Introduction

Syle Guides are central in ProStudio and serves many purposes, besides providing information to the photographer. Style Guides are attached to Products in the Work Order and defines how each product should be captured, for example how many views are needed. The Style Guide in ProStudio serves three central purposes:

1. Give information to the photographer on what to shoot and how
2. Define how to identify images when they are uploaded
3. Set the rules for naming you Assets.

The Style Guide in ProStudio is structured with some core information about the specific Style and then all the views that are included in the Style Guide, e.g. Front, Back, Detail, etc.

Setting up the Style Guide

In order to set up a new Style Guide, you click on Settings/Style Guides. This will show you all the available Style Guides.

To create a completely new Style Guide click on "Create new Style Guide"

If you have many Style Guides you can always search for them. For this purpose we recommend to use a naming convention that makes searching easy.

General settings

On the first page you are asked to fill in the name and a description of the Style Guide, this will be displayed on the front page.

You are also able to upload an avatar to show an example of the style guide. This is the image that will be displayed on the main Style Guide page.

On the right hand side you will find two buttons:

• Disable Style Guide is used to deactivate the Style Guide for usage, this is to help you create new Style Guides and choose when to publish them.
• Archive Style Guide is used to remove a Style Guide from the available style guides when they are no longer in use.

Views

In the Create Style Guide panel there is a second tab called Views. This is used to identify all the angles on a Style Guide.

NOTE: you can add many Views on a Style Guide but choose to use only a select few for a specific Work Order.

The fields that are available for each View is dependent on how many attributes you have defined, for more details about configuring fields, please refer to System configuration, View Attributes.

If you add avatars for each view, these will also be shown on the first page and displayed as small thumbnails.

Quick actions

For your convenience we have made a few useful quick actions on the first page. When on the main page and hover your mouse over an existing Style Guide you will be shown a black panel on the right hand side of the Style Guide.

1. The first icon will open up the Style guide for editing
2. The second icon will allow you to copy the whole Style Guide to make it easier and faster to produce new ones
3. The third button is used to disable the Style Guide. A disabled Style Guide will have a tag stating that is is disabled
4. The last icon is used to archive the Style Guide. It will then disappear from the general listing but can always be retrieved by clicking on the "Include Archived" for the main page.