Posts about 'Tips'

With the posting this morning of the interview with Chris Cornelis, developer of GeoLogTag, we thought we would re-post both the initial first look with the more in-depth review. GeoLogTag is an innovative app for the iPhone 3G and G3s that leverages the geotagging capabilities of the device for owners of digital cameras without the ... read more
March 24, 2010 in Tips by Kevin Carter

When deleting images from and Event or Album you may think iPhoto is moving them to the main Trash, but it doesn’t. As a kind of failsafe, iPhoto has its own Trash.If you don’t ever empty it, iPhoto’s Trash will start to eat into your disk space. From the main menu select iPhoto > ... read more
March 23, 2010 in Tips by Kevin Carter

As a journalist and professional photographer I use my 15-inch MacBookPro a lot; despite the desktops we have around, the MBP is my machine of choice. While the screen is okay for writing on as well as the occasional tethered shooting and editing, I usually do any serious post production work on a (sadly now ... read more
March 18, 2010 in Tips by Kevin Carter

What’s the idea behind the Hide Photos option in iPhoto? Well, if you want to tidy up an Event or Album without deleting the photos, you can make those shots disappear temporarily. Select each photo you want to hide (hey, you’ve got your reasons), either individually or holding down the Command (cmd) key and selecting ... read more
March 17, 2010 in Tips by Kevin Carter

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

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

Here at the UK office of MacCreate, we bought a Canon PIXMA MX850 all-in-one to scan and print text (not to mention the occasional photo), after recommending it in one our reviews for a magazine (I forget which now). But today it stopped working faultlessly, ... read more
December 17, 2009 in Tips by Kevin Carter

When you import photos into iPhoto from an existing folder or, as in the case of this screen shot from your Aperture Library via File>Show Aperture Library the program does not create an album named based on the album name in Aperture (or from the Finder) as you might expect. Instead it calls the ... read more
November 24, 2009 in Tips by David Schloss