All advice documents, training courses and blog entries tagged 'workflow'
Still images advice tagged 'workflow'
An Overview of Colour Management for Still Images
There is a lot of confusion around the subject of digital colour and the process of ensuring colour consistency for still images. This document provides an introduction to the different methods used to manage digital colour.
Read full advice document...Colour Theory: Understanding and Modelling Colour
Colour is an area of digital imaging that can lead to considerable confusion. This document provides a detailed introduction to colour theory.
Read full advice document...Colour Management in Practice
This document provides a detailed explanation of the different approaches to colour management. The document also covers the process of calibration of monitors, scanners and printers as well as conversion between aditive and subtractive colour systems.
Read full advice document...Generic Image Digitisation Workflow: Text Version of Diagram
This is a text version of the workflow diagram in the advice document: Generic Image Workflow.
Read full advice document...Generic Image Digitisation Workflow
This document reviews the general concepts of 'best practice' within an image digitisation workflow and then looks at how these concepts can be mapped onto the workflow, to allow the efficient production of all required deliverables.
Read full advice document...Case Study: University of Bristol Theatre Collection
How the collection digitised its documents and photographs.
Read full advice document...Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright
This document is intended as a quick reference guide, answering frequently asked questions about copyright. You are advised to check reference works and/or seek legal advice for your specific circumstances.
Read full advice document...Converting your Slides into Digital Images
The 35mm slide has long played a key role for delivering images in the teaching and learning environment. However, recent improvements in capture and delivery technology have seen digital images virtually replace analogue media. Many slide collections now have to be converted to a format which can more easily be incorporated into the modern workflow. This document explains the process of converting analogue slides into digital images and preparing them for delivery.
Read full advice document...Basic Guidelines for Image Capture and Optimisation
This document provides a guide to good practice in still image capture to help the user to design a workflow for capture and optimisation. The document highlights the main points that should be considered to ensure the highest quality output from your equipment.
Read full advice document...Setting up a Workspace for Digitising Images
In planning a digitisation project, one of the major considerations will be where you decide to do the digitising and how to make best use of the workspace. Ensuring the area is designed and set up correctly will not only help establish a smooth and effective workflow, but will also make sure the project personnel involved are at their happiest and therefore at their most productive. This document looks at the main issues to be considered when planning and setting up a workspace for digital imaging.
Read full advice document...Case Study: History of Art, University College Cork
This short case study looks at how the newly established History of Art department at University College Cork went about building a collection of images to support its teaching. Although it would have preferred to create an all-digital collection, the constraints of time, money and copyright led the department to take a hybrid approach, using a mix of formats, drawn from several different sources.
Read full advice document...Case Study: Staffordshire Past Track
Staffordshire Past Track is a web-based multimedia archive related to the history and cultural heritage of Staffordshire. The bulk of the collection is comprised of photographic or printed images from the past 150 years. Noteworthy features of the Past Track project are its bespoke content management system and a user interface that provides, among other functions, map-based searching, an image zoom facility, and user-annotated albums.
Read full advice document...
Moving images advice tagged 'workflow'
Introducing Screen Capture Software
We introduce a number of screen recording software options for capturing moving image and audio activity on a computer screen.
Read full advice document...
Cross-media advice tagged 'workflow'
Copyright and Other Rights for Creating Time-based Media Resources
This advice document provides some basic information on rights issues associated with creating time-based digital media resources. By time-based we mean resources that change over time - including spoken audio, music, animation, and video - as opposed to still images or screen shots, which do not change over time. Rights issues include copyright, recording rights, moral rights and performance rights.
Read full advice document...Delicious Bookmark Service
This advice document brings to your attention the free online bookmark service Delicious. Its ability to allow you to manage bookmarks by saving, searching and sharing will be of interest to anybody who has to manage many bookmarks for individuals or groups. It has applications of use for teaching and learning which will be described below.
Read full advice document...Quality Assurance and Digitisation Projects
This document examines issues relating to quality assurance from a project management perspective. It proposes a four-layer model for assuring quality and looks at some of the more common reasons for problems with output quality. This document is intended to be used by collection managers intending to digitise their resources or by managers of digitisation projects.
Read full advice document...
