Check out the rest of Organize Your Photos: DAM Foundations Consolidate Conform Cull Copy Clear The first step in organizing a new repository is getting the files all in one place. The goal is to clean off all of the various drives on which they are found. In this step, duplicate files and directories will be created. Do not worry. Eventually, duplicates will be removed. Until then, err on the side of caution so, in your zeal to clean and purge, nothing important is lost. Assemble the Ingredients Before starting, … [Read more...] about Consolidate: Create A Rough Repository
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Moving From Aperture to Lightroom? Get This Free Migration Tool
Many Mac users have decided to switch from Aperture or iPhoto to Lightroom. Adobe has just released a new tool to help easily migrate existing Aperture and iPhoto libraries into Lightroom with a free Lightroom plug-in. What Comes Over Most of the important stuff makes the move Flags Star Ratings Keywords GPS Data Rejects Hidden Files Color Labels* Stacks* Face Tags* *Color Labels, Stacks, and Face Tags will be imported as Lightroom keywords. What Doesn't Comes Over The adjustments engines in Lightroom, Aperture, and iPhoto are … [Read more...] about Moving From Aperture to Lightroom? Get This Free Migration Tool
Get Organized with Smart Albums in Apple iPhoto
The weekend is a great time to get organized. Here's a quick tip for Apple iPhoto users. Learn how to add your photos to a Smart Album automatically using parameters like ratings, keywords, locations, or even facial recognition profiles. This makes it a snap to find things and keeps things organized. ______ … [Read more...] about Get Organized with Smart Albums in Apple iPhoto
New Raw Support for Mac Users
If you're a Mac user, two new camera updates have recently 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 4.07* Panasonic LUMIX DMC-G6 Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GF6 Sony Alpha SLT-A58 Supported by Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 4.06* Canon EOS-1D C Canon EOS Rebel SL1 / 100D / Kiss … [Read more...] about New Raw Support for Mac Users
On a Mac? Time to Update Your Raw Support
Follow Rich on 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 … [Read more...] about On a Mac? Time to Update Your Raw Support
iPhoto Tutorial: How To Use The Saturation Control To Improve a Washed-out Photo
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 … [Read more...] about iPhoto Tutorial: How To Use The Saturation Control To Improve a Washed-out Photo
Apple Updates iLife Suite to Version 11 – iPhoto Makeover
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) 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 … [Read more...] about Apple Updates iLife Suite to Version 11 – iPhoto Makeover
An Aperture Users Thoughts and Review on iPhoto 09
Guest post by Stuart Forsyth I am a long time user of Apples 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 its paces. Referencing the Aperture library The first thing I liked was that, by disabling the … [Read more...] about An Aperture Users Thoughts and Review on iPhoto 09
Make A Thumbnail Poster In iPhoto
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 … [Read more...] about Make A Thumbnail Poster In iPhoto
Quick Tip #14 – Resizing & Cropping iPhoto Books
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. _______________ … [Read more...] about Quick Tip #14 – Resizing & Cropping iPhoto Books
Put iPhoto on a Diet
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. Heres 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 thats too intimidating for most of … [Read more...] about Put iPhoto on a Diet
Apple Updates Camera Raw Capabilities of Aperture & iPhoto
Apple's new update extends RAW file compatibility for Aperture 2.0 and iPhoto '08 for the following cameras: Hasselblad CFV-16 Hasselblad H3D-31 Hasselblad H3D-31II Leaf Aptus 54S Leaf Aptus 65S Nikon D60 Olympus E-3 Pentax *ist DL2 Pentax *ist DS2 Pentax K100D Super Sony DSLR-A200 Sony DSLR-A350 … [Read more...] about Apple Updates Camera Raw Capabilities of Aperture & iPhoto
