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I have updated my Camera Obscura Icons with four more icons for your Aperture Library, your iPhoto Library, your Aperture Vault and for Aperture Projects.

The download package now includes 7 icons as an iContainer and for Mac (icns, Folder), Linux (PNG) and Windows (ico) and you can grab it from the Goodies page.

And if you’re interested, you can read my blog entry about the story behind this special Camera Obscura contained in these icons.

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These two desktop icons show the Camera Obscura as it was used by Nicéphore Niépce in an Aperture and iPhoto style and are intended as an homage to him. Nicéphore Niépce made it first possible to preserve an image taken with a camera obscura in 1826 or 1827 by using a special mixture of bitumen on a pewter plate, naming it Heliography. This first preserved photograph “View from the Window at Le Gras” is the one you can see in the iPhoto icon contained in this package. The third icon is the folder icon I have created for this icon package.

Either just download the icons or read the exciting story about the First Photograph.

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In addition to my Niépce’s Camera Obscura icons for Aperture and iPhoto I have made some Wallpapers containing both icons. All Wallpapers using a custom designed background which imitates the look of a metal plate like it was used in Niépce’s experiments although it wasn’t golden To make it more Mac style I have added a stenciled dots pattern (which is a commonly used reference to the front design of the MacPro). Here are the details:

• Aperture and iPhoto styled Camera Obscura as it was used by Nicéphore Niépce.
• Including one desktop version with the Aperture styled Camera Obscura and one with the iPhoto styled. Both come in 1920×1200 for widescreen displays and 1600×1200 for normal displays
• Including 2 different crops for the iPhone (480×320).

Just grab them from the Goodies page and have fun.

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