All this talk about the Eye-Fi has got us really excited about streamlining our photo workflows. With 17 different places you can wirelessly send your shots – what else could you ask for?
Oh right, how about iPhoto integration! If you’re a Mac lover and Eye-Fi fan – fear no more – we’ve bridged the gap between your favorite new wireless buddy and Apple’s poster child photo program.
We’ve put together a light little application which keeps watch on your Eye-Fi folder. When it sees new photos have been added it automatically loads them into iPhoto. Cool!
We’re still perfecting our little Eye-Fi to iPhoto sidekick – so we can’t guarantee it’ll work on all systems and without kinks. Infact, we’d really appreciate your feedback. After you try it out – you can stop by this forum thread and let us know how its working or if you have any problems. We can’t wait to hear from you.
Without further ado – download Eye-Fi to iPhoto.zip and then get rolling with these three, one time only, simple steps.
Step 1 – Unzip the file.
Step 2 – From the unzipped file you should see a folder called “Eye-Fi to iPhoto.” Drag that whole folder to Applications.
Step 3 – Open that folder from Applications and look for the “Eye-Fi to iPhoto” app inside. Go ahead and load it – you’ll be prompted to locate your Eye-Fi pictures folder.
Our little app will be added to your Startup items (just like the Eye-Fi program is) so you don’t need to worry about loading it again everytime you reboot. It’s also set to work in the background so it won’t be sitting there taking up space in your dock. And if you ever want to change what folder the application is monitoring (say you move your Eye-Fi folder), no worries – just double click the application again and it’ll ask you if you want to make any changes.
Note: If your Eye-Fi wasn’t set to upload images to your computer, you can change this by going to the Eye-Fi manager and looking under Settings for “Upload to Computer.” You also need to make sure you have checked the option to “add date to path.” Have a look at our settings to see what we mean.
Grab your umbrellas, folks. We were expecting a response to our recent newsletter, but what we got was practically of deluge of emails, pointing us to a bunch of other doggie- and kitty-cam experiments. (Great minds think alike!)
Sam Easterton is a San Francisco-based author who has apparently been doing “animal-cams” for almost ten years. He outfits all sorts of animals – chicks, sheep, reptiles, you name it – with helmet cams, to draw attention to their perspective, hoping that his work “will help expand the public’s capacity to understand the natural environment – in empathetic terms.” Originally shared with us by Lori, Easterton’s work is beautiful and engaging.
More than two years ago, Engadget got the same idea we had after seeing the original TOMY doggie-cam product. Instead of a Gorillapod, though, they used The James Bond Stealth Camera, which nicely fit onto their pup’s collar.
One reader in our forum noticed Engadget’s piece, and soon filled up a whole Flickr set with great dog-cam shots. (I tell ya, we’re really liking how well the James Bond Stealth Camera works for this.)
Meanwhile, Mental Floss Magazine points us to whole gallery of Cat-Cam photos, showing life as Mr. Lee the Cat sees it. Mr. Lee’s owner is now even accepting submissions to put a Cat-Cam book together, and he’s selling his specialized Cat-Cam camera, if you’re interested.
Lastly, Jenny let us know about her Doggie-Cam, which she blogged about over a year ago – and most amazingly, she had the exact same idea we had, to use a Gorillapod. Jenny’s gotten some amazing POV shots showing off the world as Oscar sees it –which, as a small, rather adorable looking guy, is rather interesting.
So what about you? Have you tried out life as a dog yet?
You might’ve noticed that, here at Photojojo, we’re all about spreading the photo love. One of the ways we do that is with The Photojojo Store –– our little Awesome Photo Stuff Emporium. (”Awesorium” for short.)
So it’s really great when somebody else goes around shouting “Buy this! Buy this!” about something in our store. Case-in-point — MacWorld Magazine.
Here’s what they had to say about our Super Premium Photo Frames (in a roundup review of awesome photo stuff):
… And if you’re looking for a great way to send photo prints to faraway relatives or friends, look no further than Photojojo’s Super Premium Mailable Photo Frames ($5 each). These sturdy cards come in five chic designs that match any decor. Simply slide a 4-by-6-inch photo into the plastic sleeve, write your message on the inside, and then pop it in the mail. An attached ribbon turns the back of the card into a convenient stand. — Kelly Turner
It always makes our day knowing that folks out there love the same stuff we do and try to sell. What about you? Do you have a product to be found in the Photojojo store (or maybe someplace else?) that you just love?
We’ve always really loved scrapbookers, even if we personally haven’t a single clue about scrapbooking.
Luckily, others do, and they usually share neat ideas with us – stuff that we might just be catching up on but they’ve known about for ages. Case in point:
Apparently we put a loyal fan, Susan White (whose blog, Scrappin’ without Scraps, is a veritable treasure trove of Scrapbooking Awesomeness, btw), into stitches with our recent newsletter about the Circle Cutter – seems circle-izing photos is something scrapbookers have been doing for ages!
