DV for Teachers

Ben Long explains histograms and how to correct color problems in iPhoto. Good screengrabs and explanations.

20 Photoshop Tips & Tricks That You Should Know About from Make Use Of, worth a quick post. The brush-resizing shortcut trick – [ and ] (corner brackets) will decrease or increase the brush size; add shift to change brush hardness – alone is worth following the link.

The fine community at Macintouch points to the Mac-specific area on Old Version Downloads – OldApps.com. Find old versions of lots of software, for Mac and PC: older email programs, audio editors, picture editors, FTP programs, and more. They even have older versions of Apple’s QuickTime. Looks like a great resource, especially if you’re spiffing up an older machine to save money.

And teachers always want to save money.

A quick post to this, so I can close the browser tab I’ve kept open for too long: Make Photoshop Faster: 2 little tips to help speed up the tool web designers love to hate. Thanks to John Gruber at Daring Fireball.

Could this possibly be enough? Probably not….

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I used to use iMovie much more often; now I do almost all my video editing in Final Cut Pro. Many in the college either use our small Mac lab for video and DVD creation or have their own Macs now. The new iLife, which incorporates iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto, and more, has achieved hit a sweet spot in power and usability. It’s still not a piece of cake for those used to Windows, but it’s stable, flexible, and really easy. Read through this exhaustive review from uber-tech site Ars Technica for a solid learning experience whether you’re a Mac rookie or experienced user.

Ars Reviews iLife ‘09: making the cut with iMovie and iPhoto – Ars Technica.

There are alternatives to some of the paid apps they link to in this nice list of quick tips. Regrettably I don’t have time at the moment to link to them.Those aside, this is a good list for the Mac newbie, from TechRadar UK: 69 really useful OS X timesavers | News | TechRadar UK.

50 Excellent Digital Photography Photoshop Tutorials | Tutorials | Smashing Magazine

Because you can never know enough about Photoshop.

Macworld posted this video showing of some of the nice new things Finder can do with images and in dialog boxes while opening or saving files. Worth watching.

Chris Pirillo runs LockerGnome, a huge, busy site full of pointers, tips, news, opinion, geektalk, and more. At his own site, last week he posted Top 100 Mac Apps.

I hadn’t heard of a few of these. Most are shareware, some are free. There are several similar apps too, so there’s some overlap. One that I hadn’t seen before includes HyperDither, which makes nice high-contrast 1-bit (black and white) images from your photos. It’s fun.