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Photo Stream is not the Workflow you Expected

Aperture Syncs with Photo Stream

Since it came out at the end of 2011, there has been a lot of negativity about iCloud’s Photo Stream service. Most of the disappointment stems from some of the apparent limitations of Photo Stream, particularly around the ability to delete photographs (you can only delete the entire stream of nada. Forget trying to weed out individual snapshots of your ignoring toe nails). And limitations with respect to the total number of photos stored (Photo Stream holds 1000 of your most recent photos for a maximum of 30 days). I used to share some of these grievances, until I changed my paradigm and remembered Pooh sticks.  Read More…

Snapseed – iPad App

Brilliant Illumination EffortlesslyI have been a wanna be photographer for quite a while now. My wife bought me a 35 mm Canon SLR when we got engaged and I have had various point and shoot digitals and a Nikon DSLR (until recently – see Twitter feed!). Anyway, the other night, while browsing through the app store I thought I would give Snapseed a shot. I use Aperture on the iMac but wanted something that I could tweak photos that ended up on my iCloud Photo Stream from any of my devices. I wasn’t disappointed. Read More…