Entries tagged with “workflow” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

What do you do when your primary creative tool stops working? It's an increasingly common problem as our tools become digital. I've lost great programs from companies that tanked, but when a program from a company that's still in business refuses to launch, it really chaps my hide.

Rick Sammon's blog about photographing thousands of snow geese reminded me of an e-mail I got a while back from a world-champion duck caller. He was looking for a digital audio recorder. Here's what I suggested.

A while back, Derrick Story wondered how valuable Roxio Toast still was, given the disc-burning features built in to Mac OS X. Well, Toast hasn't grown moldy; Roxio added a bunch of features right after Derrick's post came out. I've covered two obscure but very cool audio ones: the ability to make high-resolution and surround-sound DVDs. Here's another tasty Toast...

Using templates is a major time-saver for those of us who need to create the same, or at least highly similar documents over and over again. But what do you do if a specific application does not support templates? As long as you're handling text files, there's a solution that works universally across your Mac.

Adobe Bridge's Flatten View feature allows you to see all the contents of your subfolders in one window. Working with a large project becomes easier when you can visually scan your entire project. Here's where to find that handy, if obscure, button in the Filter panel.

Ethan Salwen talks about about photo capture-sharpening practices in AfterCapture and features O'Reilly author Mikkel Aaland. "There are compelling reasons to apply capture sharpening during the RAW conversion process," explains Mikkel Aaland, a San Francisco-based photographer and digital-imaging expert. "And there are compelling reasons to turn off a converter's sharpening function and wait until the file is in Photoshop." In...