creative collaboration
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Team collaboration
The importance of creative feedback to your business
The right approach to creative feedback can deepen relationships between makers and stakeholders and take a piece of work from good to great. The best feedback happens at the right moment, at the right level, and in the right way, and it allows a designer, filmmaker, writer or artist to…
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Team collaboration
Genius loves company: Four ways to cultivate creative collaboration
An amended version of this article was originally published in Entrepreneur. The world is obsessed with lone geniuses. We admire the outstanding talent of an artist, present the Nobel Prize to an individual scientist, laud a visionary CEO and revere the lead singer while paying scant attention to the band…
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Customer stories
How day-to-day collaboration works at AMCS Marketing
AMCS Marketing is a design agency based in Denver, Colorado. We spoke with the firm’s founder, Anya McManis about starting her own agency, dealing with day-to-day design needs and why her clients think Hightail is a cool tool. I moved to Colorado from Germany I came here to go to…
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How to Hightail
Assign tasks in Spaces
We’ve just released a great new way to set tasks and enhance your creative process using our collaboration feature, Spaces. Up until now there were a couple of ways to get someone’s attention when you left feedback on a file: you could @ mention the person or tag your comment with…
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Customer stories
Balancing art and commerce with photographer Rui Santos Costa
Rui Santos Costa is a New Jersey-based fine art photographer. He talks to us about his interest in 19th century photography technology, balancing art and client work and how Hightail saves him time and money. I received my first camera when I was 10 During the 60s, my dad was…
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Productivity
Blue sky thinking with your feet on the ground
One of the standard guidelines for brainstorming is that there are no bad ideas in a brainstorm. The objective of this principle is to encourage out-of-the-box thinking and ensure that each suggestion is adequately explored without being dismissed too quickly. Yet how many times have you left a brainstorm with…
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Customer stories
How Drake Cooper created a visual asset library for the future
Drake Cooper is a full-service agency with offices in Boise and Seattle. We spoke with Engagement Specialist, Britton Hennessy, about social media teamwork, managing Idaho Tourism’s growing photography database and how Hightail became a critical part of their creative process. Full-service agency with digital emphasis Headquartered in Boise, Drake Cooper…
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How to Hightail
Like a version
“Versions is probably the most powerful tool in Hightail. I’ve never seen a system like it.” Richard Farr – Founder, Digital Video Experts “Visual versions lets you track the progress of a scene easily.” Martin Pelham – Manager of Media Service, LAIKA “The ability to see all versions in one…
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Team collaboration
Why email kills creativity
As a marketer most of my career, I’ve been involved in countless creative projects. From web sites and logo designs to TV commercials and 3D animation, I’ve done it. Every day I have ad creative to review or a demo video to approve, a conversation about a website design that…
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Learn how to create brand systems with Skillshare
How does a great logo or brand system come to be? That’s a question we decided to explore with the help of two fantastic Philadelphia-based designers for a new Skillshare class. Skillshare is an online educational resource that is helping more than one million people learn new creative skills from…
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Customer stories
Why UPPERFIRST says hallelujah to Hightail
UPPERFIRST is a Swedish video production and motion graphics studio. Co-Founder and Executive Producer, Erik Arheden talks to us about lifting the quality of film, why the script is always their blueprint and his hallelujah moment with Hightail. We wanted to lift the quality of film in Sweden UPPERFIRST was…
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Five essential post-production tools for filmmakers
The world of video production has changed dramatically over the past decade. Gone are the days of prohibitively expensive cameras, while changes in post-production technology means you can do everything with a laptop and the right software. But with so many tools out there, it can be difficult to know…
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Bringing project management to Hightail
Using Spaces to collect feedback on visual files is just one facet of creative collaboration. You also need capabilities like task assignment, approvals, versioning and project dashboards to unify the entire creative process from concept to completion, which is why we’ve added a range of new project management features to Hightail. Until now,…
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