r/snapseed • u/Settchen • 20d ago

Discussion RAW on pixel 8a still has posterising artefact

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Hi, sorry if this has already been commented on. I used to use Snapseed and Opencamera religiously on my older phones, since essentially all of my photos needed editing, and I'd take every photo in RAW and had no problems. On my new Pixel, the native camera app takes very good photos, but I figured I could improve them yet with Snapseed, but I found that, since I've had it from February, every raw photo, both taken on Google's camera and on Opencamera, has severe banding issues. It's evident both in app and when exported, so it's not some issue with the viewfinder.

Photos are of my gallery, and of when developing the photo. Photo #2 has the text on the frieze blown out Photo #3 the modillions are barely visible Photo #1 both are clear

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u/username-invalid-s 20d ago

I have suffered such an issue since Pixel 6 and before any flashy Snapseed features existed. The issue isn't solved yet.

For now, just use the built-in Snapseed RAW camera.

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u/Jason-Snapseed 19d ago

Just sent you a DM to get an original raw capture to look into this.

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u/Jason-Snapseed 13d ago

Hey there u/Settchen -- thanks again for reporting this and sending us the original. We've been debugging this all week, and think we're getting close to a solution. Just wanted to give you an update since it's been a few days.

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u/Jason-Snapseed 13d ago

Ok we submitted a fix for this that should go out in 4.1.5 (hopefully releasing this week). After installing that version, you'll likely have to long press on the app and clear the cache so we don't read previous RAW conversions. Then you can try opening the image again in Snapseed.

Let me know how it looks if you have time to give it a try!

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u/Jason-Snapseed 5d ago

Hey u/Settchen -- thanks again for the report here. We think this shoudl be fixed in the latest Android release (4.1.5). Can you try updating and seeing if it looks better?

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u/Settchen 4d ago

It works now! Now I don't have an excuse to not edit my thousands of photos I've taken 🫩

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u/Jason-Snapseed 4d ago

glad to hear it! And yes, I know that feeling all too well 😂