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Licensing Procedures
Logo Changes
- After logo artwork has been approved by licensor:
- All Picnic Time employees need to be notified
- All customers need to be notified (via stock status email)
- An updated notice needs to be posted on Picnic Time's updates web page
- The following digital assets need to be updated
- Team style guide
- Product decoration files for embroidery, engraving and/or digital printing
- Ask the Creative team to create Print File
- Create Task in Intervals
- When complete, Print File will be placed in “SAMPLE S ONLY” folder e.g., \\PTFILES\SharedGraphics\COMMUNITY_ARTWORK\Chroma-Tec\_LICENSED\NBA_chroma\_SAMPLES ONLY
- Review Print File against style guide art
- Request product sample to submit to licensor (NBA excluded)
- Once get full product approval, move the file to Product Image folder in DAM
- Convert PSD to JPEG and place in Product Image folder in Z drive
- Open Adobe Cloud- BRIDGE
- Route to N drive
- Open working files e.g.,\\PTFILES\ActiveProjects\Entities\4-NBA\TEMP_SAVES\1-Working
- Wait for all files to load
- Find file want to change
- Make sure file is named correctly (ex: 522-49-472-044-2_m.psd)
- Will change both single shots and multi shots (_m)
- If need to confirm if the item needs a multi shot, go to Product Images in Z drive, all art needs to be consistent
- Once review and confirm files are good, ready to convert to JPEG
- Select files you want to covert, can select more than 1
- Go to Tools- top tool bar
- Go to Photoshop
- Click Image Processor
- File is opened in Photoshop
- Section 1- n/a
- Section 2- this tells where to save file, create a TEMP file on desk top for JPEGS
- Section 3-
- Save as JPEG
- Quality 10
- Uncheck PSD
- Uncheck TIFF
- Check Resize to Fit
- Width= 2400 Height=2400
- Click RUN
- This is converting to SRGB, taking CMYK and making it Web Ready (RGB files are web files)
- Now image is saved on desk top in TEMP folder, need to move to Product Images in Z drive, licensed items. Just drag and drop file into Product Images folder.
- Design sheets for NCAA products only
- Visual matrix logos
- Product pages on website
Packaging
| Status | Assigned To | Task | Changes Status To | Assigns To | Adds Followers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Task Created) | Licensing* (Tiff, Jason, Denise) | Determines merchandising requirements with Brandon/Jesse Enters task and provides entity, product and packaging type (Packaging Module) | Open | Creative Team (Anna, Brooke, Krista, Maryam) | Tiff, Jason, Denise |
| Open | Creative Team (Anna, Brooke, Krista, Maryam) | Anna reviews task and assigns to someone on team | Assigned | Creative Team (Anna, Brooke, Krista, Maryam) | Jesse |
| Assigned | Creative Team (Anna, Brooke, Krista, Maryam) | Creates packaging | Review | Jesse | |
| Review | Jesse | Jesse reviews and approves packaging Assigns task to Tiffany | Review | Licensing (Tiff, Jason, Denise) | |
| Review | Licensing (Tiff, Jason, Denise) | Submits to Entity | Pending Approval | Licensing (Tiff, Jason, Denise) | |
| Pending Approval | Licensing (Tiff, Jason, Denise) | If revisions are needed (optional) | Redo/Modify | Creative Team (Anna, Brooke, Krista, Maryam) | |
| Redo/Modify | Creative Team (Anna, Brooke, Krista, Maryam) | Revisions made and PDFs saved (optional) | Review | Licensing (Tiff, Jason, Denise) | |
| Review | Licensing (Tiff, Jason, Denise) | Resubmit again to Entity (optional) | Pending Approval | Licensing (Tiff, Jason, Denise) | |
| Pending Approval | Licensing (Tiff, Jason, Denise) | Receives Concept Approval from Entity; adds detailed notes | Approved by Entity | Anna | |
| Approved by Entity | Anna | Prepares print proof of packaging for domestic printer (Ernest Pkg) | Ready for Supplier | Buyer | |
| Ready for Supplier | Buyer | Enters a PO for 2 samples (1: PT, 1: supplier) of print ready packaging and sends Artwork to domestic printer | Domestic Printer | Inventory Controller | |
| Domestic Printer | Inventory Controller | Print proofs received & entered into Sales Pad and must be reviewed by Licensing | Review | Licensing (Tiff, Jason, Denise) | |
| Review | Licensing (Tiff, Jason, Denise) | Review physical samples; if approved, give buyer direction to place PO; if not approved, revise/rework | Approved/Place PO | Buyer | |
| Approved/Place PO | Buyer | PO placed/PO, Artwork, and pre-pro sample sent to supplier | PO packet sent to supplier | Buyer | |
| PO packet sent to supplier | Buyer | Physical packaging received and PO received in Salespad Task reassigned to QA for review | Review | Edgar | |
| Review | Edgar | Retrieves approved proofs for QA review Assigns to Licensing and brings 2 samples of each SKU to Licensing for review | Pending Approval | Licensing (Tiff, Jason, Denise) | |
| Pending Approval | Licensing (Tiff, Jason, Denise) | Submit physical samples from PO shipment to Licensor for final approval – if approved, close task. If not approved, move back to “Revisions Needed” and Re-do/Modify (Creative Team). | Closed |
Players:
Tiffany/Jason/Denise (Licensing); Edgar (QA); Buyer (TBD); Anna/Brooke/Krista/Maryam (Creative); Jesse; Brandon
Text in red are optional steps
Studio Shots
- Studio shot PSD files are saved in the following folder by the creative department:
- The licensing department reviews the studio shot PSD files as they are updated and approved copies need to be moved to the following folders:
- The licensing department converts the PSD files to JPG files which need to be saved in the following folders:
Visual Matrix
- Visual matrix PDF files are saved in the following folders by the creative department:
- The licensing department reviews the visual matrix PDF files as they are updated and approved copies need to be moved to the following folders:
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