Great Things
Verbatim exchange between me and my daughter this morning. Her reply was immediate: Me: "What is the world coming to?" 5yo: "Great things." Wow I love this kid. — Jeff Carlson (@jeffcarlson) August 8, 2013
Article: Take Better DSLR Shots Using… Your Smartphone?
Macworld has just published an article of mine that was fun to write: “Take Better DSLR Shots Using… Your Smartphone?” I look at three devices that control a DSLR wirelessly using an iOS device: the CamRanger, CameraMator, and iUSBportCamera. Although similar in general, each device has its own advantages and disadvantages, which I detail in ...
Article: Take Better DSLR Shots Using… Your Smartphone?
Macworld has just published an article of mine that was fun to write: “Take Better DSLR Shots Using… Your Smartphone?” I look at three devices that control a DSLR wirelessly using an iOS device: the CamRanger, CameraMator, and iUSBportCamera. Although similar in general, each device has its own advantages and disadvantages, which I detail in ...
Chapter 7 of Take Control of Your Digital Photos Now Available
If you’re a TidBITS Member, head over to read the latest chapter of my book-in-progress Take Control of Your Digital Photos, “Organize Photos into (Smart) Albums.” In this installment, I assemble all the work we’ve put into tagging and rating photos to quickly locate images. I also explain why I rarely use regular albums, opting ...
Chapter 6 of Take Control of Your Digital Photos Is Now Available
We’re getting to the end of my serialized book Take Control of Your Digital Photos, and Chapter 6 is a doozy. In this new section, “Assign Keywords and Other Data,” I take a step beyond the advice earlier about assigning metadata during import and look at ways to efficiently tag your photos with additional metadata. ...
Chapter 5 of Take Control of Your Digital Photos Now Up
In the latest chapter of my book, which we’re serializing at TidBITS, I encourage you to be judgmental during the review of your imported photos: “Judge Your Photos.” That means scrutinizing them with specific quality levels in mind. Sure, it’s easy enough to say one photo is okay and another isn’t so hot, but where ...
Article: Adobe Photoshop cloud subscription a step up
My latest Practical Mac column for the Seattle Times appeared this weekend: Adobe Photoshop cloud subscription a step up. Although I didn’t set out to focus on the subscription aspect of Adobe’s Creative Cloud—the newest apps are available only via monthly or yearly subscriptions, not as a standalone price—I couldn’t help but dig into it ...
