The document provides an extensive overview of various tools and resources for finding, editing, and sharing images online, with a particular focus on medical and health-related imagery. It includes specific websites, online photo editors, and strategies for searching and utilizing public domain images, as well as community building through platforms like Flickr. Additionally, it outlines various online tools for manipulating images, converting file types, and creating diagrams, while also addressing potential challenges and limitations of these resources.

1. Finding and Editing Images Online P. F. Anderson Health Sciences Libraries October 10, 2007 © 2007 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.

2. Overview Image Search Tools Web 2.0 Image Sharing Tools (Flickr) Online Image & Photo Editors

3. Google Images

4. Yahoo Images

5. Wikimedia

6. Other Image Search Engines A9 Altavista: Image Search Ask: Picture Search Ditto DogPile PicSearch MORE: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/8fold/taskpics.html

7. ClipArt Overview: Wikipedia: Public Domain Image Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources Selected Sites: Free Vector Graphics Gallery: http://www.freevectors.net/ Open ClipArt: http://www.openclipart.org/ GIMP Savvy: Copyright Free Photo Archive: http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/ Strategies Search free books, as well as government or organization websites (check for permission). clipart site:org clipart site:gov

8. Health and Medical Clip Art Strategies: (clipart OR ("public domain" (images OR photos))) (anatomy OR health OR medicine OR medical OR doctors OR dentists OR healthcare) (medicine OR medical OR clinical OR doctors OR dentistrs OR health OR disease OR illness OR anatomy OR pathology OR pharmacology) (library OR gallery OR exhibit OR atlas OR clipart OR pictures OR graphics OR images) site:gov

9. Health and Medical Clipart and Image Finding Tools Resources: UTHSCSA: Medical Image Databases on the Web: http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/internet/ImageDatabases.cfm Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries: Finding, Downloading and Managing Medical Images: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/new.htmld/lgr_medimages.shtml

10. Health and Medical Clip Art & Photos Sources: Health Education Assets Library (HEAL): http://www.healcentral.org/ National Library of Medicine: Images from the History of Medicine: http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/ Public Health Image Library: http://phil.cdc.gov/ University of Iowa: Hardin MD: Medical Pictures: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/pictures.html University of Utah: Knowledge Weavers: Educational Resources: http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/resources.html

11. Online Photo Sharing & Image Hosting - More Images to Find Flickr - best known, free & fee options, public DropShots - free, private, no advertising Picasa (Google) - sharing from your hard drive (P2P) SmugMug - ~$40/yr, includes cropping and limited online editing WebShots - largest, public, fee-based ($2.49/month) Many more: Wikipedia: Photo Sharing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_sharing

12. Flickr Account types Free, with limited uploads Fee, personal accounts Inexpensive - around $15 USD/year No corporate accounts, yet

13. Flickr: Find Pictures Search all of Flickr Search your account Search images in a group on your topic

14. Browsing Tags in Flickr Tags are freeform and self-selected Check a variety of spellings, phrasings, capitalization, and punctuation for the same concept Watch for popular terms When tagging your pictures, use a variety of spellings and terms to aid in discovery. Browse: http://flickr.com/photos/tags/_______

15. Flickr: Find Communities & Groups Search for a group by keyword Search: DENTISTRY, find:

16. Flickr: Find Communities & Groups Search for a keyword, find a picture, find a group that collects those types of images. Search for: GASTRIC MUCOSA, find:

17. Flickr: Build Communities & Groups Start a group on a topic that interests you Search for images that fit; look for a range of interesting images Invite people to join and add their images Invite partner(s) to help moderate group to keep it on target Thank those who add good images, to build a reward system.

18. Flickr: Build Communities & Groups Why? (NOTE: These are true for Web 2.0 communities in general) Market and promote your resources Link back to your online resources Broaden recognition of your expertise among new groups Broaden awareness of range of resources available Discover new persons interested in your topic of interest

19. Flickr: Build Communities & Groups Example: History & Art of Dentistry, http://www.flickr.com/groups/dentalhistory/

20. Flickr: Build Communities & Groups

21. Flickr: Favorites & Comments Commenting & marking an image as a favorite (favoriting) is one way to build good feelings in the community and build relationships. This is the most popular image in the dental history pool, with 688 views in less than 3 weeks.

22. Flickr: FYIs All new accounts temporarily restricted from being accessible via Flickr search. Accounts may be blocked from searching if focus is not real-folk photos (negotiable). ‘ Blocked’ photos still accessible via groups and photostream. Some image restrictions apply: Copyright, Image ownership, Sexual, nudity, graphic violence, Or otherwise not family-friendly.

