How it works
AfterShot Héron is the meeting point between the Héron brands and you. Everything is uploaded and downloaded here — no files travel any other way, so nothing is lost in a mailbox.
- The brand uploads its raw photos.
- You download them, cut out the frames, and deliver your PNGs.
- The brand reviews them, and approves or rejects each one with a comment.
- The brand downloads the approved photos.
You see every brand’s photos to cut out, and every rejection to redo. You never see approved photos, and you never approve anything yourself — that judgement belongs to the brand.
This guide covers your part. The brands have their own, in French.
- 0Sign in
- 1Get the photos
- 2Deliver your work
- 4Redo rejections
Sign in
Each brand has its own username, and you have yours. You only ever see what concerns you. Once you are signed in, the whole site is in English — the sign-in screen is the only bilingual page, because until you sign in the site does not yet know who you are.
- Your username is
nirag. - The password is given to you verbally, never by e-mail.
- A session lasts a working day, then you sign in again.
- Lost it? Ask the Pôle digital for a new one — the old one stops working immediately.
Look at a photo closely
Click a thumbnail to open it full size. The wheel zooms towards the cursor, dragging moves the image. This is what you need to check whether the edge of a lens is clean.
- Wheel, or the − and + buttons, for the zoom level.
- Fit puts the whole frame back inside the window.
- Esc closes; Download gets the original file.
- The checkerboard background shows transparency — that is how you see whether the lenses are cut out.
Get the photos, deliver your work
You see every brand. The tab bar under the header switches between them, and All brands gathers them all in one list. Download the photos to cut out — one at a time, or the whole batch as a ZIP — then deliver your work.
- What you deliver must be a PNG. A JPEG carries no transparency, so it is refused.
- Download gets one photo; Download all (ZIP) gets the whole list, one folder per frame.
- Upload the PNG delivers one cut-out against one photo.
- Once a cut-out is delivered, the original leaves the list — it is archived, not deleted.
- You never see approved photos: once a brand has approved a cut-out, it is out of your hands.
Deliver a whole batch as one archive
Instead of uploading one photo at a time, drop a whole ZIP archive. The site files every photo by itself, using the frame folders from the archive you downloaded. Two hundred cut-outs become one upload.
- There is no naming convention to remember. Keep the frame folders from the ZIP you downloaded and everything lands where it belongs.
- Renaming a file
…_detouree.png, or keeping its original name, both work. - A file that matches nothing is skipped and named, with what was expected instead — the rest of the archive still goes through.
- Operating-system clutter (
__MACOSX,.DS_Store,Thumbs.db) is ignored silently. - The report stays on screen after the upload: read it before you close the page.
- Limits: 512 MB per archive, 3000 files, 60 MB per photo.
Redo a rejected cut-out
The last tab holds the cut-outs a brand has rejected, each with a reason and, often, a comment describing exactly what to fix.
- The reason is one of a short list, so the same words always mean the same thing.
- The comment is written by the brand — read it before you start again.
- The original photo is already back in Photos to cut out — a rejection returns it to your list straight away.
- A Attempt #3 badge shows how many times a view has come back. It is where quality problems show up first.
