Posts tagged ‘photos’
Annotating photos with OmniGraffle
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:26 pm by Dr. Drang
The reports I write for work usually include photographs. Most of the photos are straightforward and need nothing more than a simple caption to explain. But some are of unusual items or are taken at unusual angles or magnifications; these are best served by annotations directly on the photo. Almost any graphics application can be…
Photos, CoverFlow, QuickLook, and Spotlight
February 9th, 2008 at 11:22 pm by Dr. Drang
I take a lot of photos for work. I organize the photo files according to project and the date on which they were taken. For example, the photos I take on April 23, 2007 on the Smith Industries project will be kept in the folder /Users/drang/projects/smith.industries/Photos/20070423.1 I don’t use iPhoto, because: I don’t like having…
Digital photos and me, Part V
October 19th, 2006 at 11:14 pm by Dr. Drang
In this fifth and—I think—last post in the series, I’m going to describe the program I use to prepare sheets of photos for printing at my local Costco. You could use the same procedure for printing at, say, Wal-Mart or any of the various online photo printing shops. It’s not really necessary for you to…
Installing RMagick on the Macintosh
October 13th, 2006 at 12:22 am by Dr. Drang
This should be considered the fourth post in the “Digital photos and me” series. I thought this might interest a broader audience than the previous posts in the series, so I gave it title that would stand out more. Well, it’s been a few weeks since the first three installments in this series. The demands…
Online photo printing and sharing
January 17th, 2006 at 11:10 pm by Dr. Drang
For the past couple of months I’ve been using Costco’s online photo center to print my digital photos, and it’s worked out well. My only gripe is that I can’t save my finishing preference. I prefer the “lustre” finish to glossy, but glossy is the default, so I have to remember to change to lustre…
More photo stuff
August 18th, 2005 at 12:14 am by Dr. Drang
To continue on from my last post, the other program in my photo organization scheme is a program that takes the photo files, which have names like DSCnnnn.JPG, and gives them new names based on the day they were taken. The format for the names is yymmddnn.jpg, where yy is the last 2 digits of…
Photopage
August 18th, 2005 at 12:14 am by Dr. Drang
A few years ago, I wanted to get a digital camera for family photographs. To convince my wife—who was in charge of organizing our photos—that this was a good idea, I told her that she would never have to do any labeling or dating of photos again. I got the camera and then had to…
