Apple Aperture 2
March 20, 2008
There are 3 things Apple want you to know about Aperture 2. It’s fast, it’s high quality and it’s integrated. I’m going to look at each of these in turn and then finish up by telling you some things I don’t like about it. I figure you can read glowing tributes about it everywhere so I’m going to declare it my job to tell you where they could improve it.
This review is going to assume you know what Aperture is and why you might want it. If you don’t then either wait for our Aperture vs Lightroom shootout or see Apple’s website.
Raw vs Jpeg: Three reasons to shoot jpeg
March 19, 2008
The RAW versus JPEG controversy has been going on since the dawn of the digital photography. Most professionals and advanced amateur photographers prefer to shoot in RAW, because the RAW format offers some real benefits that JPEG just can’t match. There are times, however, when JPEG can be the better choice.
Get to grips with Raw editing
January 10, 2008
If you’re serious about digital photography then you may well shoot raw. Once you go down the raw route it becomes a minefield of which software to use, which settings to tweak, when to make edits, how to make edits. If you’re not careful then your head could explode.
If you don’t want that to happen and you shoot raw and own a copy of Photoshop CS3 then go and get “Photoshop CS3 RAW: Get the Most Out of the RAW Format with Adobe Photoshop, Camera RAW, and Bridge” (M Aaland)if you need convincing (or need a similar book for Lightroom) then read on.
Photon - do one thing well
January 4, 2008
How long would it take you to run through about 600 raw files, copy the ones you like to one folder and the rest to another? 2 hours? Half a day? More? I just did it in 12 minutes using Photon, an insanely fast picture browser for the Mac.
Phase One Capture One 4 is out now
December 31, 2007
If you’re into raw processing then you’ll have heard of Capture 1. It’s the heavyweight raw file converter favoured by many pros over Photoshop. Well, the title of this post gives it away - version 4 is out now.
