If you're ready to start playing with Lightroom, you can tap your iPhoto library to provide the source material. It's really simple, and you have plenty of options along the way. Open Lightroom and click on the Library module. Go to the File menu and choose Import... You'll be greeted with a dialog box that lets you navigate to...
I dearly love my MythTV system. I travel a lot, and it enables me to take TV with me to 35,000 feet. What I love best is that it's growing with me. I recently added an Air2PC HD5000 card, so I now have a three-tuner box. (I hope to write an article on the new tuner in the near future.)...
As of Public Beta 2, you can add music to your Lightroom slideshows. It's not the most intuitive process ever designed, so I'll whisk you through it right now. Once you set up the images for your slideshow, go to Playback Settings and check the Play Music box. Then click on the somewhat obscure "downward pointing triangle" to the...
Fun software at http://www.faceresearch.com/ allows you to age or youth-ify your face, turn it into an El Greco painting, or morph it into a Manga hero. I had a go....
During the past year, digital photographers have watched new options emerge for their photo workflow. For the longest time, they had to cobble together applications to move their images through the phases of uploading, organizing, processing, output, and archiving, especially if they were Raw shooters who favored using Adobe's Camera Raw as their converter. When Adobe announced Lightroom, photographers...
Despite its lingering stigma from the 100-slide carousel projector days, modern digital slideshows are one of the most powerful tools digital photographers have to present their work. Software such as FotoMagico (Mac), iPhoto 6 (Mac), QuickTime 7 Pro (Mac/Windows), and Photo Story 3 (Windows XP), enable you to author presentations that rival the work that made Ken Burns famous....
In my initial MythTV article about hardware, I wrote that I had selected the Silverstone LC-03V because of the vacuum-fluorescent display (VFD). Although Silverstone boasted about the ready availability of Windows drivers, I had to do some digging. I discovered that the VFD used the NEC D16314AGJ-011 controller chip, which was described as being compatible with the well-known HD44780...
My quest for perfect B&W prints from digital capture has led me to some very cool tools. The two most important have been a Photoshop plug-in called Alien Skin Exposure and the Epson R2400 printer. Working with this software/hardware tandem has produced satisfying results reminiscent of my darkroom days. Here's a quick look at how I use this software/hardware...
A few weeks ago, I upgraded to MythTV 0.19. For the most part, the upgrade is worthwhile, though I've had a few problems. On the plus side: My favorite addition is the signal strength meter. Adjusting the antenna with previous versions involved setting the antenna in a trial position, watching for half an hour, and counting the number of picture...
Sharing your images via iPhoto 6 and RSS has advantages over building web pages and clogging up email with bulky attachments. I've published an overview of this technique on The Digital Story titled Photocasting with iPhoto 6: RSS Made Easy and a drill down piece on Mac DevCenter, Photocasting: Serve the Right Picture Size. These posts will help you get...
