Browse Photography Help and Tips

Browse Photography Help and Tips

Reduce iPhoto launch times
Learn one way to possibly improve iPhoto's launch time if you find that yours is taking forever to launch.
Basic photo editing tricks with layers
Learn how to use layers in your favorite image editor to improve your photos and add sophisticated effects.
How to correct color problems in iPhoto
Learn how to use iPhoto's Adjust palette to tackle bad color, which is one of the most challenging image problems to solve.
Improve images with iPhoto's histogram
With these tips you can use the histogram in iPhoto's Adjust palette to manually change and perfect to the tones of a photograph.
Infrared photography: how to fake it
Want to experiment with the look of infrared photography without investing in the equipment or time? In the second part of our series, Derrick Story shows you how to fake it with iPhone apps and image-editing software.
Set digital camera auto-import options in Snow Leopard
Learn how to control what happens if you use Snow Leopard's new auto importer feature to automatically import photos from your digital cameras.
Snapshot: Go underwater with a point-and-shoot
To capture friendly sea turtles up close, Danny Allen put his regular Canon point-and-shoot camera into a waterproof case.
Create a simple time-lapse movie
You can create a time-lapse movie with your camera, iPhone, or web cam. Time-lapse movies can give us a fresh perspective by speeding up slow-moving action and compressing hours, days, and months into seconds and minutes.
Last minute gifts for photographers
If you've put off shopping for the photographer in your life until the last possible minute, don't panic. This list of easy, no-mall-necessary gifts has something for every level of photographer.
Photoshop tip: Masking 101
Chris McVeigh shows you three masking techniques that can be used in Photoshop CS3 or CS4.
Holiday newsletters with Pages '09
Adam Berenstain walks you through the steps of creating a holiday newsletter in Pages '09.
Photoshop tip: Vignettes add focus and character to photos
The vignette effect can add style to your photos. Here's how to create a vignette in Photoshop CS4.
Eight steps to better holiday cards, books, and calendars in iPhoto
Get a jump start on your holiday projects by using iPhoto to design and print one-of-a-kind cards, books, and more. These tips will help you avoid some of the common pitfalls.
Store photos outside of iPhoto's library
Hate the way iPhoto takes control of your pictures? You can free them by created a referenced library that other apps can access as well.
Solve inkjet printer problems
Troubled by blurry prints or strange colors? Try these solutions to common printer frustrations.
Add more effects to Photo Booth and iChat
Learn how to add over 20 additional effects to photos taken in Photo Booth and iChat
Restore your old pictures with iPhoto
Return your scanned old photos to their former glory with a few easy adjustments in iPhoto.
Four smart tips for managing scanned photos
Bring order and security to your scanned printed media with these smart iPhoto management and back up strategies
Outsource your photo scanning projects
Scanning all your old photos is a daunting process. Should you use a third-party scanning service can help you migrate old photos from the shoe box to the computer?
Eight amazing Image Capture tricks
If you're running OS X 10.6, it's time to take a second look at Image Capture. This underappreciated app has some great time-saving tricks up its sleeve, like managing your devices and sharing your iPhone's photos over the network.
Use Preview in 10.5 to invert colors
Learn a simple way to invert a photograph using Preview in OS X 10.5
Build a classic wedding slide show in iPhoto ’09
Creating a slide show of old photos that follow the bride and groom from childhood to their wedding day could take you hours of painstaking work. Or just minutes if you use the Faces tool in iPhoto ’09.
Back up iPhoto's Faces database
If you use iPhoto's face-recognition tool, don't lose all of your hard work with one stroke of bad luck. Back up your Faces data to protect against data corruption or user error.
7 tips for using Faces in iPhoto ’09
Getting started with iPhoto's face-recognition tools may seem like a time-consuming task. But these speedy shortcuts can ease the process and help you better navigate your library.
Brushing up with Brush Pilot
Jay Hilgert’s Brush Pilot is a simple application that lets you preview, install, and delete brushes anywhere on your hard drive. James Dempsey takes a closer look.
Create Events-based iPhoto albums featuring specific people
Learn how to create an album in iPhoto to show all photos from all events that contain at least one photo of a selected person.
Using iPhoto's Places without a GPS-enabled camera
iPhoto '09's Places features lets you tag the location where an image was shot. But what if you don't have a GPS-enabled camera? Here's how you can recreate the location-tagging feature with the help of an iPhone.
Splitting and archiving iPhoto libraries
You say your iPhoto library is unwieldy? Here's how to split it into smaller libraries.
Enlarging images with Alien Skin's Blow Up 2 plugin
Pros know that enlarging photos is not always as simple a task as it looks. James Dempsey shows you how Alien Skin Software's Blow Up 2 can produce high-quality enlargements without a lot of fuss.
Resolving iPhoto library size discrepancy
iPhoto indicates you have 2GB of images yet the iPhoto Library item is 6GB. Why?

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