SCO0240 - Aperture 3 - Part 2 [Members Show]
Previous versions have been aimed squarely at the professional photographer, but with this new release, Aperture has been repositioned as a tool for both prosumers and professionals. One of the reasons many people have held off moving to Aperture was the inclusion of Faces and Places in iPhoto '09. Without them, Aperture 2 was not really a compelling upgrade for iPhoto users. All has been fixed now in Aperture 3 with the inclusion of both these features and over 200+ new improvements.
Aperture 3 now gives "Pro performance with iPhoto simplicity"!
- Adjustments & Adjustment Presets
- Brushing in Adjustments
- Lifting & Stamping Adjustments
- Faces
- Places & GPS
- Manual Location Placement
- Embedded GPS Metadata
- Using a GPS Track Log
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SCO0239 - Aperture 3 - Part 1
Previous versions have been aimed squarely at the professional photographer, but with this new release, Aperture has been repositioned as a tool for both prosumers and professionals. One of the reasons many people have held off moving to Aperture was the inclusion of Faces and Places in iPhoto '09. Without them, Aperture 2 was not really a compelling upgrade for iPhoto users. All has been fixed now in Aperture 3 with the inclusion of both these features and over 200+ new improvements.
Aperture 3 now gives "Pro performance with iPhoto simplicity"!
As I've never covered Aperture before, I thought I'd best start from the ground up and cover the basic functionality in this weeks show. No prior knowledge of Aperture is assumed and I approach the subject as an iPhoto user considering moving over to Aperture. Next week I'll take a look at some of the new and enhanced features.
In this weeks show I cover:
- Installation & Setup
- Aperture 3 Introduction
- Aperture Libraries
- Importing Digital Media
- Import Settings
- Viewing Images in Aperture 3
- Split View
- Comparing Images
- Rating Images
- Browser View
- Using Stacks
- Viewer
- Full Screen View
- Using the Loupe
- Using Metadata
- Allocating Keywords
- Metadata Views
- Exporting & Merging Libraries
- Exporting Versions
- Exporting Masters
- Exporting Projects
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SCO0212 - Mac Hints & Tips Montage - 09 [Extra Members]
Rather than focus on a single topic or software application, I include a number of different hints and tips, all intended to help you get the most out of your Mac!
| Removing Duplicate Photos from
iPhoto : Following on from last
week, as promised, I take a look at a
relatively inexpensive utility that allows
you to purge your iPhoto library of duplicate
photos. I explore the most effective methods
of using Duplicate Annihilator and
importantly, cover how to safeguard against
finding false duplicates, along with some
suggestions for double checking your results.
Links: Duplicate Annihalator (25% off using CPN7756165310) |
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| QuickLook Plugins:
Introduced in Leopard, QuickLook allows you
to see the contents of all sorts of files
directly from the Finder, just by tapping the
space bar. Apple have made the QuickLook
architecture extensible allowing third party
developers to create custom QuickLook
plugins. In this section, I take a look at a
great web resource for Quicklook Plugins,
along with how to install and configure them.
I also cover the installation of three free
sample Quicklook plugins - BetterZIP,
Photoshop Brushes and Suspicious Packages.
Links: QuickLook Plugins Website |
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| The Zoom Button in OS X:
The source of frustration for many Mac users
especially switchers from Windows. What on
earth does the "Zoom Button" actually do? Why
doesn't it maximize the screen when that's
all that I want it to do! The reasons behind
the usual behaviour of the Zoom button are
explained in this section along with a handy
little tip on how to resize the iTunes window
without it turning into a mini player - don't
you hate it when that happens! In addition,
if you really hate the standard behaviour of
the Zoom button, I show you how to install a
great free utility that changes the the
default behaviour of the Zoom button to a
"Windows like" maximise button.
Links: RightZoom |
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| Security “On the
road”: In this fourth and
final section, I take a look at some of the
considerations you need to bare in mind when
traveling with your laptop. I look at some
easy tips on making your laptop more secure,
tips which can also be applied to desktop
machines too. You don't have to follow all
the suggestions but the section covers most
of the basics to make your machine more
secure when travelling.
