RAW to Delivery Color

Apply one agreed look across a shoot and export delivery files that match the proof the client approved.

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Media / AUTOMATE.md

When a set is marked ready, check each file in the delivery folder against the agreed size, color space, and file type, then email me the mismatch list before anything is packed.

Ready-made: Export Settings Check

The job, and what good looks like.

### What breaks Every retoucher reads the brief differently, so 200 product shots arrive in six different whites. Proofs look right on a bright laptop and wrong in print, and the correction gets made twice. ### What the workflow does - Fix one working color space and one export recipe per job, and write them into the file. - Photograph a ColorChecker card in the first frame of the set and keep it with the shoot. - Pick the frame closest to the target white and use it as the reference. - Match the rest of the set to that frame rather than to each frame's own white balance. - Export from the same settings every time, including the embedded profile. ### What a human still approves The colorist chooses the reference frame and signs off on the first export before the batch runs. The workflow removes the re-grade on the retouch pass; it does not decide what the product should look like.

When it is handled

  • One working color space per job
  • Reference frame attached to the shoot
  • Exports match the approved proof
  • No re-grade on the retouch pass

Works with tools like

  • Capture One
  • Adobe Lightroom
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • ColorChecker

Ready-made automations. Pick the one that fits.

Each one is a plain-language document. Run it as it is, or change the timing, the rules and the tools to match your team.

Export Settings Check

When a set is marked ready, check each file in the delivery folder against the agreed size, color space, and file type, then email me the mismatch list before anything is packed.

When a set is marked ready to export

Reference Frame Pick

When a product set is imported, find the frame holding the ColorChecker card closest to the target, set it as the reference, and post the file name so the rest of the set follows it.

When a product set is imported

You stay in charge.
At every step.

It checks and files. Every creative call stays yours.

  • It never deletes on its own

    It checks, lists and files. Deleting or formatting anything waits for your OK.

  • Undo a move you don't want

    Every step is recorded, and files it moved or renamed can be put back.

  • Your drives stay yours

    It works on the folders you point it at, on your computer. Nothing is uploaded to a new library.

Export Settings Check

Approve before it sends the email?

ReviewApprove

Before you download.

Where does it run?
On your Mac or Windows computer, in the background. It keeps working after you close its window, and only reaches the folders and apps you connect for each automation.
How does it connect to our CRM and other tools?
Through each app's own connection where it offers one, signed in once by you, or by using the app in a browser the way you would. Each automation gets only the connections you give it, and the tools a page names are examples you can swap for your own.
Does it run when my computer is asleep?
It keeps your computer awake while a job runs and just before a scheduled one. While the computer is closed or off, nothing runs; when it wakes, it checks the inbox, calendar and other sources it watches for anything that arrived meanwhile.
How does my team use it?
Each person who runs automations installs the app. Keep a project in a shared folder, such as Google Drive or a network drive, and teammates can open it and follow every run, while one person owns it and runs it.
Do I need anyone technical to set it up?
No. Download the app, add an automation in plain words, and connect only what that job needs. Nothing runs until you switch it on.

Already have tools for this? Here is the difference.

Presets and actions in your editor

Repeating the same edit across many files.

They can't check a delivery against an approval or tell you a card didn't copy.

Flowchart automation tools

Moving data between cloud apps.

They rarely reach local drives, and every exception becomes another branch.

Doing it by hand

Knowing exactly what happened.

It is the part of the job that waits until midnight.

AUTOMATE.md

Your routine, written in plain words. It runs on its own, follows your rules, handles the exceptions a flowchart can't, and asks you when it matters. The file stays yours, whichever AI model runs it.

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Start with one job.
Make it your own.

macOS — coming soon
  1. 1

    Get the app

    It runs on your computer, next to your files.

  2. 2

    Add the automation

    Paste the instructions into the app, or save them as a file next to your work.

  3. 3

    Try it, then turn it on

    Run it once and check the result. It only runs on its own once you switch it on.

macOS — coming soon