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About.com: Desktop Publishing. This site offers writing tips, desktop publishing tutorials and information about desktop publishing software.
Paul A. Barber and Philip J. Keane (2007): A novel method of illustrating microfungi. PDF file, Fungal Diversity, 27: 1-10.
Dee Breger (The Silicofossil Group, The Micropalaeontological Society TMS): Colouring-in micrographs - bringing images from the cloistered lab to the general public. See also: Gallery. Some false coloured images.
Karen Carr,
Karen Carr Studio,
Silver City, NM:
You Can Paint Digitally!
Curtis Clark, Biological Sciences Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona: Graphic Publication for Biologists. Useful hints, not only for biologists. How to make graphs and diagrams, working with illustrations, working with photographs, etc.
C. Haug et al.: New Methods to Document Fossils from Lithographic Limestones of Southern Germany and Lebanon. PDF file, Palaeontologia Electronica Vol. 12. About composite imaging.
Richard Hill, Lunar and Planetary Lab, University of Arizona: Experiments in scanning fossils. Examples. The trick is to select small areas in the scanning software and then use the highest resolution.
The Image: Gifology. Understanding GIF files and GIF animation.
ImageProcessingPlace.com. Digital image processing books and other educational resources. Go to: Tutorials. All downloadable files in this site are compressed in zip format.
MicroWorld Resources and News, Guide to Microscopy and Microanalysis on the Internet: Image Analysis, Image Processing, and 3-D Reconstruction. Link page of FAQs, meta lists, online tutorials, and source code links.
! Mike Rossner and Kenneth M. Yamada (2004): What´s in a picture? The temptation of image manipulation. In PDF, J. Cell Biol., 166: 11-15.
Volker Schardin: Extensions/Suffixes (in German). Index to the most used extensions.
! Seam Carving GUI.
Seam carving for content-aware image resizing. Free download!
Also available as
online tool.
For more see
here, and
there (Wikipedia), or read about
the nuts and bolts
(PDF file, by Shai Avidan (Mitsubishi) and Ariel Shamir,
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 26).
! Department of Paleobiology,
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.:
Paleo Art.
This website provides information about taking proper care of illustrations and discusses techniques for
creating palaeontological and other scientific illustrations. Go to:
!
What is
paleontological illustration, and
Illustration Care.
To provide archival care (conservation treatment) for historical illustrations. Don´t miss the
Historical
Art Gallery and the
Bibliography of
Historical Art.
Some highlights from the Department of Paleobiology. Last but not least:
!
Reconstructing
an ancient environment.
Reconstructing of invertebrates, vertebrates and fossil plants.
U.S. Geological Survey (Open-File Report 99-430 Online version 1.0): Public Review Draft – Digital Cartographic Standard for Geologic Map Symbolization (PostScript Implementation). Prepared in cooperation with the Geologic Data Subcommittee of the Federal Geographic Data Committee.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Computer graphics.
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Sirelious White (2006):
Digital
Dissection of Radiographs, Using the Early
Cretaceous Bird Confuciusornis and Photoshop
CS2TM. PDF file, Diss., University
of New Orleans.
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