Blurry After Editing

I did some test and edited the same photo in RAW and after conversion to JPEG. The RAW file appeared blurry , the JPEG remained stable. "Photos" appears to have major issues interpreting RAW files. Fortunately the info is not lost - when you bring them back into Edit, and export them to JPEG right away, the original sharpness is back. Of course, this is not a professional solution - Apple should better do their homework!

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.

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.

Have to say I'm very disappointed. I spoke with a Senior Advisor by the name of John who promised to look into this and gave me his email and then, despite contacting him a few times to inquire about the progress, never heard from him again. Apple's support for this problem has been terrible.

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.

Hi, did you contact Apple? I think posting the problem here is not going to help as Apple don't seem to read it. If you contact Apple, ask for a Senior Advisor as the regular support staff have no idea and maybe tell them to look at the thread. I might have another go at contacting them as I just took a lot of photos, edited them and want to upload them quickly but can't as the problem still persists. I usually have to wait about 24 hours before photos are usable.

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.

vanabsten wrote:

Good news. I installed the mac OS Sоnоmа bеta yesterday and it looks like the bug has beed fixed!

Good feedback - thanks. On the downside: (a) It's a bit depressing that we have to wait for a major OS upgrade to get silly bugs fixed; (b) IIRC Apple fixed this issue in an earlier Ventura update - and then broke it in a subsequent update - so who knows what's going to happen in future updates.

This issue still exists for macOS 13.4.1 with photos that are RAW captured by iPhone 14 pro max. The rotating doesn't work, toggling the wand auto-edit on and the off then back on sometimes works, but not consistently. Seems that quality control has gone down in recent OS releases.

iMac 27", Intel i7 Quad Core

Problem persists since Big Sur. Using Nikon RAW images.

None of the suggested workarounds help (rotating, etc.).

I really hope Apple fixes this.

[Edit] just sent a message to the photos-team as suggested elswhere in this thread. Maybe, if everybody with that problem does it, they'll eventually try to fix this annoying bug.

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.

Sure, you could do this (and maybe Apple assumes that most people use the same, lossy, low-quality, JPEG workflow)...

...The thing is, many of us want a RAW workflow, so we can preserve our "digital negatives" AND take advantage of easy cataloguing and browsing capabilities. This all used to work, but is now broken - as so many contributors to this thread have demonstrated. (I suspect we'll have to wait until "Sonoma" to get any fixes, sadly.)

Ventura 13.5.2 (22G91) M1 Mac Book Pro 14" , Nikon D7200 RAW

I have the blurry photo after editing issue. I've actually deleted some photos because I thought they were out of focus. I did not see this in Monterey. So much for updating OS.

I hadn't seen the blurring problem for several weeks, but yesterday I upgraded to Ventura 13.5.2 (M1 iMac) and now many photos are blurred, including those that were fine yesterday before the upgrade. Only RAW versions of the image are blurred, JPEGs are still OK. Also, the magnification slider does not work on the blurred images. And, I can no longer right-click on an image in the browser to bring up the menu to duplicate, etc. If I double-click to open an image, then I can right-click to bring up the menu.