Month: October 2010

Image watermarks: Aperture 3 versus Adobe Lightroom 3

In Aperture:

  • Save your watermark as a PSD (Photoshop) file with a transparent background.
  • Create multiple sizes of your watermark so that you can select the one that is the best match for the output size of the exported image.
  • After you create a watermark, save it as part of an export preset so you can reuse it as often as you need.

In Adobe Lightroom 3:

  • From the Lightroom menu select "Edit Watermarks ...".
  • Enter text. Hit Save.

So to use watermarks in Aperture 3, I need to use Photoshop — an expensive Adobe product?

Nintendo’s Biggest Threat is Apple, Not Microsoft

When the iPod Touch was first released it was a though of as a striped down iPhone without the telephone. Apple soon made the distinction clear, the iPod Touch was branded a gaming machine and not inferior to the iPhone in any way. This approach has been extremely successful. Another advantage Apple has is the compatibility of games across multiple devices.

via modmyi.com

I can't say I disagree. Both my son and daughter have Nintendo DS gaming devices and a large catalog of Mario and Pokemon games. However, I passed my second gen iPod Touch down to my son when I got my iPhones earlier this year. My son had hardly touched his DS since he discovered Angry Birds and my daughter routinely burns through my wife's iPhone battery playing Kimimon.