Category: image tools

  • An in-depth way to explore the Garden of Earthly Delights

    It’s been available for awhile, but we recently discovered this amazing interactive tool and wanted to promote it.  The Prado Museum developed an “audio-visual journey” of Heironymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, which can be explored through a variety of means.  You can watch the full documentary, take a tour, or explore on your…

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  • Pharos: The International Consortium of Photo Archives

    PHAROS is an international consortium of fourteen European and North American art historical photo archives committed to creating a digital platform, currently in beta, that allows research among the photographic holdings of all consortium members – an estimated 31 million images, including artworks and supplemental material. One of the best searching features they’re working on is…

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  • George Eastman House collections online

    The George Eastman Museum’s vast collections are now searchable online, including over 250,000 objects from the photography, technology, and George Eastman Legacy collections. Visit often as additional records and images will be added on an ongoing basis, including the Moving Image collection of more than 28,000 titles spanning the entire history of world cinema. via…

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  • Nine Architectural Photography Tutorials to Help You Get the Right Shot

    Capturing the perfect architectural photograph can be far more difficult than one might anticipate. In light of this, ArchDaily compiled a list of nine architectural photography tutorials to help you get the right shot every time.

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  • Artstor image download improvements

    Artstor just announced that with the latest system update users can now download individual images as JPGs – they are no longer zip files, which means you save a step. The second bit of good news is that the embedded metadata function is now working, so that information travels with the downloaded image.   You can…

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  • GRI releases Getty Scholars’ Workspace

    The Getty Research Institute has released a wonderful open-source (and free) collaborative research tool called Getty Scholars’ Workspace.  It allows users to save and annotate images (from the Getty as well as other sources), construct text and bibliographies, and best of all to share saved content with others.   This has great potential for student assignments…

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