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Best image browser and cataloguing software

August 4, 2017 by Rod Lawton 4 Comments

Best image browser and cataloguing software

If you organise your photos by folders and find this perfectly satisfactory, then you can use any number of different programs to keep your images organised. Adobe Bridge is a good starting point as an image browser if you already have Photoshop, and ON1 Photo RAW and Alien Skin Exposure are two examples of all-in-one programs that have image … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adobe, Alien Skin, Aperture, Apple, Capture One Pro, Exposure, Featured, Lightroom, ON1, ON1 Photo RAW, Phase One, Reviews, Software

How to duplicate pictures in Apple Photos

December 12, 2016 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

How to duplicate pictures in Apple Photos

Apple Photos is central to both the Mac OS and iOS devices. It's a great way to keep all your photos to handy on all your devices, and it practically looks after itself – you add a photo on one device, and very soon it's on all of them. It's also a pretty good image-editing hub for all your photo editing, at least on mobile devices like iPads … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Apple, Apple Photos, Featured, Mobile photography, Photography apps, Software, Tutorials

Learn better black and white photography – with your phone

December 5, 2016 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

Learn better black and white photography – with your phone

The way that certain cameras feel and work and operate lends them to a certain kind of photography. And for me, the iPhone is perfect for high-contrast, graphic black and white images. True, the image quality is some way short of what you'd get from a 'proper' camera, but when I'm using it I see the world differently and I see compositions in a way … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Apple, Apple Photos, Featured, iPhone photography, Kit, Mobile photography, Tutorials Tagged With: Black and white

How to create a mask in MacPhun’s free Filters for Photos

May 2, 2016 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

How to create a mask in MacPhun’s free Filters for Photos

Last week MacPhun announced a free extension for Apple Photos. Filters for Photos has 30 different effects, and while the controls might appear pretty basic, you can use the built-in masking tools to apply these filters much more subtly than you might expect. Here's how it works. 01 Choose your filter So here I've chosen the Color Sunlight … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Apple, Apple Photos, Creative Kit, Featured, MacPhun, Software, Tutorials

How to make sense of the Apple Photos interface

April 30, 2016 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

How to make sense of the Apple Photos interface

We already asked, can Apple Photos replace Aperture?, and no, it can't, but it's still a very good tool for managing your family photo collection, where the ability to capture, find and share pictures simply is the key. To anyone used to a full-on image-cataloguing tool, though, or even the old iPhoto, it feels like being dropped into a very … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Apple, Apple Photos, Featured, Software, Tutorials

Can Apple Photos replace Aperture?

April 23, 2016 by Rod Lawton 3 Comments

Can Apple Photos replace Aperture?

When Apple announced it was going to discontinue its professional image-cataloguing application Aperture, but that a brand new Photos app was on its way, many (including me) obviously hoped that Photos would go some way towards replacing our favourite application. These hopes were raised by early screenshots showing some powerful-looking editing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Aperture, Apple, Apple Photos, Featured, Software

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