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We kept the primary workflow extremly simple.
Verify is the fastest way to collect and analyze user feedback on screens or mockups. We talk more about Verify and our other products on the ZURBapps blog.
ZURB is a close-knit team of interaction designers and strategists that help companies design better (www.zurb.com).
Barbo Andaluz (luciobarbus sclateri). Full RAW Workflow in DxO PhotoLab 7.5.1 with Leica M Color Profile. El Caminito del Rey, Spanien.
Cannes is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The city is known for its association with the rich and famous, its luxury hotels and restaurants, and for several conferences. On 3 November 2011 it hosted the 2011 G20 summit [Wikipedia.org]
It all starts with contributes uploading or creating a new document for collaboration. A collaborator is a group or people responsible for selecting the appropriate document from “uploads” folder, store them in them in “working-document” folder and work on them. Once the document is ready to be published document is sent to the “request for approval” folder where an approving authority is notified.
Approving authority can approve or disapprove the document. It may go back to the “working document” if disapproved with a notification to the collaborator(s). If approved the document moves to the “Approved version” folder and can be published in a desired format (pdf/doc/html) and location (published folder/intranet site/social networking site) as per the predefined rule set.
All these roles and workflow can be re-fined and redefined based on the business process. This is an example workflow and was created for basic understanding of a document workflow.
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Then I do the same for the water area. Note that at this point this image is very similar to by 0EV capture—no surprises there. This was what I saw when I photographed this photo. I do HDR not for effect, but just so that I can have some details on the shadow area.
At this point you see that really there is not much color to this scene. In fact, they stand to distract the overall image, so I removed it. Here since I have been working in Lab mode I just quickly removed the color channels or just removed the color saturation. If I work with images filled with color I usually would use the channel mixer in RGB mode or use the black and white tweaking modules inside Lightroom. But as you can see there is not much color in this image to start with so I can simply just remove the color saturation.
After importing back into Lightroom, I tweak things further as I feel that I can still get some more details in the shadow area. If I were inside Photoshop I would do a image-wide shadows/highlights tweak but since Lightroom version 4 there is this new Clarity parameter which works very well in manipulating local contrast so I used it.
And that’s it. But remember, every single image is different. This is not a recipes. There are no rules. Now go have some fun!
Cheers.
# Full video
+ youtube.com/watch?v=0N9RWxVO5gw
# Presentation PDF
+ www.slideshare.net/seeminglee/hdr-process002
# Final photo
www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/9370400032/
# Notes
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DRUM SCANS BY CASTORSCAN.
Photo: Marcus Schneider
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CastorScan's philosophy is completely oriented to provide the highest scan and postproduction
quality on the globe.
We work with artists, photographers, agencies, laboratories etc. who demand a state-of-the-art quality at reasonable prices.
Our workflow is fully manual and extremely meticulous in any stage.
We developed exclusive workflows and profilation systems to obtain unparallel results from our scanners not achievable through semi-automatic and usual workflows.
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CastorScan uses the best scanners in circulation, Dainippon Screen SG-8060P Mark II, the best and most advanced scanner ever made, Kodak-Creo IQSmart 3, a high-end flatbed scanner, and Imacon 848.
The image quality offered by our Dainippon Screen 8060 scanner is much higher than that achievable with the best flatbed scanners or filmscanners dedicated and superior to that of scanners so-called "virtual drum" (Imacon – Hasselblad,) and, of course, vastly superior to that amateur or prosumer obtained with scanners such as Epson V750 etc .
Dainippon Screen SG-8060P Mark II exceeds in quality any other scanner, including Aztek Premier and ICG 380 (in the results, not just in the technical specifications).
8060's main features: 12000 dpi, Hi-Q Xenon lamp, 25 apertures, 2 micron
Aztek Premier's main features: 8000 dpi, halogen lamp, 18 apertures, 3 micron
ICG 380's main features: 12000 dpi, halogen lamp, 9 apertures, 4 micron
Some of the features that make the quality of our drum scanners better than any other existing scan system include:
The scans performed on a drum scanner are famous for their detail, depth and realism.
