With apologies to George Carlin, it seems there are seven words you can never say in Photoshop. This idea started as most of my ideas begin – with me getting frustrated. I’ve found the secret to eliminating 99% of my frustration, though. Just stop talking to other people. It’s amazing what that can do to…
Things change. The folks in charge on onOne Software coupon codes decided to do away with individual, everyday coupon codes like the one I offer here: WBEEMPHOTO.
Until this weekend, I never really had much use for onOne Software Perfect Resize 7. The images I capture with my DSLR are large enough for my printing needs, so it’s software that sat relatively unused on my computer. That changed last weekend. I had lunch with my family, which is something fairly rare to…
The Aperture 3.4 Upgrade Solution Last week, Apple introduced Aperture 3.4. The good news is that it’s a free upgrade. The bad news is that it seems to make your Aperture installation completely unusable. Imagine the frustration of trying to open your digital asset manager library and being completely unable to see any of your…
Rethinking My Retouching Software I’ve been spending some time using Aperture 3.3 as portrait retouching software. The results look very promising. That means fewer round trips to use Photoshop or a plugin to retouch a portrait. It’s not just a matter of new features. Some of the existing features seem to work much better in…
Taking and storing photographs is easy. I use Aperture, other folks may use Lightroom or some other digital asset manager. The trick is to find the images you want after you’ve stored hundreds of gigabytes. There’s a plethora of metadata available when you import your images, but I’ve found that the method that works…