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Subjects:Art, Art History, Film Studies, Theater & Dance

ARTstor introduction

The Artstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 2 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Their community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.

Collections are used for teaching and study in a wide range of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and more.

Accessing ARTstor

ARTstor image database
ARTstor is a continually growing library of art images, including data.

You must REGISTER first if you want to save image groups or use ARTstor off-campus.

Downloading the Offline Image Viewer(OIV) is necessary to create presentations.

Saving images
•Double click on image (this will allow you to download)
•Save the image to your desktop – DO NOT CHANGE THE NAME OF THE FILE
•Open your desktop
•There will be two files with the same name on your desktop.
•One of them is the jpeg; this is the one you need to work with.
•Right click on the name field and rename the image.
•Open it up and save it to your desktop or H: drive.
•You can now import the picture in Powerpoint or some other program.