Image Generators and Archival Images

Thing 13 on the 23 Things for Archivists talks about image generators and image editors online, such as Big Huge Labs and Image Chef. While these websites seem a bit campy, especially Image Chef, they actually may be helpful in promoting the different image collections that we hold at the Digital Initiatives Unit here at Ohio University. The website Big Huge Labs has some neat, easy to use photo editing tools, which we could use to generate some fun and cool looking versions of images in our collections. For example, when we want to promote our E. W. Scripps collection, we could use a pop art version of this classic photo of E.W.S. These edited images should increase traffic to our collection's website, and these edited photos from image generator websites hopefully renew interest in our archive and other collections that Alden library has to offer.