We have been using I-pads for condition reporting for loans at the Walters Art Museum for several years and I highly recommend it. We have also used them when undertaking condition surveys of the collection. We normally put high resolution images in dropbox to start with then use pdf expert to do all our annotations on the photos using their tools and text. It's quick to take other details with the Ipad camera and add them in. We can do the mark ups in different colors as a loan progresses so that it's easy to monitor any changes in condition. In addtion, we can take new photo details and drop them directly in the document if there are issues. At the end of each examination we sign off on the condition and save a flattened version of the report. The signed reports can be put back in dropbox and emailed directly to both our museum and the lenders. Karen French, Senior Conservator of Paintings, The Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD, 21201 410-5479000 x 623
------Original Message------ Dear ConsDistList subscribers, I would like to ask you about your experiences with digital photo editing, sketching and drawing. I am conservator at the National Museum of Antiquities in the Netherlands, and for our next touring exhibition we would like to implement the use of iPads and other digital tools for making our condition reports. I am now looking into different apps for photo editing, or better said, photo sketching and drawing. I am looking for an app that allows us to pinpoint those details in the photos that we want to double-check while doing condition check on each venue. I have tried some of them but I have the feeling that I am looking in an endless sea of possibilities and I am not finding what I want. The photo editing apps like Snapseed are not adequate since we actually need to do any editing, but rather write and draw on them. I've tried some sketching apps, but I most of them lack a more simple range of fill-in patterns, with simple geometric patters in b/w. I don't think using pink hearts and kittens' paws is the best idea... Have you found yourself in such a quest? Any positive (and negative) recommendations? It would mean a lot of help to reduce the list of apps to check out at list a bit. Thank you all in advance. ------------------------------ Alejandra Mamonde Conservator - Inorganic Materials Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden ------------------------------ Reply to Sender : https://community.culturalheritage.org/eGroups/PostReply/?GroupId=481&SenderKey=eb30a19a-f99f-4136-80a1-b7c4519ea613&MID=9392&MDATE=756%253e465479&UserKey=d16eaa87-0f69-494b-9f2f-303dbc1222e1&sKey=fab9aa4f27a04c5d876e Reply to Discussion : https://community.culturalheritage.org/eGroups/PostReply/?GroupId=481&MID=9392&MDATE=756%253e465479&UserKey=d16eaa87-0f69-494b-9f2f-303dbc1222e1&sKey=fab9aa4f27a04c5d876e You are subscribed to "Global Conservation Forum (ConsDistList)" as [email protected]. To change your subscriptions, go to http://community.culturalheritage.org/preferences?section=Subscriptions&MDATE=756%253e465479&UserKey=d16eaa87-0f69-494b-9f2f-303dbc1222e1&sKey=fab9aa4f27a04c5d876e. To unsubscribe from this community discussion, go to http://community.culturalheritage.org/HigherLogic/eGroups/Unsubscribe.aspx?UserKey=d16eaa87-0f69-494b-9f2f-303dbc1222e1&sKey=fab9aa4f27a04c5d876e&GroupKey=757a8f16-505f-4323-8e74-e376757aa9f7.
