Blurry After Editing

I posted before. My configuration is as follows : I5 Mac, Store photos in iCloud but also locally. Panasonic Raw photos imported (not jpeg plus raw).

I have found if I wait until imported photos are synched with iCloud I do not have this problem. If I edit them immediately a number of problems occur. iCloud synch does not happen for some edited photos. Some corruption occurs and these photos are "stuck". If you try to add photos to shared albums, message is photo not available, and this blurriness occurs. Why ? - all photos are supposedly stored locally. If you are uploading a lot of photos, interpersed with videos this synch takes time. If you look at the bottom of the photos app you will see "Synced with iCloud Just Now" if all photos are synched. If I see synch paused or failed to synch these will be the blurry photos. If you try to export to a shared album it will fail. Identifying the offending photos is hard. But again if I wait for this synch to occur before editing I do not have this annoying glitch. So this work around seems to alleviate the issue for my config. I think that is why editing or rotating helps as it can force a synch on the stuck photo. If I revert to original photo, wait for synch to occur and then edit, no blurriness, no problem.

Speculating here that the problem lies with some type of iCloud synching issue. That the editing of the raw photo some how register as an incompatible format with iCloud, some form of perceived corruption. My observation is that these same photos cannot be added to a shared album. I also note that they show up as unable to synch with iCloud. If I revert to original the photos will eventually synch with iCloud. I can then edit them , share them and the blurry problem is gone. So I am speculating that if you load the photos in to iPhoto, wait perhaps 24 hours, for iCloud to synch, then edit, the problem will go away. I see this as a workaround to a problem. But interested if any on else finds this workaround solves the problem. This results in a delay if you are like me you import your raw photos, edit them and then want to share them right away. You cannot you need to let iCloud synch the unedited versions and then edit and share.

Update:

I seem to have solved the problem (at least for me) by repairing the photos library by holding down Option and Command when launching Photos.

It does seem to have worked, edits/crops/retouches are remembered and there's no blurring as was the case previously.

Same problem here. I have a 2022 Mac Studio and using Ventura 13.3.1(a). My iCloud is turned on. My photos taken in RAW and processed using Apple Photo. At first, everything appears to be working well. Then, when I return to look at the photo, it is low resolution blurry. Also, the photos do not show up on my other Apple devices (phone). The affected photos cannot be sent using mail or messenger. Reading the advice, I did edit, rotate (flip), done, edit, rotate (flip) done, then everything worked well. All photos clear and show up on my phone. This effort is wasteful time and frustrating.

This has to be a software error. My concern is that the project I completed was a small project, but unless corrected, it will affect my larger projects.

I hope this helps focus attention on this problem, but as I read, even those in direct contact with Apple have not received a solution.

To temporarily fix this. Once you edit your raw photo, you can still be in edit mode in apple photos, take a screen shot, Command, Shift, 4 and select the image. It will drop that on your desk top. Open that photo and hit File , Export and this will convert it to a jpeg with all the clarity and edits you made. Throw away the png file and use the jpeg. Worked great for me to send to facebook. Never lost any of my edits.

The easy way out is to use extensions and totally skip Photos tools till they will come up with a fix.

Extension like Luminar, Affinity Photo, Pixelmator or RAW Power do the job and few more.

RAW Power  was developed by an 18 year veteran of Apple. His roles in the Photo Apps group included Senior Director of Engineering and Chief Technical Officer. He also led the RAW Camera and Core Image teams, as well as the imaging team for the Mac version of Photos.

With him gone probably no one is capable to deal with RAW photos any longer as we are seeing since Ventura and beyond. Sending feedbacks seems useless but it’s worth a try.

Most folks affected report the issue is fixed in Mac OS Sonoma. Apple won't be updating Ventura anymore.

Great find! To confirm, I edited a "blurry" image and rotated 90º, clicked Done, edited again, rotated back 90º, clicked Done and now edited image is retained in Library. Seems like I have to do this for every edited image to maintain the results of the edit.

I guess we should try to report the bug in Apple feedback.

One solution that worked for me was exporting the photo while im in the editing mode. I exported it to my desktop and the images were perfectly clear and fine.

I hope this helps everyone who's facing the same issue

The work around I've found is to export the photos to desktop and then import them back into photos, it seems to change the format and fixes the blurry images, so your good to go after that.

What I meant more specifically is under "Image", if you go back to "Use Jpeg as original" and then again back to "Use RAW as original" the blurry issue goes away.

This issue was completely fixed with the release of MacOS Sonoma, on Sept 26 2023. Update your OS!

I noted that these raw photos also failed to upload. I also could not duplicate the photos as apple said the items could not be downloaded. The photos are available on my machine. I reverted to original, eliminating the edits and they uploaded. After editing again problem resolved. Seems some kind of bug as after editing they look like an incompatible format and apple will not upload. Guessing if you let synch before editing you may not have problem. Same problem also prevents these photos from being added to a shared album.

I've previously had this issue on my M1 Mac mini running Ventura.

However the issue went away when I opened a RAW image and before clicking the 'Edit' button, hit the little magic wand symbol (forcing auto correction to the image). This certainly will overwrite any previous edits performed on the image

But since doing this to one image - the 'blurry / low rsolution' display problem for RAW images has went away.

I assume this is a bug associated with Photos and it will get fixed. But hopefully someone finds this useful.

Someone found a solution

“OK, I solved the problem by switching out of the library. Did a test on another library and the extension worked.

When I switched back to the problem library the extension worked.”

just create a second photo library, see if it works

I hope it does