Welcome!
I want to take a little detour from the usual introduction to our newsletter and talk about a new product that launched earlier this week. We don't typically have a space for this kind of thing, but a fellow Mac and iOS developer reached out to me last week asking if I'd be interested in showing off their new product to our readers. After playing with it a bit I think it's definitely something worth talking about.
It's called Astropad and it is an awesome new app that allows you to use your iPad as a drawing tablet for your Mac. I love the execution of this tool. You install an app from the App Store on your iPad and another on your Mac, launch both of them and you're all set. It's a zero-configuration setup at its best.
What's great about Astropad is that it isn't tied to any one app. It's essentially a window into your Mac from your iPad, but with gestures enabled that gear it towards image editing. Zooming via two finger pinch works as expected as does panning around an image. It's really quite cool. I opened up one of my images in Photoshop to make a few edits and where I found Astropad really shined was in making adjustments to layer masks and the like.
Astropad is available now at astropad.com, go check it out!
News
Darkroom: A New iOS Photo Editor with DIY Filters, Curves, and Infinite History
Let's say you don't have an iPad and a Mac, yet you still want to edit photos on your iOS device. Enter Darkroom, a new app for editing your photos. The cameras on our smartphones keep getting better all the time, and now the post processing software is getting better too.
Inspiration
Stop Holding Out And Share Those Images
Peter House brings us some great advice this week over on Fstoppers: we need to stop keeping all of our images to ourselves and get them out there for others to appreciate and enjoy. The downsides are few and the potential rewards are many.
Basics
How to Recover Lost Files from a Memory Card
If this hasn't happened to you yet, consider yourself lucky. But if it has, then be sure to check out this article over at DPS on how to recover lost images.
Technique
Vital Tips for Photographing and Editing Interiors
Being a outdoor landscape photographer I seldom do indoor photos, and when I do, they leave something to be desired. So if you're like me and want to take better indoor photos, then check out this article at DPS.
Gear
Report from CES 2015 - 5 Tech Trends Photographers Should Know
The recent Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas recently unveiled thousands of new tech gadgets. Hillary Grigonis of DPS highlights those which are of interest to us photographers.
Video
This Solar Time-Lapse Photographed over Five Years Is the Coolest Thing You Will See Today
Imagine taking a time lapse consisting of an image per second for 1800 days? Well that's what the people over at NASA did with the Sun. Check out this cool video they just put out.
Best of the Week
Lava DemiGod by Joel Santos
This week's photo is a beautiful shot of a rare phenomenon as explained by the photographer Joel Santos
Old School
Celebrating Photoshop's 25th anniversary
A great article on an awesome piece of history. It's pretty incredible to think that this piece of software that is used by millions of folks every day started life 25 years ago as the result of a couple guys working in their spare time. Such a legacy.
And Finally...
Stunning and Mesmerizing Dubai "Flow Motion" Time-lapse by Rob Whitworth Takes Us for a Ride
Throughout most of my initial viewing of this video I couldn't stop asking myself, "How the heck did he do that?"