Reindeer Graphics provides an excellent teaching tools for discovering and using image processing and image analysis. These tools work within Adobe Photoshop and Elements and a number of other programs that support Photoshop-style plug-ins.

Science and Education

Our Image Processing Tool Kit provides an excellent working environment for processing and measuring images at a reasonable price.

The Tool Kit CD includes a complete hands-on course in image analysis that guides you through the use of various functions, illustrates them with images that are supplied on the disk, and essentially provides a college-level course in image analysis that you can follow at your own pace or dip into when you need the answer to a particular problem.

The tutorial is a lavishly illustrated PDF (Acrobat) book on the CD, along with hundreds of test images that you can use for practice.

The Tool Kit requires only a modest technical background in imaging and computers, but the routines are professionally written to the highest standards and methods described in The Image Processing Handbook, 4th Edition, by John C. Russ (CRC Press, 2002).

Intended as a companion to the Handbook, the >150 plugins provide comprehensive tools for processing and measuring 8-bit grayscale and 24-bit RGB images.

Included are functions for:

• Image Adjustment
• Color Manipulation
• Image Math
• Boolean Operations
• Fourier Processing
• Morphological Operations
• Neighborhood Processing
• Distance Map Operations
• Thresholding
• Feature Measurement
• Calibration
• Stereology
• Visualization

For professional users who either need more than 8-bits per channel, are performing multiple processing steps, are processing a lot of image, require automation, or plan to work with multi-channel images we strongly recommend FoveaPro, instead.

You can also find out more on our Science page and a summary of courses below

Photography and Education

Optipix includes George DeWolfe’s Digital Fine Print Workflow which teaches the steps for creating a fine print from a captured photograph.

You can also find out more information on our Photograpy page.

Photography Courses with George DeWolfe

DECEMBER 2-3, 2005 DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & PRINTING (Detroit, MI)

George DeWolfe's 2006 Schedule.

Scientific Courses with Dr. John C. Russ

Tuesday, April 25 - Thursday, April 27, 2006
- A three-day hands-on course on Quantitative Image Analysis will be presented at the College of Microscopy near Chicago. Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it at the College of Microscopy, 850 Pasquinelli Drive, Westmont, IL 60559, 630-887-7100. A brief description of the course contents is available at their website.

Wednesday, May 17 - Friday, May 19, 2006
- A three-day hands-on course on Quantitative Image Analysis will be presented at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO. Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , Electron Microscopy Core Facility, W136 Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211-5120, (573) 882-4777, fax 884-5414. Information on the course, contents, and facilities is available on-line.

These courses utilize Adobe Photoshop as a basic imaging platform, with plug-in routines that implement the algorithms for processing and measurement discussed in my book "The Image Processing Handbook, 4th edition, CRC Press, 2002" (See more about all Dr. Russ’s books on his "Books" page.)

Discounts on FoveaPro are available to attendees of these courses.

Scientific Courses with Chris Russ

Thursday, April 27, 2006
– A one-day course on interdisciplinary non-destructive enhancement, processing, and quantitative image analysis in conjunction with the Scanning 2006 meeting. This will be presented at the Hotel Washington, 15th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004. Contact the Foundation for Advances in Medicine and Science +1 (201) 818-1010 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Free Plugins

From time-to-time we release free plugins that can be used for teaching image processing. Two significant examples are Wide Histogram and Custom. Others can be found on our Free Plugins page.