my plastic eye – the ‘hipstamatic’ look for Photoshop
iPhone photo apps have sparked a surge in popularity of retro camera styles, emulating the imperfect plastic lenses and saturated colours of Lomo cameras in particular, and for months now the regular number one photo app has been Hipstamatic (which I wrote about here). There are others – I was a big fan of Camerabag [...]
iPhoto libraries and Dropbox – a warning!
You may be considering syncing your iPhoto libraries between various machines using Dropbox. I tried this recently and it works, but there are some serious caveats, that if you ignore could result in wiping out a lot of your iPhoto changes. Skip to the last paragraph if you want the short version, but for those [...]
these are a few (more) of my favourite things
Who doesn’t love using cool stuff to make their day to day survival more pleasing and less hassle? I’m sure I’m not the only one who’ll trawl the interwebz looking for cool stuff to buy or install, in the name of streamlining or at least aesthetically enhancing my workflow or daily routine, or just because [...]
how to sync your Macs with Dropbox – for free!
Happy Christmas, everyone! I hope you all got what you wanted and/or what you deserved. ;) My Christmas treat to myself was to spend the evening geeking out with my Dropbox setup. It’s a free service that basically allows you to keep certain files constant across multiple machines. You create an account, download software to [...]
mac stuff for photographers
If you’re a photographer and you use a Mac, chances are you’ve probably already heard of the vast majority of these, but it’s still a pretty good list so I really ought to link to it before I lose too many readers. The Ultimate Mac Setup for Photographers is a nice collection of apps that [...]
fotomoto: prints and e-cards made e-asy (and 50% cheaper!)
A few photoblogs I visit, such as Daily Dose of Imagery and Chromasia, have recently added the Fotomoto toolbar to their front page and seeing as it’s pretty damn good, so have I. It’s currently free and requires nothing but plopping the Javascript into the HTML code for your photoblog installation. There’s also a little [...]
error!
Haven’t done much in the way of photography recently, but I have been tinkering with my site again! I put a lot of the code for my websites together myself, either by pinching bits from other places and reverse engineering it to learn how it works and fit it to my own design, or editing [...]
Westfield, or “Photography, blogging & the iPhone”
(This was going to be a post about some iPhone photos I took at Westfield recently, but started to become an iPhone post instead! Photos at the bottom…) So here at mge towers we’re still devoid of connection to the real world, er, I mean The Internet. My iPhone has been pushed to the limit [...]