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...

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The Center for Social Media has released a small (8p) booklet that provides some guidelines for understanding Fair Use.

The Photo Marketing Association show (PMA) in Orlando, FL is beginning to wind down. I've been in town since Sunday and have gathered a few goodies that might interest you. Adobe announced Photoshop Elements 4 for the Mac. This full featured image editor for $89 is all most amateur photographers would ever need. Nikon previewed its Capture NX software that...

Mmm...gadgets. At last year’s Project Bar-B-Q computer-music conference, sponsor C-Media surprised the attendees by giving each of us an impossibly small audio interface. With its protective cap in place, this tiny digital-to-analog converter is less than 2.5 inches long. Yet plugged into the USB port on my crusty Dell laptop, it made a dramatic difference in sound quality. (The Dell's...