Links: PGP TrueCrypt |
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SCO0211 - Managing Multiple Macs - Part 3
This week, I take at look at how I manage organising and moving my digital images and videos between my laptop and desktop Mac.
As well as the multitude of applications available to use to work on our digital assets, we are faced with an ever expanding number of gadgets and gizmos that enable us to create images and video too. So as well as how to move your digital images and video around, I also take a look at "Cameras" - a simple yet ingenious preference pane application that allows you to configure exactly what happens when you plug your digital devices into your Mac, albeit open iPhoto, Aperture, iMovie, automatically download or even, just do nothing at all.
I also take a look at using external hard drives as an option to swap iPhoto libraries between machines, as well as a third party application called "iPhoto Library Manager". This brilliant application allows you to copy images between separate iPhoto libraries using simple drag and drop, as well as allowing you to merge complete iPhoto libraries.
To finish off, there's even a short section on moving Aperture projects between machines.
Links:
Cameras,
iPhoto Library Manager (15% off using JVVDD0XTFLMIG1CN)
Duplicate Annihilator (25% off using CPN7756165310)
Recent Podcasts:
The Mac Roundtable (Episode #67),
The MacJury (Episode #910)
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SCO0202 - Mac Hints & Tips Montage - 08 [Extra Members]
Rather than focus on a single topic or software application, I include a number of different hints and tips, all intended to help you get the most out of your Mac! A fairly mixed bag included this week, with some simple and some more complex hints and tips.
| Photo Location Information
Updates: Apple have introduced some
handy new features to help you assign
location information from photos taken with
the iPhone across to photos taken with a
normal "Non-GPS" enabled camera. This tip
shows you what is involved and also takes a
look at a simpler way to move a locations pin
to provide more accurate placement on your
iPhoto maps.!
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| Spurious Zooming on
MacBooks: Whilst I love the
multi-touch gestures on the new unibody
MacBooks, there is one that drives me to
distraction, and that's zooming in Safari and
Mail. This only seems to affect those of us
used to the older MacBooks with the single
button, where we used one hand for clicking
the button and the other for moving the
mouse. It's really hard to relearn not to use
button finger and on the new MacBooks, this
leads to inadvertent zooming in Safari and
Mail. Very annoying. Well as Apple don't
provide a way to turn this off, one
enterprising coder decided to create an
InputManager to disable this function. This
tip shows you how to install this
InputManager and retain your sanity!
Links: Original Instructions |
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| Creating Symbolic Links with
Automator: I've looked at this
technique before of using DropBox to
syncronise application data using symbolic
links. One of my favourite applications has
now been enabled to use this technique, and
that's TextExpander. Rather than show you the
typicalway of implementing this, I stumbled
upon some third party Automator actions that
remove the need for typing long commands into
terminal to set this up.
Links: Automator Actions Manual Instructions |
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| Monitoring Disk Usage:
This segment features two of my favourite
utilities for seeing just where all that
precious disk space has gone -
GrandPerspective and OmniDiskSweeper. Both
utilities do the same job of showing you
which files and folders are taking up the
most space on your drive, but each has a
different approach on how the data is
presented. I take you through both utilities
and describe how I use each one.
GrandPerspective OmniDiskSweeper |
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SCO0186 - Geotagging via the iPhone 3G [Extra! Members Show]
Following on from last weeks show about iPhoto '09, I've been playing some more with Places. There is something fascinating about being able to see the exact place on a map where you took a photo. Surprisingly, it also makes it so much easier to organise and find your photos as well.
No, I thought I'd have to bite the bullet and consider a GPS enabled camera!
But after a flurry of questions and answers via Twitter, it became apparent that there is a much less expensive solution to allow me to accurately geotag my photos. That's to use a GPS Data logger to capture my GPS location and just carry on using my existing camera, combining the GPS data and the images on the mac. Super!
Well I downloaded the app Trails - A geologger for iPhone (geotagging) - App store link - and gave it a whirl and was thrilled with the results.