Scans are much cleaner and show fewer imperfections than scans obtained from CCD scanners, and thus save many hours of cleaning and spotting in postproduction.
Image acquisition by the drum scanner is optically similar to using a microscopic lens that scans the image point by point with extreme precision and without deformation or distortion of any kind, while other scanners use enlarger lenses (such as the Rodenstock-Linos Magnagon 75mm f8 used in the Hasselblad-Imacon scanners) and have transmission systems with rubber bands: this involves mild but effective micro-strain and micro-geometric image distortions and quality is not uniform between the center and edges.
Drum scanners are exempt from problems of flatness of the originals, since the same are mounted on a perfectly balanced transparent acrylic drum; on the contrary, the dedicated film scanners that scan slides or negatives in their plastic frames are subject to quite significant inaccuracies, as well as the Imacon-Hasselblad scanners, which have their own rubber and plastic holders: they do not guarantee the perfect flatness of the original and therefore a uniform definition between center and edge, especially with medium and large size originals, which instead are guaranteed by drum scanners.
Again, drum scanners allow scanning at high resolution over the entire surface of the cylinder, while for example the Hasselblad Imacon scans are limited to 3200 dpi in 120 format and 2000 dpi in 4x5" format (the resolution of nearly every CCD scanner in the market drops as the size of the original scanned is increased).
Drum scanners allow complete scanning of the whole negative, including the black-orange mask, perforations etc, while using many other scanners a certain percentage of the image is lost because it is covered by frames or holders.
Drum scanners use photomultiplier tubes to record the light signal, which are much more sensitive than CCDs and can record many more nuances and variations in contrast with a lower digital noise.
If you look at a monitor at 100% the detail in shadows and darker areas of a scan made with a CCD scanner, you will notice that the details are not recorded in a clear and clean way, and the colors are more opaque and less differentiated. Additionally the overall tones are much less rich and differentiated.
We would like to say a few words about an unscrupulous and deceitful use of technical specifications reported by many manufacturers of consumer and prosumer scanners; very often we read of scanners that promise cheap or relatively cheap “drum scanner” resolutions, 16 bits of color depth, extremely high DMAX: we would like to say that these “nominal” resolutions do not correspond to an actual optical resolution, so that even in low-resolution scanning you can see an enormous gap between drum scanners and these scanners in terms of detail, as well as in terms of DMAX, color range, realism, “quality” of grain. So very often when using these consumer-prosumer scanners at high resolutions, it is normal to get a disproportionate increase of file size in MB but not an increase of detail and quality.
To give a concrete example: a drum scan of a 24x36mm color negative film at 3500 dpi is much more defined than a scan made with mostly CCD scanner at 8000 dpi and a drum scan at 2500 dpi is dramatically clearer than a scan at 2500 dpi provided by a CCD scanner. So be aware and careful with incorrect advertisement.
Scans can be performed either dry or liquid-mounted. The wet mounting further improves cleanliness (helps to hide dirt, scratches and blemishes) and plasticity of the image without compromising the original, and in addition by mounting with liquid the film grain is greatly reduced and it looks much softer and more pleasant than the usual "harsh" grain resulting from dry scans.
We use Kami SMF 2001 liquid to mount the transparencies and Kami RC 2001 for cleaning the same. Kami SMF 2001 evaporates without leaving traces, unlike the traditional oil scans, ensuring maximum protection for your film. Out of ignorance some people prefer to avoid liquid scanning because they fear that their films will be dirty or damaged: this argument may be plausible only in reference to scans made using mineral oils, which have nothing to do with the specific professional products we use.
We strongly reiterate that your original is in no way compromised by our scanning liquid and will return as you have shipped it, if not cleaner.
With respect to scanning from slides:
Our scanners are carefully calibrated with the finest IT8 calibration targets in circulation and with special customized targets in order to ensure that each scan faithfully reproduces the original color richness even in the most subtle nuances, opening and maintaining detail in shadows and highlights. These color profiles allow our scanners to realize their full potential, so we guarantee our customers that even from a chromatic point of view our scans are noticeably better than similar scans made by mostly other scan services in the market.
