Digital Imaging Workflow
From capture to delivery and archive: pixels and bit depth, raw and processed capture, still and video formats, color spaces and color management, verified ingest, metadata and catalogs, non-destructive editing and proxies, storage, backup and archiving, and exporting for screen, print and video delivery.
VIS-120 Year 1 3 credits 12 lessons · 5 h
Offered by HSM University · Visual Media Foundations
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Explain pixels, channels, bit depth, resolution and pixel density, and calculate image and video file sizes
- Describe how sensors, color filter arrays and camera processing produce raw and processed files, and choose capture formats
- Compare JPEG, HEIF, TIFF, PSD, PNG, WebP, AVIF and DNG, explain lossy and lossless compression and choose formats across a workflow
- Distinguish containers and codecs, explain Long GOP, All-Intra, chroma subsampling and frame rates, and plan video storage
- Explain color space primaries, white points, gamma, log encoding and HDR, and choose working and delivery spaces
- Calibrate and profile displays, set up an editing environment, apply rendering intents and soft proof for print
- Perform verified ingests with checksums, name files and structure folders consistently, and cull efficiently
- Add Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata, build controlled vocabularies, manage catalogs and understand rights and Content Credentials
- Edit non-destructively with parametric edits, virtual copies, presets and layers, version projects and use proxy workflows
- Select HDDs, SSDs, RAID levels, NAS and cloud storage, identify bottlenecks and plan capacity tiers
- Design 3-2-1-1-0 backups, defend against ransomware, test restores, archive for the long term and secure client data
- Export for web, print and video delivery with correct size, sharpening, color and specifications, and document a complete workflow
Course content
12 lessons · 5 h total · final exam
- 1 How digital images work: pixels, resolution and bit depth 24 min · quiz
- 2 From sensor to file: raw and processed capture 25 min · quiz
- 3 Still image file formats and compression 25 min · quiz
- 4 Video files: containers, codecs and data rates 24 min · quiz
- 5 Color spaces, gamma and log encoding 24 min · quiz
- 6 Color management in practice: displays, profiles and proofing 25 min · quiz
- 7 Ingest, verification and file organization 25 min · quiz
- 8 Metadata, cataloging and digital asset management 25 min · quiz
- 9 Non-destructive editing, versions and proxy workflows 27 min · quiz
- 10 Storage: drives, RAID, network storage and the cloud 27 min · quiz
- 11 Backup, archiving and data security 25 min · quiz
- 12 Exporting for screen, print and video delivery, and capstone 24 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
From capture to delivery and archive: pixels and bit depth, raw and processed capture, still and video formats, color spaces and color management, verified ingest, metadata and catalogs, non-destructive editing and proxies, storage, backup and archiving, and exporting for screen, print and video delivery.
Part of the Film & Photography stream, typically taken in year 1.