# Creative Force Reviews **Vendor:** Creative Force **Category:** [Creative Management Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/creative-management-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 56 ## About Creative Force 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. ## Creative Force Reviews ### 1. Creative workflow tool that streamlines processes and provides visibility. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michelle M. | Director, Creative and Photo Studio Operations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** Creative Force provides visibility into the various stages of image creation all under one software. This was a task that was previously handled by multiple tools and required a lot of manual tracking, which takes away from actually doing the work. Creative Force isn't just a software, it's a partnership with a shared goal of creating efficiencies within workflows. The reporting functions have been tremendous in allowing us to speak to our business. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** The onboarding work required a lot of time. I wonder if some "presets" or studio best practice templates could help ease the onboarding process. There were times where my team wanted to know how other CF customers were using the tool. Maybe some presets or templates would make onboarding less challenging for smaller teams. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creative Force provides clear visibility into the different stages of image production. This allows us to see when the team encounters issues, monitor productivity, and gain insights to help us scale our processes. ### 2. Working in a studio has never been easier. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew A. | Photo Studio Coordinator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** Before using Creative Force, the workflow of production was very cumbersome. Working between several different documents at the same time took time and led to errors in production. Since using Creative Force, our previous challenges are no longer a problem. Having dedicated workflows, style guides, presets, vendor connection, and many other features has made time on set much more enjoyable and easier to transfer any production requirements or changes from team member to team member. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** For the most part, Creative Force has made the studio's workflow better. For any problems we may have had, the Creative Force team has been fantastic in resolving the issue or updating a feature. The only pain point I have is the check-in and check-out process. For products with multiple jobs, having a check-in/out all button would be nice. Processing hundreds of samples can get tedious when everything needs to be scanned multiple times because they were shot on two or more jobs. Additionally, it would be helpful to see on the check-in/out screen, when there are multiple jobs, the product's production status of each job to know which one needs to be completed. When a sample is sent numerous times for production on different jobs, it will simplify knowing what needs to be completed during the check-in step. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** The biggest problem that Creative Force has solved in our workflow is consistency. Before, we would constantly have errors in several different production steps. The implementation of Creative Force has allowed us to automate most steps of production and drastically cut down on simple mistakes. The ease of production has allowed us to produce more content than ever before, and we need the automation that Creative Force provides to keep up with demand. ### 3. Creative Force Is adaptive and user friendly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roanne G. | Senior Retoucher Freelance, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** One of the best thing about the softwear is it abilty to adapt to the users needs. I have used Creative Force in 2 different studios on a daily basis, for a number of individual clients across those studios and each had their own workflow. I was amazed to see how the Creative Force softwear had been untilised in very different ways while still being user friendly and ultimatly making the process of delivering outstanding work to my clients simpler. Not only does it make workflow easier from start to finish but it also has great traking abilities and allows me to know exactly where assests are int he system and any time. I was on the frontline of implimenting the Cretive force system in a studio and the customer support was impecable, there was obviously a period of learning the system and the customer support team were on had to answer any questions we had even the most simple making integration into the studio quick and simple. Overall my experience of using Creative Force is nothing but good it made my life and my teams lives simpler and allowed us to produce assets quicker while mintaing the same standards. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** The only negative I have is sometime the soloutions to problems are a little long winded and you have to go thought a number of steps to do something that could be simpler. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** In a photography studio Creative Force enables us to move assests through the studio without much human input, aloowing us to track assest at every point and avoid human mistakes in the process. **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi Roanne, First, wow, thank you so much for this thorough and detailed review! We really appreciate you taking the time to share your experience and I'm ecstatic to hear all of the ways that Creative Force has improved your team's process - making work simpler, more efficient and increasing the ever-important tracking and visibility capabilities among your team are some great call-outs! I completely understand that moving through the steps to solve issues that crop up can take a bit of collaboration and time, but grateful to hear that your experience with our Support team has been positive and helpful! If you'd like to discuss specifics further, please don't hesitate to reach me directly at bri@creativeforce.io. Grateful to have you on board, and many thanks again! Bri ### 4. Product Lead Orendt Feedback **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos P. | Product Lead Logistik, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** Creative force is adapable for every needs and the features are ease of implementation and integration. Hosts features of ERP,offers production planning tools, such as shot lists, mood boards, and scheduling templates. The Customer Support is great. Overall it is an effective and easy to use plattform. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Connectivity is sometimes slow. Some tasks (e.g. moving products to another job) take a lot of time. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Overseeing the hole production process, having different styleguides. The Containerlogic helps with bigger warehouses like ours. **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi Carlos, Thank you so much for the thoughtful feedback! I'm really glad to hear you've found Creative Force easy to use and that the variety of functionalities within the system has been beneficial for you and your team. We know how crucial it is for large teams to access everything they need in one place :) We are always open to feedback around how we can optimize performance, so I will certainly take the feedback around connectivity and moving products on board. You are also welcome to reach out to me directly at bri@creativeforce.io so we can take a deeper look! Thanks so much again, excited to continue the journey with you! Bri ### 5. Fast and Reliable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rita H. | Photographer | Ecomm, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** I like that all the progress of the creative process is real time. All members of the team can access the information at any moment. From my experience using CF in the capture station, the customer service has been always phenomenal. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** In my workflow I have not seen downsizes. