All Things Visual

Art History faculty can checkout a wireless SlimBlade™ Presenter Media Mouse with a Mac laptop. For instructions on how to use the mouse, please click here. A flash tutorial is also available.

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Below is a list of software products recommended by Visual Resources Association (VRA) members for extracting, converting, and compressing clips from DVDs for your classroom presentations:

Cinematize and Cinematize Pro
iMovie (Mac)

QuickTime Pro
Episode (Mac)

Final Cut Pro (Mac)
MPEG StreamClip

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. . . make a PowerPoint presentation?
. . . create a high-quality digital image?
. . . find works of art in the VRC Collection?
. . . export a detail from Luna Insight?
. . . share a group of images in ARTstor?
The VRC can help you with all things related to digital imaging. Contact us to [...]

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We are very pleased to announce that over 95% of the images in the ARTstor Digital Library are now available for download at 1024 pixels on the long side. In response to feedback from our user community, and as a result of the relationships that we have been building with content owners, we are now [...]

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The VRC recommends that you scan your images at about 1400 pixels on the longest edge of the digital image. Your computer will project up to 1400 (w) x 1050 (h) pixels on our projectors. Click here for a good explanation of Powerpoint-presentation image size from Microsoft.

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NSIT has issued an advisory concerning Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista. Salient points:

Office 2007 for Windows has a default “save” format that is incompatible with earlier versions of Office and with Office for Mac.
If you are ordering a new machine, NSIT recommends purchasing it with Windows XP, instead of Vista.
NSIT will also not be [...]

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