Apple Apps – No “Save As” Option? The Solution
Apple Apps – No “Save As” Command? The Solution In the past Apple automatically opened a “Save As” option when you clicked on “Save” but this is no longer the case with their own apps like “Pages” or “Numbers.” I use both of these apps frequently and wondered where the “Save As” option went. You […]
ChatGPT 4 – Free on my MacBook Pro
Although this is fairly old news now – I believe it was announced sometime in the Spring of this year (2024) – if you haven’t heard yet you can get the desktop app for ChatGPT 4 from the Apple Store for free. This was a subscription proposition before the announcement, so how cool! For me, […]
Apple P3 – A Quick Background
If you are somewhat new to the above title (as I was) you may appreciate this very brief and non-technical bit of info. In 2005 as movie distribution was evolving to become all digital, a need arose to standardize and upgrade theatrical colour reproduction. An organization known as the Digital Cinema Initiative released a new […]
How to Maintain Canon Colours When Printing with Mac OS – Some Considerations
Upon setting out to print my fine art images I was very interested in maintaining my Adobe RGB raw file colours. This requires a knowledge of colour management. I long ago studied this subject because as a working commercial photographer I was involved in shooting and preparing my images for my client’s print work and […]
The Benefit of the Proper Exposure of RAW Images
In this blog I am going to avoid the many intricate details of using photo software. There are so many Photoshop / Lightroom gurus out there who seemingly spend every waking hour studying these and other programs that any effort I made would be superfluous. However, there is a need, I believe, to comment on […]
Canon EOS Utility 3 – Still Working in Mac OS Sequoia?
When I updated to Mac OS Sequoia (15.0.1) recently I had trouble with Canon Utility 3 which would not launch. However I did a couple of things: Unfortunately Apple moves quickly to newer Mac OS software versions and even discontinues THEIR OWN support for their previous OS versions within a few new iterations. Canon has […]
Shoot and Save Real Canon Colour
Moving Away from Canon Most serious amateurs, and many pro photographers (I was one) were taught very effectively by Adobe to use their digital negative (DNG) raw file format converter when it first came out, advocating convincingly for a raw file universal standard format. All major digital photo apps adopted the format in record time, […]
Mac OS Ventura – Where Are My Custom Profiles in System Settings?
Today I updated my Mac to OS Ventura 13.4. I proceeded to run my X-rite I1 Display Pro software / hardware to make an ICC profile of my monitor. I always do this since I like to print the colours I see on my screen. Having sat through the somewhat long process (I use the […]