Creative Operations
Learn how you can use the Content Automation add-on that integrates 蜜豆视频 Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service with 蜜豆视频 Creative Cloud Service APIs to process your assets.
Hi there. In this video, we will explore how you can use the Content Automation add-on, that integrates 蜜豆视频 Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud service with 蜜豆视频 Creative Cloud service APS to process your assets. To edit images on 蜜豆视频 Photoshop or 蜜豆视频 Lightroom, content authors need to download the image from AEM Assets, share it with creative users,- and re-upload the processed image to AEM Assets. The whole process increases the time to market for experience creation. Content authors can perform Photoshop and Lightroom operations within AEM Assets using Creative Cloud APS with the Content Automation add-on. Let鈥檚 get started. In this video, we will learn how to perform the following creative operations on AEM Assets.
From your AEM homepage, navigate to AEM Assets. To perform a creative operation, it鈥檚 a simple three-step process. Create a folder, create a processing profile. And assign the processing profile to your folder. I have created a new folder called "we can auto tone " at the root level of AEM Assets, and now let鈥檚 create a processing profile for auto tone . To create a new processing profile, let鈥檚 open a new tab and navigate to the AEM homepage. Click on tools, assets, and select processing profiles. Click create and provide a name for your processing profile and select the creative tab. When creating a processing profile, you have an option to store your processed asset, in a different folder, than the folder to which the processing profile will be assigned. When left blank the processing profile stores, the processed image as a rendition of the original asset. When given a target folder path, a rendition gets added to the original asset and creates a copy of the rendition in the target folder. We will be covering both approaches in this video. for now, let鈥檚 use to store the process asset into a separate folder in AEM Assets. Click on the add new creative operation and provide more details about the type of creative operation you would like to perform. In our case, let鈥檚 choose the auto operation from the dropdown. You must provide a rendition in for your processed asset. You can choose the extension format as either JPEG or PNG. If you need an image, for the decide height and width, you can enter the values here. If left blank, a full-size rendition of the original image, will be created. You can adjust the quality of the image and also filter assets based on their mind type. By default, it includes all images and excludes applications and video files. Using the add new option, you can create multiple creative operations under a single processing profile. To keep it simple, I鈥檓 just adding one operation to this profile. Make sure to save your changes. Select the processing profile and let鈥檚 apply the profile to the auto tone folder.
It fits back to the AEM Assets tab. Open the folder and upload assets.
Once the assets gets processed, open an asset file and let鈥檚 view its renditions. You can see a new rendition for this asset generated with the rendition name provided in the processing profile. You can notice that the original asset has a darker tone and the rendition generated by the processing profile includes intelligent color corrections based on the unique attributes of the image. Please close this window and let鈥檚 navigate back to the target folder provided in the processing profile. You can view the auto tone rendition for the original image added to the target folder. Content Automation add on provides an out of the box creative operation to perform image cutout. It uses artificial intelligence to create a selection around salient objects and remove background with a single command. I have created a sample folder in AEM Assets to upload assets for which we would like to perform an image cutout. Let鈥檚 create a processing profile for English cutout. Let鈥檚 switch tabs to open the processing profile window. Click create and provide a name for your processing profile and select the creative tab. Let鈥檚 leave the target folder blank. When left blank, the processing profile stores, the processed image as a rendition of the original asset. Click on the add new creative operation option. Choose the image cutout operation from the dropdown. You must provide a rendition name for your processed asset. Make sure to save your changes. Select processing profile, and let鈥檚 apply the profile to the image cutout folder. Let鈥檚 switch back to the AEM Assets tab and open the folder and upload assets. Once the assets gets processed, open an asset file and let鈥檚 view its renditions. You can see a new rendition for this asset generated with the rendition in provided in the processing profile. You can notice that the original asset has a background and the image cutout rendition generated by the processing profile, uses artificial intelligence to create a selection around salient objects and remove background. Content Automation add on provides an out of the box creative operation to perform image masking. It uses artificial intelligence to create a mask around salient objects with a single command. I have created a sample folder in AEM Assets to upload assets, for which we would like to perform an image mask. Let鈥檚 create a processing profile for image mask out. Let鈥檚 switch tabs to open the processing profile window, click create and provide a name for your