MY TOOLS
ON DESKTOP AND MOBILE
FOR THE HEARTS STILL BEATING LIGHTROOM PRESETS
What do you expect me to say about my own presets? Well, of course, I love them. They help me to edit faster, more consistent and in the style I enjoy the most.
These are available for Adobe Lightroom and Camera Raw.
Click the link to find out more about them.
JPEG MINI
Get the smallest image file size without compromising quality or changing your workflow. You can upload Hi-Res photos faster, save tons of hard drive space, improve customer viewing experience and make your website faster.
Using patented image optimization technology, JPEGmini reduces the file size of your photos significantly (up to 80%), while preserving their full resolution and quality. Smaller image file sizes allow you to upload and download your full resolution images faster. For us photographers with an image-intensive website, our web pages will load faster, improving user experience and SEO.
PIC-TIME
These nice folks from Israel changed the game with their online galleries. In my opinion these are the best looking galleries you can provide your clients with.
Plus: they keep on adding features on a weekly basis it seems. From an integrated online shop with connection to printing companies from all over the world, to your clients being able to design their own wedding album, to their newest addition: slideshows! These are awesome and you’d be stupid to not give their service a try. Whatever gallery provider you are using right now, I dare to say Pic-Time are better.
If you wanna sign up with them, feel free to use the code “HAFENLIEBE” for a free month.
NARRATIVE PUBLISH
When Narrative came out with Publish, they totally changed the game how photographers blogged their images. I remember how much fun I had working on all the details and layouts of my blog posts. It’s so much fun.
But if you don’t want to spend time and focus all the love on details, you can put together blog posts in one click – wizardry.
And there’s so much more to it, best is to check the link below and try it for yourself.
NARRATIVE SELECT
Select is Narrative’s latest addition to their app roster. It’s a game-changing image culling software, powered by smart tech.
Select shows you when faces are out of focus or blinking – so you can quickly eliminate the duds, resulting in a higher quality cull.
View closeup crops of all faces, all at once – making it a breeze to compare the same people across a series of similar images – pretty soon you’ll be culling group-shots like a boss.
(At the moment it’s a MacOS only app.)
OCTOA
Octoa is a CRM developed by photographers for photographers. Based in Amsterdam, Octoa is completely GDPR compliant.
As there’s a plugin for Flothemes websites, I can easily connect my contact form on the website with Octoa’s database and keep my website’s design consistent. (Of course you can also embed a form from Octoa on your site.
Octoa manages my contacts, integrates with Gmail, handles my contracts, surveys, my calendar and could also do the invoicing.
CRASHPLAN
CrashPlan cloud data backups gives me peace of mind. I get all the data protection I need in one seamless online cloud backup solution.
Cloud backup runs automatically in the background. Doesn’t slow me down. There’s no extra charge for space. It allows me to control how long my deleted files are kept. Backups of external hard drives are included at no extra cost. I can recover files right now, without extra costs.
SUNSEEKER
Sunseeker is a comprehensive solar tracking & compass app. It shows the sun’s hourly direction intervals, sunrise sunset times, twilight times, sun shadow, the golden hour & more. The surveyor view shows the solar direction for each sunlight hour. Sunseeker has both a flat compass view & a 3D Augmented Reality (AR) view to show the solar position & path.
It helps me to plan according to the golden hour or blue hour & optimal sunlight conditions, sunrise & sunset times & directions at and for any location.
