Photography Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Find the best photo manager to fit your needs

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 30th, 2012)

After months of deliberation, I finally brought home a new addition to our family -- a digital SLR camera. With the DSLR comes a plethora of options I didn't have before, with the ability to shoot RAW images being at the top of the list. My husband and I passed the camera back and forth to take ...

Finding the 'Magic hour' with your iPhone for the best photos

by Mel Martin (Mar 25th, 2012)

Photographers call it the golden hour or the magic hour. It's that time when the sun is near the horizon, or just below, and the character of the natural/available light changes. The light quality is best when the sun is 6-7 degrees above the horizon, and the effect ends when the sun is 6-7 ...

iPhoto for iOS hits one million users

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 22nd, 2012)

Apple told Jim Dalrymple of The Loop that iPhoto for the iPad and iPhone reached one million users within ten days of the launch. Dalrymple points out that these are actual users, not downloads, which could be inflated by one person downloading copies to multiple devices. If you're interested ...

Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta is out

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 22nd, 2012)

Adobe has just released its beta of Photoshop CS6. Engadget has already had its hands on it and provides a detailed look into the software -- complete with a redesigned UI. Users can try out the beta now. It requires OS X 10.6 or higher and 2 GB of available hard drive space. ...

Aperture updated to 3.2.3, enables Photo Stream deleting

by Chris Rawson (Mar 14th, 2012)

Apple's pro-level photo editing application for the Mac, Aperture, has been updated to version 3.2.3. Aside from the usual fixes addressing "performance and stability," this update brings Aperture up to parity with iPhoto in allowing users to delete photos from Photo Stream, the iCloud service that ...

Is the new Journal feature in iPhoto for iOS the start of something bigger?

by Mel Martin (Mar 8th, 2012)

I certainly hope so. One of the joys of using a Mac with MobileMe was that someone with little or no computer sophistication could get photos easily published to the web. Great for families sharing with distant relatives and friends, or anyone who needed to get a gallery of photos to the internet ...

Lytro Light Field Camera: Hands-on with the future of photography

by Steven Sande (Mar 5th, 2012)

On March 1, a new era of photography began when California-based Lytro started shipping the first Lytro Light Field Cameras. When I first heard about light field photography last year, I was intrigued enough to pre-order one of Lytro's cameras sight unseen. The camera arrived on Friday, and I've ...

Camera Awesome for iPhone has some clever features for a mostly free app

by Mel Martin (Mar 2nd, 2012)

Camera Awesome is a nicely appointed, just released free app for the iPhone from photo sharing site SmugMug. In many ways it goes beyond the built-in camera software Apple offers, and I think many iPhone users will find it useful. It does a lot of things faster than Apple's software, and supports ...

Piqsure to provide fast full-resolution browsing of images on mobile devices

by Steven Sande (Mar 2nd, 2012)

At Macworld | iWorld 2012 in January, fellow TUAW blogger Megan Lavey-Heaton and I were treated to an on-the-floor, off-the-cuff demo of a new technology in action. What we witnessed was full-resolution images coming in over a 3G connection onto an iPad, allowing zooming and scrolling of the ...

iPhone and mirror turned into DIY monkeycam

by Mike Schramm (Feb 15th, 2012)

YouTube user Mark Rober, last seen making a gruesome Halloween costume with a couple of iPad 2s, has posted another video on YouTube featuring another relatively unconventional use for Apple's mobile devices. Rober found that during a trip to the zoo, he could use the iPhone's front camera and ...

Daily iPhone App: TouchRetouch

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 1st, 2012)

If you're a Photoshop user, you're likely aware of the editor's new "content-aware" tools that let you magically replace or erase items in your photos. iPhone users who want a similar tool on their handset should take a look at TouchRetouch by Adva-Soft. TouchRetouch is a simple tool that lets ...

Daily iPhone app: iRelay!

by Mel Martin (Jan 2nd, 2012)

iRelay! (US$0.99) is an interesting photo sharing app that provides some features that aren't native to the iPhone. Using the app, pictures on your phone can be grouped by collection, activity or person. A link can be posted to the galleries, and that link can be shared over email, text ...

TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for your favorite iPad photo app

by Steven Sande (Dec 29th, 2011)

The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you -- the readers -- and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We'll be announcing ...

CineSkates bring highly adaptable dollying to mobile photography

by Erica Sadun (Dec 28th, 2011)

Starting around $300, Cinetics' CineSkates are not cheap but this new device may provide exactly the kit you're looking for in terms of mobile dolly shots. Attach your iPhone, start it recording, and use the rig to smoothly move the camera as you shoot, creating perfect rotation and tracking ...

Over a quarter of photos now taken with smartphones, according to NPD

by Mike Schramm (Dec 22nd, 2011)

I'll 'fess up -- on our wish list earlier this week, I was the one who asked (reasonably, I thought) for an Apple Camera. I've been shopping for a DSLR lately, and while the quality of some cameras are great, the interfaces are pretty terrible. I really do wish that Apple would step in and ...