I just put up pictures on the Photos page for Leslie’s and I’s biking stint in Chicago and my roommates’ and I’s adventure to Stanford University.
Check them out!
Archive for the 'Pictures' Category
I just put up a few pictures from Leslie’s visit to the U of I this past weekend.
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Pictures from Leslie and I’s Matthiessen State Park trip two weekends ago are up. Check them out here or go to the link on the Photos page.
Check out pictures from this year’s trip to Turkey Run.
After going through over 400 images, I am finally done, and you can see a collection of 140+ Yosemite images from my family’s trip in August. There are some good ones, and probably some ones I should have cut out. Oh well.Check them out here.
Check out the Photos section to see pictures from Page Mill Road and also my last trip to San Francisco.
A new photo album for Memorial Day weekend is up. Check it out here or on the Photos page.
Some new photo albums are up.
10,000 pictures finally organized.When Apple first released iLife, their suite of digital lifestyle applications, it included iPhoto, a very easy to use photo management tool. As iLife grew, the application grew too. However, it did not grow in one significant area: levels of organization. iPhoto only allows two layers of organization: your whole library and albums. So, if I wanted to organize all my Christmas photographs, for example, I would have to place them all in separate albums called “Christmas 2001″, “Christmas 2002″, and so on. Also, albums do not hold the master versions of the images themselves, they only store references to the images in the whole library. So you can have the same photo in multiple albums. There is a major drawback to the two levels of organization: where are my master images? On iPhoto’s back-end, images are handled by when they were imported (or added) to the library. The problem here is that every time you move computers with your library, or rebuild your library, you get one import group with your entire library: say 3,000 images. While most users never care about this, there are those who move their iPhoto library to other applications who do.When the Apple Aperture team visited U of I this spring, I went to get information on the Professional-grade industry standard photo organizational tool. I did not realize, till I arrived, that they would be giving me a free copy. “Yes,” I thought,” I can finally organize my photos the right way. Aperture is like the Photoshop of photo organization. It does everything you could ever imagine, and more. It works with RAW like you would work with a text file: fast and easy. It also handles virtually every file format, and allows you to do some adjustments to those images too (like brightness, exposure, color balance, levels, color replacement, and other stuff) with their very well done adjustments palette. The best part I find about Aperture is its levels of organization. Guess how many levels it has? Infinite. It’s awesome.So I imported my iPhoto library into Aperture to begin the process of really organizing my photos, and placing the masters where I want them, and where I need them. After a couple months of all that work, tonight I finally finished organizing all 10,000 of them. Because of that, I will be putting up pictures much more frequently, especially past pictures.You can see a picture of Aperture at work here.
