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On a Mac? Time to Update Your Raw Support

Posted by Richard Harrington on June 6, 2013
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If you’re a Mac user, two new camera updates have shipped. OS X Mountain Lion provides system-level support for digital camera RAW formats.  In order to use these files, you can access them through Aperture or iPhoto on your Mac.  You can also browse at the system level looking through folders.

Supported by Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 4.06*

  • Canon EOS-1D C
  • Canon EOS Rebel SL1 / 100D / Kiss X7
  • Canon EOS Rebel T5i / 700D / Kiss X7i
  • Hasselblad Lunar
  • Nikon COOLPIX A
  • Nikon D7100
  • Nikon 1 J3
  • Nikon 1 S1
  • Sony Alpha NEX-3N

You can find out about other recently added cameras that work on your Mac here – 
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5371?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Note: To install Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Updates, you may need certain versions of Aperture or iPhoto already installed on your Mac.

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iPhoto Tutorial: How To Use The Saturation Control To Improve a Washed-out Photo

Posted by Richard Harrington on May 17, 2013
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A few readers have asked for some Apple oriented tutorials…  and I’d like to oblige.  I’m actually a big fan of iPhoto as a great tool for emerging photographers and hobbyists (and yes I like Photoshop Elements for the same reason).  Here is a short excerpt from a Lynda.com class I worked on.  Let me know if you’d like to see more.

This iPhoto tutorial shows how to improve an overexposed or washed out image with the Saturation control.   The amount of saturation you use is very subjective, but consider pairing it with the Definition slider.

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Apple Updates iLife Suite to Version 11 – iPhoto Makeover

Posted by scottbourne on October 30, 2010
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UPDATE: Today Apple issued an update to iPhoto
(This update addresses issues that, in extremely rare cases, could result in data loss when upgrading a library from an earlier version of iPhoto.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4431
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Apple’s iPhoto is one of the most popular photo editing and sorting programs in the world. After all, it’s free with every new Mac. Not everyone wants or needs the power of Photoshop, Aperture or Lightroom. Still others simply can’t justify the cost of those programs. In steps iPhoto. iPhoto hadn’t seen any major enhancements in quite a while. But recently, that changed. Apple introduced iLife 11 – which I bought and installed yesterday. While I haven’t tested iPhoto extensively yet, I do have some first impressions.

iPhoto’s biggest new feature is mega-full screen mode. You can now browse, edit, and share your photos full screen. You can do everything in full screen mode. It’s beautiful to look at.

There have been enhancements to the Facebook engine and other sharing like better email. Emailing photos got even easier. You can now email directly from iPhoto. Apple now offers eight different themes you can use to send email photos and it works with just about every popular email service.

The slideshows are quicker and better. There are also some very attractive new themes. The new slideshows even take advantage of iPhtoo’s face detection capability. I have to say that while I own just about every slide show program on the market, the free on in iPhoto is pretty darn good and just got a bunch better.

A while back Apple changed printers and revamped it’s book service. The new service is quite good. Apple now makes it easier to build books with a new dynamic theme browser. You can outflow images, use face detection, do spreads, etc.

One of the new features that really excites me is the ability to order photos that are printed on letter-press cards. This is a very high-end application of a low-price (free with any Mac and less than $50 to upgrade) solution.

It might be my imagination but this new version of iPhoto just feels a bit more stable and a little snappier. Faces and Places work better than ever before. The new full screen mode makes it easier than ever to really see your photos, and the program is just plain smart. In most cases, you can pretty much guess the most logical way to do something and iPhoto comes through.

Here’s a case in point. There are some Aperture users who decided not to upgrade to Aperture 3.0. The new iPhoto has some of the same features as Aperture (although it’s not intended as a replacement for Aperture.) If you want to export an Aperture 2.0 library and then import it into iPhoto 11, it’s as easy as drag and drop. iPhoto is smart enough to determine which parts and pieces of the Aperture library go where within the iPhoto library. It’s brilliant.

