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About iphoto for mac2/3/2024 ![]() These were Apple’s acknowledgements that tangible photos still had value in a digital era, and it subsequently added calendars, greeting cards, softcover books, and letterpress cards to iPhoto. How-To: Go beyond OS X Photos + make amazing wall art from your Mac’s pictures (Part 1)Īpple knew it had something special to share with the world when it released iPhoto in 2002: in addition to printing 20″ by 30″ poster-sized photos, the original iPhoto’s “most stunning feature” (according to Apple) was a page layout tool that quickly turned digital photo collections into printed hardcover books. This third and final part looks at several additional options: turning your photos into hand-painted art, printing on brushed silver aluminum, and large-format “ behind acrylic glass” photo printing. Each is different from the prior prints we covered, and one is the most beautiful large photo-to-wall art process I’ve yet seen… Part 1 of this How-To guide looked at large-format metal prints, and Part 2 looked at canvas and glass prints, with tips on composing large-format images. ![]() It’s possible to use Photos to create large paper prints, but there’s a lot of exciting large-format photo printing work being done now with other materials, including metal, glass, and canvas. That’s where this How-To series comes in. Yet even though Canon, Sony, and Nikon have introduced high- and ultra-high-resolution cameras capable of creating huge prints, Apple hasn’t updated its apps with new large-format print options. Since iPhoto launched in 2002, Apple has offered photo and book printing services, a feature later added to Aperture and OS X Photos. Apple has known this since the dawn of digital photography. Even the tiny cameras built into iPhones take much better-quality photos than Kodaks and Polaroids, and more of them, too: the days of 12-, 24-, or 36-exposure film cartridges and fading exposures are long gone, replaced by all but infinite burst-mode photos that can live on your computer forever.īut some photos deserve a more prominent display in your home than a vault in your computer’s photo library. Although digital photography has taken small annual steps for 20 years, those steps have collectively evolved early, uselessly low-resolution digital cameras into superior alternatives to their film-based predecessors. History will remember the early 21st Century as a turning point for photography - the point at which mainstream photos transitioned from chemical to digital, thereby becoming “print optional” for the first time. How-To: Go beyond OS X Photos + make amazing wall art from your Mac’s pictures (Part 3) This brand new part 4 explores three additional services, looking for the first time at photo prints on wood, as well as spotlighting several nice variations on prior themes… Previously, I looked at how to turn your photos into large-sized metal, acrylic, and canvas wall art. Turning your favorite photos into large-format wall art is a great way to decorate your home or office, and with the recent introduction of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, higher-resolution photos and ultra-high-res panoramas are possible, increasing the image quality of even your everyday snaps.Įven though Apple’s OS X Photos app focuses on making small prints, photo books, and calendars, there are some great third-party photo-to-wall art services out there. The premise: as photography has gone digital, most of the pictures we take have become trapped on our computers, rarely seeing the light of day. Several months ago, I wrote a three-part guide to making amazing wall art from your Mac’s photos ( part 1, part 2, part 3) - a popular series that readers told me they’d really enjoyed.
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