Tools & Technical resources

Equipment

• Camera resolutions and capture sizes

• Imaging Services equipment list

Image capture and processing software

• ADOBE: Bridge, Camera Raw, Photoshop, Lightroom

• JPEG2000 encoding: Grok JPEG2000 (switching from discontinued Aware codec)

  • https://harvardwiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DigitalImaging/pages/58757884

• ImageMagick

  • File format conversion and content modification using mogrify, #tips

• LibTIFF, TIFF Library and Utilities

  • TIFF Tools Overview
    This software distribution comes with a small collection of programs for converting non-TIFF format images to TIFF and for manipulating and interrogating the contents of TIFF images. Several of these tools are useful in their own right. Many of them however are more intended to serve as programming examples for using the TIFF library.

    • tiffcp (TIFF copy) is especially useful for creating standard-compliant copies of TIFF files with minor encoding errors.

• CaptureOne

• Breeze Remote Pro and Multi-Camera (camera tethering, remote-control)

OCR

• Tesseract

  • command line usage

Still image format validation and technical metadata tools

• jpylyzer (JPEG2000)

• JHOVE

• ExifTool by Phil Harvey

  • Fun with Exiftool, #tips

  • Gather image metadata using Exiftool from a directory of images. #tips

Images

• Embedding derived JPEG2000 image files with image technical metadata transferred from source images

• Encoding JPEG2000 images using the Aware codec

• Installing OpenJPEG on Windows 10, Linux, and MacOS

• Moiré patterns, explained

• Cross Polarization example

• Redacting images using Photoshop

• Tools for converting between TIFF and JPEG2000 files

• Example showing how to perform an ICC profile-to-profile conversion using ImageMagick.

Working with digital content acquired from external sources

Working with DRS

• DRS deposit-report processing tool (Among other things, it can create URN links from a DRS deposit report.)