It is also bewildering for that exact reason.
Freeway’s has a great User Manual which is incredibly thorough and detailed. You are left with the impression that this is somehow baggage from yesteryear which it actually is. That may well be true, but you will quickly encounter HTML and CSS terms everywhere in the app as if you are expected to have foreknowledge of them before you start.
Moving panes out of the way constantly quickly becomes tiring.įreeway states that you do not need to code at all to build your website. Freeway also uses floating panes everywhere which quickly becomes a pain as they always seem to be in exactly the place where you need to be. In terms of usability, you have to remember that Freeway works in a different way to all other apps on the Mac. This really slows you down your workflow when using the app as Freeway cannot take advantage of improvements to the macOS UI that have come over the years. Immediately you will be struck by how old the UI looks. Adobe will finally stop support for the Flash plug-in in 2020.Īfter this warning message, you are taken to the Freeway’s theme template chooser… for general pages you have a choice of only nine built-in templates! After selecting the theme you want to use, you can start working on your website. In 2019, no website should be using Flash files at all.
When first starting Freeway under macOS Mojave, the first message you’ll typically come across is one telling you that you will need to install Adobe Flash plug-in to run Flash files. It’s rumoured that Freeway is being totally redeveloped as a brand new app, but no date set for release and being a new version 1.0 app may bring problems all of its own.
If you upgrade your macOS to Catalina this fall, Freeway will not work at all.
In addition, the Carbon API will not be supported in MacOS Catalina which will be an exclusively 64-bit Operating System.
This means that if you use Freeway in macOS Mojave, you’ll get warning messages when launching the app that it should be updated. That’s down to the fact that Freeway is a 32-bit Carbon application. Taking a look at the latest version of Freeway Pro, version 7, you’re immediately struck by how old its User Interface is. Published by SoftPress, Freeway’s has a long history and the product appeared to be abandoned in 2016 when SoftPress ceased trading, however, the company restarted in 2017 as a parred down business proclaiming that “We missed you! We’ve returned from the netherworld…….” Want more tips from Serge Ramelli? Make sure you follow his YouTube channel for more free tutorials.Freeway Pro is a website building product for the Mac that’s been around since about 1996. Now, those are some neat tricks to try for your next night photography around your city! Finally, setting the shutter speed to 10 seconds produced a well-exposed shot with a trail of light blazing across the highway.Īs a bonus, Serge threw in a Lightroom tutorial for touching up the shot, and for creating a panorama photo by merging two of his long exposure shots with a little help from Photoshop. Also, to make sure his foreground (the highway) and the background (the buildings behind it) are sharp, he set his aperture at f/10.
While you’re shooting at night, you also want to get a crisp image that has minimal noise, so Serge set his camera at the lowest ISO possible (ISO 50 in this case) and turned on the noise reduction in camera. Of course, you’ll need a tripod and maybe a slightly wide angle lens if you’re shooting a wide highway and want to capture as much of the surrounding elements in your shots. The next best thing? Wait for nightfall and head to a nice vantage point to shoot the quintessential long exposure of cities scene at night. The other half comes in this video tutorial from Serge Ramelli.įrench photographer Serge Ramelli wanted to shoot some nice city snaps around downtown Los Angeles, but didn’t get the dramatic sunset shot he originally wanted. If you can think of a nice vantage point where you can capture this beautiful city scene, you’re already halfway there. Ever wanted to get those gorgeous long exposure shots of busy cities with light streaking along the streets? It’s one of the classic highway and cityscape shots every photographer does now and then because it conveys a lot of energy and activity in just one frame.