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.
Create a mosaic of photographs
February 6, 2008
You’ve do doubt already seen those cool photographs created starting from an assembly of hundreds f smaller images. These mosaics put aside the singularity of each photograph for, with the proper perspective, composing an image close to reality.To create such mosaics, you first of all need a large enough collection of images. Each colour of the image that you wish to compose must be indeed found in an image which you have.
Then, a free software as AndreaMosaic will do all the hard work of choosing and assembling your photographs to give your final image. The result is convincing and makes it possible to give almost a second life to all your photographs! Read more
Hydra. HDR just got cool. And cheap.
January 22, 2008
There’s no doubt that HDR is a huge buzz at the moment. As a quick catchup it’s a method of expanding the tonal range of images captured by your digital camera - the theory is you use software to overcome hardware limitations that stop you capturing scenes as you remember them. It also makes for pretty cool pictures.
There’s been a slew of software to do this recently from the big daddy that is Photomatix to hobby applications written for specific applications. Most of them are reasonably hard to get your head round and tend to look pretty clunky. Not any more. HDR just got gorgeous - and cheap!
I told you not to buy Pixelmator….
January 13, 2008
Last week I told you not to buy Pixelmator yet because the MacHeist bundle was sure to include it.
Well, it’s true. $49 gets you 11 spanking Mac Apps including Pixelmator. And that’s less than the cost of Pixelmator.
There’s just one catch.
Tribeca Photobot Review
January 11, 2008
Imagine an application that can edit all of your pictures without you having to do anything.
Dream come true? Nightmare? Or another symptom that photographers are getting lazy and relying on automated post processing to avoid having to alter their camera’s controls?
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.
Top tip - don’t buy Pixelmator
January 4, 2008
If you have a Mac and edit jpeg picture files then there’s a very good chance that Pixelmator could be just the app for you. However, despite it being one gorgeous application and about 10% of the price of Photoshop - I’m suggesting you don’t buy it.
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.
