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iPhone XS Users Complain About Skin-Smoothing Selfie Camera

Macaholic868 said:
Apple is trying to help people look better in selfies they take from the front camera? How dare they??? In this day and age where every moron has a say there will be people who will feign outrage over everything. You try and give them a grand, how dare you? Who do you think you are?

Shut up and go away. If you’re taking an actual photo you don’t use the front facing camera. That’s for selfies and face time and Apple is trying to do the ugly a favor. So those complaining should shut up and say thank you. Apple is quite literally making them look better and all they can do is complain.
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Better is in the eye of the beholder.
 
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In my Honor 10 camera AI mode does this to selfiles, portraits and smoothen people faces. If we turn it off then it gives more details! Not sure why Apple assuming all their buyers must look ugly!!
 
Ramchi said:
In my Honor 10 camera AI mode does this to selfiles, portraits and smoothen people faces. If we turn it off then it gives more details! Not sure why Apple assuming all their buyers must look ugly!!
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I don't think this is a feature they intend to give. I think it's a bug.
 
Oh no! It's skin smoothing front-facing selfie camera gate!! Apple is doomed!!! Steve would never approve!!!!
 
Like I don’t see any skin smoothing on my front facing camera. I want to be prettier wth is this
 
Pelea said:
exaggerate? a phone in 2018 is showing less detail than a phone made in 2013. i don't think it's an exaggeration to call it an absolute piece of garbage if it can't even stay on par with a selfie cam from the iphone 6 made 5 YEARS AGO
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You and everyone else are making a big deal out of nothing. There is no comparison between a 1.2mp 720 Vs a 7 mp full HD sensor first of all. Second who cares. Selfies are for girls and idiots who think they’re thug life throwin up the deuces while making the duck face.
 
I noticed Apple using a lot of noise reduction on my previous phone, the 8 Plus. Their algorithms seemed to mistake some details, like a cat’s fur, for noise and would apply it’s automatic noise reduction when using the Apple’s camera app. Photos shot with other camera apps in JPEG looked significantly better. Shooting in a RAW format was obviously even better.

I now have the XS Max. Using Apple’s camera app produces much better pictures that the previous sensor, but in lower light, there is a ton of noise reduction added, even with the rear camera. It’s more noticeable with the front camera due to the lower resolution. I don’t personally know if it affects selfies more as I don’t really take selfies.

But needless to say, Apple’s camera app adds noise reduction as it sees fit and it doesn’t always get it right. I am a photographer and noticed this right away with both phones. But as far a a little camera built into a phone, it does a really great job.

If Apple’s noise reduction is mucking up your photos, there are any number of camera apps that shoot in RAW that you can get that will drastically up your mobile photography game. I highly recommend shooting with 645 Pro and using Lightroom for editing. But there are many other options that might be better for you.
 
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Pelea said:
When the iphone 6 has a better selfie cam than the xs u know there's a problem with this phone. I don't think apple will fix this so have fun with your super-blurred selfies for all of you who enjoy water-paintings.

Also i'd just like to point out that people are defending apple in removing large amounts of detail from their photos.
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It’s going to be fixed. But nah Apple is the devil
 
Holy crap, best not upset the snowflake generation. This **** better be toggable before the XR comes out, or no buy.
 
People on this forum are ridiculous. Samsung did this for years and people were saying " hurr durr look how it smooths the skin. Looks so crappy, looks so fake". Apple introduces it and everybody is like "oh wow never heard people complain about looking better". Thing is, you don't look better. You look like a freaking mannequin
 
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Look, if you insist on really high quality images, one solution: get the DxO ONE camera (which connects to the iPhone's Lightning port). The DxO ONE can do image quality very close to that of really expensive DSLR's.
 
cmwade77 said:
Honestly, the point of a camera is to take a picture of things as they actually are, post processing is to fix things.
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Basically all cameras apply post processing to the raw image sensor data by adjusting sharpness, applying noise reduction and auto white balance etc. This simply looks like strong noise reduction and different sharpening to me. The comparission image of this article is misleading as was probably not taken under the same light conditions. I'd like to see the orinal images with EXIF meta data.
 
And how is this a bad thing? Poor light is notorious for accentuating people's wrinkles, bad skin tone, blemishes--making adults look more
haggard than they really appear normally.

Just as long as Apple doesn't add dog ears and whiskers, I bet a lot of people will welcome the tweaking.
 
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