All in Apple

Apple really puts the "Pro" in the iPhone Pro (With the iPhone 16 Pro)

Apple really puts the "Pro" in the iPhone Pro (With the iPhone 16 Pro)

Thomas Fitzgerald
Apple, iPhone, Editorial

A few days ago Apple held its annual iPhone event where they launched the iPhone 16 and 16 pro line, and after trying not to fall asleep after they rehashed the Apple Intelligence stuff from WWDC, I was pleasantly surprised by the new iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max. Strangely though, after the event people on social media were complaining that there wasn’t a real difference between the pro and the normal models. To which I thought: “Were they even watching the same keynote I was?” Because when I watched that segment I thought to myself, this is the most “pro” pro phone Apple has ever released. In fact, I’d go so far as to say, it’s only really now the Pro iPhone has fully earned the “Pro” name.

They’re Wrong - 5 Reasons The Mac Studio is a good for Photographers

They’re Wrong - 5 Reasons The Mac Studio is a good for Photographers

Thomas Fitzgerald
Apple

Since the Mac studio was released by Apple a few weeks ago, we’ve seen lots of enthusiasm around the product from many creative professionals. However, we’ve also seen the obligatory round of “You don’t need it” posts from people about why the Mac Studio is “too much computer” for many folks. This has been particularly prevalent in the photographic community, with some prominent pundits in articular lecturing their readers as to why they shouldn’t get the Mac Studio for photography.

Why I think the new Mac Studio is the perfect Creator's Mac - Thoughts on the New Mac Studio and M1 Ultra Chip

Why I think the new Mac Studio is the perfect Creator's Mac - Thoughts on the New Mac Studio and M1 Ultra Chip

Thomas Fitzgerald
Apple, Editorial

I don’t think I’ve ever been as excited about an Apple announcement as I was this week after Apple’s March 2022 event. And all that excitement comes form just one part of the presentation: the announcement of the Mac Studio. For me, the Mac Studio is the ultimate Mac for what I do, and it is something I think many creators like myself have wanted for a long time.

Raw Power 3.0

Raw Power 3.0

Thomas Fitzgerald
Apple, Software

Gentlemen coders recently released Raw Power Version 3.0. I've been interested in this application for a while, and I've been following its development. Raw Power is a Raw editing application that lets you take advantage of the capabilities of Apple's RAW engine, that is otherwise unavailable to the user. It's not perfect by any means, but with each release, they've added more and more capabilities. Version 3 adds a fascinating new ability if you're running it on Catalina, and if you're an Apple Photos user looking to get more power out of your RAW files, then this might be a solution for you. Read on to find out more.

Get Aperture to run on MacOS Catalina with this hack!

Get Aperture to run on MacOS Catalina with this hack!

Thomas Fitzgerald
Apple

There are still people using Apple’s long discontinued Aperture app, and as an early proponent of this application, I can understand why. Despite all the competition out there, there are still things that Aperture did better than most of the current applications. When Catalina was recently launched, it spelled the end for Aperture, as the software would no longer run on the new operating system. However, a clever programmer has come up with a solution.

Video: How to import into Lightroom directly from a Memory Card on iPAD OS

Video: How to import into Lightroom directly from a Memory Card on iPAD OS

Thomas Fitzgerald
Apple, Software, Video, Tips, Lightroom

One of the new features of iPadOS that was announced was the ability to import images directly into apps from attached storage, without having to go through the camera roll. Unfortunately not many apps have been updated to take advantage of this yet, including Lightroom. However, there is a pretty simple work around and in this video I show you what to do.

Two Ways to Automatically Send Images from Lightroom (or Capture One) into Apple Photos

Two Ways to Automatically Send Images from Lightroom (or Capture One) into Apple Photos

Thomas Fitzgerald
Apple, Capture One, Lightroom, Photos App

If you’re on a Mac and you want to send your finished images from Lightroom (or Capture One) to Apple Photos, to sync to your devices for example, then you can do it manually by exporting from one application and importing into the other. This can be a bit tedious, but there are also some ways you can automate the process. This involves exporting to a folder in the finder from Lightroom or capture One, and having that automatically import into Photos.

