Did 2.0.1 fix the problem with Snapseed?

So I noticed that Snapseed had a bug-fix update after work today, and eagerly installed it.

Did 2.0.1 squash the bug?

Before I get to that, I thought of something I forgot to check earlier… the newfangled Photos app I won’t be using…Photos app doesn't see edits either|1|©JamesECockroft-20150416

Sadly, it doesn’t see the edits either. (This was likely a silly test, as it seems probable that it uses Image Capture to import, but was worth a check anyway.)

Maybe this too was fixed in the update? I hate it when other people do this, but… you’ll have to read on to find out. Continue reading “Did 2.0.1 fix the problem with Snapseed?”

Snapseed 2 has a problem…

Like the title says, the new Snapseed has a problem.

A big problem.

As mentioned previously, Google updated their Snapseed app not long ago. It’s a big update to a good app, but it has a fatal flaw.

As it’s readily available from the lock screen, I most often shoot with the iPhone’s built-in camera app. This means that I tend to import photos into apps and edit them, rather than shoot from the app itself.

Also, I’ve recently-ish been playing with editing film camera photos on the iPhone. These have been fledgling attempts and I’ve only shared one thusfar, but more are in the pipeline, perhaps.

If I want to use Snapseed for this—and why not? it’s a decent editing app—I’ve got a problem:

Here’s the picture I imported to Snapseed:Snapseed Fail|1|©JamesECockroft-20150409It was shot down in the Hill Country back in December with the Nikon FG and 50mm f/1.8 E Series on Agfa Vista Plus 200 film.

I exported an edited photo from Lightroom to a sync folder, and put it on the phone via iTunes.

I opened this in Snapseed 2.0 and gave it an edit. I was happy with the results and saved my work. Later that day, I imported the edited photo into Lightroom, or thought I did.

The edits weren’t there, so opened up Snapseed and saved the photo again. Here’s what that looked like in the iPhone’s Camera Roll:Snapseed Fail|4|©JamesECockroft-20150416Two edited photos? Wha?

Here’s what that looks like in Lightroom:

Why can’t Lightroom see the edits?

I tried with Image Capture…Image Capture Import Screen|©JamesECockroft-20150415No edits there either.

How can I get this from the phone to my computer? Well, like most apps, Snapseed will let you export to other apps, including email…email to self works|©JamesECockroft-20150415So email to self works, but you lose any exif data Snapseed might save in the process.

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Hipstamatic Disposable update 11 – 3 years later

I’ve been looking through my archives lately, and I came across the pictures I shot with Hipstamatic’s D series app. I didn’t recognize them at first, but one benefit of keeping a blog going this long is the ability to go back in time.

I wondered how the D series would fare on the iPhone 5. Seeing as I removed the app from the phone some years ago, I headed off to the App Store.  Continue reading “Hipstamatic Disposable update 11 – 3 years later”