If you don’t buy a new Mac and need to pay the $50 upgrade price – do it. I think it’s well worth it. Highly recommended.

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An Aperture Users Thoughts and Review on iPhoto 09

Posted by scottbourne on January 31, 2009
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Guest post by Stuart Forsyth

I am a long time user of Apple’s Aperture and have dabbled modestly from time to time in the iPhoto pond. Like many all over the world I bought into the iPhoto 09 hype and also fell for the clever Apple marketing scheme of putting a sufficient ’salivary gap’ between the keynote and the product release.

Well I received my long anticipated copy last night and after installing it immediately got to work putting it through it’s paces.

Referencing the Aperture library

The first thing I liked was that, by disabling the iPhoto copy-to-library functionality in the preferences and then using the Aperture media browser, I was able to import around 15,000 of my picks into the iPhoto library in short order. iPhoto references the photos in the Aperture library and only makes a copy in the iPhoto library if you do any adjustments on them. A note here is that iPhoto uses the Aperture JPG preview of the photo rather than the original which makes it blisteringly fast and is sufficient provided you have your Aperture previews set to a sufficient size; for what I would want to do with iPhoto (email, face tagging and the odd Facebook post) anything over 1000 pixels on the long edge is fine. If your Aperture previews are too small you will need to reset their size in Aperture preferences and rebuild them. I kept a healthy watch on my hard drive space during the import and was very pleased to see that iPhoto, used in this referenced way, was quite light on my precious free space. Continue Reading

Make A Thumbnail Poster In iPhoto

Posted by scottbourne on September 20, 2008
Posted in: Technique & Tutorials. Tagged: , . 3 comments

One of the joys of iPhoto is the ability to extend its reach with Apple Automator. Automator is a program that adds macro-like functionality to your Mac.

Automatorworld, a website full of cool Automator scripts features one by Jim Heid that I really like. It’s called Thumbnail Poster 1.2. It creates a multi-page 20″ by 30″ PDF document full of images from your iPhoto library.

What I really like about this is that there’s no need to manually crop anything, no need for Photoshop or custom paper sizes, and indeed, no need to do anything except click a button. When it’s done, you can order the poster through iPhoto’s printing service or use your own printer.

This does create a very large file so don’t expect to email this puppy to Grandma.

NOTE: This workflow will crop your images to a square format or let you select a horizontal or vertical format. You might want to make a separate album of images for this project that are either all square, all horizontal or all vertical. It will speed things up considerably if you select all horizontal or all vertical images.

Play with it and have fun.

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Quick Tip #14 – Resizing & Cropping iPhoto Books

Posted by scottbourne on September 16, 2008
Posted in: Tips. Tagged: . 3 comments
Photo by Scott Bourne

Photo by Scott Bourne

It is possible to reformat iPhoto books even though like many iPhoto tricks, it’s not well known.

To reformat iPhoto books just double click the image you want to resize or crop or both. You’ll get a dialog box allowing you to crop and resize. Easy and quick.

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Put iPhoto on a Diet

Posted by scottbourne on September 4, 2008
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iPhoto loves hard disk space like I love Kentucky Fried Chicken! iPhoto will eat your hard disk up if you have a large photo library and do lots of editing. Here’s why; iPhoto makes a duplicate copy of your photo on your hard disk every time you make an adjustment to the image.

Once you have your pictures edited the way you like them, you may not want to keep the originals. However deleting them is not as easy as you might think. You can run a script from Terminal that helps keep the iPhoto Library clean, but that’s too intimidating for most of our audience. The next best thing is called iPhoto Diet. It might not work as well with the latest version of iPhoto – so use it at your own risk. In my tests with iPhoto 6, it performed perfectly, finding and deleting unwanted duplicates and originals, saving me tons of disk space.

If you just want to remove duplicate images, try Duplicate Annihilator.

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