āDid Instagram change their color temperature and exposure handling lately? Any previously edited photo uploaded to Instagram looks totally blasted out after posting. Photos that look ok in drafts get big color shifts and exposure changes after.
Itās been this way for a couple weeks. Itās annoying that a photo app canāt do WYSIWYG editing reliably.
Is it just me? Makes me never want to post to Instagram again.
@mathowie Well if Shafer Trail doesn't really look like this I'm taking it off my bucket list.
@glass it wasn't purple when I uploaded! I picked a slightly wacky filter, but yeah, nothing close to this
Hereās a video of Instagram running on my iPhone. See how each time I pick an unedited photo, half a second later it āflashesā to some sort of auto-optimized one?
I donāt want this āfeatureā. I can see Instagram is trying to improve drab photos for folks but I know how to edit my own work and would prefer not to have my shit blown out exposure-wise. And I canāt turn it off?
Instagram is trash for photos now.
@mathowie stupid question because I donāt use instagram much but hasnāt that always been itās thing? I remember seeing articles every time theyād release a new filter.
@JMBragg filtering is done by choice in the editing steps, and I always skip that. Itās never manipulated photos as you pick them before the editing step.
@mathowie this has happened to me too. It looks like shit and ruins my uploads
@joeblubaugh is it recent? Feels like it started a month ago with me.
@mathowie so my theory was actually a bug in how it handles the HDR metadata, as opposed to actually doing automatic touchup. In any case it looks horrible.
People have reported it going away, at least temporarily, after app reinstall
Yay software
@secretasianman itās wild a company making a photo app would release versions that tweak photos into garbage and you canāt turn it off
@mathowie They added HDR support some time in the past few months, I wonder if thatās what it is.
@dan @mathowie Yeah, itās HDR. If you load photos from an old camera or screenshots, that arenāt HDR youāll see it doesnāt pop in brightness. Appleās thumbnails in the photos app are SDR, but when you tap on them they get brighter, but it hides that in the zooming effect. Especially noticeable with bright skies.
@mathowie I just discovered that the Pixel 8 does that for seemingly all photos. Luckily you can turn it off but if they're going to inflict that on everyone at least make it not so bad.
@techphotoguy yes! I should use Glass more, I know people there and trust them.