Our product team was busier than ever this year—mainly because it multiplied this past year. We were lucky enough to grow our product team with some talented team members who are helping us expand our product offerings and update our existing platform. And we love seeing everything they roll out!
Here’s our 2024 updates:
Video Upgrades
Our video product has been around for a while now, which, of course, means it was time for an upgrade. We integrated video more into our platform, which allows for easier QA and file management. All input files can be found at the bottom of your order page and are also listed in the dropdown when you are doing QA in CloseUp. Comments were also made available on videos, so if you need to make further edits to your video, you can leave a note in CloseUp.
Watch it in our webinar from earlier this year here.
Virtual Models
We expanded our product offerings into new territory this year with Virtual Models. Implementing virtual models opens up a whole world of new opportunities. Like the conversation around Gen AI, we see virtual models as another fantastic tool in the kit to help optimize workflows and even increase creativity.
Learn more about Virtual Models in our webinar from earlier this year. And most importantly, learn about the difference between CGI and AI created models.
CloseUp
CloseUp is the tool that makes QA easy, and it got another upgrade this year. This year's upgrades were all about simplifying. To go into depth with these upgrades, read the dedicated blog post, but here’s a short breakdown:
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Breadcrumb navigation
- Saved markups and comments
- Predefined comments
- UI/UX improvements
Automated Workflows
We’ve made some of our fastest AI workflows available to our customers. Automated Workflows was released this year - although it’s new, it’s actually not quite new! Our customers can now get direct access to our automation and AI with independent workflows available. These workflows are normally part of much larger workflows that include work done by our expert retouchers and QA team. But with Fully Automated Workflows, you get fast, fully automated editing for steps like background removal, background recolor, cropping, and more. Get in touch with your account manager or our customer success team to learn more.
API Updates
We couldn’t leave our API out of the updates. If you use our API, you’ll be happy to know that this year we added Color Change and Markup updates. For Markup, you can include reference images to further control and customize your post-production. This update also makes it possible to reject image processing requests or comments before they are completed. For Color Change, we simply made it easy to request a color change with our API integration.