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| How to Use this book and companion website & who it is for The Evolution of workflow ? | |
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| Workflow - what does it really mean? (Dispel the hype & myth) | |
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| The components From ideation to publishable form (screen and substrate) | |
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| Workflow components to be discussed in this book | |
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| Present Tense | |
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| Synopsis of the impact of technology and the democratization of technology | |
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| Survival of the fittest | |
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| Return to the new basics | |
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| The Language (of Workflow) | |
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| Technical Vocabulary | |
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| Words that are often misused and how to decipher that misuse | |
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| Genres of imaging | |
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| how images are used (the forms they take on) distributed, and consumed | |
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| stock images & the issues around this industry Mapping workflows to individual disciplines and genres who does what and when they should do it {photographer, designer, service bureau technician, pre media technician, printer, retoucher} | |
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| Risk Management | |
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| Assessing what tasks you should take on Evaluating your workflow for longevity (the 5 ? 5- 5 test - impact in 5 minutes, 5 weeks/months and 5 years) | |
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| Digital Asset Management - the basics everyone needs to know and apply | |
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| DAM has evolved to an individual user?s desktop | |
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| The choices to control one?s assets has broadened and is still somewhat unwieldily | |
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| This chapter will provide the skeletal frame to setting up a manageable asset system | |
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| Topics include: Naming Conventions Devising the Plan Hierarchies | |
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| Controlled Vocabularies and Keywords | |
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| Archive and back-up | |
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| Copyright, usage rights, and imaging ethics | |
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| Where to find the most current laws and their interpretations | |
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| Protecting your work publishing issues work for hire Aesthetics | |
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| The value of an image can be attributed to the vision of its maker and the small village of collaborators that make the vision real | |
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| This chapter addresses and repositions the value of the image and returns the vision of the image-maker to its proper stance | |
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| Technological hype returns to technological transparency | |
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| Digital Aesthetic, Is there one? | |
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| Different from analog? | |
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| Bringing the aesthetic back to the work and not the technology | |
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| The impact of technology on sensibilities and how t has altered our vision | |
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| Good design always works | |
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| Digital Imaging Workflows | |
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| Image process workflows pixel based (rendered) or metadata (un-rendered) database | |
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| Basic concepts and standards of digital imaging | |
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| Best Practices for each discipline | |
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| Things that everyone (regardless of discipline) needs to know | |
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| Image acquisition and output ? | |
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| The big picture and the choices Digital photography and capture (RAW, JPEG and/or TIFF) | |
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| The new digital slr, medium format and large format captures | |
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| Scanning When to scan When to use a camera and lens What will happen to this technology as digital capture devices evolve? | |
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| Bit depth - 8 bit vs. 16 vs. 32 bit depth | |
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| File formats (TIFF, JEPG, PSD, PSB, PDF, EPS, SWF, ?) | |
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| Issues & differences, when and why to use Image and file formats permanence issues | |
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| Workflow Process Communication issues | |
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| The importance of planning, testing and organization | |
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| Repurposing the analog side Color Management ? when and where Calibration, profiling, ICC profiles, color spaces (working), input & output profiles, flavors of CMYK | |
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| Color Management workflow and how to apply it for multiple outputs Digital image display | |
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| Screen and Substrate File preparation for repurposing images to multiple outputs | |
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| Versioning for screen to substrate | |
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| File Back-up Strategies -working in the field -disaster recovery plans, off-site, on-site, etc? | |
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| Image Delivery How to hand off images to the ?next person in line? DVD, FTP, Hard Drive etc ? | |
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| What do you give the client? File prep options for specific outputs Strip the metadata? | |