CoolIris, an elegant photo browser for iOS, was recently updated and added a couple of new sources.
There is now support for connecting with Evernote. Importantly, it can be configured to show photos for a specific tag as well, searches or all photos. This is a nice option for using Evernote as a photo locker. I’m loving it for the scans of my daughter’s school art I collect in Evernote.
Panayotis Vryonis has a nice post about moving out of iPhoto into Dropbox. Dropbox has done a lot recently to make that easier and there are a number of good apps for iOS photo management with Dropbox.
I highly recommend Seth Brown’s post about naming files and adding searchable meta data to photos.
Two things about this story:
Those are gorgeous and unreal looking photographs of snakes. Photograping snakes while wearing shorts was never even on my list of possible career choices.
Just stunning
I just found out that there are plugins available for Aperture 3 to create (and maybe order) custom leather bound photo albums directly from Aperture. Some of the examples look stunning. Unfortunately every single site is awful to visit so I have no desire to actually give them my money. They have auto-play videos and music. They have confusing menus. They require registration to see prices. They are doing everything to deter me from doing business with them.
There's plenty of coverage for the latest Apple iPhone announcement so my round-up is not needed. However, there seems to be very little excitement about the new camera. Most of the press seems to be disappointed. I look at it differently. If Nikon announced a new point and shoot camera with f2.4 and 8 megapixels that could remotely post to any photo service and generate greeting cards, the media would probably go nuts.
Do yourself a favor and learn this:
http://www.dpbestflow.org/backup/backup-overview#321
Trust me on this one. The American Society of Media Photographers KNOW how to secure data. I know a half dozen people that took backup too lightly and suffered the consequences. Including myself.
Media is cheap. Memories are not.
If you’ve been following along with this blog, then you know I love Apple’s Aperture application. I upgraded from iPhoto shortly after I started using my first DSLR camera (the Nikon D80). Aperture is pretty straight forward to use. It’s elegant and intuiative, but there are many different workflow options when managing a large photo library. I started by reading through the Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 1.5 (Apple Pro Training)which is a wonderful reference.
Now that we all have a bunch of new holiday photos it’s time to get them uploaded to Flickr and other various photo sharing sites. If you’re running either iPhoto or Aperture on the Mac you have limited choices to automate the upload process. I have used the plugin ApertureExport in the past, but to purchase the full version is kind of pricey for a one trick pony. After trying out some of the options out there I’ve finally settled on PictureSync from uVerse.
I love to look at other people's photo's on Flickr. Maybe it's the voyeur in me or maybe I just wonder if other people's lives are more interesting than mine. With iPhoto, you can keep up with all of your favorite photo groups and pools without having to click through to the web page. Just go into iPhoto and under the "File" menu choose "Subscribe to Photocast." Get the RSS feed address from the bottom of a Flickr photo set and paste it into the address box in iPhoto.
