SmugShot and Aperture - Not Friends?

pjp · August 24, 2008

I'm not really sure where the problem lies, and it could easily be on my end, but this is the behavior I'm seeing:

Pictures taken in the SmugShot application can't easily be imported to Aperture. I have SmugShot configured to save its pictures on the iPhone. When I connect the iPhone to my MacBook Pro and launch Aperture, I can see the SmugShot pictures in the Import window, but Aperture won't import them. If I do "Import All" the SmugShots don't come in. If I click on just the SmugShot, Aperture just doesn't recognize that I've selected it.

I then imported all of the pictutes via Image Capture. That grabbed all the pictures just fine, SmugShots and others. I was able to then import them into Aperture. But the SmugShots carry less EXIF info then those taken in the native Camera app. Notably, there is no Camera Make, Camera Model, GPS.

Incidentally, I note that when images uploaded via SmugShot appear on SmugMug, they don't even display the image date/time.

Does anyone else encounter these same issues? Am I doing something wrong?

pjp · September 4, 2008

Please forgive the bump, but I'm hoping this got lost in the holiday shuffle, and maybe someone can chime in on this issue.

Cheers

Andy · September 4, 2008

pjp wrote:

I'm not really sure where the problem lies, and it could easily be on my end, but this is the behavior I'm seeing:

Pictures taken in the SmugShot application can't easily be imported to Aperture. I have SmugShot configured to save its pictures on the iPhone. When I connect the iPhone to my MacBook Pro and launch Aperture, I can see the SmugShot pictures in the Import window, but Aperture won't import them. If I do "Import All" the SmugShots don't come in. If I click on just the SmugShot, Aperture just doesn't recognize that I've selected it.

I then imported all of the pictutes via Image Capture. That grabbed all the pictures just fine, SmugShots and others. I was able to then import them into Aperture. But the SmugShots carry less EXIF info then those taken in the native Camera app. Notably, there is no Camera Make, Camera Model, GPS.

Incidentally, I note that when images uploaded via SmugShot appear on SmugMug, they don't even display the image date/time.

Does anyone else encounter these same issues? Am I doing something wrong?

Hm.
Put your Can you import manually? Something's not right and I don't know what. Can you link us to a SmugShot image of yours.

pjp · September 4, 2008

Andy wrote:

Hm.
Put your Can you import manually? Something's not right and I don't know what. Can you link us to a SmugShot image of yours.

Hi Andy. I can import to Aperture by first importing them to my hard drive via Image Capture, and then in Aperture by browsing to where I saved them in Image Capture.

My SmugShot gallery is here. The most recent shots are taken in SmugShot; the earliest were taken in the native Camera app and uploaded via SmugShot. Guess you can tell by the resolution, too.

At any rate, thanks for your help.

Cheers.

Andy · September 4, 2008

pjp wrote:

But the SmugShots carry less EXIF info then those taken in the native Camera app.

Yeah we'll be improving that in a future release, for sure.

pjp · September 10, 2008

Andy wrote:

Yeah we'll be improving that in a future release, for sure.

Looking forward to it!

Any thoughts on the rest of my issue?

TheDuck · January 4, 2009

Smugshots not yet geotagging?
I thought I'd give smugshots a try and I'm noticing the same results as the original poster - very little EXIF stored, and no GPS geotagging at all. I do have "settings" to allow the GPS.

Any progress on the issues raised above?

Be seeing you,
The Duck

Andy · January 4, 2009

TheDuck wrote:

I thought I'd give smugshots a try and I'm noticing the same results as the original poster - very little EXIF stored, and no GPS geotagging at all. I do have "settings" to allow the GPS.

Any progress on the issues raised above?

Be seeing you,
The Duck

Hi, SmugShot is a GPS enabled app. Got a link to your SmugShot photo(s)?

Example: http://maps.smugmug.com/?feedType=geoAlbum&Data=5327768_k4DQi

pjp · January 4, 2009

Andy wrote:

Hi, SmugShot is a GPS enabled app. Got a link to your SmugShot photo(s)?

Andy, any progress on the point about having more EXIF info saved?

Andy · January 4, 2009

TheDuck wrote:

I thought I'd give smugshots a try and I'm noticing the same results as the original poster - very little EXIF stored, and no GPS geotagging at all. I do have "settings" to allow the GPS.

Any progress on the issues raised above?

Be seeing you,
The Duck

Duck- you have SmugIslands set to "No" so you don't have maps.

Your SmugShot photo you linked to me in PM indeed has Gedata. If you enabled mapping, you'd see it on a map.

Andy · January 4, 2009

pjp wrote:

Andy, any progress on the point about having more EXIF info saved?

Shizam will do it one day. Right now he's working on some other stuff, but the 'more exif' in the SmugShot files is a request I love.

SmugShot and Aperture - Not Friends?

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