Video Tutorials, News and Insights for Apple Users

Learn how to use Snow Leopard’s Preview application to cut out backgrounds or objects in images and photos. Preview has a standard Lasso Selection tool, a Smart Lasso tool and an Instant Alpha tool that can be used for this purpose. You can use these semi-transparent images on top of other images, in documents or [...] (Read More, 20 Replies)

You can use Preview in Snow Leopard to merge documents and pages within documents. It works a little differently than it did in Leopard because you can have multiple documents in the sidebar which can confuse things. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. On today’s episode, let’s learn how [...] (Read More, 19 Replies)

You can go even further with Print As PDF by printing into Preview and then saving the preview document. You can reduce the file size or apply any number of Quartz filters. You can even make your own filter. You can also save as an encrypted PDF. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is [...] (Read More, 9 Replies)

Preview was updated for Snow Leopard to include some powerful annotation features. You can now mark up documents and images with lines, notes, highlights and links. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. On today’s episode, let’s learn how to use annotations in Preview. So, Preview has been around for [...] (Read More, 22 Replies)