Cartoonjosh Posted February 20, 2020 Posted February 20, 2020 I'd like to import photos from my iPhone directly into Affinity Photo, but when I choose "File ---> Aquire image" my phone does not appear in the device list. Is there a way to do this? Quote
h_d Posted February 20, 2020 Posted February 20, 2020 I believe the Acquire Image command works with scanners, not phones. Here's mine: (I think it's Mac-only too.) Quote Affinity Photo 2.5.3, Affinity Designer 2.5.3, Affinity Publisher 2.5.3, Mac OSX 14.5, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel.
Dan C Posted February 20, 2020 Posted February 20, 2020 Hi Cartoonjosh The Acquire Image option is an Apple Framework which we connect to when displaying this dialog. As far as I can see from their documentation, this should work for any device that is detected in the 'Image Capture' Mac Utility - including scanners & iPhones. I've tested this here this morning and I'm seeing the same behaviour as h_d, scanners are detected and iPhones are not when using Acquire Image in Affinity. I believe this is a bug with the current version of Affinity, therefore I'll log this with our development team for further investigation now. Many thanks for your report! h_d and Cartoonjosh 2 Quote
h_d Posted February 20, 2020 Posted February 20, 2020 (edited) It does work after a fashion, @Dan C and @Cartoonjosh The iPhone has to be physically connected to the computer via USB (not wifi or Bluetooth) - and then you run the standalone Image Capture utility. It's in your Applications - Utilities folder. You may need to go through security, and then you'll get a display of the images on your phone. At the bottom of the Image Capture window, change the Import To pull-down to Affinity Photo, then click the Import button. The image will open in Affinity Photo. It's a bit of kludge I suppose and it would be fab if it worked through Affinity Photo's menu as well. (It would also be fab if the images displayed in Image Capture were slightly greater than microscopic in size grrrrrrrr.) Cheers, H Edited February 20, 2020 by h_d Updated 'double-click' to 'click Import button' Dan C, R C-R and Cartoonjosh 2 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.5.3, Affinity Designer 2.5.3, Affinity Publisher 2.5.3, Mac OSX 14.5, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel.
markw Posted February 20, 2020 Posted February 20, 2020 Hi h_d, As to the thumbnail sizes you can adjust them with the little slider bottom right corner of the Image Capture window. h_d 1 Quote macOS 12.7.6 | 15" Macbook Pro, 2017 | 4 Core i7 3.1GHz CPU | Radeon Pro 555 2GB GPU + Integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 1.536GB | 16GB RAM | Wacom Intuos4 M
h_d Posted February 20, 2020 Posted February 20, 2020 Nice one @markw, I take back my grrrrrr. (You can also import images into Designer and Publisher this way, even though they don't have an Acquire Image menu item.) R C-R 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.5.3, Affinity Designer 2.5.3, Affinity Publisher 2.5.3, Mac OSX 14.5, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel.
markw Posted February 20, 2020 Posted February 20, 2020 This isn’t related directly to AP, but just out of interest, another thing you can do is use your iPhone as a sort of “tethered” camera with Preview to take photos and scan documents directly to your computer by going to File > Import From iPhone > Take Photo or choose Scan Document. R C-R 1 Quote macOS 12.7.6 | 15" Macbook Pro, 2017 | 4 Core i7 3.1GHz CPU | Radeon Pro 555 2GB GPU + Integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 1.536GB | 16GB RAM | Wacom Intuos4 M
h_d Posted February 20, 2020 Posted February 20, 2020 Yup, that works with quite a few of Apple's own apps - including Pages, Numbers and Keynote - via the Insert menu. Cat in a spreadsheet: markw 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.5.3, Affinity Designer 2.5.3, Affinity Publisher 2.5.3, Mac OSX 14.5, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel.
R C-R Posted February 20, 2020 Posted February 20, 2020 Thanks @h_d & @markw for all the tips for acquiring images! 👍 I wonder if it is worth making a bug report about File > Acquire Image... in AP not working as seems it should? Cartoonjosh 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
walt.farrell Posted February 20, 2020 Posted February 20, 2020 3 minutes ago, R C-R said: I wonder if it is worth making a bug report about File > Acquire Image... in AP not working as seems it should? I think that @Dan C already said he was logging it, in his post a few hours ago. R C-R and Cartoonjosh 1 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Cartoonjosh Posted February 21, 2020 Author Posted February 21, 2020 On 2/20/2020 at 12:22 PM, Dan C said: Hi Cartoonjosh The Acquire Image option is an Apple Framework which we connect to when displaying this dialog. As far as I can see from their documentation, this should work for any device that is detected in the 'Image Capture' Mac Utility - including scanners & iPhones. I've tested this here this morning and I'm seeing the same behaviour as h_d, scanners are detected and iPhones are not when using Acquire Image in Affinity. I believe this is a bug with the current version of Affinity, therefore I'll log this with our development team for further investigation now. Many thanks for your report! Hi, thank you. Yes, in fact I was expecting the same dialog box I get for my scanner but, bo go. I hope this can be fixed Quote
Cartoonjosh Posted February 21, 2020 Author Posted February 21, 2020 On 2/20/2020 at 12:45 PM, h_d said: It does work after a fashion, @Dan C and @Cartoonjosh The iPhone has to be physically connected to the computer via USB (not wifi or Bluetooth) - and then you run the standalone Image Capture utility. It's in your Applications - Utilities folder. You may need to go through security, and then you'll get a display of the images on your phone. At the bottom of the Image Capture window, change the Import To pull-down to Affinity Photo, then click the Import button. The image will open in Affinity Photo. It's a bit of kludge I suppose and it would be fab if it worked through Affinity Photo's menu as well. (It would also be fab if the images displayed in Image Capture were slightly greater than microscopic in size grrrrrrrr.) Cheers, H Hi, thank you, that's a good solution. Problem is, I have stoppe using the Mac's Image Capture because since the last two or three Op Sys updates it seems to have stopped working properly. It won't le me select photos to import (regardless of where I choose to import them) because the selection simply de-selects by itself. As a partial workaround I started using Preview as an import tool. It would really be great to have this as a direct import into Affinity, though. Quote
h_d Posted February 21, 2020 Posted February 21, 2020 41 minutes ago, Cartoonjosh said: the selection simply de-selects by itself That's bad news. I don't know what to suggest - maybe Apple Support? Quote Affinity Photo 2.5.3, Affinity Designer 2.5.3, Affinity Publisher 2.5.3, Mac OSX 14.5, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel.
Cecil Posted February 21, 2020 Posted February 21, 2020 USB connected to iPhone and download or acquire from USB. Apple Photos? Quote Cecil iMac Retina 5K, 27”, 2019. 3.6 GHz Intel Core 9, 40 GB Memory DDR4, Radeon Pro 580X 8 GB, macOS,iPad Pro iPadOS Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection
R C-R Posted February 21, 2020 Posted February 21, 2020 20 minutes ago, Cartoonjosh said: Problem is, I have stoppe using the Mac's Image Capture because since the last two or three Op Sys updates it seems to have stopped working properly. Strange. Image Capture works fine for me on Mojave & to the extent I ever used it, also when I was running High Sierra or earlier macOS versions. Does it deselect immediately after making a selection or after clicking the "Import" button? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
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