Basically, you use Trails on the iPhone 3G to track your position whilst you're taking photos with a normal digital camera. Email yourself the resultant GPS waypoint file when you're finished and use an application called HoudahGeo* to combine the GPS date with your photos and you're done! Import the photos into iPhot '09 and they appear in your Places section with accurate positioning information.
There is also a little tip to enable you to switch on scroll wheel and multitouch support in iPhoto '09 plus a quick pointer to some recommendations for dedicated GPS Trackers if you want to do some serious Geotagging.
* There is a special ScreenCastsOnline discount available up until the end of February 2009. Just use the coupon code SCO0186 to get 20% off HoudahGeo.
The terminal command to enable the scroll wheel and multi-touch support in iPhoto is:
defaults write com.apple.iphoto MapScrollWheel -bool YES
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SCO0185 - iPhoto '09 Update
Even though I've only had the package a couple of days, how could I not resist doing a show this week about one of the applications in the newly updated iLife '09 suite.
The two major enhancements are Faces and Places
Faces allows you to finally undertake the task of correctly tagging your photos by identifying the people in them - automatically. Apples stunning implementation of face detection and recognition, allows you to correctly identify all the people in your iPhoto library to search and organise thousands of photos. In the show, I take you through the steps of setting up faces with some hints and tips on how to optimise faces detection and recognition on your photos.
Places brings location information to your photo library. If your lucky enough to have a GPS enabled camera or phone (such as the iPhone), iPhoto '09 will analyse the location information contained within each photo and automatically place your photos on a map for easy viewing or searching. If you already have GPS information in your existing photos, it's all done for you automatically. If you don't have such data, iPhoto '09 also allows you to add in location information manually to your existing photos with integration with Google Maps.
This weeks full members show covers:
- Preparing for iLife '09
- Setting Up Faces
- Optimising Faces Recognition
- Setting Up Places
- Adding Places to Events and Photos
- Using Map and Column Views
- Deleting and Correcting Location Information
- Editing in iPhoto '09
- Red Eye Correction
- Creating Dynamic Slideshows
- Exporting Slideshows
- Setting Up FaceBook Integration
- Syncronising Face Tags between iPhoto and FaceBook
- Setting up Flickr Integration
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SCO0089 - iPhoto Hints & Tips - Part 3 - Extra! Only Show
Using Keywords in iPhoto
Keyword Assistant
Using Multiple iPhoto Libraries
Sharing an iPhoto Library between multiple users on the same machine
Sharing an iPhoto Library between multiple users on different machines
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SCO0083 - iPhoto 6 - Part 2
Configuring iPhoto for Quick Startup
Creating iPhoto Slideshows
Adding Music to Slideshows
Exporting to iDVD and Quicktime
iPhoto Books
Exporting to iDVD, Quicktime and PDF
Appearance Tips
Enhancing the Red Eye and Retouch Tools
Also this week is another first in that I asked for hints and tips from the ScreenCastsOnline viewers in advance of the show, so I could incorporate them into this weeks show and give out a few name checks.
The response was so good, I'll probably have to do a part 3, but I promise not to leave such a long gap this time!
Thanks to all those who responded and if your tip isn't in this show, you never know, it may be in the next!
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SCO0043 - iPhoto 6 Tutorial - Part 1 - Extra! Only Show
The show covers...
iPhoto 6 Basics including Importing Photos, Editing, Organising Photos, Using Keywords, Smart Albums
New iPhoto functions including Photocasting and Full Screen Editing
Integration with Flickr including exporting to Flickr, FlickrExporter plugin and off line Storage
Flickr integration shows you how you can use a free Flickr account to act as an offline storage facility to backup all your iPhoto photos. It also touches on using Flickr to share your photos with friends and family if you haven't got (or don't want to pay for) a .mac account.
Future shows will examine other functionality within iPhoto such as iWeb integration, calendars, photobooks and iDVD integration and we'll also be looking at a full show dedicated to Flickr.
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