Alright, so we might be a little behind the times. But we want to thank Susan for helping us get up to speed (and giving us a fresh dose of inspiration, with her scrapbooking blog!)
And, we wanna say, if there’s any other scrapbookers out there who want to fill us in on other cool photo-y/scrapbook-y things, then let us know!
Seems like everybody is, these days. Luckily, we’ve found two websites to help. While they won’t exactly save you time (quite the opposite), they might help you keep track of it – in a pretty unique way, too.
The World Clock Project bills itself as a community-powered timepiece, and we can see how that’d be true. They’re collecting photographs of clocks big-and-small from around the world, and hope to have a clock photograph showing the exact time for each minute of the day. We’re particularly lovin’ the global aspect of it – seeing the different clocks from all around the world is a bit of a cultural experience in and of itself.
The Human Clock, meanwhile, takes the same idea – but in place of the clocks uses photographs of humans, all of whom are holding up some recognition of the time (usually scribbled in permanent marker on some cardboard or something basic like that.) With a photo for every 1,440 minute of the day, The Human Clock takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’ – and it’s fun to watch, to boot. (There’s also the Human Calendar, fyi.)
So there you have it – the next time you reach for your watch to check the time, make a detour and check out these two fun photo websites. You’ll get the down-low on the current time-of-day, and you might just get a smile staring back at you, too.
We may not be able to don our Super-Man Underoos and drape our blankets around our necks as capes anymore (at least in public, anyway), but we haven’t given up trying to be superheroes.
Instead of saving the world from evil geniuses and oncoming meteors, we’ve just decided to start with something a little smaller: delivering Awesome Photo Stuff to the masses!
We try our best to do a super job of it, too. Take, for instance, this happy customer’s story – from a Photojojo reader who was desperately in search of one of the new, nifty Eye-fi wifi cards (he spent a long time looking everywhere for one in stock, but to no avail):
“… Photojojo wrote back that they had received more cards and would be able to ship one overnight. Unfortunately, we just missed the cut-off time for overnight shipping, so they did some searching online, figured out where I was located, and said they could meet me in person if I was going to be in the Bay Area. It turns out one of their founders is based in San Francisco and had one Eye-fi Card with him. I accepted their offer, picked up the card, and was able to start showing it off right away.
I can’t imagine many companies going out of their way to accommodate a customer like this. Experiences like this are far too rare.”
Yes, folks, our work here is done. We’re off to save somebody else’s day now.
Hello to all you Uncut readers! Some of you might know me from the forum. I’m the geeky English one who lurks in the shadows until technicalities arise. Then I pop up like a goblin and spell Colour wrong
As it’s name suggests, it’s the second incarnation of Exposure – a program designed to give a digital image a film-like look, by emulating the colour reproduction and grain of a given type of film.
It comes in the form of a plugin for Adobe Photoshop CS2 and above, Photoshop Elements 4 and above, Adobe Fireworks CS3, and Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI. Mac and PC versions are available.
For this review, I am using Photoshop CS2 running on a PC.
Itching to use your new Eye-Fi Wireless SD card to shoot an event, but want to make sure photos can get downloaded no matter where you are as you’re wandering around?
To maximize the range in this setup, you’ll want to pick up the D-Link DWL-G730AP Wireless Pocket Router. For about $50, you get a full-featured portable wireless router that can be powered over USB.
Add this pocket-size rechargeable battery pack with included USB cable, and you’ve got a battery-powered wifi router that you can easily carry on your person as you shoot. (The battery will power the router for about 4 hours.)
Now, just set up your new portable router just as described in these instructions and head to the shoot. Only, instead of putting your router in a central location, keep your little D-Link on you as you shoot. Because the Eye-Fi’s antennas is smaller than your laptop’s, this will ensure that it’ll stay in range of your router (just a few feet away) and so will your laptop.
Photo downloading bliss!
(Thanks to Ziv Gillat, Eye-Fi Founder, for the tip!)
Ever since we started selling the Eye-Fi wireless SD Card last week, we’ve been getting questions from pros about how they can use this at weddings and events. Places where they’re not guaranteed an Internet connection.
Turns out there is a way to use Eye-Fi without Internet.
The basic setup depends on the fact that when setup to download photos only to your computer, and not to send them to an online photo service, Eye-Fi doesn’t need an Internet connection at all. It just needs to be on the same access point/router as your computer.
So you’ll need to pack a wireless router that you’ve pre-configured with the rest of your gear. Here’s how it works:
Step 1
You’ll need to set up your Eye-Fi and router before your event, when you have an internet connection. Connect the router you’ll be taking with you to an Internet connection, and connect to it with your laptop. Put your Eye-Fi into the reader, the reader into your laptop, and load up the management interface at http://manager.eye.fi
Now configure your Eye-Fi NOT to upload to any photo sharing services, and only to download to your computer.
Step 2
Put the Eye-Fi back in your camera, and remove the Internet connection from your router. Make sure it still has power and your laptop is still connected to it wirelessly and that the Eye-Fi manager software is running.