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We produce high volumes of visual assets and CF helps managing them in every stage of the process. Providing accurate reports of productivity and other KPIs. **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi Rita, Thank you for the kind words! I'm so glad to hear that Creative Force has helped improve visibility across your team with real-time tracking and updates. We know how important it is for all members of the team to have up-to-date and accurate data around the clock! We're grateful to have you on board and look forward to continuing the journey with you! Thanks again, Bri ### 6. Streamlined Ecomm Photo Studio **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Delaney O. | Photo Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** You can tell Creative Force is developed by industry pros with extensive e-commerce backgrounds. Nine times out of ten, there's a solution to your specific problem already built into the system, and if there's not, the Creative Force team will work with you to build it. From the post-production side the amount of manual tracking and filling out information on spreadsheets that Creative Force has eliminated is amazing. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** There are some less than stellar UI situations. Essential features are sometimes buried pretty deep in the interface, and there aren't any options to customize the UI. **Recommendations to others considering Creative Force:** Be prepared to really partner with the Creative Force team to roll out the program for your organization. The onboarding can be strenuous, but it's worth it, and your Creative Force contacts will be with you every step of the way. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking the physical location of photoshoot samples, creating an accurate backlog of products to shoot and edit, streamlining the shot selection and image QC process, having accurate and accessible information for products in one, searchable place. *Update* After expanding our studio operations and moving our post production team to be fully remote Creative Force has become even more vital. Being able to deliver product imagery to our remote team without the use of a VPN is essential to our continued operation. Our efficiency reporting has gotten even more accurate and in-depth as we've learned more about the program and Creative Force has continued to take feedback and implement updates. **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > Hi Delaney, Many thanks for your glowing review! I am delighted to hear that you have been having such a positive experience with Creative Force overall! We are always on the lookout for optimising our UI, so I will certainly take this on board, and you are welcome to reach out to me directly at ian@creativeforce.io to discuss this further! ### 7. An effective tool for studio management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cody H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** The ability to effectively track projects throughout the studio workflow, in person or remotely. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Currently, there are not any dislikes about Creative Force. The team actively rolls out updates via sprints. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Effectively providing a workflow for our products in the studio as well as valuable reporting, insights! **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi Cody, Thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts! I'm so happy to hear that you have had such a positive experience with Creative Force and that tracking and insights have been a valuable addition to your team's process. We're so excited to be on this journey with you and the rest of the team! Thanks again, Bri ### 8. A powerful tool for standardization and streamlining studio processes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David W. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** Creative Force has allowed us to create uniform scalable processes and drastically reduce manual work and mistakes. Their integration with post processing vendors has also significantly reduced our turn around time. The CF team is also incredibly responsive and helpful in answering questions and helping us tailor our workflow **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Our studio has historic workflows and requirements that aren't always easily captured in the CF environment. Legacy requirements can take creative thinking to add to the CF environment, but their team is always willing to help get you there. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creative Force is constantly updating their system to meet users requests and it benefits our teams with increased clarity, output and ease of use. Our KPIs are positively influenced with every sprint update. **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi David, Thanks so much for the kind words! Super happy to hear Creative Force has had a positive impact on your team's process and flow overall. Really glad to hear that you've been able to decrease turnaround time and that there's less need for manual lifting, we know how those smaller tasks can add up. Excited to have you and the team on board! Thanks again for the thoughtful review, Bri ### 9. You'll love this - it's amazing. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** One of the biggest upsides for us; is the amazing service that Creative Force offers. They are available whenever you need them to assist with process, system and to teach you whatever you need. Super useful Creative Force Academy that will ensure your whole team is set up with the right knowledge to get the most out of your system set up. Lots of options, amazing to keep track and useful insights to speed up and/or save time and money in your studio. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Personally, I haven't experienced dislikes to Creative Force. They are open to feedback, have a lot of improvements in the work and quick sprints to fix if something should happen. They contiousnly stay in contact to learn about how you work, what works for you and what you miss to make sure they offer this as soon as possible. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** A very long list of manual work that has decreased due to working with Creative Force. Finally having insights in how far we are in the process, what has to be re-done and how effecient we are working as a team (or solo members from the team for performance enhancement) **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi there, Thank you so much for the kind words! Really excited to hear that you've been able to decrease manual work and that you and your team are feeling well-supported when changes or new processes are needed. We know how important it is to have as much visibility into Insights as possible and it's great to hear the reporting tools are serving you all well. We greatly value your feedback and are so happy to have you on board! Thanks so much again for the thoughtful review. Bri ### 10. Robust & complete production of photography software we use since 2020 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cateline A. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** - It is a complete solution: automated & manual data uploads, style guide integrations, metadata use, real-time production status, user-friendly platforms, retouching vendors integration, etc. - They have an excellent knowledge of the fashion development cycle (a plus) and have a network of high-volume photo studio customers (they understood our requirement on day 1) - They are structured to process and act on different types of feedback (short- and long-term actions); they release software updates monthly. - We can now provide assets under several different clients' requirements and over 50 style guides. - Freelancers can be autonomous quickly since Kelvin module displays the required angles. