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I just got my iPhone 13 Pro Max last night and all my outdoor photos are oversaturated, look fake, and I can't find a way to edit the HDR layers or even turn HDR off. The only solution is to turn down the saturation, but they still look fake, just less saturated.
Am I missing a setting?
iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 15
Hi, this won’t help. I spent almost 2 hours trying to figure it out, switching between photographic styles and there’s no way to avoid the fake colors and lights.
Please apple!! We need to be able to turn off hdr!
That's simply not what most iPhone users think or the iPhone 13 would not sell as well as it does.
If you feel differently, let Apple know here:
If you feel Apple should include it, feel free to suggest it here:
You can't adjust HDR settings for the iphone 13 pro. The over saturation is particularity bad at sunset. I couldn't use the photos. If I turn off the "Apple ProRAW" it's a little better, but still very fake looking.
Hello,
You could always try using Photographic Styles to change the way the cameras take a picture on your iPhone 13 Pro Max
To do so, go to Settings > Camera > Photographic Styles.
From there you can choose one you like.
Another way to turn it on, and edit it even further is directly on the Camera app.
Open the Camera App > Swipe up from the middle of the screen until the tool bar appears, > Click the Photographic Styles button ( it looks like 3 squares with a line through it) > choose the one you like.
Then once you have one chosen, you can edit it even further by changing the Tone and Warmth with the sliders provided.
I hope this was helpful!
Because you want isn't the same thing a majority of people want.
You may see and be horrified by the processing, but virtually every photography blog and magazine has done nothing but praise the photos coming from the iPhone 13 family of devices, indicating for most it doesn't appear to them as horrible as it does to you.
This is not unlike the way I can hear the damage MP3 encoding does to music where for most they are happy with whatever is coming through their ear buds (a big reason they can't hear the damage, but I digress.)
The answers for the moment are to shoot your photos with a third-party app like Lightroom, or if you have a Pro or Pro Max shoot in RAW mode and process the photos on a computer.
I'm still confused why there are apps in the App Store that let you take photos within their app in HDR and edit each layer by moving a slider up/down, so for example if the sky looks too "fake" you can turn the effect up or down, and Apple has a ton of editing options for our photos, yet they won't let us edit the individual HDR layers in their native camera app. It makes no sense.
Because Apple is largely about providing the best results for most people in as automatic a way as possible.
If you asked most people, they would tell you they love the photos the iPhone 13 family of devices take.
You want something different, and by and large, Apple leaves "different" up to third-party providers.
The fact that the photo data is available to third-party camera apps tells you they're leaving the controls up to those who are interested in having them to implement.
A great example: for years, Apple did not make many exposure controls available in the Camera app; now they do.
An example of functionality they do not provide: despite being asked for years, there is no way to shut off OIS, which is a problem for anyone using an iPhone with a gimbal like a DJI Osmo.
I'm returning my iPhone 13 Pro tomorrow. Very disappointingly it takes hideous over-saturated pictures. Even after deep diving into all the settings and disabling all features that might be interfering, there's no way to avoid the garishly over-saturated colors and the aggressive noise reduction. Experience has taught me not to keep a camera that doesn't deliver the right colors right out of the box. Life's too short to be tweaking every picture in post.
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Life's too short to be tweaking every picture in post.
That’s the world of digital.
I have a $7000 DSLR combo, and every photo spends several minutes being tweaked in Lightroom before even being posted to Facebook let alone being printed or used for an advertisement.
Even if just to hit the magic wand, every phone camera photo, no matter whether Android or iPhone, usually needs something similar.
That’s why Apple has their refund policy; even though the iPhone 13 has been rated best phone camera by most photography blogs and tech reviewers, no product will be perfect for everyone’s needs.
No harm, no foul, enjoy whatever alternative device you eventually choose.
Agree. Starting with photos of fall leaves changing colors I noticed that HDR is destroying the bright colors. Last night taking photos of Christmas lights in a park, the HDR would destroy the bright colors. I was able to improve the images a bit by selecting a specific image of the live group. You can actually see the destruction the HDR is making by holding hour finger on the live image and seeing the change when letting go and HDR does it’s thing. Please allow turning HDR off or down!
I am ready to throw this phone in garbage and ready to go back to the 11pro max. I can't get a good photo without editing it endlessly and even then the red is so saturated it doesn't matter what I do. I do social media and need to take good photos on the fly. Anyone have any ideas. Is there another app we can use to correct this?
Here's what Apple says: "Our Pro camera system gets its biggest upgrade ever. With next-level hardware that captures so much more detail. Bring on the night. iPhone 13 Pro was made for low light. "
I have noticed the opposite to be true - there's less detail in low light and the phone delivers muddy and blurry pictures and video in low light.
All, now following all past comments, everyone complaining about this weak and poorly designed algorithms…..and all comments on an Apple communication tool….anyone believes Apple is going to do something quickly to offset this situation?
I may be in a different boat, but I love the way my videos look at 4K @ 60 fps. The colors pop and the HDR looks amazing. However, comparing to my photos the photos look dim. Are the photos not in HDR?
i spent all night trying to fix this. I hate what they have done to photos. The iPhone 11 Pro Max would shoot and save image exactly how it was displayed on screen. Now you take a picture and it boosts the white to comical levels, over saturates, and looks airbrushed when you zoom in. I specifically avoid Galaxy phones for this reason and now I’m stuck with it on my iPhone 13 pro max. I hope they update and allow you to avoid this feature.
iPhone 13 ProMax HDR photos oversaturated (i.e look fake)
