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Access iPhone photos through Preview iOS devices
Preview has an Import function that allows you to grab images from various sources. If you choose, in Preview, File > Import Image while your iPhone is plugged in, will open a new window with all of the photos on your iPhone camera roll. You can then select photos and choose Import and the photos will open in Preview, thus allowing you to save or export photos from your iPhone without using iPhoto or Image Capture.

[kirkmc adds: I don't have an iPhone, so I can't test this, but it makes sense...]
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Access iPhone photos through Preview
Authored by: fabri on Aug 18, '08 07:56:53AM

Very nice ! Works great ! Thanks



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Authored by: Karel_G on Aug 18, '08 08:33:30AM

Great hint, and it works with the iPod Touch too!



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Authored by: kirkmc on Aug 18, '08 08:42:32AM

Since the iPod touch doesn't take pictures, what exactly do you mean? Are you talking about screenshots?

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Authored by: lar3ry on Aug 18, '08 09:27:06PM

Not just screen shots, but pictures from an iPod Touch that was sync'ed to another person's system.



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Authored by: zpjet on Aug 19, '08 02:29:53AM

really? because it doesn't make much sense. i have a lot of pics on my phone but the import only shows those taken by the camera, and screenshots.



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Authored by: dudemac on Aug 18, '08 10:09:00AM

I am assuming that you know that you may also use image capture to access photos on your iphone. I don't have a ipod touch but I would assume that it would work also.
It seems like all the apps that can import photos can access that phone. Iphoto works as well.

thedude



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Authored by: Stormchild on Aug 18, '08 11:11:01AM

It works, but not that well. Thumbnail previews don't show up, and when you select multiple images, you only end up getting one of them. And it opens it into a new, untitled document, so you have to save it as well.

Thanks for the Image Capture tip. I didn't realize it could access my iPod Touch. It presents the same import interface as Preview (I imagine it's a shared library). There's still no thumbnail previews (so you can't tell which one(s) you want), but when I selected multiple images, they all imported properly and saved as new files automatically. I find this more useful than the Preview method.

I haven't tried importing images from my iPod with Aperture yet, but I imagine it can. Obviously the iPod has no camera -- I'm just importing screenshots and saved images from Safari -- so I really don't need to load them into a photo editing app.



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Authored by: asmeurer on Aug 18, '08 11:47:41AM

For some reason, even iPhoto doesn't provide a thumbnail preview for any screen shots. It does for other images, though. It's probably a bug on the iPod end.



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Authored by: VxJasonxV on Sep 02, '08 10:46:31AM

I did this, and now I can't use preview for anything :(.

Quick Look is my saving grace at the moment.

(I have bigger problems at hand, however.)



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Authored by: vincentvw on Feb 01, '10 02:38:55AM

For those that think it isn't useful for the iPod Touch, you can also save pictures from Safari et al into your picture library for future importing through Preview or iPhoto. It's handy when blogging about stuff or, you know, pr0n.



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Authored by: abay on Feb 06, '12 08:37:10AM

I've found Preview really useful for this purpose, but for some reason Preview always shuts down unexpectedly when I import photos off my iPhone 3G. System overload?



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