medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On 11/24/2012 11:22 AM, Christopher Crockett wrote:
> i can bring up any leaf i want (click on any one of those thumbnails
> and it takes you to the whole ms., one folio at a time)
> http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_claudius_b_iv_f002v
> zoom in on it (click on it or use the mouse wheel) to whatever
> magnification needed for detail they've disabled the mouse right click
> so you can't do a "save image as" on them. but, now that they've all
> been declared to be in the Public Domain, i can share with all
> potential felons the best method i've come up with for stealing them.
> it's a bit clunky --esp. if you wish to grab a lot of images, but it
> works. open PhotoShop (or whatever) and do a File > New. go to the BL
> site and enlarge the ms. image to the level of detail you would like
> and do a "PrtScn" --that puts the screen image onto the 'puter's
> clipboard. in PS, Control-V prints the captured screen image from the
> clipboard to the (blank) new file. walla. unfortunately, the enlarged
> detail is at 72dpi, which is much too low for, say, printing, but it
> is large enough so that it can be massaged up to 250-300dpi or so
> without too much loss of size. if anyone knows of a better, less labor
> intensive method of thievery, i'd be happy to hear of it.
Slightly more labor-intensive, but-- Enlarge the screen image as much as
you can. Grab the most interesting part. Then open the New File in your
image processor. (These notes use the terminology for Photoshop.)
Opening the New File when you already have the content on your clipboard
gives you a file of the same size as what you are copying. Once you have
put the image into that file, go to Layers and flatten, and crop out
extraneous matter. Now go back to the web site, move to another piece of
the image (overlapping the first part you took by nearly half). Repeat
ad lib. You will end up with quite a few separate files in your image
processor window. Copy and layer all of these onto your first one.
(Detailed instructions for this are all over the web; I can also provide
them if you like.) Now that you have one multi-layered file, go to
Select and select all layers. Then go to Edit, and choose auto-align.
That will give you a mosaic of all of your pieces. Flatten the layers,
and voila: you now have the full image (or as much of it as you wanted)
at full resolution. This same method works for sites that will Zoomify
images for viewing, but won't let you download them. I actually believe
that images owners do have the right to restrict distribution of
high-res photos, and will not use this method to grab anything for
publication, but it's great for lectures.
best,
Genevra
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