processing profile. And select the creative tab, provide a target folder path and make a note of it. Click on the Add new creative operation option. Choose the image mask operation from the dropdown. You must provide a rendition name for your processed asset and save your changes. Select the processing profile. And let鈥檚 apply the profile to the image mask folder. In this case, the target folder path and the profile assigned folder path are the same. Let鈥檚 switch back to the AEM Assets tab, open the folder and upload assets. Once the assets gets processed, the image mask rendition gets added as a new asset to the target folder. Also, if you open an asset, you can see a new rendition generated with the rendition name provided in the processing profile. Image mask creative operation uses artificial intelligence to create a mask around salient objects with a single command. Content Automation add-on provides an out of the box creative operation to perform auto straightening. It uses artificial intelligence to analyze the content of the image, and cut it skewed perspective in images. I have created a sample folder in AEM Assets to upload assets for which we would like to perform an auto straightening. First, let鈥檚 create a processing profile. Let鈥檚 switch tabs to open the processing profile window, click create and provide a name for your processing profile and select the creative tab. Optionally, provide a target folder path. Click on the add new creative operation option. Choose the auto straighten operation from the dropdown. You must provide a rendition name for your processed asset and choose an image extension. Make sure to save your changes. Select the processing profile and let鈥檚 apply the profile to the auto straighten folder. Let鈥檚 switch back to the AEM Assets tab and open the folder and upload assets. Once the assets gets processed, a straightened rendition gets added as a new asset to the target folder. Also, if you open the original asset, you can see a new rendition generated with the rendition name provided in the processing profile. You can notice that the original asset was tilted and the auto straighten rendition generated by the processing profile, it uses artificial intelligence to analyze the content of the image and cut it, skewed perspective in images. 蜜豆视频 Lightroom lets you save your configuration and edit adjustments to an image as a preset, which can be applied later for other images. Let鈥檚 see how to apply Lightroom preset creative operation to asset files in AEM. I have a sample image open in 蜜豆视频 Lightroom and I have created a preset that adjusts the image contrast. Let鈥檚 export the user preset and save it on your local system. Let鈥檚 upload the preset file to a folder location in AEM Assets. I have created a sample folder in AEM Assets, to upload assets for which we would like to apply Lightroom preset. Let鈥檚 create a processing profile for Lightroom preset. Let鈥檚 switch tabs to open the processing profile window, click create and provide a name for your processing profile, and select the creative tab. Let鈥檚 leave the target folder blank. Click on the add new creative operation option. Choose the apply Lightroom preset operation from the dropdown. Locate the Lightroom preset file that we uploaded. You must provide a rendition in for your processed asset and choose an image extension. Make sure to save your changes. Select the processing profile and let鈥檚 apply the processing profile to the Lightroom preset folder. Let鈥檚 switch back to AEM Assets tab, open the folder and upload assets. Once the assets gets processed, open an asset file and let鈥檚 view its renditions. You can see a new rendition for this asset generated with a rendition name provided in the processing profile. Click on the generated rendition, and you can view the Lightroom preset applied to the rendition. Smart Object Replacement lets you personalize at scale by swapping images while retaining all effects and adjustments applied within the PSV file. I have a Photoshop file with a logo 鈥淪mart object鈥 embedded in it. Switch to AEM Assets window and upload the Photoshop file to a folder location. Create a new folder to store assets or objects that needs to replace a smart object in the Photoshop design file. Navigate to the processing profile window and create a new profile for Smart Object Replacement. Click create and provide a name for your processing profile and select the creative tab. Optionally, provide a target folder path. Click on the add new creative operation option. Choose to replace Photoshop Smart Object operation from the dropdown. Locate the Photoshop design file with the embedded Smart Object that be uploaded to AEM Assets. Choose a Smart Object from the dropdown. You must provide a rendition name for your processed asset and choose an image extension. Make sure to save your changes. Select the processing profile and let鈥檚 apply the processing profile to the smart object folder. Let鈥檚 switch back to the AEM Assets tab. Open the folder and upload assets. Once the assets gets processed, you can notice new assets generated based on the Photoshop design file with a smart object replaced with the object we uploaded. Open an asset file and notice a 鈥淢iami surf鈥 logo replaced with the 鈥淐alifornia鈥 logo while retaining all effects and adjustments applied within the Photoshop design file. I hope I was able to provide a quick overview of how the Content Automation add on integrates 蜜豆视频 Experience Manager Assets as a cloud service using Creative Cloud APS with the Content Automation add on. -