UM Engineering Class of 1916, assembled outside

too large for a single scan, so 2 scans (one of right side, one of left) sharing the same housescan number and suffix 1of2 and 2of2. Also, one merged in photoshop, suffix "merged"

Co G, "339th" Infantry, Brest France, June '19, "Back from Russia"

Panoramic group photo of 339th Polar Bears, scanned in three parts and pasted together in Photoshop CS

Pabst Malt extract" giant bottle in window of Palmer's Pharmacy, 46 S. State St., Ann Arbor c. 1896-9

Glass negative is overexposed. hs13234: actual unchanged scan, hs13234alt: increased contrast in Photoshop to allow for image to be clearer

Sculpture of Portia over front door of Martha Cook Residence Hall

Source image was printed BACKWARDS. 2 scans made, 1of2 "as is", 2of2 reversed in photoshop for correct orientation of sculpture

Digital Art and Design

The desire to create unique things and give free rain to one's imagination served as a powerful impetus to the development of digital art and design software. The commoner was the use of computers the wider variety of professional software was developed. Nowadays the creators and computer designers are receiving more and more new and advanced programs that allow their ideas becoming virtual reality. This research paper looks at the history of the development of graphic editors from the simplest to the most modern and advanced. This brief survey includes the history of different graphic editors’ creation, their features and abilities. This paper highlights the two basic branches of graphic editors – these that are in free use and commercial graphic editors design software. The researcher selected the most powerful and influential graphic editors design software brands like Paint.NET and GIMP among free software and commercial Adobe Photoshop. This paper also dwells upon the way digital art transferred from the exclusively professional business into the hobby for ordinary users. This research paper bears implications for those who are interested in features and potentiality of most popular graphic editors design software.

The Case of the 35 Gigabyte Digital Record: OCR and Digital Workflows

This presentation was given at the Panhandle Library Access Network's (PLAN) Innovation Conference: Digitization- Preserving the Past for the Future Conference on August 14th, 2015. The presentation uses a specific collection of directories as a case study of the complications librarians and archivists face in digitizing older materials that may also be quite large, such as a directory. Prime OCR and Abbyy Fine Reader are discussed and their pros and cons covered. Troubleshooting and editing with Adobe Photoshop is also discussed.