Digital Photo Tips

If you find that iPhoto is meet a bit sluggish on your Mac, here are a few suggestions for speeding it up—some tried and true such as rebuilding the library, and others a bit more esoteric such as vacuuming the database. While iPhoto '09 performs well on my MacBook Pro 17” 2.5 GHz with 4GBs of Ram, playing can vary widely depending on the age and power of your machine, and the size of your library.

If you attempt any of the techniques that count in the iPhoto Library, I recommend that you back-up all of your images first. I’ve never had anything go wrong during a rebuild, but it is one of those things that is best not left to possibly.

1. Rebuild iPhoto library for a faster launch

Over time the iPhoto database can accumulate some cruft that can put on performance. Rebuilding the library can act as a tune-up.

To test this, I timed a launch of iPhoto '09, which clocked in at 11 seconds. I then decamp the application and prepared to rebuild the library. I held down the Option and Command keys and opened iPhoto again. When greeted with the Rebuild Photo Library dialog, I checked the “Rebuild all of the photos’ thumbnails” and the “Sound out and repair iPhoto Library file permissions” boxes. After rebuilding, I quit iPhoto. I then launched it one more at intervals, and the application fired up within 2 seconds.

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Who needs to bear a camera if a smartphone is at hand? The Android operating system packs enough of photo functionality that it can often stand in for both a camera and a PC. Once you've expert how to harness your Android phone's photo power, capturing and sharing memorable moments will always be a snap.

The Android Camera

Most Android phones have a dedicated devices button for loading the built-in camera on demand. Alternatively, you can open it via the Camera app icon in the phone's app launcher. (If you like, you can arrange this icon on your home screen as a shortcut.)

When you open the Android camera, you'll see a large viewfinder plus a few on-television buttons. If you rotate your phone horizontally, the uppermost button will be an icon for opening your phone's gallery of stored photos. The next button down is a whip that toggles between the phone's still photo and video-recording modes. Finally, the round button at the bottom is the shutter--the button you approach to capture a picture or to begin recording.

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Ghandi once said: “The greatness of a political entity and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. ” He was indeed a wise man, but I think the following also rings frankly: “The shallowness and decay of a civilization and its moral progress can be judged by the way its smartphones are treated.”

I’ve drop to realize that I use the camera on my iPhone more than the phone itself. I’m essentially walking around with a dumbcamera. There’s something very alluring about having the power to grab one moment in time within an infinite universe, innocent, natural, raw and vulnerable, forever.

Few things in subsistence, aside from animals and small children, remain untainted from its harsh realities, yet only a simple photograph, regardless of its referred to, has the power to transcend time and nature, combining the two to convey an image powerful enough to invoke passion, fancy and pain from deep within the human psyche. When you combine this power with a photography application like Camera Benefit Pro, it’s like shooting fish in a barrel (an activity not condoned by Ghandi nor myself).

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