Looking for a more polished image to use then what I currently have
January 14, 2011 10:44 AM Subscribe
(Possibly NSFW) Looking for a more polished image to use than what I currently have. This is nearly perfect. It's copyright also prevents me from modifying it. I need help finding something as awesome as that with a creative commons, derivatives allowed copyright.
I have googled up one side and down the other looking for a line drawing of a standing human being with both a front and back view. Ideally without obvious gender specific anatomy.. but I'll take what I can get.
This is for an online interactive learning tool for a basic nursing course at a community college. The nursing book doesn't have what we need. I need to place hot-spots on different parts of the image for the player to click on that displays a picture of a wound and asks questions about it. This is based off a skin/body audit form that a nurse would use in a hospital setting.
This would work but I need a back side to him.
What search terms would you use and where would you look? If not google, is there one or more medical databases out there with these kind of images that I could use?
Free is always best.. I could probably convince the higher ups to buy a stock image if it allows for modification and isn't too pricey. (if it's too pricey, they'll just ask me to just use what we currently have, which is pixelated, small, and hard to work with.)
I have googled up one side and down the other looking for a line drawing of a standing human being with both a front and back view. Ideally without obvious gender specific anatomy.. but I'll take what I can get.
This is for an online interactive learning tool for a basic nursing course at a community college. The nursing book doesn't have what we need. I need to place hot-spots on different parts of the image for the player to click on that displays a picture of a wound and asks questions about it. This is based off a skin/body audit form that a nurse would use in a hospital setting.
This would work but I need a back side to him.
What search terms would you use and where would you look? If not google, is there one or more medical databases out there with these kind of images that I could use?
Free is always best.. I could probably convince the higher ups to buy a stock image if it allows for modification and isn't too pricey. (if it's too pricey, they'll just ask me to just use what we currently have, which is pixelated, small, and hard to work with.)
You're at a community college, so you could probably find an art or illustration student to do this for really cheap.
Hell, I'm a pro and I'll do it for $60 this afternoon. Just sayin'.
posted by milk white peacock at 11:06 AM on January 14, 2011
Hell, I'm a pro and I'll do it for $60 this afternoon. Just sayin'.
posted by milk white peacock at 11:06 AM on January 14, 2011
Also, from the National Library of Medicine: FAQ: Medical Stock Sources (Sources of Medical Images, Photographs and Videos)
posted by Wordwoman at 11:08 AM on January 14, 2011
posted by Wordwoman at 11:08 AM on January 14, 2011
Response by poster: Wordwoman: Thanks! I'll start going through those links.
milk white peacock: The idea of using the students has been shot down in the past more then once. No idea why other then the higher ups say no. And your fee is in the pricey range, but I appreciate the offer!
prenominal: Do you know the copyright on that image?
posted by royalsong at 11:24 AM on January 14, 2011
milk white peacock: The idea of using the students has been shot down in the past more then once. No idea why other then the higher ups say no. And your fee is in the pricey range, but I appreciate the offer!
prenominal: Do you know the copyright on that image?
posted by royalsong at 11:24 AM on January 14, 2011
TinEye is not very useful on this one, alas... but I tried! (So no one else has to bother.)
posted by IAmBroom at 11:36 AM on January 14, 2011
posted by IAmBroom at 11:36 AM on January 14, 2011
I'm sorry, I have no idea -- the website mentions that it is "free", but there doesn't seem to be a way to contact them. From IAmBroom's search results (thanks!), the image seems to have originated here, and there is a contact form at the bottom of that page. There must be an easier way to get a copyright-free image, I hope one of the other links works for you -- good luck!
posted by prenominal at 12:39 PM on January 14, 2011
posted by prenominal at 12:39 PM on January 14, 2011
Best answer: Man, I thought this one would be an easy 5 minutes, and I'd have something for you. But it took me over half an hour. The hardest part was finding front and back illustrations. After striking out on anything good on WikiCommons and Library of Congress, I turned to the Internet Archive & Google Books.
From public domain books via google books:
The first one I found was from "The proportions of the human body" by Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle (1892): Front Back
From "The art of figure drawing" by Charles Harvey Weigall (1852): Front Back
No back, but a good front here in "The proportions of the human figure" by Joseph Bonomi (1880)
But you get the idea. I tried anatomy books as well, but they generally didn't have whole-body illlustrations, or when they did, it was exposed muscle, no skin. The art books were a better choice. (My google search terms I tried were "human proportions" or "figure drawing".)
posted by fings at 10:04 PM on January 14, 2011
From public domain books via google books:
The first one I found was from "The proportions of the human body" by Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle (1892): Front Back
From "The art of figure drawing" by Charles Harvey Weigall (1852): Front Back
No back, but a good front here in "The proportions of the human figure" by Joseph Bonomi (1880)
But you get the idea. I tried anatomy books as well, but they generally didn't have whole-body illlustrations, or when they did, it was exposed muscle, no skin. The art books were a better choice. (My google search terms I tried were "human proportions" or "figure drawing".)
posted by fings at 10:04 PM on January 14, 2011
Sorry, my first "front" link got messed up (I swear it was working in preview). Try here.
posted by fings at 10:06 PM on January 14, 2011
posted by fings at 10:06 PM on January 14, 2011
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posted by Wordwoman at 11:03 AM on January 14, 2011