Visual Resources Association

We are proud to be a member and supporter of the Visual Resources Association.

Howard Brainen, Two Cat's founder and CEO, serves as an officer in VRA-NorCal. Howard has also taught workshops at several VRA national and regional conferences, and teaches digital imaging at the Summer Educational Institute for VRA and ARLIS/NA.

Free downloads are available below on some of the topics covered in these workshops.

For 2007,Two Cat Digital is attending the national VRA conference in Kansas City as a vendor. We encourage fellow members to find Howard, say hello and ask any questions about digital imaging best practices, project management....or anything on your mind.

DOWNLOADS
Most of the files are in Adobe PDF format and will require Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. See the link at the bottom of this page if you need to get Acrobat reader. It is free from Adobe.

DECISION TREE - This is the main body of Howard's 2004 presentations. Includes analysis of the reasons for digitizing, best practices, scanner selection, productivity calculations, getting outside bids and comparing in-house costs to quotes from outside vendors.

COLOR MANAGEMENT - Basics of color management for the institutional environment.

HIRING A PHOTOSHOP TECH - There have been many requests for this "tongue-in-cheek" article by Howard Brainen. Gives a step-by-step procedure for defining the job that needs to be done, testing applicants' skills, and a scoring system for the test. Technology described now outdated but the basic analysis still works fine.

IMAGE INVENTORY - This is an Excel file we provide to clients to help them assess what they have to digitize.

VRA members are encouraged to check back here for more articles and notes.

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