Photoshop Café
Gridiron Software launches the much anticipated Gridiron Flow Visual Workflow Manager! PhotoshopCAFE members get $100 OFF*!
By Colin Smith
June 29, 2009
Gridiron Flow
Be totally organized without organizing anything
Flow is a Visual Workflow Manager that keeps creative professionals and workgroups streamlined and informed.
Flow gives you a total understanding of your project, showing you how all the pieces fit together. In one simple, elegant interface, everyone involved in a project can see, instantly access and share all project files – regardless of where they’re stored or who created them.
The key benefits of Flow:
- Total understanding of a project: A new way to see the structure of a project and visually understand how all the pieces fit together—in one simple interface. Know how much time was spent on a project and how much money was made or lost.
- Total access to a project: Creative professionals on multiple computers can easily see and instantly access all project files, no matter where they’re stored or who created them. One simple interface keeps everyone in sync.
- Total insurance for a project: No more lost files, no more accidents, no more all-nighters. Revert to any version of any file, anytime. Deliver everything right the first time, without changing a thing.
Features:
- Workflow Map: Visual interface shows all your project files and how they’re connected. It gives you a 30,000-foot view of your project, the way you see it in your mind.
- Real-time Asset Tracking: Tracks the connections between your project files in real-time. It runs transparently in the background, keeping track of all file relationships by watching your Save/Save As, Cut/Paste, Drag and Drop, and Import/Export actions—in all major creative pro and Office productivity applications.
- Visual Versioning: Lets you access a complete history of a file and revert to any version. Flow saves your versions automatically and invisibly. Every time you make a change to your file, Flow saves a version, along with a thumbnail that SHOWS you the change you made.
- Visual Search: Finds any file, even if it’s offline, and shows how it fits into your project. SEE how the file you just found is related to the other files in your project, and how and where it fits into the big picture.
- Foolproof Packaging: Gathers and updates all files automatically, keeping the package current. Do more than just archive and deliver files—actually work from your package since it is live and will update as you make changes.
- Time Tracking: Automatically records how much time was spent on a file or a project. No more hunting through your email and phone logs to try to figure out how much time you spent working on a particular project. No more wasting precious time filling in time sheets.
- Share Maps: Creative professionals on multiple computers can see and instantly access all project files. Because one common Map means zero chaos, the whole team is always in sync—without anyone having to do anything different.
- CS4 Flow Flash Panel: Brings the power of Flow right inside the applications you use every day—like Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign or Flash. Think of it as your “creative hub” that takes you anywhere you need to go in a snap.
System Requirements:
Windows
- Windows XP, Windows Vista (32/64 bit)
- Pentium 1 GHz or higher
- 100 MB disk space for Flow installation (1 GB disk space recommended for Flow data)
- 1 GB RAM
- 1024 x 768 screen resolution
- Broadband connection for download
Mac
- Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard (Intel/PPC)
- 40 MB disk space for Flow installation (1 GB disk space recommended for Flow data)
- 1 GB RAM
- 1024 x 768 screen resolution
- Dialup connection for download (broadband recommended)