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Article: Make Photo Gifts Right from Your iPhone or iPad

Still looking for holiday gift ideas? Start with the photos in your iPhone or iPad! Over at Lynda.com, I’ve written about methods for making photo gifts without requiring a trip to your computer. Apps and services can make prints, photo books, and other creations while you wait in line to see Santa. I also spotlight ...

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Rainbow Leaf

The back of this leaf was like a rainbow—those are the genuine colors. Shot with an iPhone 5s and minimally processed in Instagram. View it large to get the full effect, especially the lovely vein details. I love autumn. If you like the work I do, please consider signing up for my low-volume newsletter that ...

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iPad Air 2 Packs a Lot of Photo Power

Apple announced the iPad Air 2 today, available for order starting on October 17 and shipping soon after. It’s even thinner than the iPad Air and, finally, incorporates a Touch ID sensor. In Apple’s keynote announcing it (along with a beautiful new Retina 5K iMac and the shipping of OS X Yosemite), the iPad Air ...

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Ritzville Moonrise

The moon emerged from behind clouds during a drive from Seattle to Spokane, so I couldn’t help but pull off the highway and grab a few quick long-exposure photos. (It’s pretty grainy at 1000 ISO on my trusty old Nikon D90, but not bad for an impromptu photo capture.) If you like the work I ...

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Middle Falls black-and-white

September and October are turning out to be extremely busy for me, work wise, so as a quick distraction/mental escape here’s another photo of Middle Falls near McCloud, California. (Here’s an earlier shot I posted.) The falls are easily accessible after a short hike, and I imagine the autumn colors are starting to look really ...

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How Does iOS 8 Time-Lapse Work?

[Video by Dan Provost] Dan Provost at Studio Neat (the inventors of the Glif tripod mount for iPhones) took a closer look at the Time-Lapse feature in the Camera app under iOS 8. If you’ve tried it out, the mode is dead simple; there are no configuration options, you just start recording and the app’s ...

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How Does iOS 8 Time-Lapse Work?

[Video by Dan Provost] Dan Provost at Studio Neat (the inventors of the Glif tripod mount for iPhones) took a closer look at the Time-Lapse feature in the Camera app under iOS 8. If you’ve tried it out, the mode is dead simple; there are no configuration options, you just start recording and the app’s ...

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Lightroom mobile – Iceland

Adobe’s Russell Brown sent a group of photographers to Iceland to shoot a promotional video for Lightroom mobile, and boy is it wonderful. The visuals are just gorgeous, but the clip also does a great job of explaining some of the editing tools and presets available in Lightroom mobile. (A reminder: I wrote a Fuel ebook that covers Lightroom ...

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Article: Updating Raw Process Versions

Have you ever opened an old raw image file and been confronted with an alert or warning badge? Over at Lynda.com, I explain what’s going on: Editing Old Photos Files? Update to Latest Raw Process. Likely the raw image was saved with an older raw process version—the algorithms that translate the raw image information into ...