Photoshoot and Beyond
If you’ve uploaded to Facebook, you may have noticed that Facebook does something funky with the pictures that you post. With 350+ million pictures being uploaded every day, its no surprise that Facebook wants to save on bandwidth and costs. The Problem Photographers know that the images tend to look like junk, especially after they’ve…
My colleagues at Photofocus have heard me and seen me say some very choice words during a time, not so long ago, when I had a monitor that wouldn’t or couldn’t calibrate! At first, I couldn’t tell if it was the calibration tool I was using, or the monitor itself! Monitor Calibration Now color calibration is…
A lack of organization can really kick you in a sensitive area if you’re on a time crunch or are called to produce a photo or document of some sort. So here’s a tip: don’t be a digital slob! You might be a digital slob if your desktop is littered with a bunch of folders and files to…
There’s a new box on the block! It is a whole lot more affordable and all of what we’d expect in terms of quality from Drobo. Bottom Line: The 5C is an affordable, super simple and easy to use, expandable, directly-attached storage device that can hold up to five 3.5″ drives of various brands and capacities for…
I just wrapped up installing a Seagate 2TB FireCuda gaming hard drive into a 2012 27″ iMac, and boy is it worth it! The reason I chose this specific hard drive is due to the technology that this drive uses. Seagate, back in 2010, launched one of my favorite affordable upgrades for laptops– a hard…
While the list of supported OS’s for Macs extend from 10.10 to 10.12 for the latest version of Adobe’s Lightroom, there have been various issues with Lightroom 2015.7– panels disappearing, brush size glitches and of course, the one I personally have, erratic curve adjustment. I like to adjust the curves for basically all of my…
Holy crap. I caved. I really bought an iPad. Not just any iPad, the newest 9.7″ iPad Pro! I’m not new to the iPad world. I deal with them every day I work! I just no longer owned one after my original iPad Mini got a little outdated for me. Many of you know, fellow author…
So you’ve decided to step up your photography game and get Adobe’s Lightroom to manage and edit your photos, eh?! This guide will help you get your photos from Apple’s Photos into Lightroom. As of the date of this publication, there isn’t an everyday tool or utility that transfers an Apple Photos Library to Adobe…
I’m going to try to tone this down a little bit, as I’ve willingly participated in absolutely ridiculous and brainless conversations regarding the iPhone 7 with people. Everything from conspiracy theories like, planned obsolescence, to thoughts like “my life as a professional photographer is now doomed” have been made known to me. C’mon people. Really? I don’t…
Apple’s Photos for Mac was a combination between the previous generation’s iPhoto and Apple’s discontinued professional software, Aperture. Good thing is that everyone with a new-age Mac can get Photos for free! While free may not get you all the crazy powerful tools that you’d find in Photoshop, thanks to some hidden tools that were donated…