Complex software, while powerful for experts, can overwhelm new users. Novices often do not know how to execute tasks, what they want to achieve, or even what is possible. We aim to address these problems by leveraging the large expert user base such programs tend to have. We present DiscoverySpace, a prototype extension panel for Adobe Photoshop that suggests macros for effects to apply to the...

In this paper the authors have presented the design and implementation of Edutactile, a crossplatform software which automates the process of creation of tactile diagrams. Edutactile provides for automated application of guidelines or presets as well as Braille translation and thus abstracts away the production related issues. This relieves special educators for the visually challenged from hav...

One of the key characteristics of digital images with a discrete representation is its pliability to manipulation. Therefore, even back in 1989, the sesquicentennial year for photograph when digital images was gaining popularity, 10% of all color photographs published in United States were actually digitally altered and retouched, according to the Wall Street Journal [1]. The recent well-known ...

There are a number of applied methods for determining morphometric parameters, including the area leaf blades woody plants: millimeter graph paper method, method direct measurements, punching and planimetric method. The analysis practical application in test mode revealed their shortcomings related to inaccuracy experiment duration, equipment inaccessibility. Many researchers have successfully ...

Background. Microscopes are omnipresent throughout the field of biological research. With microscopes one can see in detail what is going on at the cellular level in tissues. Though it is a ubiquitous tool, the limitation is that with high magnification there is a small field of view. It is often advantageous to see an entire sample at high magnification. Over the years technological advancemen...

Image filtering involves taking a digital image and producing a new image from it. In software packages such as Adobe’s Photoshop, image filters are used to produce artistic versions of original images. Such software usually includes hundreds of different image filtering algorithms, each with many fine-tuneable parameters. While this freedom of exploration may be liberating to artists and desig...