Pictures displayed on a computer screen
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Mask editing for Pages
When trying to edit the mask, I am stuck with this blue dot that only rounds the corners of the mask and I can't get rid of it. How do I go about editing the mask borders?
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Where does OS X store the profile photo it takes when you first create an account?
When you first create your OS X login account it takes a picture of you. Where does that picture get stored? I can't find it in ~/Pictures or ~/Library.
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How to fix weird screen issues on Macbook Pro after appr. half an hour of activity?
Recently my couple year old MacBook Pro has been acting up strangely. I generally use it for watching videos. After about half an hour or so of activity, the screen starts to look like this:
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Sudden drop in gaming performance (FPS) on a mid-2010 iMac
About two weeks ago, I had a sudden drop in gaming performance on my 27" iMac with ATI Radeon HD 5750 graphics. While before I could play games without any problems at high graphical settings, ...
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Where does OS X store your current desktop picture?
Where does OS X store your current desktop picture? I read somewhere else that it was in /Library/Caches/com.apple.Desktop. But I don't have that directory.
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What Is Graphic Switching & Are There Reasons to Turn It Off?
I was tinkering about in the System Preferences of my Macbook Pro yesterday, when I came across "Automatic Graphic Switching" within the Energy Saver pane as exemplied below:
What exactly is ...
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I Think My Graphics Card Changed
I opened System Information today only to find that my graphics card name has changed from Intel 4000 (or something like that) to AMD Radion:
I don't think I'm going crazy.
EDIT: I was right! Here ...
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Problem changing desktop background in Mountain Lion (10.8.1)
I have performed an upgrade to the latest Snow Leopard and now to Mountain Lion (10.8.1). Post upgrade my desktop background isn't no longer changing. The background will not change when I try and ...
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Strange looking mouse pointer with squiggles and 24
I opened up my macbook this morning (resumed from sleep) and found that my mouse pointer looked like this:
If I hovered over a button, the pointer part would change to the little hand, but the ...
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Can a Mac with Thunderbolt effectively use a PCI Graphics Card using an external cage?
I was wondering how good thunderbolt is for adding a beefier PCI graphics card to my MacBook Air.
If I use a PCI enclosure like this, will the card integrate with the Mac to enhance the performance ...
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How can I show a slideshow of pictures in multiple subfolders while keeping them in order?
I have a folder that contains a number of sub folders that are full of pictures. What I'd like to be able to do is start a slideshow from the parent folder that will show all the images in all the ...
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Macbook Pro Battery / Discrete Graphics Card Issues in 10.8.2
I am posting because I currently have a 15'' Macbook Pro (Early 2011 edition) and have suffered from poor battery life since upgrading from Mac OS X 10.7 to 10.8.
Before the upgrade, I could use my ...
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Decreasing resolution of screenshots increases file size
I've noticed that on my rMBP, when I try to make a screenshot smaller using Preview.app version 6.0.1 (Tools -> Adjust Size).
When I'm trying to decrease the image size to upload it, the file size ...
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Mac Pro (mid 2010) grinds to a halt when display is rotated to portrait
I have a Mac Pro Mid 2010 with two ATI Radion 5770's driving 6 Dell U2412M's. Problem is, when even just one of these displays is rotated to portrait, the entire system grinds to a halt. CPU usage ...
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Finder doesn't show thumbnail previews for RAW files
Since I upgraded to Lion (10.7.5), Finder doesn't display thumbnail previews of ARW files. ARW is a Sony RAW image format (in my case files were produced by Sony NEX-5 camera). Finder used to display ...
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Eject Disk Image at logout with AppleScipt?
I would like to know how to use AppleScript to write a script that automatically ejects a disk image whenever the user logs out of their account.
This script would be the complementary inverse to a ...
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Convert multiple jpeg images to pdf [duplicate]
How can I convert multiple jpeg images to pdf, without reducing quality?
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Trouble transferring pictures from an iPhone 3GS to PC
I had dropped my iPhone 3GS and the left bottom corner of the screen had cracked. Now the touch screen nor home button work. I'm able to charge the iPhone with my USB charger but am not able to do ...
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Manage iPhoto on external hard disk
Most of my Mac hard drive is filled with iPhoto pictures. I have an external USB hard drive. What to do? Just moving pictures from Pictures/iPhoto Library is not a perfect option as I want to have ...
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3D modeling application for Mac?
Background: I recently upgraded my Mac, and it happens to have a pretty nice graphics card (not that my old one wasn't nice ... in 2006). While I didn't upgrade my Mac for this purpose, it has ...
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Changing the default screenshot filename
Is there a way to change the default screenshot filename prefix (the Cmd-Shift-4 type screenshot) to something other than the default? The default name looks like this:
Screen Shot 2011-08-30 at ...
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magic mouse vs other mouse for graphic design
I've saw some review that the apple magic mouse isn't recommended by designers.
How do you find the magic mouse in your daily graphic design work? Would you recommend it? If not what are some good ...
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Animations are choppy and jerky after a day (Mountain Lion)
After my 13" MacBook Pro (2010) has been on/sleeping for a day, the changing desktop animation and mission control gets choppy. Only a reboot fixes this problem and it stays good for several hours. ...
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Fix bad image quality in dark images in iMovie
I have an iMovie project (stop motion animation). Everything is fine, except for a dark scene. The photos get pixelated and blocked, and really ruined. The original image is very sharp and clear, yet ...
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screen with “cloud” spots and freezes
I have a macbook pro that is getting some error, I can work with him for a while but then e freezes and some "cloud-like" spots appear on the screen.