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Honestly, nothing. Here is some advice: The onboarding is a bit intense; ensure you have a team not impressed by new technology and set category priority. We were sailing smoothly after 2-3 months **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Product data automation upload Automated file naming (accuracy) Shorten the time to create & deliver assets (50-100%) One source of truth for asset status We more than doubled of ecom photo productivity **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi Cateline, Thank you so much for the glowing review! I am so happy to hear that Creative Force has been a valuable tool for you and your team. It's really exciting to hear that since implementing Creative Force you have doubled your e-comm photo productivity! We know how important studio efficiency is and are so glad Creative Force has helped to shorten creation and delivery time. It's been a pleasure to work with you and the rest of the team and we're looking forward to continuing the journey with you all! Kind regards, Bri ### 11. Intuitive software that covers our complete workflow in a user friendly manner. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Niels v. | Photostudio Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** The UX and their attitude towards supporting the client and improvement. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** The stiffness of a workflow management system versus the flexibility of manual management. However the benefits outweight this by far. **Recommendations to others considering Creative Force:** Think of the diversity, complexity and scale of your workflow. The more diverse or complex, the more sense CF makes. But also the more work the set-up/integration will be. This could be outweighed by the scale. There are more options on the market. In my experience CF has a couple of beneifts over the competitors; - It covers an Ecomm workflow completely, from first sample receival to last picture delivered and everything in between. - The UX is catered towards visually oriented users, way more then other options. - It doesnt try to replace in existing Photography Software (Capture One) in our case. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have gained overview and minimized administration. Overall it has helped us smoothen out the workflow, make less misstakes, deliver faster and more accurate. In the near future I expect it will help us shortening leadtimes, improving efficiency and share information easier. **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > Hi Niels, Many thanks for your review! It has been a pleasure to work with you and your team! We aim to take away all of the boring file management parts of a studio operation so that you and your team can focus on what matters most, quality and consistency! ### 12. Easy to use, visually friendly & very good customer support **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Orla v. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** The Creative Force platform offers all parts of photo production, from shooting to quality checks and post production. Everything is combined into one platform. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Pulling data can take a while, and the platform doesn't allow you to pull 100000s of rows at once. Therefore, multiple exports need to be fone. This can be tricky when data needs reviewing outside of CF. Also, resetting a full production type when there is only one new shot needed. This is quite time-consuming. Lastly, I have noticed when assigning products to containers; they often get released without doing it ourselves. The product logs show which users have done this, but this doesn't seem accurate. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am not sure. **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi Orla, Thanks so much for taking the time to share your thoughts! Really glad to hear that overall your experience with Creative Force has been positive and you’ve found it to be easy to use. That said, I want to make sure your experience is the best it can be, I’ve reached out to discuss some of the points you’ve highlighted so we can ensure that your experience is smooth moving forward. Thanks so much again for the thoughtful review! Bri ### 13. Optimized workflow, backup, better overview of production, faster image delivery **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mariana G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** To have a centralized platform that optimizes my workflow. I have a backup of my files and can find and download all the assets in gamma. I have a better overview of our photo production and can track my own production through a period of time. For instance, I have stats and know exactly how much has been shot every month and how far we are in our production. I avoid shooting the same product two times, as the program will show me if the sample has been registered in the platform before. I don’t need to name files manually. I have access to my colleague’s production, and we can make quality check of each other’s images, in case if one of us is absent. I don’t need to login in our external editing service site to reject and comment on images, everything is done through the quality check in gamma. Also, I can write instructions and send images to be corrected internally, by myself or my colleague. We have specific style guides in gamma and Kelvin for each product category, and a feature with color reference so our external editing service will follow standard settings and match model images with packshots. I can reset the production, if needed and can choose which step to be redone. Instead of batch upload, we have each style being uploaded immediately to external production, this is indeed a more effective flow: the images will be edited right away and delivered back faster. Before, I could not expect to have images ready on the same day as they have being shot, but now this is actually possible. Thus, instead of having to wait to process all the images at once in the end of the day, I export and upload just a few images at a time and I can put the clothes on the mannequin while the files are being exported from my software, which makes my flow faster. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Too many clicks in Kelvin, although there is already a few keyboard shortcuts, it could be improved. Folder structure when downloading images from gamma is not optimal, I would like to have all the files in the same folder. There could be a better integration between B2B and B2C production and an easier way to re-use images that are already in the platform. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creative Fore gives me: Faster flow No manual naming Faster image delivery Backup of files Production overview Quality check Avoid shooting the same sample two times **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi Mariana, Thank you so much for your thorough review! I am really happy to hear that there are so many ways Creative Force has helped improve your production process. We know how important every step of the production process is, and I'm very glad to hear that you've felt so much benefit throughout the entire production journey. I also really appreciate you taking the time to share some constructive feedback, that is extremely valuable to me and the team here at CF, as we're always looking for ways we can grow and improve. I'll be sure to share your feedback with the wider team. If you'd like to discuss any of the topics in more detail please don't hesitate to reach me at brianna@creativeforce.io. Thanks so much again for sharing your insights, really looking forward to continuing the journey with you all! Kind regards, Bri ### 14. Excellent Service **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Assata K. | Sample Coordinator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** How easy it is to upload data! I import the information from excel, and it transfers over perfectly. I love that updates are given for which jobs have been repeated, making communication with the whole team easy! **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** There are sometimes tech issues that occur that can take a while to be resolved, and this tends to hold up the production process. However, our team contact for getting these issues resolved is beneficial! **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows for me to prepare our production team for an easy shoot by being able to upload the data necessary on the back end prior to shooting. This is beneficial to me since I can easily transfer data from our internal database. **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi Assata, Thanks so much for the kind words! Super glad to hear that Creative Force has made things run quickly and efficiently when it comes to data management. We know how important it is to ensure all members of the team are on the same page! I do want to make sure that your experience with Creative Force is the best it can be, that said, I'd love to chat further with you about your experience with resolution times, you can reach me at brianna@creativeforce.io to discuss. Thanks so much again for the thoughtful review! Warm regards, Bri ### 15. End-to-end production software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David H. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** Collaboration and Visibility. Producing thousands of images daily in multiple locations with global partners has never been better. CF has given us our single source of truth through a seamless end-to-end production workflow. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Young tech that needs a little more refining. With that said, the CF team is always working on it and incorporating customer feedback to improve the tool for current and future industry needs. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Producing thousands of images daily in multiple locations with global partners has never been better. CF has given us our single source of truth through a seamless end-to-end production workflow. **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi David, Thanks so much for the thoughtful review! It's super to hear that Creative Force has helped support your team's collaborative efforts and increased visibility, we know how crucial that is for a successful production process. We're so happy to have you all on board and are excited to continue the journey with you! Kind regards, Bri ### 16. Great service, Easy workflow for everyone! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Janneke V. | Key Account Producer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** Creative Force has it 24/7 Helpdesk which is very easy for quick questions. Next to that, the set-up per style guide makes it possible to automatize your workflow. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Creative Force works with a workflow that you need to follow completely, when you make a mistake in one of the steps you need to reset + redo all the steps which makes it very difficult to redo things. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creative Force already starting solving bugs in their program. Sometimes we've seen value in chaging view etc. As it's a growing company they keep chaging + improving views. **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi Janneke, Thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts. So glad to hear that overall you've had a positive experience with Creative Force and that it's allowed you all to automate your processes! Really appreciate you sharing the feedback around resets, the team has been hard at work on some exciting new updates coming soon that I think you'll be interested in, I'll connect with you via email to share a few more of the details. Thanks again for the thoughtful review! Bri ### 17. Creative Force is truly the best flow system for studios and brands available **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eva T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** Service levels & support, innovations, UX **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Somewhat rigid flow, not completely customizable. This however also allows for consistency in workflow **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creative Force created an end-to-end solution for content production. It replaces your sheets, improves productivity and allows for great data insights. **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi Eva, Thanks so much for the stellar review! Super happy to hear that the Support team has been a helpful resource for you and that the system has helped your team reduce the need for spreadsheets. We know how important it is to have all data and information in one place for the team to access! Really appreciate you taking the time to share your insights and excited to continue the journey with you! Warm regards, Bri ### 18. My Company uses Creative Force on the Daily! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hannah O. | Production Assistant, Creative, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** My company uses Creative Force as a foundation for all our product and data keeping. As a clothing e-comm business, we are constantly needing to keep track and inventory of all the products and samples, which Creative Force makes easy and accessible to us all! **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** At first glance, the Creative Force tabs and pages can be overwhelming. I think having a more streamlined design on the website could be cohesive for better accessibility by all, no matter if they have a background in its use or not. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Inventory/sample/assest management. It is a database that is the anchor for all we do, from inventory and production/post-production uploading. It is also compatible with Kelvin, which is a huge help for our transferring and management of all our photos. **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi Hannah, Many thanks for the thoughtful review and feedback! Really happy to hear that Creative Force has given your team a centralized and accessible place for your inventory and sample data. Also, love hearing that you've found the flow from Kelvin to Gamma to be helpful for your team's process! I will be sure to share your feedback around Gamma with the team, appreciate you sharing your thoughts! Again, thanks for taking the time, and look forward to continued work with you all, Bri ### 19. Assistant Producer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cara H. | Assistant Producer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** Creative Force makes it easy to find assets from previous shoots thanks to their variety of search options including by product code, direct style number, job title, job dates, etc. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Sometimes trying to override features can get confusing when you are not sure what exactly is preventing the override **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creative Force allows are studio to run multiple sets in one day and for all images to be streamlined in an orderly fashion **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi Cara, Thanks so much for the kind review! Really glad to hear that Creative Force has helped to streamline your studio process. Looking forward to continued work with you all moving forward! Warm regards, Bri ### 20. End to end Studio tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michele T. | Operations manager, PVH Studios, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** Creative Force is easy and intuitive to use. It provides a clear overview of the shooting process from Samples check-in to retouch. End to end process into one system **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Anytime there is a change in style guide or workflow for a product already in progress, we need to reset the whole production and reupload existing images. It will be great to have the option to copy over images from one client to the other one. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creative Force has all the needs under one system, it covers end to end process and limit the needs to have ad-hoc file. Also having real time information helped to have visibility on production **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi Michele, Thanks so much for taking the time to provide such thoughtful insights! I am so happy to hear that Creative Force has been smooth to implement and allowed for increased visibility throughout the production process. Really appreciate you sharing your experience around Style Guide updates and flexibility when it comes to moving images within the system, I will be sure to share your feedback with the wider team. We also release new updates every two weeks, so keep an eye out there for exciting new features to come! Thanks again Michele, really look forward to continuing the journey with you and your team! Cheers, Bri ### 21. Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abigail E. | L, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** Most helpful is assigning shoots to people and times and dates, making it easier to find a product you need and also how far along the production line it is, making the line of production flow a lot easier, thanks **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** it occasionally glitches and acts slow, when editing have to re edit some photos, **Recommendations to others considering Creative Force:** Use it! It's excellent, very efficient way for companies with lots of products to work with. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** solving missing products and where samples are and if they've been shot etc and then who has shot it, and if there's any problems how to get it fixed easier to get online **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > Hi Abigail, Many thanks for the review! So happy to hear that we have been able to help streamline your team's work and progress. Ensure you have a complete overview of where everything is within your studio! Looking forward to continuing working with you going forward! ### 22. Great program. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lindsay H. | Retoucher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** I like how easy it is to collaborate with my coworkers. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Sometimes there are glitches that aren't easily remedied. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can work with my coworkers easily and we can all access the same files. It saves a lot of time. Plus it's really straightforward. **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi Lindsay, Thanks so much for the thoughtful review! Very happy to hear that Creative Force has improved collaboration with your team and made it easy for everyone to be on the same page. Sorry to you've experienced some technical hiccups, would love the chance to hear more about that so we can ensure a smooth experience moving forward. Feel free to contact me at brianna@creativeforce.io. Thanks again for the kind words and look forward to continued work with you and your team! Best, Bri ### 23. A life saver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** The customer support was a deciding factor. They are quick to respond and if they don't have an answer they will follow up. When you're running a studio a prompt response is critical. The software itself is essential to run a studio and they are always making updates. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** The company is fairly new so they are still building out some features. There are ways that I need to use the software that aren't available yet. However they are always updating the software and work with us with work arounds. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** In order to run a photography studio you need to track your orders, quality control your products and deliver your assets. Without it you'd be stuck using spreadsheets. **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi there! Thanks so much for the kind words and so happy to hear you feel well-supported! We certainly understand the fast pace of a studio environment and are happy to hear that those quick responses and clever workarounds have helped your team run smoothly and efficiently. We're always open to feedback, feel free to reach out to me at brianna@creativeforce.io with any additional ideas for new features that would help support your team's process even further and I'd be happy to pass that along to the team. Thanks so much again for sharing your thoughts! Kind regards, Bri ### 24. A Mostly Wonderful E-comm Platform With a Few Annoying Bugs **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David G. | Digital Tech, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** Creative Force allows users to almost seamlessly streamline workflow from image capture to transfer, retouching, and upload to your commerce platform. Once a workflow is created, file management, sorting, and renaming are all done with a few simple clicks. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Creative Force suffers from several glitches, one of which appears when using the 'Assets' tab to create contact sheets of images. Often product codes will show doubled or missing imagery which makes it difficult to review with team members via Zoom. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creative Force, in conjunction with Kelvin, has helped streamline workflow and allowed external and internal retouching teams to quickly and efficiently process images allowing a quicker turnaround time for images to go live online. **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > Hi David, Thank you very much for the review! Great to hear that your overall experience with Creative Force has been positive! That being said, I am keen to make sure your use of CF is without hiccups, so would love to chat about this further with you. You can reach me at ian@creativeforce.io. Kind Regards, Ian ### 25. Incredible Workflow Software with an absolute expert team behind **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** The best thing about Creative Force is the easy-going way for us. As the Workflow and Styleguides are ready, Creative Force is doing everything. We save so much time in the whole process, and that means, of course, a lot of money-saving. As you need something special for your process, the guys from Creative Force are always open to new ideas, and maybe it's so good that they put it into the next sprint already. You get Updates every two weeks, and that's just awesome. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Honestly, there is not that much we don't like. Most things we don't like come from our workflow and thinking. There are a couple of detailed items in Creative Force, e.g., presets where you cannot copy-paste paste, but that's not a big deal for us. All in all, a suitable software solution for high-volume Photo studios. **Recommendations to others considering Creative Force:** Give it a try! In my opinion, there is nothing comparable on the market right now! **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** The biggest problem we could solve with Creative Force is the Data mess we had before. Since the beginning of Creative Force, we can work with good data in a great system. Our main benefit, of course, is the time savings that we see every day in most of our workflow steps. Especially in the retouch, we see a massive difference from our earlier process. I'm excited about the future and happy we decided to work with the great tool and the great team around Creative Force. **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > Hi There, Thank you very much for your kind words! It is great to hear that you and the team have been able to gain so much from working with Creative Force. Our aim is to make running your studio easier and more efficient. Myself and the rest of Creative Force are looking forward to working with you going forward! ### 26. Great "all in one" solution for Studio Management. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** Kernel application is great. Te be able to track assets in the states of the process. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** It does not allow video assets at the moment. Also, It would be great to be able to deploy metadata from Creative Force to other platforms. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralise information for different departments and stakeholders in one single platform. **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi there! Thank you so much for the review and feedback. It's so great to hear that Creative Force has helped you and your team track assets and keep important information accessible for all members of your team in one place. Great news as well, in October we released our Cloud Video Module, feel free to reach me at brianna@creativeforce.io if you'd like to hear more about the new release and how Creative Force can help support video content production. Really appreciate the feedback and thanks again for the kind words! Warm regards, Bri ### 27. Nathan McDowell - Lead Photographer boohooMAN **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathan James M. | Freelance Photographer and retoucher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** It has been an absolute game-changer for how we deal with an ever-increasing demand for accurate ecom photography. Being able to review shots before they go through to retouch is invaluable. It helps productivity and allows smooth management of multiple sets. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Honestly not a lot to grumble about from my end. Everything works as it should, the only thing I think would be very benificial is integrating it with CaptureOne so rejected imagery can go straight back to the photographer. Or maybe flagging this through Kelvin with pop notifications? Other than that I absolutely love the platform **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Workflow is a lot more efficient; being able to highlight issues earlier in the process and saving time not manually logging everything that has been shot are all huge positives. The ability to pull feedback in the form of contact sheets is great in terms of training and furthering the team's alignment with the brand. **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > Hi Nathan, Thank you very much for such high praise! All of this is music to our ears, as it is great to know we have been able to make you and the team that much more efficient! I will certainly share the feedback around rejection notifications directly in Kelvin! We are releasing new features every two weeks so keep your eyes peeled! Thanks again for the feedback here Nathan! ### 28. Great program **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** I like how easy it is to collaborate with my coworkers. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Sometimes there are glitches that aren't easily remedied. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** It saves a lot of time because I don't have to manually send files to anyone. **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi there! Thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts. Love to hear that Creative Force has helped to save time when it comes to asset management and transfer! We strive to resolve any issues as quickly and efficiently as possible, I'd love to hear more about your experience here, feel free to email me at brianna@creativeforce.io to discuss further. Look forward to continuing the journey with you! Kind regards, Bri ### 29. Efficient workflow at its finest **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** User-friendly interface with high functionality **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Sometimes hard to reset production when internal issues arise **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creative Force helps condense the work flow when working on multiple sets **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > Hi there, Thanks so much for the kind review! Thrilled to hear that Creative Force has improved the efficiency of the workflow process for your studio. Thanks again for the feedback and excited to continue the journey with you all! Warm regards, Bri ### 30. You can so easily find images that have been edited in the archive **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joey M. | Photo Retoucher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** For one of my jobs I have to find original shots and re-edit them in a higher resolution. Being able to find them so quickly and efficiently is a gift. Our old system was a nightmare! **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** When I download my assets to upload them to our server at the beginning of the next day I'd like a download all button instead of having to select every image individually. I've missed some items because of this, especially because some of the items at the bottom don't load sometimes. **Recommendations to others considering Creative Force:** Use it, you won't be sorry **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** With our old system, sometimes retouchers could accidentally select and edit the same item and waste time. With creative force it never happens, and this has stopped a lot of heartaches. **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > Hi Joseph, Many thanks for sharing your thoughts on Creative Force! It is great to hear that we have been able to take you away from a nightmare, and there are no regrets about making the switch! On the download question, we may have something that works for you around this usecase! If you want to reach out to at ian@creativeforce.io we can discuss this further! ### 31. Excellent All Inclusive E-Commerce Solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2021 **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 **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. **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. **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. **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > 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! ### 32. A helpful suite of products **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **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. **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. **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. **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > 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! ### 33. Very dynamic tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** The individual ability to customize the tool to your own uses. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** While creative force us very useful the UI isn't very inviting to new team members **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows us to have a dynamic workflow with our sample product intakes from start to finish. **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > 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 ### 34. Fastest updates ever **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Textiles | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2022 **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 **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Information emails pop up quite often, could me minimalized **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Extremely helpful tool to scan your products quickly, without effort and easy to handle **Official Response from Brianna Horwath:** > 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 ### 35. Very useful software for ecommerce studios! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matt S. | Lead Stylist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2022 **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. **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. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Even with as many steps as it has, it is still closing the window of human error in our file management process from naming to image destinations **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > 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! ### 36. Great program **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hannah M. | Freelance Photographer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** Makes working more efficient, saves alot of time and allows working to be alot more oragnsied **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** occasionally glitches, but does not do this too often **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** speeds up working process makes more streamline **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > 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! ### 37. Easy to use and shortened the time from shooting to uploading **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2021 **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) **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. