Photo processing

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First, put all of your original photographs into a folder name Originals. Make a copy of this folder and call it Backup.

When turning in your photographs, they should be placed into TWO SEPERATE FOLDERS:

Folder1, entitled Originals: this folder should have the photographs as you took them. This can have inside it all of the photographs that you took, whether or not you process them and want to include them in the Digital Collection.

Folder2, entitled Edited: this folder should contain only the photographs that you have selected, cropped and minimized.

Make sure to name the edited photographs using the exact same name that you named the original versions so that we can match up the originals to their smaller, editted copies.

When you are saving the editted photographs, make certain that you are saving the edits to the Edited folder. If you make a mistake and overwrite your original photograph, re-copy it from your Backup folder. This is why a Backup folder is useful; you can delete it after processing your photographs.

So, the folder structure on your disk (the one you turn it to us) will look like this:

CD
 |
 |---- Originals
 |      |
 |      |-- image1.jpg (or .tiff)
 |      |-- image2.jpg (or .tiff)
 |
 |---- Edited
 |      | 
 |      |-- image1.jpg
 |      |-- image2.jpg
 |
 |---- metadata spreadsheet

Note: Use of the filename imageX.jpg in the example above is only for demonstration purposes. The actual filenames of the photographs follow a specific naming convention. It can be found in the Data Dictionary.

You will also need to turn in metadata for you photographs. Metadata is additional information about the photographs. You can find information about assigning metadata in the Data Dictionary.

Edited Photographs: Processing and Formatting Photographs

The longest side of the image should be no longer than 700 pixels (px). Therefore, a landscape photo will be 700px wide, whereas a portrait photo will be 700px tall.

Image resolution should be either 72 dpi or 100 dpi. This resolution is sufficient for the web.

Save the photograph as a .JPG at the highest quality possible so as not to exceed approximately 300KB in size.

Creating several edited photographs from one original

By selecting and/or cropping an original, you can create several new, edited photos from one original image. This has implication