With Photos on the horizon, I'm seriously considering importing my 66 GB photo library and hammer out some metadata work in iPhoto, then transition to Photos.app when it's released. via 512 Pixels 66GB? I'm sticking with Adobe Lightroom even after Photos is available. I have over 50,000 images in my catalog.…
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The 5 Most Popular Posts of 2012 I'm about to wrap up another year of writing on Island in the Net and start the 12th year. To end the year I wanted to look back1 on what you, the readers, found most interesting this year with my top 5 most popular posts published in 2012: HDR Photography with Raspberry Pi and gPhoto2 Mac: Why I may switch from Google Chrome to Safari How well did my OS X 10.8 install…
When Apple released the new iPad, they also released iPhoto to compete the iLife[^1] suite for iOS. On my tech blog, I wrote an [overview to some of the basic features](http://islandinthenet.com////2012/03/08/using-journaling-in-iphoto-for-ios/) that excited me but with this post[^2] I want to show some of the basic steps to processing photos in iPhoto for iOS. The following was done on an iPad but iPhoto on the iPhone works similarly. [^1]:Although they are purchased separately I'm referring to the combination of iMovie,…
What excited me most about the Apple press event today was not the 2048x1536 pixel retina display[^1], or the quad-core A5X CPU, or the 5MP digital camera. What excited me was the introduction of [iPhoto](http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/apps-by-apple/iphoto.html). Now iPhoto is not as feature rich as iPhoto for OS X but it gets the jobs done. The feature list is impressive[^2] but the two features that caught my eye are the social sharing features and journaling. First of all what I've written below…
iOS 5 was released this week with a large list of improvements and new features. One new feature that I've come to love immediately — I have used the iOS 5 developer beta — is the PhotoStream feature of the update Photo app. Smartphones have grown in popularity and so along with the resolution and sensitivity of the cameras in those devices. My iPhone 4 has a five megapixel (MP) camera and the newly announced iPhone 4S will have an 8MP camera.…
