If your studio has complex levels of internal post-production and a big team of retouchers, oftentimes, there will be different people editing the same task. Maintaining the last editing effects on a task and its annotations and markings before sending it to the next retoucher is time-consuming.
Within Gamma, you can centralize managing the Hue work files from selecting the default Photoshop work files to keeping that work files in the cloud. To access this setting, go to Studio Settings -> Internal Post settings.
Note:
The setting is only available to users that have Edits right on Studio Settings
Selecting Internal Post work file format is available for all of our users based, however, the option to save the files to Creative Force Cloud is an add-on feature, please contact your CSM for more information
Work file format
As you already know, PSD is the usual choice as a working file type in Photoshop. A PSD file serves its purpose of saving all the layers, masks, channels, paths etc… But the issue that the retouchers often face is with the file size limitation that PSD only supports up to 2GB per file.
That’s when the PSB comes in. A PSB is the same as a PSD, but supports larger files up to 300,000 pixels or 4 Exabytes.
You can choose the default working file types for your retouchers team as with PSD or PSB. Then click ‘Save’.
Note:
As soon as you click ‘Save’ the setting will be applied.
Before changing this setting, all downloaded tasks from HUE will not be affected. To apply the change, you can unpick the task and reassign it to the retoucher.
Storing files in CF Cloud
Set up in Gamma
In Gamma, you can decide how long you want to keep the working files in CF Cloud for Ecom and Editorial modules separately..
CF will silently keep track of when the work files are uploaded to the Cloud and start counting from there to remove the files accordingly. The time is calculated by UTC.
Click here to follow Part Two of this article to know how to set up in Hue.