Notes from Dan Lamont

• The big picture of digital asset management
• Essential color management
• Logical work flow and practice

resources

• Adobe Photoshop
  • Main
  • Tutorials
  • Forums
  • Adobe Studio – new dimensions in optimization (example resource – requires free login)
• Color management
  • Chromix.com – color management and image fidelity products
  • Colorvision.com – color management tools
  • DigitalOutput.net – magazine, Digital Output
  • Monaco Systems – profiling products
• Image/asset management
  • CameraBits.com – software for digital cameras
  • extensis.com – font and asset management plus creativity tools
  • Graphics @ about.com – image management links
  • iView-Multimedia.com – software for media file management
• Lessons and tips
  • Designer-Info.com – understanding scanners (don’t click the ‘remove this frame’ link – you’ll lose the article)
  • DigitalTruth.com – camera and darkroom resources
  • Graphics @ about.com – JPEG Myths
  • Hamrick.com – scanning utility software
  • Lexjet.com – digital color education
  • Scantips.com – basic scanning information – supports a book by the same author
  • Shortcourses.com – how do I do that with my digital camera and digital images?
  • Shortcourses.com – guides to equipment and techniques
  • VisualEdge.org – poynter-sponsored forum/workshop for print and broadcast journalists; this link is to tips and lessons page
• Organizations
  • ASMP.org – American Society of Media Photographers
  • Color.org – International Color Consortium
  • DigitalOutput.net – List of Industry Associations
  • Disc-Info.org – IDEAlliance committee, Digital Image Submission Criteria
  • IDEAlliance.org – International Digital Enterprise Alliance

Week 4 Notes – Tu

Digital Asset Management
Guest, Dan Lamont (handouts)

• DigitalRailroad.Net
• VII Photo Agency
• Magnum Photos
• Soundslide.com
• Mediastorm.org

Featured reading post: Luke

48 Tips in 48 Hours

From the National Writers Workshop in Hartford CT and Poynter. Examples:

• Be a reader. Friedman quoted from “Reading Like a Writer,” by Francine Prose. “Writers learn from reading the work of their predecessors.”
• Be curious, no matter what you’re writing. “Writing is having an innate curiosity about life. Even if you write fiction. You’re writing more than fiction, you’re writing about life.”
• “Why do my readers care about this story now?”
• Team up.  Everyone has different strengths.
• “I look for stories about the human condition, the small stories that say something about who we are and where we are.”
• “Read the damn clips.” Newspapers are losing their institutional memory. Report the story that’s happening now, and tell the readers about the story that happened a decade ago.