My mom is a photographer, and she wants the original quality photos downloaded off her iPhone to use in professional photo programs like Lightroom and Photoshop.
She previously used Image Capture
to do this, but has recently begun using Optimize Photo Storage
to also store all these photos on iCloud.
According to my research, this means that sometimes photos downloaded via Image Capture
will not be full size, so Image Capture
is out.
We instead tried to download these originals via the Photos app
on the Mac. However, you can only download the unmodified original photo (in Image Capture
it showed the original AND the modified for download).
This is inconvenient of course because any edits made on the iPhone won't come through.
We also tried to export a JPEG from the Photos app
, but both the High
and Maximum
quality were not the same size or quality as the modified original photos we could download on Image Capture
. It seems a normal export via the Photos app
does some kind of conversion on it so it is no longer original. But that also seems to be the only way to get the modifications from the Photos app
So...how do we download the modified original image from the Photos app
?
(Or...how would we download the modified original image from Image Capture
while guaranteed that the photo is the Full Size photo and not a thumbnail or some other not full quality version?)