Do some test shooting. As long as you’re within range of your router, photos taken should download directly to your computer, even though it doesn’t have an Internet connection.
Step 3
Don’t forget to pack your router and laptop for the shoot! When you arrive, plug in the wireless router (without Internet) somewhere central so you’ll have a strong signal wherever you go.
Fire up your laptop and connect to the router you just set up. (Careful not to connect to any other wireless hotspots that might be available.)
Finally, start shooting!
Cool, right? Wireless photo capture for $99 instead of the $1,000+ Canon and Nikon will charge you!
Usually photography is associated with bright, smiling faces… cheerful events celebrated, the everyday moments of bliss in life enjoyed.
Sometimes photographs tell stories far more harrowing and tragic, though.
“I’m just a photographer; I don’t know anything,” Nhem En recalls telling prisoners, who came blindfolded into the room where he was to carefully photograph them before they went on to be tortured; En worked diligently, carefully framing his shots and adjusted the angles of his subjects’ heads, knowing full well they would soon be killed. In a recent article in the New York Times, En reflects on his tragic documentarian role in the Khmer Rouge regime, which killed 1.7 million prisoners in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. As a low-ranking staff in one of the Khmer Rogue torture houses, En was recently called upon to offer personal testimony at the upcoming trial of one of the men responsible for Cambodia’s “Killing Fields” – his commandant under whom he worked for three years.
Nhem En’s photographs – some of which have found their way into art galleries around the United States – serve as a striking testament to the countless innocent people who were tortured to death or sent to the killing fields, in this dark period of Cambodian history. While reticent about his role as a in the Khmer Rouge regime, En approached his work as a photographer with serious diligence:
“‘Look straight ahead. Don’t lean your head to the left or the right.’ That’s all I said,” he recalled. “I had to say that so the picture would turn out well. Then they were taken to the interrogation center. The duty of the photographer was just to take the picture.”
Photography frequently serves to remind us of the good times in life – but often, it also serves to keep us from forgetting the bad.
I’ve been using Paint Shop Pro since it was shareware. I feel like the software has grown with my graphics editing needs over time, and Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is no different.
Some of the New & Improved Features:
· Graphite Workspace—Mac users are probably familiar with the idea of using a gray background for graphics work. It really helps your eye when editing color images if the background color doesn’t interfere with the image you’re editing. The new Graphite Workspace gives Paint Shop Pro Photo a clean appearance.
· Improved Black & White Conversion—It’s really an art to convert color digital images to black & white. This version of Paint Shop Pro Photo has improved tools for converting digital color to convincing black & white.
· Express Lab—I have used this new feature the most! Express Lab allows you to make multiple common photo edits in one easy interface, and allows you to process a whole folder of images without opening each image individually.
These new and improved features made the upgrade well worth the price ($59.99 upgrade, $99.99 full price), and that’s why I upgraded.
Amit Gupta was swapping photo tips with a friend when they realized that between the two of them, they’d only scratched the surface of all the cool stuff you can do in the age of digital cameras. If they were curious to learn more, maybe others would be.
So they started Photojojo, a twice-weekly free newsletter chock-full of hot tips and ideas, how-to videos, DIY projects (like making coloring books from snapshots or turning your computer into an old-school photobooth) and links to anything and everything photo on the web, from great galleries to fun photo editing applications.
Don’t worry, Luddites: Photojojo is not all-tech, all-the-time, making it wildly accessible to even the not-so-tech savvy. Bound to make you the most likely to start sentences with “Hey, did you know you can…” the next time someone whips out their PowerShot.”
Well shucks, we’re blushing now. Thanks for spreading all the niceness, folks! And thanks to everyone for reading – we wouldn’t be here without our faithful readers. We loves you.
The number #1 hero to serious Mac users everywhere – Jon Gruber, of Daring Fireball – recently pointed us to what’s probably the best comparison review yet (also by a Jon — Jon Whipple, that is) of the latest kids on the Mac app block: DrawIt, Acorn, and Pixelmator.
All three apps, in case you haven’t heard, are photo/image-editing programs that aim to fill that sweet spot in-between your basic image-viewing software (i.e. Preview) and the full-fledged editing beasts (i.e. Photoshop and The Gimp). Whipple breaks out his scrutinizing magnifying glass and gives each one the what-for, comparing and contrasting them to give you a better look at which one does what best.
If you’re cruising cyberspace on a Mac and are looking for a new app or two to try out, we definitely think you should check the review out and give these apps a test run on your own photos. They may not be the best thing yet since sliced bread, but they’re all pretty doggone close.
You might’ve noticed that, here at Photojojo, we’re all about spreading the photo love. One of the ways we do that is with 
We’ve always really loved scrapbookers, even if we personally haven’t a single clue about scrapbooking.
We may not be able to don our Super-Man Underoos and drape our blankets around our necks as capes anymore (at least in public, anyway), but we haven’t given up trying to be superheroes.
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