This is breathtaking – a 360 degree nighttime view of Paris from the Eiffel Tower in Quicktime. It’s just one of the beautiful panoramas by Eric Rougier – you can see all of them at his website “Panoramas from Paris”, which includes instructions to maximize viewing of these QTVR gems. Rougier is one of the…
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has introduced Artscope, a new way to browse 3,500-plus works from their collection. It employs a magnifying- glass feature that allows you to zoom in on a work from a large mosaic, or grid, of images. Or you can type in or select terms to focus your search. …
Just a reminder that the California Digital Library still supports Luna Insight, the image hosting and search tool that was tested by the UC campuses a few years ago. There are several terrific collections which are not available through ARTstor or other means at this time, for example: The National Palace Museum of Taipei (over…
This Sitepoint article is a very helpful review of 19 image editing tools. Most are free, some have a very modest fee. They allow you to do simple image edits such as resizing, sharpening, adding text, and brightening. Try them out, and send in your feedback.
Cooliris is a plug-in for your browser which displays images in a wonderful “3D Wall” effect – you can browse your own image folders, or online image searches (google, flickr, etc.). There’s a great explanation of it here: http://aahvrc.blogspot.com/search?q=cooliris
There are two new icons in ARTstor that help you efficiently find and use images. When applicable, the icons are located beneath a thumbnail image on the search results screen and help you act on special features related to that image. The two new icons are: Duplicates & Details: This identifies groups of image duplicates…