2d graphic design

Photography

Alternate tool(s):

Photobucket

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tool: QuarkXPress

Purpose:

QuarkXPress desktop publishing software is commonly used to create page layouts for a variety of print publications such as books, newspapers, magazines, posters and brochures.

Similar in function to InDesign, the main differences are Quark's unique features for exporting documents as interactive webpages as well as its widespread use by printers, typesetters and page designers.

Features:

Enables the production of HTML and XML content without the need to convert or refine documents
Supports direct PDF importing and outputing according to regulations
Fully supports Adobe Photoshop files, avoiding complicated and time-consuming conversions
Uses OpenType and Unicode, making font and character settings easy
Free TypeTricks XTension locates overset text boxes as well as widows and orphans
Presents intuitive colour-management tools that includes the unique option of hexachrome printing
Allows the customisation of line and border dashes and stripes as well as the merging of boxes to generate complex shapes
Text runaround for hidden layers may be turned off
Shared Content instantly incorporates any text or graphic changes consistently throughout a project
XPress Composition Zones allow team members to work simulatenously on a project, with all modifications being updated instantly
Job jackets keep print job specifications consistent throughout the project, ensuring their clarity and memorability

A&H use case 1 description:

The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) project used QuarkXPress alongside other tools to create an electronic archive of medieval polyphonic music images. The purpose of the archive is to allow detailed study of the music and its sources as well as to ensure their preservation.

Creator:

Quark Inc

Software/programming languages used:

Quark Xpress

Data publishing and dissemination:

General website development

Collaborative publishing

Specifications:

Portable Document Format (PDF)

Unicode

PhotoShop Document (PSD)

QuarkXpress Document (QXD)

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Alternate tool(s):

Adobe InDesign

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Licence:

commercial

lifecycleStage:

publishing

By danafarra at Wed, 02/06/2010 - 09:57

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tool: RivEx

Purpose:

RivEx is a river network tool designed to run under ESRI ArcMap 9.1. It allows for quality control and analysis of the river network and creation of node layers.

Features:

• Process connected river centre lines
• Generate new node layers for the nodes of the network
• Attribute your network including stream order
• Convert your network to a measured network
• Re-orientate (flip) network polylines
• Quality controlled snapping of sites to the river network
• Export river network data to KML (Google Earth) format

A&H use case 1 description:

RivEx was used in conjunction with ESRI ArcMap on the North Sea Palaeolandscapes project to map the river network that was part of the prehistoric landscape stretching from the English Channel to the Norwegian coast line.

Publisher:

RivEx

Creator:

Duncan Hornby

Data publishing and dissemination:

eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

Specifications:

Communication and collaboration:

Graphical interaction (asynchronous)

Data analysis:

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Discipline:

Data capture:

Use of existing digital data

Data structuring and enhancement:

3d modelling - interactive

2d modelling - vector

Geo-referencing and projection

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Strategy and project management:

Documentation

Human factors analysis

Alternate tool(s):

MotherPlanet

Practice-led research:

3d graphic design

Texture design and mapping

Virtual world modelling

Platform:

Microsoft Windows 2000

Microsoft Windows XP

Software/programming languages used:

Rivex

Licence:

commercial

By natalie.hutchinson at Fri, 19/03/2010 - 15:15

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tool: Mercury Amira

Purpose:

Mercury Amira is a multifaceted tool that allows for integration, manipulation, and visualisation of large sets of data. Automatic and interactive segmentation tools support processing of 3D image data.

Features:

• One platform for visualizing, analyzing and presenting
• Very large data sets are easily accessible with specific readers
• C++ coding wizard for technical extension and customization

A&H use case 1 description:

Amira was used on the North Sea Palaeolandscapes project to visualise and analyse the vast amounts of data that were collected.

