A costumer friend of mine recently blogged about the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new high-resolution image ordering feature. Basically, when you search their collections, you can add images to an order and the images are bundled by their system when you check out. After being sent an email letting you know that all of the images you’ve requested are ready, you click a link, agree that you’re a researcher or non-profit institution or private individual who isn’t going to use their images for evil or profit, and presto! A download comes up and you save it to your hard drive.
Easy, elegant, and immensely useful for people like myself who really do need high resolution pictures to see the fine details of a work. As I need to make a late 18th-century Chemise á la Reine in the next 3 weeks, the timing of my friend’s post is impeccable!
*squee!*
