Tutorial on Searching for Images

An online tutorial showing how to obtain images which are suitable for teaching purposes, where there are no copyright issues to resolve!

The Tyne Digital Library - Part 2 Maps and Images

In this section, you will find maps showing various important aspects of the River Tyne catchment area. All the maps are drawn based on Ordnance Survey data made available via the Digimap service. For the land cover maps of the catchment area, four variants are provided. Please note that the full details of the intext citations quoted in some of the following maps can be found in the full bibliographic listing.

Scanning Images

Sometimes you may need to scan in photographs, books or magazines. Scanning is the easy part but making sure your settings are right is the important part. Scan at 300dpi to the size you need to print A4 scanner but you need A3 print - no problem scan at 600dpi Always scan as a TIFF file format as this will give you a non compressed source to work from.

Getting images from a Digital Camera

Getting images from a Digital Camera is pretty straight forward. However this is the easy part, its getting the right image and making sure your digital file is good enough for your output. Set you camera or mobile phone to the highest settings, this will give you more options when you come to manipulate or edit the file Remember to make copies of files for editing so you can always return to your original image if you need too

Getting Images from the Internet

Its easy to collect images from the internet for research.

VADS: free art and design images for education

VADS is the online resource for visual arts. It has provided services to the academic community for 12 years and has built up a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK.

ALEX SCHADY IMAGES FOR FINE ART CATALOGUE

student images for fine art catalogue

Copyright Free Images - Physical Chemistry

These images have been created for use in Physical Chemistry slides to overcome copyright issues when recording lectures. They are free to use without restrictions, although we do not accept responsibility for any errors in the images. Please let us know if you spot any errors, though! Please view the catalogue document for a description of the images. We intend to add to this collection on an ongoing basis. Check back for updates. Current content - 43 images. Last update: August 31st 2011