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TL;DR
- Google has lastly fastened a problem with its Photographs app that might strip Extremely HDR data from a picture throughout even probably the most fundamental of edits.
- Google Photographs Model 6.96.0.663027175 now lets you crop and rotate a picture with out worrying about this concern.
- This isn’t the primary time Google Photographs has had points with HDR and Extremely HDR, although it’s nice to see Google working to handle these quirks.
Google launched Extremely HDR with the Pixel 8 collection, although it has since made its option to a rising vary of higher-end Android flagships. Extremely HDR works equally to a JPEG picture however provides an embedded HDR gaming map within the metadata. Whereas Google may need been the primary to carry us the function on Android, Google Photographs mockingly doesn’t play good with it. At the least, till now.
Beforehand performing photograph edits on an Extremely HDR picture would strip it of its Extremely HDR know-how, however as first noticed by Artem Russakovskii on X, that is now not the case for fundamental edits.
Now you can carry out actions like cropping and rotating with out shedding Extremely HDR within the course of. Artem notes that he’s rocking a Pixel 8 Professional with model 6.95.0.663027175. A fast take a look at the feedback in his submit confirms that is working for others as effectively.
Google has had greater than its justifiable share of points with HDR photographs in its Google Photograph app, not simply Extremely HDR. Up to now HDR photos in Google Photographs would strip all brightness information that enabled excessive dynamic vary, which led Google to make a workaround the place it could duplicate edited HDR photographs as copies as a substitute of overwriting the unique. Since then, Google has fastened the issue for HDR although it continues to create duplicates.
For its half, Google has beforehand stated (through Android Police) it’s conscious that the best way it handles HDR and Extremely HDR is much from excellent and it stated it was working to enhance the issue. With this newest replace, it appears Google is beginning to make good on this promise.
