Digital photographic consultancy services

Influenced Eye is the independent consultancy name of Andrew Huggett - advising on the practical implementation and management of digital workflows and image banks. Andrew is a design professional with more than 19 years experience in the area of graphic design, corporate identity and photography. He first started using professional creative software on Apple Macintosh systems in 1988 and business application software on Microsoft Windows PC’s from 1993.

If you are an individual and/or amateur photographer

One-to-one consultancy and training in your home

1. ✦Providing individual custom training to organize and manage your digital photographs
   

For example:

1. ✦Help with Adobe Elements, Windows Photo Gallery or Apple’s iPhoto
   

2. ✦Advice on digitizing legacy film-based prints and negatives
   

3. ✦Understanding where your photographic files are stored on your PC
   

4. ✦Understanding the differences between JPEG and RAW file formats
   

5. ✦Advice on storing your irreplaceable family digital photos safely and backing them up
   

6. ✦Training on using software to improve and enhance your digital photos
   
   

If you are a professional photographer

On-site consultancy and training

1. ✦Providing customised help and guidance with your digital workflow - choosing when and how to
   use Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Lightroom (or Apple’s Aperture)
   

2. ✦Advice with setting-up controlled vocabulary keywording to fully comply with commercial stock library requirements
   

Practical support

1. ✦Help with selecting, sorting and managing your customers photos
   

2. ✦Help with sharpening, colour balancing, cropping and retouching photos
   

3. ✦Help with uploading metadata tagged photos to proprietary web-based sales galleries such as
   Clikpic, Online Picture Proof, The Image File, Loxley ROES or similar products
   

If you represent a company or organisation

Consultancy and training

1. ✦Help and advice choosing and using Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems so that
   digital assets can be distributed nationally and internationally between offices via the internet
   

2. ✦Advice and support on briefing photographers
   

3. ✦Advice on data protection issues
   

Practical support

1. ✦Help with sorting and organising your companies digital image bank
   

2. ✦Practical help with managing tens of thousands of digital photos that you may have commissioned
   from professional photographers
   

3. ✦Help with reviewing and choosing the best photos from a selection and establishing a searchable keywording system that works for you
   
   
   

For further details please get in touch:

T: +44(0)7801816896         

E: andrew@influenced-eye .com

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Andrew has worked on the British Council’s ‘Snapshots’ image bank and more recently on developing the University of London’s IoE digital photo bank. He is currently preparing for Adobe® Certification (ACE) in Adobe® Photoshop® and Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom.

Advice and support is available to individuals and companies as follows: