I work in a busy retouching studio and we're constantly trying to streamline our workflow. One thing we can never seem to standardize is folder labels...every job is different and has different color coding requirements, and colors get added as needed and repurposed on a per-job basis. There is simply no single mandate for color coding that will work perfectly for every job.
Rather than try to shoehorn every job into a template of label colors, I'd like to manually set up a color key for each job, which would become the background image for the top level folder of a job on the server. That way, anyone who opens the folder in thumbnail view would see the color key as the folder background, and immediately understand the color codes for the files and/or folders.
The problem with this is that custom folder backgrounds are not persistent across the network. I'm not the IT guy at my studio...just a retoucher with some ideas. I'm sure our IT guy could implement an image as a custom folder background for each job that everyone could see, but he has enough to do and doesn't need any new tasks. This is something I would like the retouchers and producers to be able to do manually themselves. Granted, I could email the folder image to every person on the team and tell them how to set it up, but that's not going to happen either.
For now, I'd be happy to do it myself for all incoming jobs, and have everyone be able to see the background images. Any ideas?
Rather than try to shoehorn every job into a template of label colors, I'd like to manually set up a color key for each job, which would become the background image for the top level folder of a job on the server. That way, anyone who opens the folder in thumbnail view would see the color key as the folder background, and immediately understand the color codes for the files and/or folders.
The problem with this is that custom folder backgrounds are not persistent across the network. I'm not the IT guy at my studio...just a retoucher with some ideas. I'm sure our IT guy could implement an image as a custom folder background for each job that everyone could see, but he has enough to do and doesn't need any new tasks. This is something I would like the retouchers and producers to be able to do manually themselves. Granted, I could email the folder image to every person on the team and tell them how to set it up, but that's not going to happen either.
For now, I'd be happy to do it myself for all incoming jobs, and have everyone be able to see the background images. Any ideas?