Upgrading the Graphics Card in My Mac Pro

Upgrading the Graphics Card in My Mac Pro

Thomas Fitzgerald
Apple, Gear, News

I’ve finally gotten around to something I should have done a log time ago. I have finally upgraded the graphics card in my Mac Pro. I had been owing the original and extremely bad (by today’s standards) ATI 5770 and its paltry 1gb or ram. Amazingly enough I managed to get by all these years, but it was becoming increasingly problematic, so I finally ordered a replacement.

Continuing to prolong the life of my old Mac Pro

Continuing to prolong the life of my old Mac Pro

Thomas Fitzgerald
Apple, Gear

I’ve been managing to keep an ageing 2012 Mac Pro as my main computer for nearly 7 years now, and from time to time its really been a struggle. Over the years I’ve added various upgrades and replacement parts, and its somehow managed to keep going, despite getting a tremendous amount of use. Lately though it’s been driving me mad. It takes nearly an hour to reboot - from off to being useable. The OS comes up in about two minutes, but by the time everything loads and settles down and is useable - it’s nearly an hour. This is partly because of a slow system drive, and partly due to years of bits and pieces clogging the OS

iPhone XR Camera + Lightroom Mobile

iPhone XR Camera + Lightroom Mobile

Thomas Fitzgerald
Apple, Lightroom

For the longest time I’ve been using an iPhone 6 plus. It has served me well. In fact one of the first photos I took with that phone was actually featured in Apple’s first “Shot on iPhone” campaign when it originally started, and I’ve been using it ever since. I never got around to upgrading for various reasons, but lately I felt that it was maybe time to stop trying to use the ageing device.

Working with Fuji X-Trans Files on Lightroom Mobile

Working with Fuji X-Trans Files on Lightroom Mobile

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom, iPhone, Apple, Fuji X-Series

While there was nothing preventing you working with Fuji files on Lightroom Mobile before, now that the latest version supports presets and preset syncing, the workflow has gotten a lot easier. If you follow any of my techniques for sharpening and managing Fuji files, you can now apply many of these to Lightroom mobile as well. There are of course limitations still, but its come a long way in just one version.

An Open Letter to Apple: Please make the equivalent of Quicktime for Images

An Open Letter to Apple: Please make the equivalent of Quicktime for Images

Thomas Fitzgerald
Apple, Editorial

Quicktime is one of those things that people love or hate. Whatever your feelings on it are, it does do one thing really well, and that provides a way of allowing any application to open any movie file, so long as they have the right codec installed. Instead of an application having to directly support multiple video formats, they can just support QuickTime, and then if there’s a codec for the format installed, they can read that format. Which got me thinking, we really need something similar for images.

A Photographer's First Thoughts on the New iPad (And Apple Pencil)

A Photographer's First Thoughts on the New iPad (And Apple Pencil)

Thomas Fitzgerald
Apple, Review

It’s been a while since I’ve had a new iPad. In fact, it’s been a while since I had an iPad that was actually usable. I hadn’t upgraded since the iPad 3 as I had nothing but trouble with that model, and it kind of put me off. But with the numerous apps coming out on iOS for photographers, I was starting to feel a little left out. I had been considering an iPad Pro, but I just couldn’t afford it. So when Apple announced the new 6th generation iPad with Apple Pencil support, I decided it was finally time.

What a difference some Extra Ram makes

What a difference some Extra Ram makes

Thomas Fitzgerald
Behind the Scenes, Apple

My main computer is an ageing 2012 Mac Pro. At the time it was reasonably well specced, but lately, I have been really struggling with it, especially with newer versions of Adobe’s Creative Cloud applications. In particular, it has become increasingly difficult to run multiple applications at once, and with the most recent round of updates, I cool no longer run Lightroom and Photoshop simultaneously. 

Load More