With every revision, the iPhone camera becomes more capable. But Apple hid an important feature in iOS 7 and 8 that can easily make all of us better photographers. Here’s how to locate and enable the iPhone Camera Grid overlay in iOS.
What the F-Stop? Apple to Cease Development on Aperture
After nearly 10 years on the market, Apple is preparing to retire its professional photo editing and management app, Aperture. Reports today indicate that the company will cease feature updates for the software and instead migrate users to the upcoming Photos for OS X app. Makers of competing software, such as Adobe, jumped at the news in an attempt to lure customers to apps like Lightroom.
Adobe Releases Lightroom 5 for Windows & OS X
After two months of public betas, Adobe announced late Sunday the release of Photoshop Lightroom 5. The photographer-targeted image management and processing application touts six major new features along with hundreds of tweaks and improvements. From Adobe’s VP of Creative Media Solutions products, Winston Hendrickson: Lightroom was originally conceived through the requests of Adobe customers, and this feedback continues to drive each new iteration. As the digital photography landscape advances and evolves, Lightroom is the best solution for photographers and…
Anker Uspeed 4-in-1 USB 3.0 Card Reader Review & Benchmarks
Professional and amateur photographers alike have long been faced with the fact that the speed of flash memory cards has outpaced the commonly available means of copying the data contained on those cards to their computers. Until only recently, Secure Digital (SD) or CompactFlash (CF) card readers were primarily based on USB 2.0 or FireWire interfaces. Now, USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt-based options have reached consumers at reasonable prices, and today we’ll take a look at one: the $17.99 Anker Uspeed…
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Stop iPhoto From Auto Launching When You Connect Your iPhone
You know the story: On your way out the door in the morning you decide to quickly sync a few extra songs or podcasts to your iPhone. You plug it in to your Mac expecting the process to take just a few seconds. But what’s this? Why is iPhoto opening? Ah, it’s trying to load all my iPhone’s pictures! Now I’ve got apps opening on my Mac, images loading, metadata downloading. Yuck. Don’t let this happen to you. Whether you…