Browse Photography Help and Tips

Browse Photography Help and Tips

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?
Bugs & Fixes: Fixes for iLife problems
Ted Landau looks at solutions to a pair of potential problems Apple has identified with the iLife suite.
Exploring Photoshop Actions
Though its been part of Photoshop for some time now, Photoshop Actions doesn't get the attention that it deserves. James Dempsey looks to remedy that in the latest Creative Notes post.
Simulating tilt-shift photography with the Bokeh plugin
Alien Skin Software's Bokeh does more than just add and adjust out-of-focus areas of an image to enhance the subject matter. It can also add tilt-shift effects to an image, as James Dempsey explains.
Add focus to your images with Bokeh
If you want to apply the visually distinctive appearance of light in the out-of-focus area of a photograph -- a term known as "bokeh" -- you've come to the right place. James Dempsey shows you how to do it with a $199 plug-in from Alien Skin Software.
Speed up iPhoto '09 operations on some Macs
A simple tip could speed up iPhoto operations for those with older hardware and/or large iPhoto libraries.
Digital Photo: Working with Places in iPhoto ’09
Get the most out of the new Places feature in iPhoto '09, which lets you pin your pictures to a map so you can find them more easily later.
Exploring the hidden features of the latest iPhoto update
The recent iPhoto 8.0.2 update includes several unheralded enhancements -- some of them quite useful. Computerworld's Ryan Faas explores the changes.
Tips for importing existing photos into iPhoto
Here are a couple of interesting tips about importing existing images—those already on your Mac—into iPhoto.
Syncing iPhoto libraries
You say you liked the idea of syncing iTunes libraries? Well then you'll love learning how to do the same with iPhoto libraries.
Use Smart Albums to help set iPhoto ’09 Faces and Places
Learn how to use a couple of Smart Albums to (possibly) ease the gargantuan task of identifying faces and places in your iPhoto collection.
Bugs & Fixes: Apple’s advice on iLife ’09 bugs
Ted Landau looks at four bug reports from Apple’s Knowledge Base that cover known issues surrounding the newly released iLife ’09 suite.
Change how iPhoto ’09 resizes the Add New Faces box
Learn a simple way to change iPhoto ’09’s center-based box resizing when adding new faces to a photo.
Batch rename the iLife video tutorials
Apple’s iLife ’09 video tutorials can be downloaded and saved locally. Their default filenames, though, leave much room for improvement. This hint explains how to use a simple Automator workflow to clean up the filenames.