Visual Resources Center

Unviersity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

useful links

The following links are additional resources that may be useful for working with visual resources and teaching.

• Center for Multimedia Excellence at the University of Illinois

  • The CME is an interdisciplinary group of professionals on campus who work with media and are committed to developing best practices in regards to that media. The MCE holds monthly general meetings open to the campus community, as well as maintains specialized working groups and interest groups.

• Academic Commons

  • A community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals interested in teaching and learning with technology.

• Technology in the Arts

  • A blog from Carnegie Mellon's Center for Arts Management and Technology discussing applications of technology in a liberal arts education.

• Visual Resources Association

  • The professional association dedicated to furthering research and education in the field of image management.

• Visual Resources Center's Youtube Channel

  • Videos highlight collection content, services, reources and helpful tips.

• Visual Resources Center's Facebook Page

  • 'Like' us on Facebook and recieve the latest updates in your news feed.

• Pixels: digital visual resources and tech tips

  • A multi-disciplinary blog from the University of Illinois Library and the College of Fine and Applied Arts with announcements and technical tips on finding, creating, and using digital images in teaching, learning, and research.

• Digital Dog Tips and Tricks

  • A training, consulting and service business dedicated to digital imaging, electronic photography, color management, and Adobe Photoshop. Included here are tips and tricks gained from experience.

• Dipity

  • A free digital timeline website aimed at organizing the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed, and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps.

• Tineye Reverse Image Search

  • Already have an image but you're not sure what it is? Submit it to TinEye to find other instances of it on the web, and find out where it came from, how it is being used, and if modified or higher resolution versions exist. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks.

• PicScout Image Exchange

  • A browser add-on application that allows users to identify liscencable images via online search engines. Users can also filter by liscence type, such as Creative Commons, rights managed, or royalty free.