23. Online Image Editors Fauxto GIFWorks Graphita Phixr Picnik Pixenate (Pxn8) Recrio Snipshot (was Pixoh) XMG Image Mashable: 90+ Online Photography Tools and Resources: http://mashable.com/2007/06/23/photography-toolbox/

24. Fauxto Fauxto.com

25. Fauxto Image editing view

26. GIFWorks http://www.gifworks.com/image_editor.html

27. GIFWorks

28. GIFWorks Output view (saving)

29. Graphita http://www.graphita.com

30. Graphita Doodle edit view (add arrows)

31. Graphita Caption edit view (add text)

32. Graphita Save file view - make objects, prints, send to desktop or photosharing service.

33. Graphita Output view

34. Phixr http://www.phixr.com

35. Phixr Phixr editing view

36. Picnik http://www.picnik.com/

37. Picnik Picnik editing view

38. Picnik Picnik editing view & example edits

39. Pixenate http://www.pixenate.com/ Pixenate homepage

40. Pixenate Pixenate edit view and example

41. Recrio Recrio.net

42. Snipshot URL: http://snipshot.com/ Highlights : edit extra-large images (10 Megs) Imagetypes: GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG or TIF

43. Snipshot

44. Snipshot

45. XMG Image URL: http://www.xmgimage.com/ Highlights : Saves versions of images Can edit multiple images simultaneously Easily integrates with social sites Concerns: I was unable to log in after creating account, and was unable to get help without logging in (perhaps not Mac-friendly?)

46. XMG Image Homepage

47. Overview of Feature Comparison Draw an Arrow Graphita Layering Image Editors Fauxto; Recrio Nondestructive Editing / Multiple Undos GIFWorks; Picnik; Pixenate; Recrio; Snipshot; XMG Image Edit Multiple Images at Once Recrio; XMG Image

48. Overview of Feature Comparison Import from Web Fauxto, GIFWorks, Graphita, Phixr, [Picnik], Pixenate, Recrio, Snipshot Pixenate has bookmarklet that makes this very fast Upload All, but only if image meets specifications. Might need to adjust before uploading. OCR Phixr Transparency GIFWorks Zoom GIFWorks; Fauxto; Phixr; Picnik; Pixenate

49. Filetype Conversion I = filetypes that can be imported; X = Filetypes that can be saved na na na na na na na XMG Image IX IX IX IX IX Snipshot na na na na na na na Recrio I IX I I Pixenate IX IX IX IX IX IX Picnik IX IX X IX IX Phixr I I I Graphita I GIFWorks IX IX IX IX IX Fauxto TIF PNG PDF OCR JPG GIF BMP

50. Online Image Tools to Convert Filetypes CoolUtils: Free Online Image Converter: http://www.coolutils.com/Online-Image-Converter.php BMP, GIF, ICO, JPG, PNG Image Convert: http://image.doc2pdf.net/ BMP, EPS, GIF, JPG, PDF, PIC, PNG, PS, RGB, TIF, XPM Online Tools: Image Converter: http://www.online-utility.org/image_converter.jsp BMP, DIB, EPI, EPS, GIF, JPC, JPG, PCD, PCX, PDB, PDF, PGM, PCT, PNG, PSD, SVG, TGA … and more …

51. Online Image Tools for Captioning & Annotations Caption Bubble: http://www.captionbubble.com/ Add cartoon-style bubbles to caption photos ImageBling: http://www.imagebling.com/ Photo annotations Graphita: http://www.graphita.com/ Casual & fun photo editing, including captions, bubbles, icons / objects , words, doodles

52. Online Image Tools for Diagrams Gliffy: http://www.gliffy.com/ Depictr: http://www.depicter.com/ Vector graphics

53. Online Image Tools to Resize Pictures Resize2Mail.com Resizr.com Shrinkpictures.com

54. Online Image Tools for Mindmapping / Brainstorming Bubbl.us: http://bubbl.us/ Mindomo: http://www.mindomo.com/ Mindmeister: http://www.mindmeister.com/ More: Shambles.net: Mindmaps / Concept Maps: http://www.shambles.net/pages/school/mindmaps/

55. Online Image Tools for Other Special Tasks CleVR: http://www.clevr.com/ Create panoramics Improve Your Images: http://www.improveimages.com/ Photo correction (color balance and light adjustment) Picture2Life / Edit Your Picture: http://www.edityourpicture.com/ Make a collage or animated GIF.

56. Cautions Import/Upload filesize limits Limited number of filetypes supported PDFs usually import first page only, when supported Always work from a copy Mix and match tools

57. More Information Digital Inspiration: Online Photo Editors Compared: GIFWorks, Phixr, PXN8, Pixoh: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/06/online-photo-editors-compared-gifworks.html Frantic Industries: So long, Photoshop - 6 online image editors reviewed (Fauxto, Picnik, Picture2Life, Preloadr, PXN8, Snipshot): http://franticindustries.com/blog/2007/02/03/so-long-photoshop-6-online-image-editors-reviewed/ Mashable: 6 Online Image Editors Compared (XMG Image, Phixr, Pixenate, Pixer.us, Cellsea, Graphita): http://mashable.com/2007/08/03/online-image-editors/ TechCrunch: Online Photo Editing Overview (Fauxto, Picnik, Picture2Life, Preloadr, PXN8, Snipshot): http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/04/online-photo-editing-overview/

58. Questions? Patricia Anderson, pfa@umich.edu From: XKCD.com