorial content with product codes, many also produce creative photography with sample codes. Therefore, in this sprint we are introducing samples for Editorial projects!

Samples in Editorial projects work very similarly as products. You can add samples to your project or deliverables via:

To round out this narrative on samples, any sample assigned to a deliverable can be used in its Editorial asset metadata and naming conventions (via presets) for downstream systems and processes.

With any production, time is of the essence - this is why we’re introducing the ability to bulk create deliverables via Excel sheet.

We provide you with a downloadable template, and you (or your requesters) can easily fill out all the most relevant information about each shot - we’re talking product codes, sample codes, creative direction, and more!

This single button really packs a punch (and saves your producers a bunch of time), so why not use it to update existing deliverables as well?