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Photo Slideshows: PulpMotion and BannerZest

Posted on April 24th, 2008 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Apple, Skills, Photo, Teaching, Blogging, OSX, PhotoJava.

I use Boinx’s FotoMagico for my pro digital image shows. It has wonderfully smooth transitions and lots of features, but I just bumped into PulpMotion from Aquafadas software.

Aquafadas has a slick little Flash program that’s part of the current MacUpdate Bundle Deal (check that out too!) and I bumped into PulpMotion from that.

It uses the ‘theme’ idea that’s ruined many such products, but these guys are like Apple… their design sense rocks. And on top of that, some of the themes just seem to be simple transition and text settings.

I’ll demo it and let you know if it’s as cool as it looks. Check out their site for videos of the shows created with PulpMotion.

(BannerZest Example with a theme)

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Colin’s Photos

Posted on March 26th, 2008 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Apple, Personal, Skills, Equipment, Photo, Teaching, PhotoJava, Family, Famous People.

Colin's iPhoto Snap

Photo credit: Colin A. Huth

I love how kids don’t mind ‘breaking the rules’ and come up with some really cool shots. The iPhone also helps, because Colin can always grab it when we’re running around and take shots. I went to a talk on Digital Photography Future with Alexis Gerard at the George Eastman House, and the access to cell phone cameras is one topic of how digital photography is changing.

I had even mentioned this idea in an article on the future of photography for Element K Journals a few years back … when you always have a camera with you, and it doesn’t cost anything to take images, we take so many interesting images… and think differently about taking pictures.

Colin's iPhoto Snap

Doesn’t Colin has a good eye and a fun sense for photos. He’s 12 and we homeschool the kids.

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Mac Leopard Quick Look Plugins

Posted on March 26th, 2008 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Apple, OSX.

You know on the Mac when you want to preview something quickly, you hit the space bar and zoom, it comes up…
Well, that doesn’t work for some things (zipped files, folders, etc)… so MacWorld did an article and here’s a site to add plug ins easily to view things like that: QL Plugins.com

Not critical, but if you are ever bugged by not being able to do something, go there and download the free plugin.

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FIRST Robotics & Tiltviewer

Posted on March 19th, 2008 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Schools, Teaching, Internet, Aperture, PhotoJava, Rochester NY.

I just wrapped up editing the FIRST Robotics FInger Lakes Regional photos (it was a blast, BTW) and I thought that gang of cool geeky youth would dig this new gallery style from Airtight Interactive . It’s a 3D grid effect and can load photos from a folder, or grab them from your FlickR account by tags. Try it out, it’s sweet. I particularly like the ‘next gallery’ photos falling effect. Visit the gallery HERE

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Mac Leopard Font Trick

Posted on March 17th, 2008 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Skills, OSX.

I just accidentally grabbed the wrong part of a font palette and found this out.

If you pull the little dimple at the top of the palette (which usually means something like a ‘drawer’ is hidden there), it exposes a font preview, so you can see how the font renders, not just it’s name.

The screenshot above is after it’s pulled and you see the preview. The ‘dimple’ is above the ’shadow text’ T.

To get the font palette in most applications, you go to something like an ‘edit’ or ‘format’ menu, and see if ’show fonts’ is an option. Then you get this floating palette. I play with fonts so much, I have it open most of the time in Keynote, Pages, etc.

Enjoy being a font geek!

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