Learn how to set basic service properties to get started creating powerful workflows.

1. What is Color Factory?
2. Color Factory system requirements
3. Installing Color Factory
4. First-time-configuration
5. What you need to know about channels
6. Creating a channel
7. Adjusting basic channel settings
8. Enabling or disabling channel features
9. Monitoring and configuring the Color Factory service
10. Color Factory editions
11. The Clients view in Operations Center Status
12. Updating from a 32-bit to a 64-bit version of Color Factory
13. Color Factory processing sequence

This guide can be used as a reference when you build your workflows.

Learn how Color Factory can be put to use to manage your archived assets.

1. Avoiding duplicate content in archives
2. Automatically purging old or outdated content
3. Automating the migration of content from an old system into Fotoware
4. Avoiding unnecessarily recompressing JPEG files
5. Creating a standardized set of categories when receiving wirefeeds
6. Filtering out files that have insufficient metadata
7. Filtering out pictures with clipped highlights and shadows
8. Making a one-time metadata update to your entire archive
9. Preserving the original filename in a workflow
10. Real-life example: How we publish wirefeed content on our FotoWeb demo server
11. Replacing lo-res images with hi-res in PDF workflows
12. Sorting assets according to who uploaded them
13. Sorting files in a folder structure by year, month and day
14. Splitting JPEG and RAW files in a workflow
15. Structuring your assets in a meaningful way
16. Transferring assets that have been used in production into a long-term archive
17. Turning filenames into usable, searchable metadata
18. Using database lookup to populate metadata fields with photographer information

1. About Job Request Files and other XML formats
2. Job Request File specification