Image Manipulation Tools

• Adobe Photoshop The industry standard bitmap image editor. If you’re a student, your school might have an arrangement with Adobe that will entitle you to a copy. If not, well… you could try looking elsewhere. I’m just saying.
• Paint.net (Windows) A good basic image editor that can do a lot and is completely free. “Paint.NET…features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.”
• The Gimp Cross-platform open-source image editor. Almost as powerful as Photoshop, and 100 percent free (and legal). Slightly steeper learning curve than Paint.net.

Good Places to Find Images

• Flickr.com
• Picasa.com
• Archive.org
• Extensive list of resources, tips and tricks: Random Knowledge

Inspiration and Food For Thought

• Arthur Lipsett’s found footage films: 21-87 and Very Nice, Very Nice

• Making a movie with stills and sound: Chris Marker’s La Jetee
• Making meaning with crowds and machines: Flickeur and Islands of Consciousness
• Photoshop Tilt Shift Trick Tutorial

Miscellaneous

• My Delicious bookmarks tagged design and images.

Technical Support

• About.com Photoshop Resources
• Adobe User Forums: Photoshop
• Gimp User Manual

This demo illustrates our research to bring interactivity to video editing: Our system analyzes videos using computer vision techniques, enabling interactive annotation, browsing, and even drag-and-drop composition of new still images using video footage. This is a joint research project of Adobe and the University of Washington. (vimeo.com)