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An Update on “Add Flagged Photos” in iPhoto 09

An Update on “Add Flagged Photos” in iPhoto 09

In my mind, flagging an image in iPhoto is a way to select pictures that I want to act on. They might not be the best photos (those get higher star ratings) but they’re the photos I want to email someone or print or remember to caption or keyword later. As a result I’ve got ... read more

January 11, 2010 in Tutorials by David Schloss 5 comments

Burning Images to Disc with iPhoto 09

Burning Images to Disc with iPhoto 09

iPhoto has a built-in tool for burning images to a DVD, which means you don’t need a third party tool like Toast or Disco to create a backup disc or quick tool for sending images to friends or family.Select ImagesSelect the images you’d like to burn to DVD.ShareFrom the Share menu, select Burn.Insert DisciPhoto ... read more

December 29, 2009 in Tips by David Schloss 0 comments

Setting iPhoto 09 to Externally Edit with RAW

Setting iPhoto 09 to Externally Edit with RAW

When you import RAW files into iPhoto, the application stores those RAWs and creates speedy JPEG previews for your display and viewing. Luckily, that RAW data is what iPhoto goes to when you do an edit. However, when you tell iPhoto to use an external editor, by default it passes that file along as a ... read more

December 17, 2009 in Tips by David Schloss 0 comments

New Event from Flagged Photo in iPhoto 09

New Event from Flagged Photo in iPhoto 09

iPhoto automatically groups images into Events based on the date of capture. That’s great, but many times it’s convenient to split photos into Events not based on time of capture, but based on things like subject matter. One of my favorite ways to do this is to flag photos and then create new Events based ... read more

December 15, 2009 in Tutorials by David Schloss 2 comments

Easily Keep Your iPhone from Launching iPhoto or Aperture

Easily Keep Your iPhone from Launching iPhoto or Aperture

Thanks to the built-in camera in the iPhone, Mac OS X sees the world’s best phone as being a camera and so every time it’s plugged in your designated imaging program will launch. That’s really a pain when all you’re trying to do is sync your phone. Under Leopard there were a few shareware programs ... read more

December 10, 2009 in Tutorials by David Schloss 0 comments

Manage Places in iPhoto 09

Manage Places in iPhoto 09

iPhoto 09 provides a built-in image-location-tagging tool called Places and it works with images that either have GPS coordinates already (like your iPhone) or ones that don’t. You can easily manage Places and tag your images after you shoot them. While we’ve talked about the Places button before for geotagging, in this tutorial we’ll talk ... read more

December 8, 2009 in Tutorials by David Schloss 1 comment

Cyber Monday at Mac Create – $10 off MacCreate Memberships

Cyber Monday at Mac Create – $10 off MacCreate Memberships

We’re in the Cyber Monday mood here at Mac Create, and so we’re offering $10 off Mac Create Premium memberships all day long. Get the best of Mac Create as well as huge discounts on hardware and software (including our Apple Affiliate discount online store for US customers) for just $29.99 instead of $39.99. Just use ... read more

November 30, 2009 in News by David Schloss 0 comments

Add Watermarks in iPhoto with Impression

Add Watermarks in iPhoto with Impression

While iPhoto doesn’t have built-in watermarking support as Aperture does, it has a nice plug-in that will support the generation of watermarks from either text files or alpha-channel image files. Made by the same developers who did iPhoto2Twitter, Impression for iPhoto (there’s an Aperture version as well) works with iPhoto ‘08 or ‘09 and offers some ... read more

November 24, 2009 in News by David Schloss 0 comments