Digitization + Imaging Workflow

By Miguel Asencio Basic Elements

Planning

File Output Color •Delivery + Management Access

Digital Archiving Imaging File Formats Workflow

Metadata Resolution

Sharpening

Adapted from Anderson & Russotti. Planning Project

Equipment Materials or for What & How Objects Digitization

Where Archive Internet Print Planning

• What materials or objects will be digitized? – Slides – Drawings Planning – Paintings – Books

• What equipment will be used? – Scanner • Profile and Reference

– Camera • Sensor clean • Lens clean • Profile & Reference • Capture cards or tethered • – Computer workstation and Monitor • Calibrate and Profile Color • Folder and storage setup Management – Back up – Working files – Finished files

Software

Ingestion Software Image Processing • • Adobe Lightroom • Apple Aperture (Mac only) • Apple Aperture • Photo Mechanic • • ImageIngester • LIMB by Kirtas Technologies

Capture Workflow

– Tethered capture • Scanner to computer • Capture folder – Camera to computer • Lightroom tether tools • Capture folder – Untethered Capture • Camera card capture • Capture folder

Resolution File Formats Metadata Image Ingestion

• Ingestion Software – Adobe Lightroom – Adobe Bridge – Photo mechanic (Camera Bits) – Aperture (Apple) – Extensis (Microsoft)

Quality Metadata Back Up Control Image Processing

• Parametric Image Edit – Non-Destructive Workflow – Paste Settings as Batch Process

• Ingest and convert file format – Camera Raw – Adobe DNG – TIFF – JPEG

Sharpening Resolution Metadata Edit & Optimize

• Batch processing – Metadata – File renaming – Image editing Quality Control • Making selections • Rating images • Deleting and keeping files

Metadata Sharpening – Image adjustments • White balance • Color adjustments • Sharpening • Optimizing

Image Output

• Final quality inspection • Batch processing of output source – Archive – RAW Files – TIFF Files – DNG – JPG 2000

• File Transfer to Archive & Back Up

Archiving File Output File Formats Sharpening + Delivery + Access Back Up Links & Resources

• Software – Adobe: www.adobe.com – Photo mechanic: http://www.camerabits.com/ – Aperture: http://www.apple.com/aperture/ – Capture One Pro: http://www.phaseone.com/en/Imaging-Software/Capture-One-Pro- 7.aspx – ImageIngester: http://basepath.com/site/ – Limb by Kirtas Technologies: limb.kirtas.com

• Books – The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management by Peter Krogh – Color Management for Photographers by Andrew Rodney – Real World Color Management by Fraser, Murphy & Bunting – Light Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting by Hunter, Fuqua, and Biver – Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow Handbook: A Guide to Staying Ahead of the Workflow Curve by Russotti & Anderson – The Digital Negative: Raw Image Processing in Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop by Jeff Schewe

Contact Information

Miguel Asencio Digital Imaging Specialist

Office: 305-348-2983 Cell: 305-910-3762 Email: [email protected]

Academic Imaging Services FIU Division of IT 11200 SW 8th Street, GL 180 Miami, FL 33199