The Ohanaware Weblog

Aperture is the class leading Image organizing program for the Mac. While for the most part it’s incredibly intuitive, there’s one thing that could be done better and that’s getting images from it and into HDRtist Pro. Aperture seems to palm off a low resolution JPEG image when trying to get images from Aperture into HDRtist Pro. You can of course, set up HDRtist Pro as the External Editor in Aperture, but this only works for a single image. A solution that’s been given to us by a customer follows. This solution works for both HDRtist & HDRtist Pro.

A commonly asked question involves people wanting to know if they can use the RAW images from their cameras with our software.

We don’t do the RAW conversion ourself, Apple does it for us. So in all honesty, I don’t know. I do know how to find out however. In the Apple support sections, they list what RAW images are compatible with what version of the OS you’re using. I’ve grouped them together below to make it easier.

Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3825

Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1475

As for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger…. I cannot find one nice complete list, instead it seems like every update adds a little more.

One of the most requested features for Fun Photos is the ability to add an inside message to your greetings card. For Fun Photos 2.0 we’ve a whole new printing system and we’ve taken this into consideration. Until 2.0 is available, we’ve a tutorial that’ll show you how you can print an inside message to your card using only Funtastic Photos.
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Well, put simply a Triptych is an image comprised of three images. Oh you say, that’s it. Pretty much. I was inspired to have a go myself after reading an article in Amateur Photographer, it was illustrating David Hilliard’s (http://www.davidhilliard.com/) use of this format. So read on to see how you can do it too with this tutorial.

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If you’re anything like me, you only realized it was Fathers Day a couple of days ago, and you’re gonna have to work fast to make something great and get it in the mail for it to be there on time. If you’re not like me, then kudos for remembering things like that! In this tutorial, I’m gonna you show you how you can create a truly unique Fathers Day card, that I’m sure your Dad’ll love.
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