Overview

There is a couple of settings that could configure publishing process for Photoshop. All of them are Project based, eg. each project could have different configuration.

Auto Install Extension​

Setting Location: ayon+settings://photoshop/auto_install_extension

When enabled, it will try to install AYON Photoshop extension to user appData if it's not installed already.

Example: C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CEP\extensions\io.ynput.PS.panel

It checks extension version for current addon version and updates it if necessary.
If artist has extension installed in original directory (Program Files), installation in appData takes a precedence. Works for Windows and MacOS.

Color Management (ImageIO)​

Setting Location: ayon+settings://photoshop/imageio

Creator plugins​

Contains configurable items for creators used during publishing from Photoshop.

Create Image​

Setting Location: ayon+settings://photoshop/create/ImageCreator

Provides list of variants that will be shown to an artist in Publisher. Default value Main.

Create Flatten Image​

Setting Location: ayon+settings://photoshop/create/AutoImageCreator

Provides simplified publishing process. It will create single image instance for artist automatically. This instance will produce flatten image from all visible layers in a workfile.

• Product template for flatten image - provide template for product name for this instance (example imageBeauty)

• Review - should be separate review created for this instance

Create Review​

Setting Location: ayon+settings://photoshop/create/ReviewCreator

Creates single review instance automatically. This allows artists to disable it if needed.

Create Workfile​

Setting Location: ayon+settings://photoshop/create/WorkfileCreator

Creates single workfile instance automatically. This allows artists to disable it if needed.

Publish plugins​

Contains configurable items for publish plugins used during publishing from Photoshop.

Collect Color Coded Instances​

Set color for publishable layers, set its resulting product type and template for product name. Can create flatten image from published instances. (Applicable only for remote publishing!)

• Create flatten image​

  • Flatten with images - produce additional image with all published image instances merged

  • Flatten only - produce only merged image instance

  • No - produce only separate image instances

• Product name template for flatten image​

  • Template used to create product name automatically (example image{layer}Main - uses layer name in product name)

• Color Code Mappings

  • Each mapping

    

    • Color code for layers

    • Layer name regex

    • Resulting product type

    • Product name template

  • + : Add a mapping

Collect Review​

Setting location: ayon+settings://photoshop/publish/CollectReview

Disable if no review should be created

Collect Version

If enabled it will push version from workfile name to all published items. Eg. if artist is publishing test_asset_workfile_v005.psd produced image and review files will contain v005 (even if some previous version were skipped for particular family).

Validate Outdated Containers

This setting lives in core addon settings: ayon+settings://core/publish/ValidateOutdatedContainers/plugin_state_profiles
Add photoshop to Host names to enable it for photoshop.

Checks if all imported assets to the workfile through Loader are in latest version. Limits cases that older version of asset would be used.

If enabled, artist might still decide to disable validation for each publish (for special use cases). Limit this optionality by toggling Optional. Active toggle denotes that by default artists sees that optional validation as enabled.

Validate naming of products and layers

Setting Location: ayon+settings://photoshop/publish/ValidateNaming

Product cannot contain invalid characters or extract to file would fail

• Regex pattern of invalid characters​:

  Contains weird characters like /, /, these might cause an issue when file (which contains product name) is created on OS disk.

• Replacement character​:

  Replace all offending characters with this one. _ is default.

Extract Image​

Setting Location: ayon+settings://photoshop/publish/ExtractImage

Controls extension formats of published instances of image product type. png and jpg are by default.

Extract Review​

Setting Location: ayon+settings://photoshop/publish/ExtractReview

Controls output definitions of extracted reviews to upload on Asset Management (AM).

• Makes an image sequence instead of flatten image​:

  If multiple image instances are produced, glue created images into image sequence (mov) to review all of them separately. Without it only flatten image would be produced.

• Maximum size of sources for review​:

  Set Byte limit for review file. Applicable if gigantic image instances are produced, full image size is unnecessary to upload to AM.

• Extract jpg Options​:

  

  Handles tags for produced .jpg representation. Create review and Add review to Ftrack are defaults.

• Extract mov Options​:

  

  Handles tags for produced .mov representation. Create review and Add review to Ftrack are defaults.

Workfile Builder

Setting Location: ayon+settings://photoshop/workfile_builder

Allows to open prepared workfile for an artist when no workfile exists. Useful to share standards, additional helpful content in the workfile.

Could be configured per Task type, eg. composition task type could use different .psd template file than art task. Workfile template must be accessible for all artists. (Currently not handled by Site Sync)

• Create first workfile: When enabled save first workfile after building from template.

• Template profiles:

  • each profile

    

    • Task Types: Specify matched tasks. When a user launches in that task, the template will be built.

    • Template Path: Specify the path for the per OS template .psd file.

  • + : Add a profile