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5 Tools to Improve Any Photo

Using almost any photo editor (iPhoto, Aperture, Photoshop, or even Apple’s Preview), you can use some basic editing tools to improve any photo. Here’s a basic workflow process.

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Aperture 2.0 and iPhoto ’09

In these video I compare Aperture 2.0 and iPhoto ’09 and explain why you might want to consider upgrading to Apple’s more professional digital management and adjustment application. I might make additional videos about the differences between the two if I get any related questions that are not covered in these two videos. Read more…

Using the Straightening tool in iPhoto ’09

Using the Straightening tool in iPhoto ’09

Creating a smart album for Photoshop files in Aperture 2.0

Creating a smart album for Photoshop files in Aperture 2.0

Adjust highlights and shadows in Aperture 2.0

In this screencast, I show how I use Aperture’s adjustment tools to improve upon the shadow and highlight areas of a portrait image.

Adjust highlights and shadows in Aperture 2.0

Bring Back the Sky

Sometimes when you’re shooting with subjects in the foreground and the blue cloudy sky in background, it’s hard to take a photo whereby both the foreground and the background are sufficiently exposed.

That’s the case with this photo below. Shooting in RAW mode, I exposed for the sky so that I could maintain its detail. As you can see, though, the bride and groom are under exposed. But the power RAW mode enables you to work with under exposed photos a lot better than in shooting in JPEG mode. Read more…

Aperture and sRAW: What’s the Problem, Apple?

The Canon 50D digital camera includes three RAW formats, including the standard 15 (4752×3168) megapixel size, and two smaller sizes: the sRAW1 7 (3267 x 2178) megapixel and the sRAW2 3.8 (2376 x 1584) megapixel sizes. These RAW modes are also available, in larger sizes, in the Canon 5D MarkII. Read more…

PhotoWalk in China Town

Completing a photo per day project here in Sacramento has challenged me to get out of my comfort zone (i.e. my office) and take photos in mostly the urban areas of the city, which is mainly downtown. While Sacramento provides some nice spots to photograph (e.g. Old Sacramento), I longed to head down to San Francisco (one of the 10 top photographed places in the world, or at least this country.) Read more…