TUAW's Holiday Gift Guide: iPad for photographers
Welcome to the TUAW Holiday Gift Guide! We've sorted the treasure from the junk and are serving up suggestions to make your holiday gift-giving a little easier.
As we enter the first full-blown holiday season since the iPad's release, there are a good many people out there who are either getting one as a gift or toting one along to Grandma's to wow the family and, quite possibly, use it as a laptop replacement. If it's the latter, you're more than likely going to need to use the iPad as a means of clearing the card on your digital camera at some point. Here are a few things that will make the process easier.
Get the Camera Connection Kit: Unlike earlier this summer, there are plenty of Camera Connection Kits in stock now. You get a dongle for SD cards and one that will connect a USB cable. If you're considering buying an iPad accessory for someone this year, make sure this is on your list. It's worth the US$30. But if you can't get a hold of it, Photo Transfer App ($2.99) will allow you to transfer photos from someone else's computer to your iPad -- and vice versa -- as long as you're both on the same WiFi network. I took this app for a test drive this summer when my husband and I were attending a conference for his Ph.D., and it was simple to use. I downloaded the photos onto his netbook and used Photo Transfer App to get them onto the iPad.
Get a Dropbox account: A lot of people will have one already, but it is a godsend, especially if you have one of the smaller-capacity iPads. Download the free Dropbox app, sign up for an account (if you don't already have one) and upload the photos to Dropbox. If you've never done this, go into Dropbox and create a new folder. Then, click on the camera icon at the bottom and click on the option you have there. You'll get a menu allowing you to select photos to upload. Once the photos are in Dropbox, delete them out of the Photo app to free up room.
Download a basic photo editor: Yes, you will need one. Thankfully, there's a plethora to choose from. If you want free and very basic, Adobe Photoshop Express will allow you to do some simple modifications. However, I'd skip right over that and go for Photogene for iPad ($3.99). It comes with a robust set of tools that most photo editors are familiar with, and it allows you to do everything from red-eye correction to adjusting curves and levels.
Play with the slideshow feature: This is also free and comes built-in to your iPad. If you shoot a bunch of photos of the newest member of the family, quickly upload them and turn that "last import" album into a slideshow. It's a great way to add a last-minute decoration to your celebration. Just make sure no one walks off with your iPad! They can get their own.
Get the appropriate blogging app for uploading your photos: Even though there isn't a native iPad interface, the free Facebook app is not a bad way to get photos onto the service. You won't be able to attach photos by navigating to Facebook via Mobile Safari. The same thing is true of other services you use -- WordPress, LiveJournal, Tumblr, and photo-sharing sites like Flickr. While you can navigate to these sites in Mobile Safari, you'll need their dedicated apps to upload photos to them. Most of these should be free, but not all of them have iPad-specific interfaces. If you want something that's iPad-specific, BlogPress ($2.99) supports most mainstream blogging sites and has a robust feature set.
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Dropbox is one of the most useful cross platform apps i have come across to date. Evernote is other.
On topic, i have found that iPad is indeed a photographer's best friend but not for editing photos, but rather just managing other aspects of your photography business, such as showcasing your portfolio to potential clients, easy signing of model releases, and much more. Find out more in this article
http://www.digital-photography-student.com/8-useful-ipad-apps-for-photographers/
I'm looking for an app that allows me to view a directory of photos on my iMac from my iPad. My wife complains (justifiably so) that all my photos are on the computer and she never gets to see them.
Is there and app that can tap into my computer to see the images on our WIFI network? I'm not big on the VLC apps - seems too bloated for this task, but if anyone has any recommendations I'd appreciate it!
While not strictly professional, FlickStackr for Flickr uploads/viewing and iLoader for Facebook uploads/viewing are both GREAT apps, with way more functionality than either service's official apps.
November 29 2010 at 7:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYes RAW is supported, but there's more to it. It frustrates me when people are slinging around the term "photographer" when they mean snapshots.
For any pro or serious amateur, here's the important part:
the iPad is an excellent field/customer "instant gratification" tool. Its by far, hands down, the absolute best way to do this.
This means that options open: You can literally shoot, dump to iPad, show the customer/family, and depending on the arrangement, even *leave* the iPad with the photos while you post from CF.
Alternatively, since you're creating a lossless digital copy of the RAW files, you can use the iPad as a field backup of the original shots, then dump to Aperture from the iPad -or- original CF's when you get back.
The only caveat is that (as always) you have to get used to the color handling of the iPad display (you can't alter this) and more importantly explain to anyone looking at the shots that these are 'unprocessed' and so the colors aren't nearly as good as what they'll see with post-processed prints, etc..
Finally, if you use MobileMe, your round-tripping is just plain brilliant. You can sync to Aperture, post/pick, and publish an online album + sync back to iPad in the onboard photo album (at a tiny fraction of the size since the round-tripped images are tiny 24bit screen-res jpg's). So on one iPad is all of your current shoot in RAW format, plus the last *dozen* or so favorite "wow" shoots for in-the-field promotion.
If its not abundantly obvious, buy the biggest you can (64gb for now), and 3G is irrelevant for these tasks - too slow to worry about.
I think Cyber Monday is gonna ROCK this year!
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Dropbox is a nice idea to get photos tarnsfered from the iPad to an online service to back up when traveling. However, the idea sucks as long as you can only upload one photo at a time from the iPad to Dropbox. How would one sensibly upload a day's shooting results (100+ photos) from the iPad, one by one in full resolution to Dropbox? Would be nice to have an "upload all photos" button in Dropbox to start uploading - and go back to the beach in the meantime.
November 27 2010 at 2:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAnd don't forget Sort Shots for iPad. It reads keywords from your metadata to easily find your photos!
On Special for Black Friday too!
We have just released a product that works equally well with an iPad, as with the iPhone and iPod Touch.
http://blueSLR.com
The blueSLR hardware accessory is a bluetooth accessory that connects to your Nikon DLSR camera, and allows you to use your iOS device to control the shutter and autofocus. It also allows you to use your iOS device as a GPS, and Geocode your photographs directly into the EXIF data.
Take a look and let us know what you think!
Please! Canon make a LiveView app for iPad where I can control shoot review pictures on a 9.7" screen.
November 26 2010 at 4:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCheck out DSLR Camera Remote (free and paid versions)
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/dslr-camera-remote-lite/id316771326?mt=8
In case you have an Eye-Fi card or a wireless file transmitter, check out www.shuttersnitch.com - wireless transfer of photos to the iPad/iPhone/iPod touch as you take them..
November 26 2010 at 3:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyiTunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=364176211&mt=8
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