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Announcing: Ebook of Take Control of Your Digital Photos on a Mac
It’s a book! I’m excited to announce that Take Control of Your Digital Photos on a Mac is now available as a standalone ebook. Although this was always destined to be a Take Control ebook, we turned it into a (highly successful) experiment. As I finished each chapter, we published it at TidBITS, with everything ...
Chapter 9 of Take Control of Your Digital Photos Now Available
Here it is, the last chapter of my book Take Control of Your Digital Photos, available for free to TidBITS members: Move Photos from iPhoto to Aperture or Lightroom! Originally the book was going to be eight chapters, but thanks to feedback from readers, I wrote up the process of moving one’s library out of ...
Chapter 8 of Take Control of Your Digital Photos Now Available
We’re almost there. The latest chapter of my book Take Control of Your Digital Photos is now online for TidBITS Members, and it’s an important one: “Back Up and Archive Your Photos.” Digital photography is great in that you can shoot and store so many photos, but a failed hard disk can wipe them out. ...
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 ...
More MacVoices: Talking about Take Control of Your Digital Photos
When Chuck Joiner interviewed me for his MacVoices show last week, we spent part of the time talking about The iPad for Photographers, Second Edition (see here) and the rest of the session talking about my current Take Control of Your Digital Photos ebook. Watch or listen to the episode here: MacVoices #13166: Jeff Carlson ...
Chapter 4 of Take Control of Your Digital Photos Posted
The next chapter of my serialized ebook Take Control of Your Digital Photos is now published and available for TidBITS members. In this section, “Best Practices for Importing Photos,” I dig deep into a step that most people gloss over: copying photos from a camera or memory card into the computer. By applying metadata presets ...
Chapter 3 of Take Control of Your Digital Photos Now Live
The next chapter of my latest book, serialized at TidBITS.com, is now available for TidBITS members: Choose a Photo-Management Application. To recap, we’re publishing my ebook one chapter at a time for TidBITS members only; when it’s done, it will be bundled into a proper ebook (PDF, EPUB, Kindle) and sold as a complete book. ...
New Book! With a Twist: Take Control of Your Digital Photos
We’re drowning in digital photos. It’s so easy to capture a photo these days—from dedicated cameras as well as camera-enabled smartphones—that we’re storing more shots than ever. That’s good news! People are capturing memories that would otherwise fade away, and learning more about how to view the world. But the volume of photos has become ...
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