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Generic Image Digitisation Workflow: Text Version of Diagram

Last updated: 12 February 2008
Published in: Digitising analogue media |
Tags: analogue collections | digitisation | workflow |

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This is a text version of the workflow diagram in the advice document: Generic Image Workflow.

Starts with: Original Object

Step 1: Capture Images: Camera (RAW/TIFF/JPEG); Scanner (TIFF); Legacy (RAW/TIFF/JPEG)
Produces: RAW Master Image (RAW/TIFF)
Goes to: Archive

Step 2: Optimise Images
Produces: Optimised Master Image (TIFF/PSD)
Goes to: Archive

Step 3: Create Surrogates
Produces:
1. Commercial Print (TIFF)
2. In-House Print (TIFF/PSD/JPEG)
3. Monitor Master Image (TIFF/PNG)
Goes to: Archive
Produces:
4. Web Images (JPEG)
5. Presentation Images (JPEG)

Last updated: 12 February 2008
Published in: Digitising analogue media |
Tags: analogue collections | digitisation | workflow |

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Comment posted by M.Dyson on 21 July 2010 at 6:18pm

A not too simplistic comment I hope, but a basic organisational rubric includes the concept of In, Pending and Out. In photographic terms this can be translated into Scans, Work in Progress, Finals. Creating these folders on the computer is alone a major step in achieving an effective workflow.

Mike Dyson

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