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are saving a lot of time and confusion when it comes to selecting, cropping, and editing shots. It's also very nice to have all of our spreadsheets condensed into a single program **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > 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 ### 38. very helpful portal **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Faranak G. | B, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** The way we upload images.it's fast and easy **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** The way you need to search for a product. Sometimes it isn't very clear. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We don't need to photoshoot all our shoes. We just ask for hi-resolution images and upload them. **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > 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! ### 39. Workflow Made Easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marie-Michele H. | Editing Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2021 **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. **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. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Retouching point of view, we are saving a lot of time in our QC process. **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > 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! ### 40. Experience of using Creative Force as a tool supporting E-commerce Studio's production. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adam F. | Production Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2021 **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. **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. **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. **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. **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > 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! ### 41. Workflow made easier in all stages **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Larissa P. | Image Retoucher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** How Creative Force integrates with photoshop to make the retoucher's life easier, workflow faster, helping avoid human error when it comes to file naming, sets of images are automatically uploaded so you can never miss one, and how intuitive the interface is becoming. How it saves me time everyday, automating what used to take me double the amount of time, like delegating, QCing and uploading images. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** There are still small tweeks to be made, which the Creative Force team is aware and working on all the time. We had changes done that were not for the best but after a feedback they listened and reverted in 24 hours which surprised me! They actually listen! **Recommendations to others considering Creative Force:** Can't stress enough how saving time and lessen the mount of work made my days easier and more productive. I am at the very end of a big workflow, retouching and uploading the final images that will go to the website, and every step of my process has improved. From delegating to quality control, I highly recomend Creative Force as a tool to easy some of the pressure on your dealines and daily targets. Trust me, I've been there! **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** No more sharing huge folders with different people. If you delegate workload to retouchers like I do, having the assigning process makes your life much easier and will save you a lot of time. I used to have to download images, separate in folders, create shared folders for each retoucher, send, download at the end of the day, review and upload. I am now just assigning through Creative Force, the HUE extention will do the download, open files, upload, and I will only need to review and approve the sets (and they will always be complete no, no moe missing images). I can say I now take 1 hour to do a task that used to take me arouns 2:30 hours to complete. And no more chasing wrong codes! **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > Hi Larissa, Thank you very much for your kind review! User feedback is very much at the core of what drives us forward towards continued success, and I am glad we have been able to illustrate that for you! ### 42. Initial set up is tedious but worth it and staff support is incredible! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** Visibility and tracking. Lots of analytics to dig into once you've used for a good period of time. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** The basic features are fairly intuitive but there are lots of hidden little buttons and levers that aren't obvious and can hold you up from going to the next step or completing a task. Initial setup and integration is tedious if you have a homegrown admin system/platform, but the CF team is happy to partner with engineering and dev teams to support setup. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creative force is a great way to manage workflows and track progress, bottlenecks, and timelines. This enables us to create more visibility and reporting on timelines of each process and also efficiencies of processes/individuals. **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > Hi There, Thank you very much for your review! Making sure Creative Force is easy to use and get up to speed is critical for us and I would love to discuss your experience further. Feel free to reach out to me at ian@creativeforce.io Though it is great to hear that the team have been on hand to help you along the way! Thanks again for working with us! ### 43. Easy to navigate and regularly updated! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Relations and Communications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** What I like most about the platform is how easy it is to navigate through the website. The layout is also straightforward. I'm happy that I can check the status of each image and where its location resides without having to bother other colleagues in other departments. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** It's not necessarily something to dislike; it's some feedback: it would be cool to have an option where you can get a notification when an image is uploaded and finalized. **Recommendations to others considering Creative Force:** Some advice I have is to take the time to explore the platform. Ask questions to your colleagues to make sure you are getting the most of it (if you work in another department apart from content creating or photography). **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** The first and foremost problem that this software helps with has to be the back and forth communication between other departments. It allows you to be more independent and less reliable on others. **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > Hi There, Thank you very much for giving us this review! I am delighted to hear that you find Creative Force easy to use, and it gives you a clear overview of where everything is within your studio! I have shared your notification suggestion with our product team! We are always working to build Creative Force around the feedback from our users! ### 44. Creative Freedom Through Process Optimisation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** - Automation of menial tasks/ file management - Reduction of Human Errors in the process - Operational oversight - Increase in Creativity through a shift in process for the team. - Visibility from line level to top level. - Exciting to see the developments to the system and the desire for the company to grow and support us. - How quick to reply, supportive and friendly everyone at Creative Force has been to both myself and the team - I can't praise the team enough at Creative Force. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** There isn't much that I could say that I dislike with Creative Force. If I were to be picky, I would say two things stand out as mild gripes. First is that due to the system being fully cloud-based, if there are any issues with the internet or server, the team grinds to a halt. Currently, no fallback to allow work to be continued/ qued up until connection is restored. The next would be, although very attentive to development ideas. Due to having to weigh against multiple different customers, development on smaller pieces that might be important to us, we will naturally have to take a back foot. **Recommendations to others considering Creative Force:** Creative Force won't automatically solve any problems you have. What it will allow is great oversite and visibility to understand where you need to center your and your team's attention. The team at Creative Force is focused on making everyone in studios' lives as easy as possible. That shines through both in the system its self and conversations with the Creative Force Team. With an easier work-life comes; an increase in happiness, creativity, and enjoyment of just being able to 'do the do' without worrying about the boring stuff that goes alongside a manual process. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Efficiency Creativity Reporting Visibility **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > Thank you very much for this glowing review of Creative Force! I am thrilled to hear we have been able to level up you and the team, allowing you all to focus on what really matters within the photo studio. Listening and engaging with our customers is one biggest driver towards future growth and development, and we try to strike the best balance around the feature requests we receive. Thanks again for this great feedback, and I am looking forward to continuing our successful partnership! ### 45. Creative Force has helped my team organize in amazing ways! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ian M. | Senior Editor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** It is handy for tracking and managing processes and inventory. My team is now able to wrok seemlessly with each other in ways that were not possible before. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** So far, the only issue I have had is slow loading times. **Recommendations to others considering Creative Force:** I suggest having their team take a look at your current processes. They can quickly assist in figuring out if this option is best for you. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** My team has been able to accurately track and manage our processes across multiple teams because of this. We can also track insights, and now our workflow is appropriately managed. **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > Hi Ian, Many thanks for your feedback! I am delighted to hear of all the success we have helped drive for your team! I would very much like to work with you on your loading times, if you are able to reach out to me at ian@creativeforce.io, I would be happy to discuss this further with you! ### 46. Creative Force Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jordan C. | P, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** I like how intuitive it is to use the program. The program is straightforward to use. It also works seamlessly with Photoshop. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Before using Creative Force, I had a very organized way of keeping track of my files. When transitioning to Creative Force, I had to adjust my workflow a little bit. **Recommendations to others considering Creative Force:** If you are looking for an intuitive piece of software, then look no further. Creative Force is a great tool that has increased my productivity tremendously. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creative Force makes managing my files very easy. I realized how seamless it is to transition from one piece of software to another. One issue that I previously had was downloading files from a VPN. With Creative Force, that step in my workflow is now unnecessary, allowing me to be more productive. **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > Hi Jordan, Many thanks for your review! I am glad to hear that you have found Creative Force so easy to use! It is one of our core aims to make our software as easy to use as possible while still also offer the granularity that your studio needs! ### 47. Smooth, fast and easy. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marlena K. | Senior Digital Content Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** First, it has made our work faster - from the checked-in products to the final step - asset delivery, it covers our workflow completely. It makes the work of coordinators, photographers, DGO's, stylists, retouchers and quality control team easier. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Things can always be improved, but it just takes time and not everything can be introduced at once. It's fantastic because many new features and improvements have been added to what we requested. **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** For each role, there are a lot of useful tools and many process problems and human erros have been eliminated and resolved. **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > Hi Marlena, Thank you very much for this feedback! I am delighted to hear that you and the team have been enjoying Creative Force and we have been able to integrate into your studio so seamlessly! ### 48. Made shooting 100x easier **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Photography | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** How organized and straightforward it makes shooting daily. makes sure we have all the shots we need so we do not miss anything off. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Sometimes it glitches and freezes when connected to capture **Recommendations to others considering Creative Force:** If you want to streamline your workflow and make keeping on top of products easier then would definitely reccomend **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** efficiency is the main problem we have solved. streamlines the process, meaning we spend less time going back through shoots for images we have missed **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > Hi There, Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts on Creative Force! I am delighted to hear that your daily work has been made easier through Creative Force! It is one of our core focuses to improve efficiency and drive our users to focus on the things that really matter! As ever, in case you have any issues feel free to reach out to us via chat or by emailing support@creativeforce.io ### 49. Creative Force is a polyvalent end to end software that can automate processes in photo studios. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Florian W. | Product Manager Creative Force, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** The software can be used in any customer process and is easy to use. With reports you can understand exactly where you have Room for Improvement. With no other software, we can offer the customer more transparency and show him how good and fast we can produce. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Things that the software can't do now are already on the roadmap. Feature requests are always welcome **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Process automation means that less data is lost and quality increases. We are also much faster! Our post process is now 75% more efficient. **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > Hi Florian, Many thanks for this review! It has been a pleasure to work with you to date, and looking forward to many more years to come! ### 50. Great merchandising and overall production tool. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Giovanni C. | Photographer and Producer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Creative Force?** Ease to set up and get going with sample tracking. **What do you dislike about Creative Force?** Still working out bugs with smaller clients. More personalized options to cater to different types of clients **What problems is Creative Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Proper merchandising and file handling **Official Response from Ian Mitchell:** > Hi Giovanni, Many thanks for your feedback! Super to hear that we have been easy to integrate into your studio! 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