Discussions on digital media activities and projects at Middlbury College.
Posted in gis, image, virtual worlds, visualization on Jul 16th, 2008
As I start putting antique Vermont maps as overlays in Google Earth, I found that Google Earth might not be the best way to “digitize” maps. The complexity of the earth surface steals the thunder of the map details. And Vermont looks absolutely ugly when patched by a giant map.
The maps have already been scanned [...]
Posted in image on Jul 9th, 2008
Hey guys,
I know Photoshop is not for everyone. It takes oodles of practice and working with a mouse can be an extremely frustrating experience. If you find Photoshop is not for you and still want to work with digital art in some capacity, Illustrator is your best option. Since the program is [...]
Posted in image on Jun 16th, 2008
For those of you doing slide scans during the summer, you’ll probably need to install Nikon Scan 4.0 since most of the computers don’t have it. The link is nearly impossible to find, so here it is.
Nikon Scan Download
Also, for those of you who would like Photoshop, but can’t afford it (most of humanity [...]
A good and/or goofy place to map multiple locations.
http://www.batchgeocode.com/
Online excel to kml converter.
http://www.earthpoint.us/ExcelToKml.aspx
Posted in image on Jun 11th, 2008
Hey everyone. Mack went over a bit of this in his Photoshop workshop, but the methods for using the Photoshop interface for digital art rather than picture editing are quite different. Thus, an introduction to Photoshop for digital coloring. I hope its helpful to those of you who’d like to get a [...]