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Auto Cropping will automatically straighten and crop all photos to the page of the book. Sometimes the crop is inaccurate, so it is recommended to manually adjust the crop as needed.
Quality Control
Before exporting your photos, it is important to quality control your images. Use Capture One image viewer to verify the following:
The image should be a faithful representation of the original
The image is not skewed or off-centered
The image has clean edges, clear contrast, and legible text
Not too light or too dark
No loss of detail in highlights or shadows
No glare visible on the cradle glass
The image is correctly oriented
If the entire book is digitized, keep book orientation for consistency
If only select plates are digitized, rotate them as necessary for viewing properly
Exporting
In the top navigation, select Window > Workspace > CH Reflective QC and Process.
In the top left-hand menu, select the Gear icon to access the processing menu.
In the Process Recipes menu, select TIFF Adobe RGB (1998) (8bit) from the pre-made Process Recipes. (Do NOT modify these recipes without renaming them.)
Recipes must be checked to be active (not highlighted.) If an item is highlighted but not checked, the name will appear as red error text in the Process Summary window.
You can check several recipes to run all recipes at the same time. Note that we will make derivatives from TIFFs in the Digital Collections so this is not necessary.
In the Process Recipe menu, change the resolution to 300, 400, or 600 DPI. The scale should be “Fixed” and set to “100%”.
Change Output Location.
Next to Store Files, click “Choose Folder”.
Select Desktop as your destination.
Add a subfolder - title it, Identifier_Item Title
Change Output Naming.
Click on the ellipses icon to change the naming scheme to “Job Name”_“3 Digit Counter.”
In the Preset dropdown menu, select “Name and 3 Digit Counter”
In the Format bar, insert an underscore symbol between “Name” and “3 Digit Counter”
Select OK.
In the “Job Name” field, enter the item's bib number, accession number, or other identifier.
Note: To reset the Capture Counter to “001,” click on the ellipses next to the “Help” (?) icon to expand the menu and select “Reset Capture Counter.”
Select the files you want to export in the menu on the right-hand side. Click the “Process” button at the bottom of the Process Summary box on the left.
Once your files have been exported to the desktop, copy the folder into the external hard drive, “External Dig Backups.”
Copy the folder again into Promethium/Digitization/[Respective department folder].
Delete the export from the desktop once it has been saved to the M drive and backed up. Don’t forget to clear the Mac’s trash every so often to save space on the device.
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