Size details (dimensions and megapixels) using PhotInfo app.
- Camera+ on iPhone 6+ TIFF at 3264x2448 8 MP > 12.1 MB file size
- Cropped square 2448x2448 6 MP> 8MB size
- Touch Retouch > 2.6 MB
- Waterlogue > 2.2 MB
- Camera+ (rotate image) & Waterlogue > 1.8 MB
- Distressed FX > 1.6 MB
- PhotoToaster > 1.6 MB
- Touch Retouch & Image Blender 1.8 MB
Roughly 31.6 MB of space needed to process one image. Because at any point I might want to go back to a previous version and begin editing with different effects in a new workflow. By my calculator app, 100 photos processed this way would take up 3 GB of storage on my iPhone.
Print at 8" x 8" at Costco
Next time, cropping will be at a later stage.
So how many stages of this work do I want to keep on my iOS devices? First and last? How many to archive to my computer? All because this is a "teaching moment" for me. Best to create a summary workflow image using Diptic or PicCollage. Keep first, last and summary.
Thinking through editing the series
Print at 8x10 or larger; three or four images to be framed individually but grouped together on a wall.
In Photos make potential images as Favorites. In the Albums view of Photos create a new folder then inside create a new Album "Winter Series." From the Favorites album, select related images > touch Add To link open the folder then touch the new album - Bingo! Photos load into album. Keep track of the dates of the images in this folder in case you want to search out alternatives.
Review photo resolution from the album using the Share button and PhotInfo app. Camera/iPhone, File size, dimensions, ISO and shutter speed are reported there.
Printable Size Research
Open Mpix app as a print size guide, upload photos in the series (temporally) to see what sizes the original image will print. Uploading should be done on home WIFI instead of using up cellular data. Darn - the updated Mpix app is less friendly to preview larger print sizes. Guess I'll just have to get used to reading the numbers. Mpix does report that an iPhone 6 Plus photo at 3216x2400 will print 20'x30' but not 24"x36" and an iPhone X photo at 4032 x 3024 can print at 24" x36" size. Both of these example photos are uncropped and not yet stylized. Some of my older images from iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 will print to 12" x 18" size if not cropped significantly.
Working with five to seven images through the stylizing workflow will hopefully give me three to four images for wall display.
Fall 2019 Update using PicCollage to preview edits, filters and effects and merging images creates many more intermediate images! The reference to "Camera Roll" is from earlier versions of iOS and is equivalent to "All Photos" in iOS 12. Any app mentioned below could be substituted for other apps you like.
Preparation
Locate images, mark as Favorites, create a Photo Album for this project.
Use iPad for editing and archiving steps.
Early Editing Steps
Snapseed for perspective correction. Export to Camera Roll.
Snapseed to correct White Balance between multiple images.
Touch Retouch or Snapseed to remove distractions or blemishes.
Preview Possibilities
Add images to PicCollage. Export to Camera Roll.
Open original collage in various apps, experiment with settings. Export to CR.
Open last image in Photos. Use Edit > Extensions > Text to annotate app & setting info. Save.
Open original collage in Image Blender and add edited image. Experiment with transparency. Export.
Still using Image Blender, experiment with different Blending Modes. Save if helpful.
Using Image Blender you can import two edited images to compare results.
Editing Steps
Camera + 2 Lab > Clarity and Straighten. Export to CR.
Touch Retouch as needed. Export to CR.
Waterlogue (Effect ___, Size ____ ). Export to CR.
Image Blender for Waterlogue and original image. Export to CR.
Check resolution of stages with PhotInfo.
Photos app to rotate some images 45º and 90º (because effects leave "tells").
Distress FX (Filters ____ , Paint _____ ). Export to CR.
PhotoToaster then export to CR
Touch Retouch to soften DFX & PT paint effects. Export to CR.
Vintage Scene effects if desired. Export to CR.
Check resolution of stage with PhotoInfo.
Printing
Move final image to project Photo Album
Open print service app and upload final image.
Evaluate print quality, adjust as needed and reprint.
Move image to computer for further processing as needed.
Archive
Move image to computer or cloud service if desired.
Delete intermediate image steps unless they could be used in new projects.
Review stages and adjust workflow.
Move images to computer for final processing, printing and archiving.
- Currently I am using a 2TB external drive for my DSLR photos and Lightroom editing. This drive has two folders, one for DSLR/LR photos and another for iPhone archives. I keep an off-site 2TB duplicate drive.
- There are several ways and apps to move images to a computer. Dropbox is a cloud service that can store images, videos and documents. Apple introduced Files with iOS 11 and you can create folders and copy images to Files. Move images from Dropbox or Files to your image archival hard drive. After confirming the archives and running a backup you can then delete images from Photos on iOS.
- PhotoSync and PhotoManager Pro are two iOS apps that creates a web service on iOS and you use a web browser to log into the iOS server to transfer images.
Consider moving images to computer and load into Photoshop to convert 8-bit images to 16-bit images before sending to print service.
