2d illustration

tool: Flickr

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Flickr is an online community service that enables registered users to upload, tag, group, comment and rate photographs, artwork, illustrations, screenshots and videos. Images may be shared via Flickr galleries or embedded in external blogs and social media. Hosting approximately 4 billion images, Flickr is also available for unregistered users to search and browse galleries and navigate geospatial maps.

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  • 100MB monthly upload limit (Free accounts); unlimited uploads (Pro subscribers)
  • High Definition video uploads
  • Available in 8 languages
  • Metadata tagging to form tag-clouds and folksonomies
  • Application Programming Interface (API) enables independent programmers to expand Flickr applications
  • Ajax emulates the functionality of desktop photo applications
  • Uploadr drag-and-drop desktop client allows users to upload photos outside the web interface
  • Private and public image storage
  • Guest pass allows private photos to be shared with unregistered users
  • SafeSearch filtering controls
  • RSS and Atom feeds
  • Direct uploads from email and cameraphones
  • Merchandising of canvas prints, posters, cards, calendars and photo books
  • Copyright and creative commons license options
A&H use case 1 description: 
Over 1,500 items from the City of Edinburgh's printing collections were catalogued to highlight Edinburgh’s rich printing and publishing heritage through the online provision of photographs, film and sound recordings. The Open Access virtual museum uses Flickr to import images that are displayed as dynamic photo galleries on the website.
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Ludicorp
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Yahoo! Inc
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Photobucket

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tool: ArcExplorer

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ArcExplorer is a custom mapping tool that can be used in a web browser. ArcExplorer allows you to perform a range of basic GIS functions such as display, query and retrieve data.

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• Display and query a variety of standard data sources including ESRI shapefiles, ArcInfo coverages Images, ArcIMS services
• Pan and zoom through multiple layers and identify, locate, and query geographic and attribute data.
• Symbolize data based on attributes contained in the data layers to create thematic maps.
• Perform basic spatial analysis tasks on the geographic data
• Freely distributable data

A&H use case 1 description: 
ArcExplorer was used in the Montréal l'avenir du passé (MAP) project to create a historical GIS research infrastructure for mapping the city of Montréal.
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Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
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Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
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ArcGIS Explorer, worldKit, GeoCommons

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ERDAS Imagine is a suite of geospatial authoring software. The suite contains a raster graphics editor and remote sensing application that performs advanced remote sensing analysis and spatial modelling to create new information. ERDAS IMAGINE can also visualize results in 2D, 3D, movies, and on cartographic quality map compositions.

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• Image Analysis, Remote Sensing & GIS
• Parallel Batch Processing
• Spatial Modeling
• High Performance Mosaicking Engine in IMAGINE Advantage
• Expanded Change Detection Tools (with Zonal Change Detection)
• ERDAS ER Mapper Algorithms
• Converts over 190 Image Formats to all Major File Formats, including GeoTIFF, NITF, CADRG, JPEG, JPEG2000, ECW and MrSID
• Implements Comprehensive OGC Web Processing Service (WPS), Web Coverage Service (WCS), Web Mapping Service (WMS) and Catalog Services for the Web (CS-W)

A&H use case 1 description: 
The North Sea Palaeolandscapes project used ERDAS Imagine to analyse 3D seismic datasets acquired on the United Kingdom continental shelf and explore Late Quaternary and Holocene geology over the area of the Southern North Sea.
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Earth Resource Data Analysis System (ERDAS)
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Earth Resource Data Analysis System (ERDAS)
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SPRING, Virtual Terrain Project (VTP),

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tool: RivEx

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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.

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• 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.
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RivEx
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Duncan Hornby
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MotherPlanet

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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.

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• 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
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Avizo

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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.

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• 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.
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
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GraphicConverter, 36-image converter

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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.

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• 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
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Adobe InDesign

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InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) software application which can be used to create periodical publications, posters, flyers, brochures, magazines and books.
The latest version, InDesign CS4 Server (codenamed Thyme), is the tenth generation in the product line.

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• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
• Dynamic cross-reference support that updates content when moved within a document
• Spread rotation
• Smart guides (Quickly align space, rotate, and resize single or multiple objects with the help of dynamic guides.)
• Conditional text (Deliver multiple versions of a document for different users, all from a single Adobe InDesign source file. Hide text at paragraph, word, and even character level without relying on layers. The remaining text and anchored objects automatically reflow in the layout.)
• Smart Text Reflow (Automatically add pages at the end of a story, selection, or document when text is overset using this new preference.)
• Live Preflight

A&H use case 1 description: 
Interpreting The Bible and its Visual Expression Within the Cultural Landscape of Wales used Adobe InDesign to process Welsh artwork created in the 19th and 20th century that depicts biblical scenes and characters.
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
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QuarkXpress

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Adobe Illustrator is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is ideal for all creative professionals, including web and interactive designers and developers, multimedia producers, motion graphics and visual effects designers, animators, and video professionals. The latest version, Illustrator CS4, is the fourteenth generation in the product line.

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• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
• Raster and type-in vector format support

A&H use case 1 description: 
The Inscriptions of Aphrodisias project used Adobe Illustrator to manipulate resources associated with Greek inscriptions from Aphrodisias in Caria.
A&H use case 2 description: 
The North Sea Palaeolandscapes project used Adobe Illustrator during the production of visual data for use by the geological and archaeological community.
A&H use case 3 description: 
The British Town maps project used Adobe Illustrator to manipulate graphical data produced between 1470 and 1895.
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Corel Draw

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project: The Personalised Surface within Fine Art Digital Printmaking

Is it possible to create a personalised surface within fine art digital printmaking? This project seeks to consider and explore the way artists working now are dealing with the given surface of inkjet and what implications does this have for the role of print within an artists overall output. [read more]

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