Month: October 2013
Google Updates Snapseed with New HDR Scape Filter
Google announced improvements to its Google+ service today, with a focus on photography. One of the items mentioned was an update to Snapseed that adds a new HDR Scope filter to the versatile image editor. According to Google, this implementation uses pixel edge detection instead of relying solely on tone mapping. As soon as the ...
Mysterious Mac Pro Posters
By far the most unusual thing to happen today was the surprise arrival of a package from Apple. A narrow rectangular box revealed a precisely-made tube containing four promotional posters for the company’s upcoming Mac Pro computer, plus a similar-sized sheet containing a paragraph of text. Apple does this occasionally when they want to drum ...
New iMovie Doesn’t Open iMovie iOS Projects
Serenity Caldwell at Macworld digs into a curious omission in the new iMovie 10.0 for Mac: It no longer opens projects created on the iOS version of iMovie (which itself was also updated last week). She talked to someone at Apple who confirmed that the feature will return in a future update. Also, iMovie won’t ...
iPhoto 2.0 Syncs with Camera Roll, Can Delete and Hide Images
Federico Viticci at Macstories writes about a very interesting change in Apple’s latest iPhoto 2.0 app for iPhone and iPad. In the first version of iPhoto for iOS, images you edit stay in iPhoto unless you explicitly share them back to the Camera Roll. This situation applies to other applications, too, due to the sandboxing ...
New iPad Air, Retina iPad mini, and Apps. Hoo boy!
Apple just opened the floodgates of its product releases, announcing new iPads, iLife apps, MacBook Pros, and the Mac Pro. (Oh, and OS X Mavericks, which is available now and free; my OS X Mavericks book is being printed now!) For photographers, the new iPad Air and Retina iPad mini are really exciting. The iPad ...
How to Make a Bootable OS X Mavericks Install Drive
OS X Mavericks is now available—for free!—and one of the most important tasks you can do is to create a bootable install drive. Now that OS X arrives only as a download, there’s no backup DVD to use if your Mac goes south. Yes, the Recovery HD is there (hold Command-R at startup), but what ...
Back in Seattle, Back to Work
Yesterday was my first full day back after 10 days of a spectacular photography workshop in Oregon, and I quickly had to settle into the everyday routine of house and work. (On the work side, it was mostly catching up.) I think waking up every day at 5 am also took its toll, because after ...
Jeff Carlson | Never Enough Coffee Creations 