Training courses tagged 'workflow'
Copyright and Digital Media
This informative and stimulating course is run by a leading expert in copyright. It looks in-depth at how copyright and other legal issues impact upon digital media and it will enable you to develop practical approaches to clearing and managing those rights within your own collections.
Read course description...Image Optimisation
This course covers the essential skills you need in order to maximise the quality and visual appeal of digital images from both scanners and digital cameras. You will learn the tips and tricks necessary to transform your images quickly and easily.
Read course description...Managing Digital Media Collections
Now that many important materials are in a digital form, building an accessible online media collection which successfully delivers images, sounds, video and other media is a goal of many institutions.
Until recently, expensive Digital Asset Management systems where the most viable option, but now open source server applications such as Dspace, Omeka and Drupal hold the promise of truly interoperable and standards-based collection management.
This one day course will offer a model of digital collection management, based upon open source solutions. Attendees will gain hands-on experience of planning, building, managing and delivering a digital media collection.
Read course description...Colour Management
Effective colour management is vital within the digital workflow and anyone working with digital images should understand and be employing the core principles. This training course introduces colour management theory and ‘good practice’ to ensure that you understand how to achieve consistent and accurate colour between applications, platforms, and devices.
Read course description...Managing a Raw Digital Photography Workflow
Being able to manage a digital image workflow is a vital skill for both individuals and institutions in today’s market place. This course considers a simple digital photography workflow from the ground up. You will first capture a series of images in raw and then import them into Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 - a popular and powerful Image Management System (IMS) and editing tool for photographers. Here you will employ appropriate image editing processes and learn how to successfully leverage the power of an IMS in order to quickly find the images you need. You will then produce content appropriate for onscreen and print use.
This course will also explore the considerable advantages of utilising camera raw/DNG file formats.
Read course description...
Blog entries tagged 'workflow'
Case study - Greenhead college
Our sister service has recently released a case study detailing work that Greenhead College has done on creating a video storage system for use with Moodle.
Read blog entry...Make an e-book from an RSS feed
Joss Winn from the University of Lincoln, nicely explains how ‘Creating a PDF or eBook from an RSS feed’ can easily be done. Image credit.
Read blog entry...Concept video - future of print
This short concept video demonstrates how Sports Illustrated might work in the near future using a tablet/mobile device. found via The Fischbowl
Read blog entry...Cover creation timelapse
I just came across a great time-lapse video (3:17) detailing the creation of a cover for Macworld magazine. Peter details it in full on his website, including hardware used and the overall process. Well worth a watch if you have never seen the effort it takes to create a professional photo and cover design.
Read blog entry...Backing up your iPhone/touch
Backing up is the first thing that I think about once I have any new data on a new device.
Read blog entry...Backing up Flickr
If you’re like me, you may have wondered at some point how to download/back-up all of your full size Flickr images. Dan Benjamin of Hivelogic has a solution that uses a python script to solve this pesty issue.
Read blog entry...Advice doc : using WebCT
We have just released an updated version of our Using WebCT with digital media. This advice document aims to introduce WebCT and how you can use digital media to support your WebCT course content. We look at why digital media can enhance the teaching and learning experience.
Read blog entry...Demo - Apple Podcast Producer
Last week Rich Belson from Western Computer in Bristol came in to our offices to give us a demo of Apple Podcast Producer, with specific focus on its use in education. Its premise is to support the recording, uploading, file management and delivery of podcasts using audio, video and/or screen capture.
Read blog entry...Tip - Silence the phones
You’re on a roll, you’re recording your best piece of audio ever….. and then one of your phones in the room rings, throwing you completely off. Although it seems obvious, you would be surprised at how easy it is to ruin a recording by being thrown off due to the phone ringing. Remember to turn off/silence/unplug your phones when recording. More recently this also applies to computer noises such as twitter/facebook alerts. If you hear the Microsoft Windows shutting down sound then you have probably lost your recording anyway! If you have any tips yourself, please do add them to the comments.
Read blog entry...Cloud computing
Last week the Futures Café at the University of Bristol held a presentation about cloud computing with particular reference to the use of Google Docs in education.
Read blog entry...Promo film for the Red camera
Here’s a nice little promo with a few effects shots that lets you see the Red being used on a real shoot.
Read blog entry...
Training courses
- Image Optimisation 23 March 2010
- Colour Management 26 April 2010
- Copyright and Digital Media 29 April 2010