In addition, we remind you that our 8060 drum scanner is able to read the deepest shadows of slides without digital noise and with much more detail than CCD scanners; also, the color range and color realism are far better.
With respect to scanning from color and bw negatives: we want to emphasize the superiority of our drum scans not only in scanning slides, but also in color and bw negative scanning (because of the orange mask and of very low contrast is extremely difficult for any ccd scanner to read the very slight tonal and contrast nuances in the color negative, while a perfectly profiled 8060 drum scanner – also through the analog gain/white calibration - can give back much more realistic images and true colors, sharper and more three-dimensional).
In spite of what many claim, a meticulous color profiling is essential not only for scanning slides, but also, and even more, for color negatives. Without it the scan of a color negative will produce chromatic errors rather significant, thus affecting the tonal balance and then the naturalness-pleasantness of the images.
More unique than rare, we do not use standardized profiles provided by the software to invert each specific negative film, because they do not take into account parameters and variables such as the type of development, the level of exposure, the type of light etc.,; at the same time we also avoid systems of "artificial intelligence" or other functions provided by semi-automatic scanning softwares, but instead we carry out the inversion in a full manual workflow for each individual picture.
In addition, scanning with Imacon-Hasselblad scanners we do not use their proprietary software - Flexcolor – to make color management and color inversion because we strongly believe that our alternative workflow provides much better results, and we are able to prove it with absolute clarity.
At each stage of the process we take care of meticulously adjusting the scanning parameters to the characteristics of the originals, to extrapolate the whole range of information possible from any image without "burning" or reductions in the tonal range, and strictly according to our customer's need and taste.
By default, we do not apply unsharp mask (USM) in our scans, except on request.
To scan reflective originals we follow the same guidelines and guarantee the same quality standard.
We guarantee the utmost thoroughness and expertise in the work of scanning and handling of the originals and we provide scans up to 12,000 dpi of resolution, at 16-bit, in RGB, GRAYSCALE, LAB or CMYK color mode; unless otherwise indicated, files are saved with Adobe RGB 1998 or ProPhoto RGB color profile.
Beneath the precise geometry of light and skin, Lucy becomes the constant in a field of heat and stillness. The Scarlet Equation is a meditation on symmetry — how beauty, when distilled to its essential vectors, becomes an act of control. Every shadow resolves an emotion; every line holds a temperature.
Astronomical archive
Entanglements of matter and meaning.
Karen Barad, Meeting The Universe Halfway, 2007.
This may initially look complicated but this is the photography workflow that I currently use including the route from initial captured image, through ingestion and processing, distribution and eventually to archiving.
INGESTION: Through Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, images are copied to a working internal hard drive on my PC. During this "ingesting" stage, I set keywords, add copyright, apply any preset editing and add these images to a subfolder named, "originals". I also automatically copy the images to an external drive purely as a backup. I call this drive the redundant drive.
SORTING: Next I quickly go through and determine which images are rejects and I mark them for deletion. I don't delete them yet because I might always change my mind later after I see what can be done with the editing.
NON-DESTRUCTIVE EDITING: I adjust the camera calibration. This is a very quick and flexible way to change the major balance of the photo and effect all of the colors at once. I do additional white balance tweaking, black clipping, whatever is needed. If specific changes to the content of the photos are needed such as removing an exit sign or cloning over a name tag, I export to Photoshop from Lightroom and make those changes on a copied layer. Then I save a PSD, go back to Lightroom and make any final changes there. Finally, I add individualized keywords (people in the photos, specific details about the photos).
RENAMING: The first step before exporting is to look at the files marked for deletion. If they really are no good, I delete them. Next, I rename all of the files so that they are easier for people to read. Usually I follow the pattern of "name of event - 001.extension". Some photographers and editors don't do this step preferring instead to use whatever file name is generated by the camera. But to me, with the power of modern search engines in Lightroom and Portfolio, I think it's best to rename the files so non-technical people aren't intimidated by all of the numbers and strange letters.
