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What’s Your Value Proposition
Posted: October 4th, 2012
[by Peter Krogh] I really enjoyed the ASMP Sustainable Business symposium. It was an excellent opportunity for me listen to some wide-ranging perspectives from industry thought leaders. It was also valuable to sit and quietly think about how to set strategy and tactics for my career. During the last panel discussion, the panel was asked [...]
Wrangling Technology
Posted: September 26th, 2012
Tomorrow marks the launch of The ASMP Guide to New Markets in Photography at ASMP’s Times Center Symposium, Sustainable Business Models: Issues and Trends Facing Visual Artists. We hope you’ll join us live or via live stream. The third chapter of the Guide, The Role of Technology, was written by Peter Krogh, who today offers insights [...]
Making Scans with a Digital Camera
Posted: March 3rd, 2011
[by Peter Krogh] Many photographers have a lot of film images that they wish to digitize, but conventional scanning techniques may be too expensive. You can use your digital camera to make “camera scans” that are amazingly good, and very quick to produce. A basic camera scanning setup includes the camera, a close-up lens, a [...]
Extending Battery Life of Mac Laptop
Posted: August 19th, 2010
[by Peter Krogh] If you need to get the maximum run time out of a battery charge on your Mac laptop, you’l want to be aware what is running in the background. If I have a long airplane flight, for instance, it can be annoying to run out of battery while I’m still in the [...]
Use Metadata Templates to Add Bulk Metadata
Posted: March 16th, 2010
[by Peter Krogh] It’s important to tag your images with copyright and contact information, as well as information about the subject matter of the photos. The best way to do that is to use metadata templates when you first download the photos. Learn about how to make and use metadata templates at dpBestflow.org.
Use a Validated Transfer
Posted: February 16th, 2010
[by Peter Krogh] Whenever you move the primary copy of your images from one drive to another, you should perform a validated transfer. This makes sure that all files are transferred, and that every bit in the original is also in the copy. Read about the process and watch a movie of it in action [...]
Organize Your Image Collection with a Catalog
Posted: January 18th, 2010
[by Peter Krogh] One of the most powerful tools that we have for making the most of our photographs is an image catalog. Catalogs allow you to organize vast numbers of images into groupings that make sense to you. dpBestflow recommends that all photographers make use of catalog software as a critical component of file [...]
Blu-ray Discs for Backup
Posted: December 10th, 2009
[by Peter Krogh] Consider Blu-ray disks as an way to backup your files. The dpBestflow project recommends that write-once media, such as CD, DVD or Blu-ray disk can provide needed protection for your valuable images. Many people feel that DVD is just too small, at 4 GB, to be worth the hassle. Blu-ray can hold [...]
Using the dpBestflow Website
Posted: November 12th, 2009
[by Peter Krogh] We’ve packed quite a bit of information in the website, so we thought we’d make a movie to show you how to navigate. We suggest you spend a few minutes looking over the video before you dive in. We’re looking forward to hearing what you think. [div hVlog style="text-align:center; margin:0 0 12px [...]
dpBestflow is a Multimedia Learning Environment
Posted: November 10th, 2009
[by Peter Krogh] As Richard points out in yesterday’s blog, the dpBestflow project is a muti-dimensional, multi-media effort. We know you are visual people, and for some subjects, a movie makes the point better than text. You’ll find quite a bit of content on the site that walks you through some workflow by actually showing [...]
Tagging Images with GPS
Posted: October 15th, 2009
[by Peter Krogh] When I’m looking for one of my images, one of the most valuable tools I can use is the location list in Lightroom or Expression Media. My awareness of where a picture was taken is deeply tied to my memory of that image. By using Country. State, City and Location tags, I [...]
Do Your Know Your Trackpad?
Posted: September 30th, 2009
[by Peter Krogh] On Mac 10.5 and above, you can get a right-click by double-tapping your trackpad with two fingers. Go ahead and try. (If you’re not already using a multi-button mouse, you literally don’t know what you’re missing.) There is all kind of functionality hidden in these “contextual menus”. Clicking nearly any onscreen item [...]
