Unit 39 - Undertake Image Asset Management

Image Asset management consists of tasks surrounding annotation, storage and the distribution of digital assets, digital photographs, animations, videos and music are a typical example of media asset management. Digital asset management refers to the backing, downloading, renaming, grouping, archiving and exporting of files.

When capturing and uploading images, making sure there is no copyright attached to it is the first thing you should do as if it has copyright attatched to it, you will have to ask for permission from the rightful owner so that you do not infringe any current laws or guidlines. Colour management is there to make sure that the colour works across many devices such as a monitor to a digital camera, this is why when designing for any project we have to make sure that it is compatible colours and that can be used on many devices.

Photoshop file and JPEG

Backing up your work is essiential in the media sector, it is always a must that you should keep a master copy of your original work on somewhere like a flash drive to keep it safe incase something might happen to the computer it is stored on, also keeping a saved copy of the original format for example photoshop as for further editing you can go back to it and change whatever is needed as it will still have the layers as if you saved this as a PNG or JPEG you would not be able to edit any on the layers on this. When saving your edited work make sure that you name/caption is something suitable and that you are able to easily find it quickly and effectively relevent to what it is.

There is many aspects of working life that can effect image asset managment, things such as someone coming on to your computer and changing the caption/name of your work, then it would be impossible to find or if they saved over your work and it would be lost as it would be their worked saved their instead of your own. This would obviously be a big problem in a work place so it is a good thing to keep a spare on a flash drive or some sort of device to keep all your work together to prevent this from happening.

Also to prevent physical damage to your images/ work, you should always make more copies and store in a safe place where it won't get damaged or ruined, making more copies is good as if one does get damaged you have a spare just incase, and store in a safe place so that.

All companies archieve their images/work load, it is important that these are backed up and stored on suitable devices that the work is not damaged in any way, for example a disc, flash drive etc. Another good way of storing images is using an online method such sites like Dropbox, I used this for my own work so that it does not get lost or deleted at work, Dropbox allows you to place work via there site from one computer and access it from another, it even lets you share work with others too.