Face retouching settings should be off by default

Re:Face retouching settings should be off by default by Camillo on Sunday October 04, 2020 @08:20PM (#24683384)

> Edit: Example: I couldn't take a picture of the smoke on the West coast recently. The dark grey and orange skies would all come out looking blue or something. It's like the 'camera' is telling me I'm f'ing crazy for taking a picture of smoky skies, and surely I want to pretend the smoke isn't there at all! That's why I'm taking a picture right? So I can pretend that reality isn't real. I have no photos that match the smoke. I have only my memory and other people's photos. WTF.

That was due to automatic white balance, which is perhaps the most basic and low-tech automatic adjustment on your phone. We're talking deep AI tech from the 90s, if not earlier.

I ran into the same problem on that day, so I googled "iphone manual white balance", got an app that looked decent (Obscura), and took my pictures without issue. Try that next time. (But get another app, Obscura literally takes half a minute to load for some reason.)

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Re:Face retouching settings should be off by default by gnicholas on Monday October 05, 2020 @03:20AM (#24685337)

You don't have to use a different app, actually. The standard Camera app lets you lock white balance. To capture orange skies, you just long-tap while pointing at a white source (another iPhone or iPad, for example) to lock the white balance. Then turn your camera to what you want to shoot, and it will keep the WB locked.

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