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Digital Photography Workflow

Tips, tricks, and reviews related to all aspects of digital photography workflow, from shooting photos to processing to backing up to sharing.

How To Schedule Posts to Instagram

Instagram doesn’t offer any built-in way to schedule posts, and it even discourages automated scheduling, but it can be done. Some options play by the rules better than others. Here’s a rundown of the options.

How to Archive Photos in Instagram

Instagram has a new feature to archive posts. It makes them private, so only you can see them, without deleting the post and losing the comments and likes.

Facebook Photos Size Guide | 2017

Ever tried using photos and images on your Facebook page? It can be frustrating. So here’s an up-to-date guide explaining what’s what, what’s where, and how big.

How to Share 360° Photos

So you’ve shot some cool new 360 degree photos. How do you share them so other people can see them? Here are some places to start.

Organizing Photos into WordPress Media Library Folders

If you have a lot of photos in your Wordpress Media Library and are looking for a better way to organize them, the WP Media Folder plugin provides a way to create virtual collections without messing up your underlying filesystem.

How to Extract Still Image JPGs from a Video File

Sometimes it’s easier to visualize the contents of a video file with a sequence of thumbnails or still images. Here’s a quick, easy, and free way to extract JPGs at intervals from a video file.

JPEGmini Review

JPEGmini promises that their proprietary algorithm can dramatically reduce the size of JPGs with no discernible loss in quality. So I put their secret sauce to the test.

Calibrating Your Display with the Spyder5PRO

Using a color calibrated monitor can save a lot of time, aggravation, and ink, and helps ensure that your images look their best when viewed elsewhere. Here’s my hands-on review of the Spyder5PRO from Datacolor.

ShortPixel Image Optimizer for WordPress

There are several cloud-based image optimization services available for Wordpress. I put ShortPixel through its paces to see how to stacks up to the competition.

Smartphone Apps for Tracking the Sun, Moon, and Stars

Whether you’re trying to make it for magic hour, line up the sun or moon with a landmark, or just want to make sure your subject is shown in the best natural light, smartphone apps that calculate the location of the sun and moon for any location on earth for any date and time can come in very handy.

MOVO MTP-10 Timelapse Panning Base

The MOVO MTP-10 is one of several devices for adding rotation and panning to timelapse captures. It’s a significant step up in both features and price than some alternatives. Here’s my hands-on review.

Camalapse 4 360-Degree Panning Timelapse Base

If you’re looking for a way to spice up your timelapse captures, adding some rotation can be a good start. Here’s my hands-on review of the Camalapse 4 360-Degree Panning Timelapse Base.

Kraken.io Image Optimizer for WordPress

Kraken.io is a Wordpress plugin and cloud service combination that aims to reduce to file size of your images in order to speed up your site. Here’s how it works in practice.

Optimus Image Optimizer for WordPress Review

Optimus is a plugin and cloud service combination that promises to dramatically reduce the filesize of your images and speed up your Wordpress site. Here’s my hands-on review.

WD MyPassport Wireless Review

The WD MyPassport Wireless is a portable hard drive that can be used to stream media to mobile devices like iPhones and iPads. But it’s also a cost-effective option for backing up your photos while traveling.

Geotagging Software

Here’s a roundup of software that will take your photos and a GPS tracklog and marry them together to geotag your photos.

GPS Trackers for Photographers

For travel photography, location matters. Whether you’re trying to track your adventures on a map or enter caption information in the image metadata, it helps to know exactly where a photo was taken.

Instagram Photo Size Guide

If you’re posting images to Instagram, whether from a phone or computer, here’s my unofficial guide to photo and picture sizes for Instagram posts.

How to Resize WordPress Thumbnails

If you change your Wordpress theme or even just tweak the layout of your existing theme, you might need to change the size of your thumbnails. Here’s how to do it.

Lightroom Alternatives

Lightroom now reigns amongst one-stop image management and image processing apps. But it’s not the only option. Here are some alternatives.

Removing Dust and Scratches with Photoshop

If you’re scanning film, slides, or prints, you’re almost certainly going to run into the problem of dust and scratches. Here’s a handy technique for removing them that works particularly well with black and white images.

EWWW Image Optimizer Cloud Review

If you use a lot of images on your Wordpress site and are serious about speeding it up, image optimization is a great place to start and can give some really impressive gains for very little work or expense.

How to Share Photos with Dropbox

Dropbox is primarily designed for backing up and syncing files. But it’s also a very handy way to share photos quickly and easily.

Facebook Image Quality Issues

Finding that your Facebook images look terrible? You can’t eliminate the heavy compression completely but there are some things you can do to minimize it.

Facebook Images on the News Feed

Ever tried using photos and images on your Facebook Event Page? It can be frustrating. So here’s an up-to-date guide explaining what’s what, what’s where, and how big.

Using Images on Facebook Event Pages

Ever tried using photos and images on your Facebook Event Page? It can be frustrating. So here’s an up-to-date guide explaining what’s what, what’s where, and how big.

Best Cloud Backup for Photographers

Online backup in the cloud is coming of age. Here are some of the options available if you’re a photographer looking to back up your photos online.

Does Facebook Support GIFs?

GIFs are fun. And they seem to be everywhere. But despite what you might have heard, you won’t find them on Facebook.

Web Fonts for WordPress

You want your site to look good. You want it to have some personality. And you want it to be easy to read. Web fonts can help with all three.

New Top Level Domains for Photography Websites

If you’re looking for the perfect domain name for your photography website, you now have some new options. There are new top level domains available related to photography, such as .photography, .camera, and .lighting.

The Photographer’s Guide to Making Money

The subtitle of this book is “150 Ideas for Cutting Costs and Boosting Profits.” And that really sums up the book. Its goal is to help you think differently about what you’re already doing.

Timelapse Calculator for iPhone

Timelapse Calculator for iPhone is a simple yet effective app for calculating shoot durations, frame rates, and clip lengths for creating time-lapse video.

How to Set a CNAME for an Amazon S3 Bucket

If you want to use Amazon S3 to share files publicly for your website or to allow downloads, you might want a URL that’s prettier than the default. Here’s how to set up a CNAME with an Amazon S3 bucket.

How to Allow Public Access to an Amazon S3 Bucket

If you’re using an Amazon S3 bucket to share files, you’ll first need to make those files public. If you don’t, your users will get an XML error message saying the file is unavailable. Here’s how to fix it.

Time-Lapse Photography with a Panasonic Lumix GF1

One of my few complaints about the Panasonic Lumix GF1 is that it doesn’t have a built-in intervalometer to take time lapse shots. But for about $50-$70 you can get a third party timer cable release that does the job quite nicely.

How to take screenshots of iPhone & iTouch apps

Ever wondered how to take screenshots of your iPhone or iTouch? It’s actually incredibly easy. No fancy software, emulators, or coding required. It’s a feature built into iPhone OS by default.

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