Digital images: Sourcing, adapting and safe keeping

Course Details and Schedule

Digital images are a valuable part of your research, sometimes critically so. This three hour session will introduce you to some of the key issues that you need to be aware of when sourcing, adapting and using digital images. Although the focus is the use of images in an academic context, the ideas covered are equally relevant to your personal image collections.

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Key topics
  • Image collections at Oxford and on the web
  • Copyright
  • The properties of a digital image
  • Enhancing images from scanners and digital cameras
  • Organising your images
  • Using images in your documents
  • Keeping your images safe
Course information
Intended audienceAlthough primarily aimed at students in the Humanities and Social Sciences, this session is suitable for anyone interested in using digital images.
Prior knowledgeNo previous knowledge of digital images is required
ResourcesA course book must be purchased when you attend the course (see the Cost below)
FormatPresentation with practical exercises
Where next?ITLP run other digital image courses using Adobe Photoshop and GIMP. A session covering more in depth use of the ARTstor and Bridgeman Education image libraries is also available.
Taught using: 
Windows
Schedule

This course runs every term. Express an interest in this course