Digital imaging or digital image acquisition is the creation of photographic images, such as of a physical scene or of the interior structure of an object. The term is often assumed to imply or include the processing, compression, storage, printing, and display of such images.
The ECDL Foundation, who prescribe the European Computer Driving Licence curriculum, have used the phrase image-editing to mean working with images using image editing software (eg Photoshop). Their curriculum (see my notes on it) doesn't include creating or capturing digital images, presumably because this is regarded as photography.
Some local institutions which teach this image-editing curriculum use Digital Imaging as the title of their courses.
As the lines between computers and cameras has blurred (to the point where all cameras are now computers, and most computers and mobile phones include a camera), the distinction between image capture and image editing has become less useful.
The working definition in this blog is that Digital Imaging is working with digital images in any way:
- creating them,
- editing or manipulating them,
- outputting (on any medium - via a printer, plotter, screen)
- managing them (storing, filing / cataloging, sharing, archiving, deleting).
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