Publisher:

Visage Imaging GmbH

Creator:

Mercury Software Systems

Data publishing and dissemination:

Graphical interaction (asynchronous)

Specifications:

C++

Communication and collaboration:

Data analysis:

Content analysis

Image segmentation

Visualisation

Spatial data analysis

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Data capture:

2d scanning and photography

3d scanning

Geophysical survey

GPS and total station surveys

Data structuring and enhancement:

3d modelling - interactive

2d modelling - vector

Geo-referencing and projection

Virtual world modelling

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Strategy and project management:

Documentation

Alternate tool(s):

Avizo

Practice-led research:

3d graphic design

All major operating systems

Image manipulation

Platform:

Software/programming languages used:

Mercury Amira

Licence:

commercial

By natalie.hutchinson at Fri, 19/03/2010 - 12:21

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project: arts-humanities.net

Grant Holder: SheilaAnderson

arts-humanities.net is an online hub for research and teaching in the digital arts and humanities. It enables members to locate information, promote their research and discuss ideas. [read more]

tool: Adobe Photoshop

Purpose:

Adobe Photoshop is an editor for still images. It is equipped with a diverse range of processing tools, enabling users to create or modify content through the use of drawing tools, filters, or other plug-ins.

Features:

• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
• Photoshop functionality can be extended by add-on programs called Photoshop plugins which act like mini-editors that modify the image.
• Can utilise the colour models RGB, lab, CMKY, Greyscale, binary bitmap and duotone.
• Reads and writes raster and vector image formats

A&H use case 1 description:

“The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland” project has used Adobe Photoshop to edit digital images in both TIFF and high JPG formats of Romanesque sculpture in Britain.

Publisher:

Adobe Systems Incorporated

Creator:

Adobe Systems Incorporated

Specifications:

JPEG

Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)

Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)

Portable Network Graphics (PNG)

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

Bitmap (BMP)

Adobe Illustrator (AI)

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Fireworks

Data analysis:

Image feature measurement

Image segmentation

Visualisation

Data capture:

2d scanning and photography

Communication and collaboration:

Graphical interaction (asynchronous)

Software/programming languages used:

Adobe Photoshop LE

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe photoshop Elements

Suite:

Adobe

Data structuring and enhancement:

3d modelling - interactive

2d modelling - vector

Alternate tool(s):

GraphicConverter, 36-image converter

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Practice-led research:

3d graphic design

Open Graphics Library (OpenGL)

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By Valentina Asciutti at Tue, 02/02/2010 - 17:32

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tool: OpendTect

Purpose:

A software application for analysing and visualising multi-volume seismic data. OpendTect may be used to analyse 2D, 3D and 4D pre- and post-stack seismic data.

Features:

Visualization and analysis of 2D and 3D seismic data in a single survey
2D and 3D horizon tracking including auto-tracking, plane-by-plane, line and manual tracking
On-the-fly calculation and visualization of various attributes and filters
Plug-in architecture

A&H use case 1 description:

The North Sea Palaeolandscapes project used OpendTect to produce a 3D seismic model of the British continental shelf. The model was used to visualise landscapes that may have been populated by humans in the late Quaternary and Holocene period, but which are now submersed underwater.

Publisher:

Freshmeat

Creator:

OpendTect project

Specifications:

Data capture:

Geophysical survey

Data analysis:

Content analysis

Software/programming languages used:

OpendTect

Discipline:

Archaeology

Data structuring and enhancement:

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Licence:

GNU General Public License

academic

lifecycleStage:

creation

analysis

By garethknight at Mon, 25/01/2010 - 17:35

tool: Adobe Pagemaker

Purpose:

PageMaker was the first desktop publishing (DTP) program, introduced in 1985. The last version is PageMaker 7.0 released in July 2001. In 2004, Adobe announced that development for Adobe PageMaker had ceased but that Adobe would continue to sell and support it. InDesign is presented as the successor product.

Features:

• Automatically rearrange a document’s pages into printer spreads for professional printing
• Automatically create and style bulleted and numbered lists
• Create customised publications (e.g. catalogues, business cards)
• Resize and move images and their frames or reposition content in relation to frames using the “Position tool”

A&H use case 1 description:

The corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture utilise Pagemaker during the production of project documentation.

Creator:

Aldus Corporation (in early versions), Adobe Systems Incorporated

Publisher:

Adobe Systems Incorporated

Specifications:

Portable Document Format (PDF)

QuarkXpress Document (QXD)

Adobe InDesign (INDD)

Adobe Photoshop Document (PSD)

Adobe Illustrator (AI)

Microsoft Publisher

Microsoft Word document

Data structuring and enhancement:

Graphical rendering

Image enhancement

Image restoration

Data publishing and dissemination: