Book description
An insider's guide to optimizing your Mac for Photoshop and the photography workflowTable of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
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Chapter 1. The System Architecture
- Multi-user
- Multi-tasking
- Multi-threading
- Time-slicing
- The Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard interfaces
- Fast User Switching
- Menu Bar – Left-hand side
- Finder Window structure
- Finder Window features – The Views
- Flow View – Leopard only
- Drag and Drop & Copy and Paste
- Title bar features
- Finder Window – Title bar
- File Info
- Making adjustments to windows
- Apple System Profiler (ASP)
- Software Update
- Libraries – Why are there no fewer than three?
- System level and User level Libraries
- Apple Macintosh default folders
- Understanding where things go – and why?
- The Dock
- Dock Positioning
- The Dock Preferences
- Placement of the Dock
- Switching between Open Applications
- Finder navigation
- Faster access to oft-used folders
- Finding frequently used files and Folders
- Navigating menus
- System Preferences
- Appearance
- Dashboard
- Exposé
- Desktop & Screen Saver
- Spotlight
- Bluetooth
- CDs & DVDs
- Displays
- ColorSync Utility
- Energy Saver
- Keyboard & Mouse
- Print & Fax
- Sound
- .Mac
- Network Preferences
- Network
- Sharing – Services
- QuickTime
- QuickTime Pro
- Keychain
- Accounts
- Date & Time
- Image Capture
- Startup Disk
- Universal Access
- Partitioning a drive
- Users’ Home folders
- What is happening?
- What can go wrong?
- When something does go wrong…
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Chapter 2. Hardware Implications
- The all new range of Intel Macs
- Intel Macs and Xserves
- One size does not fit all
- State of play
- Hardware decisions – MacBook & MacBook Pro
- The Intel Macs
- Apple Inc
- Initial Capture
- Studio still life work – The capture station
- A capture and editing setup
- Studio editing station – PPC G5 or Mac Pro
- An editing setup
- Alternative thoughts
- Hard drive thoughts
- The case for additional hard drives
- Additional drives
- Earlier Macs
- Random Access Memory – RAM
- Second monitors
- Image – Safety whilst on location
- XServe
- Hubs and switches – Ethernet
- Buses and Airport
- Airport Extreme
- Bluetooth
- Firewire
- USB 2.0 hubs
- Firewire hubs
- Airport Extreme and Express
- Wireless connection to a printer
- Optical media
- Opening a Burn folder
- A smooth and stable power supply
- Monitors
- Video card interfaces and connectors
- Ambient lighting conditions
- Calibration
- Tiger’s Printer Setup Utility dialog boxes
- Print & Fax (Leopard)
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Chapter 3. General Maintenance
- .DS_Store files
- Using a picture as a CD’s background
- Permissions
- Keychain and Keychain Access
- Keychain First Aid
- Users and Groups
- Get Info
- Additional memory
- Caches are created to improve speed… but…
- Some useful maintenance utilities
- OnyX, MacJanitor, and TinkerTool
- Mac slowing down?
- Operating system stability
- ‘Zapping the PRAM’
- How do we ‘Zap the PRAM’?
- Command+Option+P+R and Power Button
- Key combos for use at Startup and Login
- C key
- T key – Target Disk Mode
- Conclusions from this chapter
- Modifier keys
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Chapter 4. Software Assistance
- Installation of software
- Help
- Mac Help
- Disk Utility
- First Aid tab
- Erase tab
- RAID tab
- Restore tab
- Log
- Context-sensitive menus
- Application menu
- Screen capture
- Grab
- iPhoto
- From where does the work come?
- Client–Photographer communication
- Digital photographer’s front end
- Apple Aperture
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
- Adobe Bridge
- Initial capture
- IPTC info
- Chapter 5. Resources
- Chapter 6. Colour Management
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Chapter 7. Input and Output
- Scanning
- Image Capture
- Drum scanning
- An Automator workflow for a Folder Action
- Scanning images
- Spotlight – EXIF search
- Digital capture and metadata
- Digital images
- Shooting in RAW using a DSLR camera
- Quartz engine – PDF and Preview
- Preview
- Spotlight – slideshow
- Output
- Putting images on the Internet
- Apache Web Server
- Handing over images
- Handing over image files – PDF
- Chapter 8. Network, Backup, Archive
- Chapter 9. Conclusion
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Index
Product information
- Title: Mac OS X for Photographers
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2009
- Publisher(s): Focal Press
- ISBN: 9781136105173
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