EXPORTING: Next I export for print and web size, each to a separate subfolder. For print, it's a full resolution jpg export at 300 ppi with the same name as the original filename. I also retain the Adobe RGB color space that I shoot in as it's best for printing (though I personally prefer the look of ProPhoto color space). For web, 72ppi jpg, sRGB color space (for browser compatibility) and 1024 x 768. Other photographers prefer TIFF but I think a full resolution jpg looks just as good as a full resolution uncompressed TIFF. Maybe I'm wrong, but my photos have been printed rather large on two page spreads and they look good to me. Plus, an uncompressed TIFF is rather huge in terms of file size. And when sending dozens of files for a magazine, JPGs are much easier for people to handle and transfer.
I also have export presets for facebook, LinkedIn and any other social media sites I distribute to. However, for Flickr, I just publish straight to the site from within Lightroom. No need to export anything separately.
DISTRIBUTION: Depending on the needs and capabilities of the client, I'll use our or their FTP sites to distribute print or web size jpgs. If they don't have FTP capabilities, I'll send photos via YouSendIt.com. If that isn't a possibility (if I am sending huge amounts of data for event photography for example), I'll burn a DVD and mail it to them. For internal distribution within the company, I'll place the print and web files onto the shared drive along with a PDF preview I make in Bridge (step not pictured). Some people have had the picture preview function removed from their computers by the IT department, so the PDF preview is unfortunately a necessary step.
ARCHIVING: The first step before archiving is to convert all of the raw files to DNG. This reduces the file size by about 20-40% and is a lossless compression. It also combines the raw file and associated sidecar file into one file which makes the folders cleaner. Over the course of many thousands of images, this makes a huge difference and makes the IT department slightly happier about storing ten versions of a headshot when to them they all look the same.
Next step is to transfer the whole working folder which contains the originals, print files, web files, PDF preview and PDF scanned copies of consent forms to the shared drive. This network drive is on a standalone server and is backed up every night to tape which is stored at a separate location. The shared drive is also in a separate building, so if my building ever had a disaster and was destroyed, the photos would be backed up in two separate buildings.
DATABASE MANAGEMENT: I currently am using Extensis Portfolio to look at the photos stored on the shared drive. When Portfolio runs, it searches for new photos, changed photos, removed photos, etc. and while it's updating its catalog (database), it extracts keywords from the files and creates keywords depending on the folder name, file name and location on the server. This catalog can then be searched by anyone with Portfolio Browser as it's stored on the network (the program and the catalog). Extensis Portfolio is very buggy and crashes all of the time, so I'm currently looking for another solution that is more reliable and user friendly to non-professionals.
FINAL STEP: Once the photos are edited, distributed and archived, this is usually when I delete the photos from the CF cards (if I haven't done so already to make room for another shoot).
Nurses are constantly challenged with trying to balance the time they spend on direct patient care, assessment and surveillance with documentation. In the ICU the challenge is even greater because patients are more critical, require more surveillance, and are connected to more medical devices that require more frequent documentation. Med-surg is equally challenging because there are more patients to care for and therefore just as many vital signs to collect. Manual transcription and entry into the EMR is simply not the best use of nursing time; especially when there is another option – medical device connectivity.
Medical device connectivity improves workflow because data from connected devices is AUTOMATICALLY sent to the EMR. Device connectivity simply allows nurses to focus on what they do best – care for their patients. And there’s more. Device connectivity does more than just recovers nursing hours. It also:
* Increases staff productivity
* Reduces charting errors
* Increases adoption of the EMR
* Provides real time data to the patients record for improved decision making
* Helps qualify for meaningful use criteria and
* Improves overall patient care and safety
With kind permission from Paul Fisher, visualisation with GraphViz.
A version of this workflow is available at www.cs.man.ac.uk/~hulld/workflows/paul_fisher_complex.xml