Major bugs with iOS5 Photo Editing and Photostream

I, too, am confused at the Photo Editing functionality of iOS 5. What are we supposed to do with this? It doesn't seem to be integrated into ANYTHING. It's like a separate group at Apple built the editing function and dumped it in at the end. Why can't I get the edit into Photostream? Why can't I wirelessly get it back to iPhoto? Or am I just missing something here? And why doesn't iCloud have a Gallery feature???

Hmm -- my complaint above about photo editing, syncing, and the photostream is not correct, apparently.

I edited a photo on my iPhone yesterday. It was saved to the Camera Roll and then nothing else happened. It did not go to the Photostream. However, at some point yesterday, it DID get to the photostream. Not sure when -- I did a wireless sync last night.

So,

1. something eventually caused the iPhone to load it into the photostream or

2. the sync put it in iPhoto and iPhoto put it in the photostream or

3. the sync did... something else?

Does anyone know exactly how this is/should be working? (I know my example is iPhone and this is the iPad forum. Hopefully, that is irrelevant here).

In the example given above, it was a photo that I had taken with my DSLR and loaded into iPhoto. I opened it from the PhotoStream on my iPhone and cropped it. When I saved it, it went to my Camera Roll. As I said, eventually, that saved, edited photo was uploaded to the PhotoStream.

Good news... and Bad news: The edit is not destructive! PhotoStream and thus, iDevices and iPhoto have the whole picture AND know about the crop. However, the EXIF information was lost during the save and the photo was renamed.

This morning, I took a picture with my iPad and cropped it immediately. In this case, the change was saved to that picture in the camera roll; it did not create a new copy. Probably because I edited it immediately, the load to the PhotoStream showed the crop.

Good news... and Bad news: In this case, the EXIF information was retained. However, subsequent edits do not seem to be reflected in the Photostream. And other than hooking the device up to the Mac and importing them, I don't see how you could get them into iPhoto.

At this point, I'm fairly confident wireless sync will only pull photos from iPhoto and that photos cannot move from an iDevice to iPhoto via wireless sync.

I'd like to draw some attention to this - it is REALLY frustrating. Editing photos on iOS 5 is simply useless on my device; they cannot be transferred, imported, uploaded or anything. They aren't really saved. For the record, I have an iPhone 4, 32 GB and I have tried to upload my "edited" photos everywhere on the web to no avail. They also won't show up edited on the computer.

The worst thing is that iOS 5 shipped with a TON of perceivable bugs. Music and Photo apps alone, they are totally screwed. The last stable and smooth iOS version I had the pleasure of using was 4.2.1 . Since then, it's been a really bumpy ride...

iOS 5: the best iOS ever, delivered in the worst state possible.

Yes, I can confirm that iPhoto can see the edits and does correctly display the crop. What's nice about that approach is that it is non-destructive.

I wonder if that's how iPhoto handles all it's edits, as they are always non-destructive. Of course, when you export from iPhoto, you get to pick Current or Original. The Current export collapses all the edits into the JPEG.

It's a shame you can't transfer the created album though. I don't have iphoto so maybe you guys with macs can.

Having even more trouble. Have IOS5 on my iPad and the photo edit function isn't available or....I can't find a way to access it. The edit button isn't on the top right hand side. Tried tapping everything!!

I have the same problem. Edited 20 photos on iphone 4gs but iphoto only imports original. Only way to get the edited photos is to email (but this is inconvenient and time consuming). Can't find any other way to get the edited photo to my mac. Importing using the cord is pointless cause no matter what the original is the only picture that imports. I guess Apple has to fix the problem wiht an unpdate but we have to scream and complain to get their attention. Apple please hear our cries!!!

THIS IS A PAIN! Apple fix this...

"Apple welcomes your feedback on its products"

-> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Have you found any workaround?

Hello everyone,

I'm posting here because no one seems to be having a similar problem to mine involving the photo editing process. The short story of my problem is that ANY photo downloaded onto any device will automatically be resized to 3MP. If I load photos from my iPhone4 onto my iPad2 to edit on its larger screen with its faster processor they will on import be resized to 3MP. If I load photos from my Nikons, which are up to 14.2MP, they will automatically be resized to 3MP. This iOS5 and iOS5.0.1 update has completely negated my reasons for using and owning both the iPhone4 and the iPad2. What was an absolutely brilliant lightening speed workflow up to iOS4.3 allowing me to shoot and edit up to 3000 photos a day has now, thanks to iOS5, slowed down to less than 200 photos.

The only work around for the resizing problem that I have found is to download photos from the iPhone4 and my Nikons to Aperture3 and export them to a desktop folder at full size then using a WiFi synching App. like WiFi Transfer, to synch the photos onto the iPad2, 100 photos at a time and I take 1000's a day, where they will show up and be editable at full size. The kicker with this workaround is that if at anytime before I am done editing and backing up my photos I decide to update any apps or allow iTunes to backup any of my devices ALL my photos and edits will be automatically resized to 3MP, ruining hours days and even weeks of work. Due to the new iOS5 what used to be the fastest and least frustrating editing workflow I have ever experienced is now many times worse than trying to edit photos using Photoshop3 on a windows computer back in 1994. I was blown away when I first handled the iPhone4 and found that I could shoot edit and upload or download a photo in less than 2 minutes now because of iOS5 it takes 1-2 hours to accomplish what in iOS4.2 it took 2 minutes. This is beyond frustrating now that I have wiped and restored each of my divices multiple times and found a solution that takes an entire day to get original sized photos onto my devices that I can edit at full size, as long as I don't allow any of my devices near each other until my final edits are in Aperture3 and backedup on multiple HD's for insurance, a process that in iOS3 up to iOS4.3 worked effortlessly now takes days longer than before. Please if anyone has any ideas about what is going on here let me know.

I haven't even thought about using iCloud as many here have because there is no way to control your uploads and no why to delete photos once they are in your photo stream unless you hit your space alotment. What has happened to Apple with Lion and iOS5? Right now Apple is even worse than any windows based computer I've ever used. This is so wrong.

Hi

I'm having this issue as well. I can successfully upload photos from my camera to the ipad.

If i crop the photos in the editor they show up in the photo viewer with the changes.

Ithen open flickr stackr - I can select the amended photos - thethumbnail matches the changed item. However the file that gets uploadedto flickr is the original unchanged version.

The only way I've found to get this to work is to crop etc, save, open in the photoshop app and move saturation (or something)by 1 point, and save. But this creates a new file in the camera roll,and this has none of the original exif data.

quite frustrating

Anyone found a way to actually change files and retain the exif data?

Thanks