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Creative Force Reviews & Product Details

Creative Force is the leading content production management platform for large-scale eCommerce content production. We empower top brands, retailers, and commercial studios to deliver high-quality and consistent eCommerce and editorial images, video, and copy at high volume. Our SaaS platform provides a single source of truth for all creative assets through every step of content production, giving creative leaders and teams unparalleled visibility and control over creative operations. Platform features and extensions include: - Production planning calendar - Sample management - Workflow automation - Collaboration tools, including review & approval workflows - Cloud-based production DAM - VPI (vendor-provided imagery) management - Editorial projects - Integrations with Capture One, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Adobe Workfront Creative Force is the workflow platform of choice for some of the world’s biggest brands and retailers, including Columbia Sportswear, Bestseller, PVH (Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein), ALDO, Tommy Bahama, boohoo, OTTO, David Yurman, and more.

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Creative Force

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Creative Force Community

Languages Supported

English

Product Description

The end-to-end solution for high volume e-commerce content creation.

Overview by

Alexia Nielsen (Head of Marketing at Creative Force)

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

3 months

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

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Creative Force Media

Creative Force Demo - Production Planning Calendar

Plan and organize the products and resources needed for upcoming photo or video shoots in a flexible and easy-to-use production calendar.

Creative Force Demo - Production Tracking

In Creative Force, you can track the progress of your work easily and accurately. The system automatically keeps a record of every step and action taken during the production process. This allows you to make timely decisions based on reliable data.

With Creative Force, you can easily manage all your assets in the cloud, no matter how many you have. The Asset View feature lets you view and organize them all in one place. You can even create custom views using filters like date range, production stage, talent, clients, and style guides to mak...

Creative Force Demo - Load scheduled team, set, and shot list on-set automatically

Shot lists provide a clear and organized workflow for the team working on set. This helps them get started with their tasks right away without wasting time searching for what they need to do.

Creative Force Demo - Adobe Photoshop Integration

Our platform streamlines photo retouching workflows by integrating directly with Adobe Photoshop. Users can efficiently handle all tasks, such as comments, notes, and creative direction, from the team within the Creative Force Photoshop panel. They can then effortlessly export files in the correc...

Creative Force Demo - AI-powered Copywriting

Our AI-powered platform streamlines copy production alongside other creative content.

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Verified User in Apparel & Fashion

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/27/2021

"Excellent All Inclusive E-Commerce Solution"

5/5

What do you like best about Creative Force?

We're able to manage our e-commerce productions on a 360 level from initial merch intake, management, through to post production and final delivery of assets.

There is nothing that competes with Creative Force as far as ability to customize a tailored solution to fit your needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Creative Force?

The post production software had a challenging 'buy in' from our retouching team due to the additional steps required to keep the images within the software.

This has been ironed out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Creative Force:

This is a powerful solution for running an e-commerce studio either in-house or for external clients.

It requires a dedicated team member to manage the software instance so please note that a software is only as good as it's users and all team members must be trained with Creative Force Academy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have no problems with Creative Force.

The benefits for us are that we're able to deliver outstanding service to our e-commerce production clients that rivals the largest e-commerce production companies in the industry. Companies who have invested in their own proprietary software are now realizing the costs associated with developing e-commerce software in-house is not conducive for long term competitiveness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ian Mitchell of Creative Force

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Thank you very much for your feedback!

I am delighted to hear that we have been able to help empower your studio to future success and growth!

We are looking forward to continuing that journey with you!

Verified User in Apparel & Fashion

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/23/2021

"A helpful suite of products"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Creative Force?

I love that file sharing and seeking is incredibly easy with creative force. The filters are cohesive and make it easy for any of our teams at work to find photos for our products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Creative Force?

I dislike how intricate some of the functions are, such as data organization on the asset delivery end. With little training, it is easy to overlook some of the useful functions within creative force because it's a rather complex program. In suite training materials for all of the apps (hue, kelvin, etc) would be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?

There used to be a more significant amount of data loss between teams when individuals were responsible for dropping edited photos in a separate drive. Now that our photos and information are incorporated into one program, it makes for much smoother sailing. Cloud storage is also quite helpful for a company that file shares large files consistently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ian Mitchell of Creative Force

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Hi There,

Thank you very much for this feedback! I am delighted to hear that we have been able to help out on serve pain points like data loss and working between multiple systems at once!

There are a lot of possibilities with Creative Force and set up can certainly be a lot to grapple with when first starting out. We do have our Academy to help user learning and our support team is always on hand for immediate guidance. I would love to hear more about your onboarding experience if you want to me at ian@creativeforce.io

Many thanks again for your positive thoughts on Creative Force!

Verified User in Consumer Goods

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/30/2022

"Very dynamic tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Creative Force?

The individual ability to customize the tool to your own uses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Creative Force?

While creative force us very useful the UI isn't very inviting to new team members Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Brianna Horwath of Creative Force

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Thanks so much for the kind words! Super to hear that Creative Force is able to support your entire workflow all the way from the start of the production process.

