How to Rebuild the iPhoto Library
Apple has posted / updated a Support document online outlining the particularities of rebuilding your iPhoto library. Last modified this weekend, the knowledge base article contains (rebuilding) instructions for users of iPhoto 6 or later.
According to Apple, “iPhoto includes a feature that allows you to rebuild the currently selected iPhoto library. Sometimes rebuilding the library may resolve issues such as the library appearing to be unreadable, missing photos, or other issues related to reading the iPhoto library structure,” the company explains. Read more
How to Optimize Pictures For Digital Photo Printing
If you are planning on using a free online photo album service and digital photo printing for your pictures, there are a few things that you need to know ahead of time to make sure that the results are exactly what you want.
Digital photo printing is just like regular photo processing, but the added advantage is that you can change your photos anyway that you would like, and see how they will look, before you actually get them printed.
Here’s what you need to know about optimizing your pictures ahead of time. Read more
Jennifer Aniston Bares All for GQ
Jennifer Aniston continues to show her naughty side by stripping down to just a stripey tie in the January issue of GQ magazine.
The Friends star – whose girl-next-door image took a knock recently with the release of a calendar containing shots from some of her racier photoshoots – is proving that at almost 40-years-old, she’s still got it in spades.
Jennifer famously posed topless for the magazine back in 2005 and three years later, she dares to bare even more.
Jen was left reeling recently when her comments about Angelina Jolie’s “uncool” behaviour were, according to the actress, misrepresented in recent Vogue magazine.
Now she is brushing off the negative press and revealing a side to Jennifer Aniston that the world hasn’t seen – until now. Read more
100 Abstract HD Wallpapers
100 Abstract HD Wallpapers
JPEG | 1600×1200 | 100 PIC Read more
Dreamy World Wallpapers
Dreamy World Wallpapers
JPEG | 1024×768 – 1600×1200 | 57 PIC Read more
Auto Wallpapers
Auto Wallpapers
JPEG | 1280×1024 – 1600×1200 | 227 PIC | 52 MB Read more
Christmas Wallpapers
Christmas Wallpapers
10 JPG | 2560×1600 ~ 1600×1200 | 5.53Mb Read more
Conquer Your Colour Scheme
calibrize
I get a lot of emails and letters asking why the colours in printed photos sometimes don’t match what’s on the screen? Sometimes it’s the printer, but more often than not it’s simply that the monitor hasn’t been properly set up. Monitor calibration is essential if you work with graphics or photo editing software but how many of us ever take the time to adjust our monitors, apart from twiddling the brightness and contrast controls? Not many, I bet, but there’s no excuse any more. A freeware program called Calibrize takes you gently by the hand, and in three simple steps helps you to adjust your display; from start to finish it only takes around 2 minutes and the new settings or colour ‘profile’ is then saved and applied every time you start Windows. It’s also handy for those who, like me, use two monitors, making it easy to accurately match the two displays.
Kodak OLEDing the Way Again
Kodak, once the leading light in the photography biz were famously caught by surprise by the speed at which digital photography took. Despite launching some useful digicams, it has never really come close to regaining its former status. Now, however, they’re leading the way once again, this time with the world’s first consumer photo frame using OLED or Organic Light Emitting Diode technology.
OLEDs, in case you didn’t know, are super thin, and unlike LCDs, do not rely on a backlight. They also offer superior contrast ratios and although not a factor in this application, can be made to be flexible. The display used in this frame is 7.6 inches (measured diagonally); it’s a widescreen format with 800 x 480 pixel resolution and it boasts a contrast ratio of 30,000:1. The viewing angle – another OLED advantage – is 180 degrees. Read more
Right-Click Photo Utilities
Here’s an ingenious little program, or more correctly, a Shell Extension, called appropriately enough XnView Shell Extension that adds extra functionality to your right-click menus. Simply download and install the program and when you next open Windows Explorer, or My Computer, navigate your way to a folder containing image files. Right click on one of them and you’ll see a whole load of new options appear, including info about the file, the option to convert the file into .gif, .bmp, .jpeg, .pcx, .png. .tiff or .tga format, set as wallpaper, view as a variable sized thumbnail, and much more. Give it a whirl, I think you will be impressed!
