What’s In My Computer?

There are a ton of stories about “what is in my camera bag” and I will no doubt do that piece also. But today I thought I would quickly share with you what is in my computer and how I use some of the applications.

First off, I have a two computer set-up, I take a Mac Powerbook into the field and have an iMac back at the office which is where I prefer to do the majority of my work.

Powerbook

• Adobe Bridge & Photoshop: De-facto image editor.
• Daylite 3: Daylite is a great Customer Relationship Management project. It handles all of my contacts and calendar. It is also has project manager, notes, and tracks opportunities. What is special is that it integrates all of things and has some automation features for common tasks.
• Cyberduck: A FTP client, A great thing when you want to upload your photos “Old Skool” style to a server.
• Flickr Uploader: An application provided by flickr to upload photos.
• Browsers: Safari & Firefox, I had been a firm believer in Safari but then recently tried Firefox and was very impressed when it worked out better on some sites where I had layout issues when pages loaded.
• Image Rescue: I should knock on wood as I say this, but I haven’t had to use this yet. It came with one of my CF cards from Lexar to rescue pictures from bad CF cards.
• MarsEdit: Another new tool in my belt. MarsEdit is an offline blog editor which gives me more flexibility in my writing of blogs.
• Photo Mechanic: In the field PhotoMechanic is my image management tool. I use it to bring in my photos and image browser as I look for my selects. I also use it for my captioning and keywording. It is killer fast and the work done keywording and captioning isn’t lost when I bring my photos into my main digital asset manager (Aperture, see more below) on my main work machine.
• Photoshelter Uploader: An application provided by Photoshelter to upload photos.
• Soundslides: A great tool that many photojournalists use to create Flash based multimedia shows from images and sound/music.

iMac

• Aperture: I don’t think that my explanation would do justice to all that Apple’s Aperture. Think of it as the Swiss Army tool for digital imaging, it does more than you would expect and then a little more.
• Adobe Bridge & Photoshop: Same as above
• Daylite 3: Same as above
• Cyberduck: Same as above
• Flickr Uploader: Same as above
• Browsers: Safari & Firefox: Same as above
• Image Rescue: Same as above
• MarsEdit: Same as above
• Photo Mechanic: Same as above
• Photoshelter Uploader: Same as above
• Soundslides: Same as above

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May 18, 2008 | Categories: Cameras & Equipment | Tags: Aperture, Hardware, iMac, Photo Mechanic, Photoshop, Powerbook, Software, Workflow | Leave A Comment »