Would love to hear more about how we might be able to further support new team members and there may be some additional resources already available that I would love to share with you. Feel free to reach me at brianna@creativeforce.io and we can discuss!

Thanks again,

Bri

Verified User in Textiles

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/30/2022

"Fastest updates ever"

5/5

What do you like best about Creative Force?

The updates don't take time. It's just one or two seconds you have to quit your workflow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Creative Force?

Information emails pop up quite often, could me minimalized Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Brianna Horwath of Creative Force

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Thanks so much for the kind words! Super to hear that you're enjoying the updates and new features and that the update process is smooth and easy!

Really appreciate the feedback on the email notifications, I'll be sure to share that with the wider team.

Thanks again for the kind words,

Bri

Matt S.

Lead Stylist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/1/2022

"Very useful software for ecommerce studios!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Creative Force?

The upside of CF is it's ability to file manage from start to end, connecting to CaptureOne all the way to looking back on previously delivered images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Creative Force?

It has quite a few manual steps from start to end, and requires close attention to not create error down the line. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ian Mitchell of Creative Force

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Hi Matt,

Many thanks for your thoughts! It is super to hear that we have been able to help with you and the team's file management and organisation!

We are always trying to improve Creative Force, and will certainly take on board the feedback!

Thanks again for the support!

Hannah M.

Freelance Photographer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/1/2022

"Great program"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Creative Force?

Makes working more efficient, saves alot of time and allows working to be alot more oragnsied Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Creative Force?

occasionally glitches, but does not do this too often Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ian Mitchell of Creative Force

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Hi Hannah,

Delighted to read your feedback! I am glad we have been able to help you and the team save time and be more organised!

Verified User in Apparel & Fashion

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/18/2021

"Easy to use and shortened the time from shooting to uploading"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Creative Force?

I like that it requires no outside asset or data management, such as google docs or multiple different file locations within servers (which is how we did things before) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Creative Force?

I wish there were ways to edit/swap assets after the fact. Currently if two items accidentally get their stickers swapped and the photos loaded to the wrong item (which happens often) the only way to fix it is to redownload all assets and start over completely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ian Mitchell of Creative Force

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Hi There,

Thank you very much for your thoughts on Creative Force! It is great to hear that we have been able to save you time and help avoid any confusion! That is right at the heart of what we are looking to solve for all of our users.

I would love to discuss your needs around switching images after the fact a little further! You can reach me at ian@creativeforce.io

Faranak G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/13/2021

"very helpful portal"

4/5

What do you like best about Creative Force?

The way we upload images.it's fast and easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Creative Force?

The way you need to search for a product. Sometimes it isn't very clear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ian Mitchell of Creative Force

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Hi There,

Many thanks for your review! Glad to hear that we have smoothed out your work, and saving you time!

We want users to find things as easily as possible so do please reach out to me at ian@creativeforce.io so we can discuss your experience with search a bit more!

Marie-Michele H.

Editing Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/5/2021

"Workflow Made Easy"

5/5

What do you like best about Creative Force?

From the retouching point of view, we love our the platform integrates with Photshop and makes our life much easier (workflow, notes, rejections, etc). The whole platform in itself is very straight foward and easy to navigate for the entire team and it even looks good!

Customer Service is excellent and very knowledgeable. Quick turn around as well when you have a question that needs more looking into. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Creative Force?

There is nothing much I can say I dislike about Creative Force. There could be some improvement in some ways but really nothing that sets us back in our workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ian Mitchell of Creative Force

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Hi Marie-Michele,

Thank you very much for your sharing your thoughts on Creative Force!

One of our driving factors is to make Creative Force as easy as possible to use, as well as optimising and streamlining your ways of working so you can focus on the important stuff! Great to hear that we have done that for you and the team!

Adam F.

Production Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/27/2021

"Experience of using Creative Force as a tool supporting E-commerce Studio's production."

5/5

What do you like best about Creative Force?

Among the many advantages of the Creative Force system, the greatest is ensuring the stability and reliability of photo production in a photo studio. Full control over the process from the very beginning - from taking over the product to the very end, which is the delivery of ready-made photos to the customer.

It is extremely important to be able to track the production progress for each product, even with a huge scale of operation.

The Style Guides also proved to be a very useful tool, as it allows to largely eliminate human errors during shooting, retouching and quality control. They also significantly reduce the time needed to publish a photo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Creative Force?

There is nothing I don't like. Some elements can be further developed, but the Creative Force team is constantly working on it, taking into account the feedback given to them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Creative Force:

Try it! It's the best tool on the market for photo production.

As a studio, we've selected Creative Force from among few other competitors. We had no doubts that it was a right choice.

Now afterabout 2 years I don't regreat, CF improved the way we work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?

As I mentioned earlier, we eliminate most human errors. We can work more efficiently and faster, and we have the opportunity to develop our performance thanks to the built-in reports.

Finally, we can focus on what is most important - photography, without manually managing the entire production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ian Mitchell of Creative Force

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Hi Adam,

It is such a pleasure to hear your positive words! It has been great to work with you and the team, and to be a small part of your success!

Looking forward to many more years to come!