This post, as the previous, stems from the necessity to make a reasonable budget for a museum that asked me to set up their imaging lab. Photoshop is expensive and not necessary for the basic photo editing that an imaging lab for conservation would perform. Post-Processing The Free alternative to Photoshop has a well-known name.
I was making a budget for a museum that asked my consulting and training to set up their imaging lab and I thought that almost $800 for a photo editing software (Photoshop CS6) was a bit too much. Photoshop is an amazing tool which definitely merits its considerable cost. Though, the point is that the
Camilla Perondi, student in conservation science at University of Bologna, just completed a full-immersion 3-days training on “Technical Imaging for Art” at the Cultural Heritage Science Open Source lab. Next Training Section 2-6 Sept 2013. Contact me for info (cost, specific dates, lodging, traveling). Camilla participated to the July 15-17th section of the training program held in
Contributed by Samantha Stout This post covers the second 2-day workshop held by CHARISMA partners in Torun, Poland from 27-28 June 2013. This time the sessions were all geared towards OCT, a technique established for use in ophthalmology and then further developed by Prof. Targowski’s research group at UMK who’ve built their own system, which
This blog is growing and I’m starting to get contributed posts. The goal of this blog is to network with like-minded professionals and students. Samantha Stout is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of California, San Diego. She is in the Materials Science and Engineering program and conducts research on scientific methods for cultural heritage