Adobe Illustrator (AI)

tool: Adobe Flash

Purpose:

Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform that is popular for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, and various web page Flash components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications.

Features:

• manipulate vector and raster graphics
• support for bidirectional streaming of audio and video
• 3D transformation
• Motion editor
• Metadata (XMP) support
• XFL support

A&H use case 1 description:

The “Imaging papyri at Oxford” project has used Adobe Flash to visualize content.

Creator:

Macromedia

Publisher:

Adobe Systems

Data publishing and dissemination:

General website development

Interface design

Specifications:

Adobe Illustrator (AI)

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Data structuring and enhancement:

Animation

Alternate tool(s):

Microsoft Silverlight

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By Valentina Asciutti at Wed, 03/03/2010 - 17:24

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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:

2d modelling - raster

2d modelling - vector

3d modelling - interactive

3d modelling - vector

Alternate tool(s):

GraphicConverter, 36-image converter

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Practice-led research:

2d graphic design

2d illustration

3d graphic design

3d modelling - vector

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

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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:

Desktop publishing and pre-press

Software/programming languages used:

Adobe Pagemaker

Adobe Table

Suite:

Adobe

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Adobe InDesign

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By Valentina Asciutti at Wed, 20/01/2010 - 16:24

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tool: ArcView

Purpose:

A software application for creating, manipulating and analysing GIS (Geographic Information System) data. ArcView may be used to create geographic maps, manipulate spatial features, analyse attributes and characteristics, and visualise spatial information in an understandable form. Current versions of the software enable the user to import and manipulate several content types in a spatial environment, including demographic information, CAD designs, still images and other types of content.

Features:

• Integrated query-building functionality to interrogate a dataset in order to answer research questions. For example, distance measurement, feature location
• Availability of map templates to create a consistent layout and appearance.
• Plug-in support that allows use of first-party and third-party extensions to perform tasks unsupported in the base installation of the software. E.g. raster geo-processing and three-dimensional analysis.

A&H use case 1 description:

‘Predicting the location of hominid sites in Africa and Asia’ project has used the software to geo-reference a dataset of locations in Africa and Asia, in order to assess the relationship between bone collagen preservation and geographic location of archaeological sites.

Publisher:

ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute)

Data analysis:

Spatial data analysis

Specifications:

Surfer (ASCII & binary) data format

JPEG

Windows Enhanced MetaFile (EMF)

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)

Portable Document Format (PDF)

Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)