May 21, 2008, presentation for TAG given by Carl Boswell, Chip Hedgcock, and Linda Ffolliott
Not everyone has either Photoshop or Fireworks. This session will look at some other graphic programs, specifically the Corel Draw Graphics Suite, ImageJ, and GIMP.
Chip will cover the Corel Draw Graphics Suite which includes both a bitmap handling software, Corel Photopaint, and Corel Draw, a vector based software. Along with the web stuff, Chip will cover how he uses the Corel Suite to make posters for scientific meetings - printed on their large format printer- and figures for publication in scientific journals. Corel is not free, but it is less expensive than either Fireworks or Photoshop.
ImageJ (rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/) a Java program, is a free image analysis and image processing software package for the PC platform. The original version for Mac, NIH Image rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/about.html, was written by developers at the National Institutes of Health. Carl will discuss some of the standard menu options for ImageJ, illustrating what is possible with the program. Emphasis will be on image processing, rather than image analysis (getting numbers from images). In addition, he will discuss some other free image analysis programs.
If there is time, we will also look briefly at GIMP, a free program which lets you convert images to JPEG and GIF, add text, and create simple layered images. GIMP can be downloaded from www.gimp.org and is available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Selected videos about basic procedures in GIMP is at cals.arizona.edu/ecat/web/graphics/gimp/
The video (quicktime) of the presentations is posted at services.ltc.arizona.edu/MediaServices/brent/image_editing.mov