It’s kind of both. A lot of modern Samsung phones do this really weird “AI Enhancement” shit to improve the look of zoomed in shots. I remember testing it out at Best Buy, taking pictures of some Blu-rays on the other side of the store with the 20x zoom option. The original photo was pretty much what you’d expect, it looked like a low-res super cropped pic, but then it applied the “AI Enhancement” and did it’s best to fill in the text and price labels, and wound up looking exactly like a bunch of garbled AI text.
On another post where a web comic showed similar artifacts, I also asked the same question - and concluded that the comic’s resolution was “enhanced”, either by the phone itself (when they saved it from their source) or by a (re)poster. So I think that here it’s the same thing - AI “”“enhancement”“”.
Context: Am iOS user taking photos in RAW and sometimes ProRes
Edit: Maybe instead of downvoting you could explain how wrong I am. I’ve never seen this outside AI so I’m genuinely asking where these photos are coming from.
That doesn’t make sense, RAW is a file format and has nothing to do with AI enhancement. Also, RAW files are not uploadable to websites (they are, but they would look shitty), RAW is a file format that allows a greater range of adjustments at a later point for professionals (like using Lightroom).
ProRes is apparently (I googled it) a VIDEO format.
There might be phones that have shitty AI resolution enhancement built into their camera app, but most likely that’s not the case here. This image just went through an AI upscaler, which is a website or an app that works on Android and iOS, but it has nothing to do with the vendor
My reasoning for saying which formats I use is I’ve never seen such terrible compression. Why would anyone butcher their photos to such an extent? This is infinitely worse than just using JPEG.
Compression and formats can be separate from one another. For example, the image taken could be “sharpened” by some garbage AI before being saved in whatever file format. This kind of smoothing is typical for something like that.
Right, but in this case I wasn’t sure if it was horrible compression or just an AI-generated image. So again, my reasoning for saying what I formats I use was to give some context: I’ve never seen such awful artifacts, nor have I been given the option to use a format that creates such artifacts (that I’m aware of).
If I have already known all this, I probably wouldn’t have commented. Weird “let’s fight” vibes on this post.
Is there actually a fix for this behavior such as deactivate a certain feature? For most images I use “open camera”, but the general quality of the onboard software is just better.
Really into this, but is the license plate bluriness due to JPEG compression or AI? Genuine question
It’s kind of both. A lot of modern Samsung phones do this really weird “AI Enhancement” shit to improve the look of zoomed in shots. I remember testing it out at Best Buy, taking pictures of some Blu-rays on the other side of the store with the 20x zoom option. The original photo was pretty much what you’d expect, it looked like a low-res super cropped pic, but then it applied the “AI Enhancement” and did it’s best to fill in the text and price labels, and wound up looking exactly like a bunch of garbled AI text.
On another post where a web comic showed similar artifacts, I also asked the same question - and concluded that the comic’s resolution was “enhanced”, either by the phone itself (when they saved it from their source) or by a (re)poster. So I think that here it’s the same thing - AI “”“enhancement”“”.
Is this an Android thing?
Context: Am iOS user taking photos in RAW and sometimes ProRes
Edit: Maybe instead of downvoting you could explain how wrong I am. I’ve never seen this outside AI so I’m genuinely asking where these photos are coming from.
That doesn’t make sense, RAW is a file format and has nothing to do with AI enhancement. Also, RAW files are not uploadable to websites (they are, but they would look shitty), RAW is a file format that allows a greater range of adjustments at a later point for professionals (like using Lightroom).
ProRes is apparently (I googled it) a VIDEO format.
There might be phones that have shitty AI resolution enhancement built into their camera app, but most likely that’s not the case here. This image just went through an AI upscaler, which is a website or an app that works on Android and iOS, but it has nothing to do with the vendor
From what I recall, Apple has a “pseudo” RAW format called ProRAW that isn’t really RAW but just has less processing.
My reasoning for saying which formats I use is I’ve never seen such terrible compression. Why would anyone butcher their photos to such an extent? This is infinitely worse than just using JPEG.
Compression and formats can be separate from one another. For example, the image taken could be “sharpened” by some garbage AI before being saved in whatever file format. This kind of smoothing is typical for something like that.
Right, but in this case I wasn’t sure if it was horrible compression or just an AI-generated image. So again, my reasoning for saying what I formats I use was to give some context: I’ve never seen such awful artifacts, nor have I been given the option to use a format that creates such artifacts (that I’m aware of).
If I have already known all this, I probably wouldn’t have commented. Weird “let’s fight” vibes on this post.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend. I understand your reasoning better now. Have a nice evening :)
Compression. I saw very similar “smoothing” on a zoomed in photo I took recently at home as the city sign in the background shows.
Edit: these are a bunch of turkeys that were about 50 feet away but once I zoomed into the picture the texture seemed really off.
This looks like an oil painting I’d see at an AirBnB cabin
That describes it perfectly.
What camera is doing this? Why would someone use this kind of enhancement? I don’t see the benefit at all — it just looks so much worse.
My dashcam does this, probably so they can claim it’s a higher resolution than it really is.
Google pixel 6 with quite a bit of zoom.
Is there actually a fix for this behavior such as deactivate a certain feature? For most images I use “open camera”, but the general quality of the onboard software is just better.
So if I use the 2x, 1x, or 0.7x zoom things look normal. If I go past the 2x it’s when things start to look painted when you look closely.