Please find below an invite to the launch of our Center of Vocational Excellence this Wednesday 26 March 2003, from 18h30, at the City of Westminster College, London. Hopefully we will see as many of you as possible. I do apologies for posting this so late.
If there are any questions please address them to the CoVE Manager Cindy Dalgleish on <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, or alternatively by phone on the below numbers.
Regards
Rycherde(Richard) Walters
CoVE Technician: Digital Photography
Centre of ?Vocational Excellence at City of Westminster College invites you to the launch of its flagship project
The School of ?Art, Design and Photography at City of Westminster College has made an extensive investment in a colour managed, digital image workflow environment. After extensive industry consultation, it became clear that the developments in the print industry would have an increasing impact on how photographers and picture users handle images.
This new facility will give the photographic community the opportunity to work in a calibrated and colour managed environment on the latest high-end equipment and using the very latest software. As far as we know there is no other facility of its kind, outside of the commercial environment in central ?and outer London.
You are invited to join us for the evening of the Wednesday 26th of March 2003 from 6.30pm to 10,30pm at the City of Westminster College, Paddington Centre, 25 Paddington Green, W2 ?map: http://www.cwc.ac.uk/pages/about_the_college/centres.asp?PageID=26 You will hear key ‘Digital Imaging’ professionals describe the current shifts in the industry. See the software and hardware in action and explore the current aspiration to manage images in a wholly calibrated and colour matched workflow facility.
The schedule is as follows:
Location : room 628 : Digital Media production Studio : 6th floor : Seminar
6:30 pm : Jude Boardman : Welcome from City of Westminster College Chair of Governors
6:40 pm : Martin Evening : Photographer : www.martinevening.com
7:00 pm : Neil Barstow : Neil Barstow Consultancy : http://www.colourmanagement.net/ : http://www.apple.com/uk/creative/neilbarstow
7:15 pm : Sarah Saunders : The Image Network : www.theimagenetwork.co.uk
7:30 pm : Onwards : Networking and Reception
7:30 pm : Onwards : Open door : Demonstration of Apple imaging software by Holdens Educational Suppliers
Location : room 734 : Digital Imaging Suite : 7th floor
6.30 pm : Open Door ?: Colour management hardware and software question session with Rycherde Walters
oooooo ?: Open Door : demonstration on the power of Photoshop by Rod Wynne Powell in collaboration with Wacom, Calumet and Leaf technologies
This is an ideal opportunity for you to have questions answered and see for yourself how technology is shaping the image industry. RSVP 20th March
All attendees have the chance to win a two day course hosted by TBC on TBC. Provide a business card or contact details on the day. The first six drawn will receive a course that delivers key skills, giving the recipient an edge in the digital imaging business.
We look forward to receiving you as our guest
Please do not hesitate in contact me for further information
Cindy Dalgleish
CoVE Manager
Tel: 020 7258 5511
mo: 0779 877 2706
e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The specification of the ‘Digital Imaging Suite’ is as follows:
The Suite: The suite is decorated in neutral grey throughout so as not to prejudice the colour editing abilities of the users in anyway. It will be lit with non intrusive colour balanced tubes, with the facility to view final prints under a tungsten light source (similar to those found in exhibition spaces). Material to be scanned and final prints can be accurately assessed on a Just Normlicht Color Match 5000 Duo daylight balanced display booth. One workstation is be dedicated to scanning and one to printing. ?
Workstations: 7 G4 Dual Processor Power Macs with additional 500 Mb RAM, 60 GB Scratch Disks, Wacom Graphire 2 Tablet, and 17’ Apple Cinema Display. ?The Cinema displays will be calibrated and profiled on a regular basis using a Gretag Macbeth Eye-One Monitor with BasICColor Display software. The suite will be running Mac OSX.2 through out and will be using a fully colour managed workflow, from capture, to editing and onto output. ?
Scanner: Imacon Flextight 646 Scanner colour managed with a Custom Input ICC Profile made with Neil Barstow Consulting. The scanner can handle negatives and transparencies from 35 mm to 12x17cm, can scan up to 6300 dpi in optical resolution and read up to a Dmax of 4.6, with scans being transferred via Firewire at 400 Mb/sec to the workstation. ??
Printing: First option, Fuji Pictography 4000 II Dye-Sublimation printer. This printer offers very fast (90 sec) high resolution and printing , colour managed utilising a Custom ICC Profile created by Neil Barstow. Second option, Epson 1160 A3+ printer with Continuous Inking System using Lyson’s Wide Gamut Colour Inks and Lyson Heavy weight smooth fine art paper. This printer will be colour managed using a Custom ICC Profile created by Pixl in Denmark, in collaboration with Neil Barstow.
This project has been possible because the City of Westminster College is working toward a Centre of Vocational Excellence accreditation. This is an investment project delivered through the Learning and Skills Council of England. We will be delivering a series of further projects in 3003/2004 across the College related to the creative industries.
