Platform: macOS

Backblaze Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 2015

By PhotoJoseph

May 27, 2015 - 9:00pm

Backblaze (my preferred cloud backup system) publishes regular hard drive reliability stats. This quarter they are reporting on well over 42,000 hard drives tested. Oh my. If you’re looking for the right drive to buy you can’t find a bigger source of raw data to draw conclusions from.

Beginner

Mylio Updated With Complete Aperture Importer

By PhotoJoseph

May 25, 2015 - 9:38pm

A couple of weeks ago, Mylio added a full Aperture importer. According to the marketing video, it does it all.

Beginner

Folder Hierarchy Not Retained in Photos When Importing Folders

By PhotoJoseph

May 15, 2015 - 9:00pm

Unfortunately when importing folders full of pictures into Photos, your folder hierarchy isn’t maintained.

Intermediate

Cityscapes and the Lighten Blending Mode

By Scott Davenport

May 12, 2015 - 9:00pm

Dawn or dusk is the best time to shoot cityscapes, but the best natural light and the best city lights don't happen at the same time. You can make your cityscapes pop though when you blend several shots of the same scene together.

Intermediate

Removing Haze from an Image: DxO OpticsPro with ClearView vs. Aperture, Capture One and Lightroom

By Pravin Mirchandani

April 27, 2015 - 9:00pm

This is a simple test of how DxO OpticsPro 10 and its new DxO ClearView tool fares with a very hazy image, and a comparison to assess how best to achieve equivalent or similar anti-haze results with each of each of Aperture, Lightroom and Capture One Pro.

Intermediate

Adobe Lightroom CC (6) Released; Best New Features Are the Little Ones!

By PhotoJoseph

April 25, 2015 - 10:00pm

Adobe Lightroom CC (no longer Adobe Photoshop Lightroom) is available for download, and my favorite new features are tiny ones… but they bring the file organization workflow just a little closer to what we had in Aperture.

Intermediate

Photos Haz Repair

By PhotoJoseph

April 23, 2015 - 9:00pm

If you end up with a temperamental Photos library, just like in iPhoto and Aperture, there’s a built-in repair routine.

Beginner

Deleting Pictures in Photos Without a Prompt Dialog

By PhotoJoseph

April 22, 2015 - 9:00pm

If you’ve been playing with Photos for OS X, you may have discovered by now that when you delete a picture, Photos always prompts you to be sure you’re sure. Turns out there’s a very easy way around that dialog.

Intermediate

Why Your Aperture-Migrated Photos Library Isn't Really Doubling Disk Space

By PhotoJoseph

April 21, 2015 - 9:00pm

If you migrated from Aperture to Photos, you may have noticed that your 100 GB Aperture library appears to have duplicated into another 100 GB Photos library. Turns out, that’s not really true.

Beginner

Noiseless by MacPhun is Now Available… and It's Amazing

By PhotoJoseph

April 16, 2015 - 9:00pm

Noiseless is the latest app from MacPhun, and it’s a doozie. It’s incredibly impressive how good the noise reduction is!

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Backblaze Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 2015

Mylio Updated With Complete Aperture Importer

Folder Hierarchy Not Retained in Photos When Importing Folders

Cityscapes and the Lighten Blending Mode

Removing Haze from an Image: DxO OpticsPro with ClearView vs. Aperture, Capture One and Lightroom

Adobe Lightroom CC (6) Released; Best New Features Are the Little Ones!

Photos Haz Repair

Deleting Pictures in Photos Without a Prompt Dialog

Why Your Aperture-Migrated Photos Library Isn't Really Doubling Disk Space

Noiseless by MacPhun is Now Available… and It's Amazing

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