The end of Kodachrome film

The news from Kodak this week is that they will be discontinuing their Kodachrome slide film. Here is a New York Times article for more information.

Cooliris

For a faster and more dynamic way to view image search results in your web browser, try the plug-in from Cooliris. With a simple click, Cooliris converts a static web page of images into a '3-d wall' for quick viewing and selection. The Cooliris plug-in is compatible with Safari, Firefox, or IE and works on lots of different sites such as Google image search, YouTube, Flickr, Hulu, Facebook, Picasa and more.

Loading image groups into PowerPoint

PowerPoint 2004 and 2007 for Windows has a feature called 'photo album' which allows you to load in groups or folders of images, and resize them to screen-size all in one step. This fantastic feature is not included in Mac versions of Powerpoint, but a plug-in exists which will do the same.

If you have PP 2004 for Mac, download and unzip this plug-in.
If you have PP 2008 for Mac, download and unzip this plug-in.

Please contact me if you have questions or need help, because these do not work with all operating systems.

Also, available for a small fee, you may download similar scripts for Macs running PPT 2001, 2004, and 2008 from this site: http://www.agentjim.com/MVP/PowerPoint/PPTHome.html

ARTstor training on YouTube

ARTstor has created several short training videos available on YouTube (all less than 5 minutes). Here are some good topics to start with:

Introduction to the new ARTstor



Other videos you might wish to view:
Register for an ARTstor account
Downloading images to PowerPoint

Archivision in ARTstor

UC Berkeley now has access, via ARTstor, to digital images from the vendor Archivision. The Archivision collection consists of over 30,000 images of architecture from Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th & 19th Century and Modern sites. If you would like to browse their collection holdings in ARTstor, see the Archivision link under 'institutional collections' or try a keyword search for Archivision.