Photography articles

On this page you’ll find an overview of all the articles I’ve written over the years. The more recent contributions focus mainly on photography and software development in .NET (C#, Visual Studio, VSTS, Azure, LINQ, Entity Framework, Web Services, WPF, Silverlight, …). The older articles were often created as teaching or demonstration material for my computer club VJI and cover topics such as Delphi, PHP, databases, JavaScript, Windows, Office, multimedia applications, and even Atari.

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Metadata in photos

Dutch

Photography

Lightroom

In this article, you’ll learn what metadata are and how to use them effectively when managing your photo collection. You’ll discover what EXIF, IPTC, and XMP metadata contain, how these formats differ, and what type of information they store. You’ll also get practical guidance on powerful tools like ExifTool, which allow you to read and modify metadata. In addition, topics such as geotagging, the use of keywords, and working with photo-management software like Lightroom are covered.

Organizing and renaming photos

Dutch

Photography

Lightroom

Learn how to organize your photos efficiently with a clear folder structure, consistent file names, and practical batch-renaming tools. This article helps you select, sort, and retrieve photos more quickly, and supports a workflow that is structured, reliable, and easy to maintain.

Magix - Quality video DVD & video files

Dutch

Multimedia

Photography

Short article about the best settings which can be used to create high quality DVD videos with Magix.

Magix - Multimedia travel coverages

Dutch

Multimedia

Photography

This article provides a few ideas, tips and tricks on how to create nice looking multimedia travel coverage. It demonstrates how to create animated maps, use panoramic photos, ... in DVD videos.

Magix photos on CD&DVD

Dutch

Multimedia

Photography

This is a small report, which is written in Dutch, about the application Magix Photos on CD&DVD. This software makes it possible to create good looking multimedia presentations which can be played on a DVD player on your TV.

Ulead DVD PictureShow

Dutch

Multimedia

Photography

Short report about the features of Ulead DVD PictureShow which can be used to create photo slideshows on VCD, SVCD or DVD.

ACDSee - View, manage and edit photos

Dutch

Multimedia

Photography

ACDSee is one of the best viewers for all kinds of graphical file formats. But this application has a lot more features; it allows you to resize/crop images, convert images to other file formats, rename files in batch, manage albums, view file info and EXIF info, ... In this article, which is written in Dutch, I will show how ACDSee can be used to view, edit and manage photos.

Improve photos with some easy steps

Dutch

Multimedia

Photography

This short article, which is written in Dutch, demonstrates how you can use ACDSee and Corel PhotoPaint to edit a photo. Brightness, contrast and sharpness are often the key ingredients to improve a photo.

Different kinds of memory cards

Dutch

Multimedia

Photography

This document gives a short summary of the different kinds of memory cards for digital cameras like Compact Flash, SD, MemoryStick, Smart Media, xD, ...

Save images as JPG

Dutch

Multimedia

Photography

JPG or JPEG is the most used file format for photos and images. This file format offers compression but this also leads to quality loss. In this small document I will show the differences between compression, file size and quality of JPG files.