News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Earlier this week we looked at ways make basic contrast fixes in iPhoto’s histogram. Now that you know a bit about how the histogram works, you can tackle one of the most challenging image problems to solve: bad colour. If you shoot without a flash while in the shade, your photos will likely take on a bluish tone. Shooting indoors next to a lamp can produce yellowish images. But it’s not always clear what needs to be done to remove unwanted colours. Here, too, the Levels histogram can help.
Ben Long | Jan 22, 2010
Straightening, cropping, and removing red-eye are all fairly easy fixes to make to a photograph. Getting good tones, on the other hand, can be a more challenging problem. iPhoto’s Enhance button tries to offer a one-click solution to this problem—when selected, the feature analyses your image’s tones and makes its best guess at fixing them. But while this feature can often get you started in the right direction, it seldom solves the problem completely. You’ll usually get better results by making adjustments yourself. To do that, you’ll need to open the Adjust palette.
Ben Long | Jan 20, 2010
As a photographer, it’s easy to get preoccupied with questions about gear. Do you have enough pixels? Do you need a better lens? While these concerns are warranted, there is something photographers need more than any piece of gear: good light.
Ben Long | Nov 26, 2009
Photographers are normally fixated on finding good light; but there’s a whole world of possibilities that opens up when the light goes away. A few months ago, I found myself in Monument Valley, California in the middle of the night. Without other light to compete with, the full moon turned into a powerful light source, creating dramatic, hard-edged shadows in the desert landscape.
Ben Long | Aug 13, 2009
For most of us, it’s easier to remember where we took a picture than to remember when. Most digital cameras don’t possess this sort of location awareness. However, you can easily embed the coordinates after the fact through a process called geotagging.
Ben Long | Oct 6, 2008
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
