I take a photo on my pixel and it looks good for about half a second, then google applied their AI smoothing and compresses the image and ruins it. I’d get better photos screenshotting the viewfinder than the algorithms Google and Apple force into your pictures (but hey, it smoothed skin so you don’t have to photoshop yourself!).
Make sure to turn off face retouching. Also as the other comment said, you can turn on raw photos from the Advanced settings, but it does save duplicate photos if you do.
Edit: and set ‘Camera photo resolution’ to Full resolution
I do have that off, I didn’t have raw turned on. I wish I could control the jpeg quality instead of keeping full raw data on photos I’m never going to retouch.
@cheery_coffee@Klystron You have the option to also export to raw, so that you’ll have the full sensor data, without lossy compression, processing or AI.
I’m actually with you on this.
I take a photo on my pixel and it looks good for about half a second, then google applied their AI smoothing and compresses the image and ruins it. I’d get better photos screenshotting the viewfinder than the algorithms Google and Apple force into your pictures (but hey, it smoothed skin so you don’t have to photoshop yourself!).
Make sure to turn off face retouching. Also as the other comment said, you can turn on raw photos from the Advanced settings, but it does save duplicate photos if you do.
Edit: and set ‘Camera photo resolution’ to Full resolution
I do have that off, I didn’t have raw turned on. I wish I could control the jpeg quality instead of keeping full raw data on photos I’m never going to retouch.
@cheery_coffee @Klystron You have the option to also export to raw, so that you’ll have the full sensor data, without lossy compression, processing or AI.
I had that on but it was turned off for some reason. The jpeg compression is aggressive.