What can be its problem?
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Transparent PNG photo shape creator on iPad
I have searched high and low looking for an app that will do a very specific thing.
I want to take a photo from my camera roll, apply a pre created shape mask to it (not freeform) and then save it ...
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How to set read-only dmg background picture in Mountain Lion?
Until MacOS 10.7, I used to put a png file in a read/write dmg, then I set it as its background picture, then I hided it and converted the dmg to a read-only one. Everything just worked.
Now, in ...
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I can't get my old pictures off my iPod
I just updated my iPod 3rd generation, and I'm having a lot of problems!
Photostream started only with my new pictures and now I'm not able to get my old pictures off my iPod and it's really ...
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How to get 3 1900x1200 monitors working on a 2010 Mac Pro
I have a new Mac Pro with a single ATI 5770 card installed. It has two mini-display ports, and one DVI port
I have tried the following configurations:
All 3 DVI connections: This results in one ...
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Mac: VRAM with multiple Monitors
It seems that when multiple monitors are attached to a MacBook Pro (Retina), OSX splits up the VRAM for the monitors. Even when a screen is captured by e.g. a game, performance degrades very steep. ...
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What might cause a a dock icon to have pixellated noise?
This is possibly a non-issue, but the Finder icon that appears when you Cmd + Tab has some strange graphical noise on the top. I can't remember how long ago it happened, or if I made anything strange ...
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Safari 6 rendering issues/artifacts (on Mountain Lion)
Final update I just received an email from Apple confirming this bug has been fixed in OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3
I've been having rendering issues with Safari 6 on different systems all running ...
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Wireless both way sync of photos on iPhone
iTunes allows you to "sync" pictures however this only copies files from Mac to iPhone, forcing me to do it manually over the USB cable if I want to copy my photos from iPhone to my Mac.
I'm running ...
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SNES Graphics Editor for Mac?
Does anyone know of an editor than can open/read SNES 4BPP graphics files? Or at least one that can convert to/from this format?
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How can I turn on the Intel HD manually?
For some weeks my MacBook 6.2 does not switch to the integrated graphics adapter (Intel HD). This is especially crucial when I work on battery (which happens quite often). I guess the runtime could be ...
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Graphical issues with Safari?
Sometimes during browsing the internet or typing stuff (even here), some blocks of the page disappear and overlap each other. They sometimes overlap the text im typing or text in articles im reading, ...
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Terrible GUI lag/glitchiness after reboot in Mountain Lion 10.8.2
I got a brand new Retina MacBook Pro (2.6 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM, Mountain Lion 10.8.2) a couple months ago, and it was buttery smooth (for the most part) at first.
However, one day I turned ...
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Various graphics-related corruption/errors/misrendering with Mountain Lion
Since the November 2012 update to Moutain Lion, I keep getting these weird graphical issues.
The list of woes:
OpenCL crashes during application startup
Sometimes after the laptop wakes up from a ...
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Safari 6.0.2 not displaying images
Safari 6.0.2 on iMac will not load certain images in a web store I am visiting. The images used to load in Safari 5 and still load just fine in Safari on my iPad and iPhone. Any thoughts?
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An app similar to Gif Text?
Is there any application that is similar to Gif Text but with more images and continous updates ? I tried looking in the appstore but I don't think the keywords I used were good enough. I'm sure gif ...
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How do I insert a picture into the Notes app?
I use the Notes app for keeping track and sharing the extended notes with fellow physicians in cardiology studies. There are a lot of pros to this app and I would find it very much useful if I could ...
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Brand New MacBook Pro Retina Glitches
I noticed a lot of people have a similar problem like me. Strange glitches in some programs on some controls. They appear totally random. The image shows only one program. It also appears in Safari, ...
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Can I use a Mid 2011 27 inch iMac (Thunderbolt) as a display for a PC?
There are other questions on here that are similar, but I believe they relate to older models. If this is a dupe please close it though - I just want to find out if this can be done.
I bought a 27 ...
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Powerpoint: compress or downsample large images/graphics
I'm using Powerpoint 2011, and I'm not able to find an option to easily downsample or compress images to produce a smaller output PPTX or PPT file.
I don't need the high resolution in some of the ...
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How to display (small) image previews at actual size?
After upgrading to Lion, I'm finding that Finder is stretching the preview of smaller images (~100 pixels), which is making them look terrible.
Is there a setting somewhere I can check to have small ...
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Application similar to MS Paint to do graphical work on Mac
This is going to sound silly to someone who does this everyday.. but I am confused about something.
What do people use to do similar things like with MS Paint (not Paint.net), e.g. stuff like making ...
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Why are there several image folders when I connect my iPhone to Windows?
Normaly there was only one folder which hold my images taken from the native camera app. But now there are three folders, all filled with images? Why are there now three different image folders when I ...
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An app or script to watch folder and display new images in full screen?
I'm teaching a photography class and would like to use a cheap setup to display photos taken by the students in real time.
I have a macbook pro and an iphone. I also have an eye-fi card but it's an ...
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Bootcamp Win7 - Graphic distortion
I installed Windows 7 on MBP 13" 2012 using bootcamp. I have downloaded all drivers etc, system is updated. When I open EvE Online game client, the application works normally, although the graphics in ...
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iMac 2012 so slow and brake in photoshop [closed]
I'm using Lion on my iMac, and when I work with big Photoshop files (web design, not photos), I see sometimes slideshow when I move group objects. I think that this is a bug with the video drivers.
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