Does the software do this?
Good Morning All.
part of my job is to review all art for books. I am responsible for writing down the width, height, and resolution of each piece of art and make sure that it meet the minimum requirements for print production. As people add more and more art as you can imagine, I can spend days just looking at various pieces of artwork. What I would like to do is have a piece of software that will initially give me this information. (the width, height and resolution of a piece of art) One of my vendors said this is what he is currently using so I am trying to find out if this would work for my type of work.
Does it print out a contact sheet with the width, height and resolution of a set of images?
Can it look at photos, pdfs, tiffs, eps, pngs, formats and give me that information?
How does it alert me that there is a problem with anyone of the images?
What about audio files, does it work on other formats?
Is there anyone else in these boards that does Digital Asset Management using this software in conjunction with other types of software and what is that software and what are you doing?
Is there any kind of warnings, alerts, problems that I should be aware of when using this type of software for evaluation of electronic art files. Is there something else I should be using?
Thanks for your help.
Pattybaltimore
part of my job is to review all art for books. I am responsible for writing down the width, height, and resolution of each piece of art and make sure that it meet the minimum requirements for print production. As people add more and more art as you can imagine, I can spend days just looking at various pieces of artwork. What I would like to do is have a piece of software that will initially give me this information. (the width, height and resolution of a piece of art) One of my vendors said this is what he is currently using so I am trying to find out if this would work for my type of work.
Does it print out a contact sheet with the width, height and resolution of a set of images?
Can it look at photos, pdfs, tiffs, eps, pngs, formats and give me that information?
How does it alert me that there is a problem with anyone of the images?
What about audio files, does it work on other formats?
Is there anyone else in these boards that does Digital Asset Management using this software in conjunction with other types of software and what is that software and what are you doing?
Is there any kind of warnings, alerts, problems that I should be aware of when using this type of software for evaluation of electronic art files. Is there something else I should be using?
Thanks for your help.
Pattybaltimore
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Hi Patty,
I don't think C1 is going to do everything you need it to simply because it doesn't read all the file formats you need. It can see (and someone can correct me if I'm wrong) .jpg, .tiff, .dng and a multitude of RAW formats. It won't see .pdf, .png or even .psd.
As far as quickly being able to see size, resolution and such I would recommend Bridge. You could set up a simple workspace showing all the data you require and could quickly scan through the images. In earlier versions of Bridge you could print contact sheets with this information, I'm not sure about CS6 or CC but I can check if you like.
Media Pro might be an option but someone else will have to fill you in on that since I don't use it.
Best of luck,
Steve.0 -
[quote="Steven48" wrote:
Media Pro might be an option but someone else will have to fill you in on that since I don't use it.
Patty,
Steven is correct. Media Pro is likely what you are looking for here.
You can display the image size and print that onto a Contact Sheet if you wish.0 -
Wouldn't it be more easy to cheque the PDF-Files of the books with maybe a preflight in acrobat pro?
Should be able to see the resolution (depending on how big the images are placed in the layout-software)
and colorspace?0
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