Tutorial: Make a Quartz Composition Part I
Quartz Composer, like Cover Flow, is one of those cool little gems of independent Mac software that Apple has acquired. Even though they weren’t created within Cupertino, these apps have changed the way we use and even think of Mac OS X.
Even with the most basic level of knowledge, you can use Quartz Composer to create “Compositions” that take advantage of fairly powerful technologies like OpenGL, Quartz and Core Image to create beautiful transitions, filters and screen savers. The creative possibilities are truly vast with Quartz Composer as your canvas. In this first of a two part series I’d like to walk you through a interesting tutorial to help you discover Quartz Composer and perhaps inspire your imagination to create cool compositions on your own.
Tutorial: How to Make a Flickr Uploader: Part II
This article is part of a 2 part series – check out my initial post on building a Flickr uploader.
Traditional “Contextual Menu Style” Image Uploader
My method of choice requires slightly more effort each time I upload, but provides much more freedom in naming, tagging and describing my individual photos. Rather than uploading a pre-designated folder’s contents in every run of the plug-in, it will only upload that image (or those images) that are selected in Finder. In other words this plug-in will act a bit more like the contextual menu actions you may have used before – like the “Create Archive of… ” and “Toast It” contextual menu commands.
Tutorial: How To Make a Flickr Uploader: Part I
This post is part of a 2 part series.
There are so many great applications for uploading you photos to Flickr, the social photo sharing site. You could use ConnectedFlow’s FlickrExport series, but is there a way to do it without installing extra apps?
In this tutorial I’d like to show you a very easy way to upload images from the Finder with a little help from Automator. Making a simple Automator Workflow Plug-in for the Finder to move your images to Flickr is an excellent and unobtrusive method I’d like to walk you through.
Tutorial: Automator Basics
In case you haven’t heard, Automator rules. Automator is the often under-appreciated and underestimated automation tool, provided by Apple in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, to bring the power of automation to users with no need for programming. In this simple tutorial I’ll show you the basics of Automator and walk you through a simple Backup application example. This should give you the solid foundation to start making useful actions for yourself.
The Basics of Automator
