Blurry After Editing

As others have noted, four successive uses of Command-R to rotate an image often eliminates the blurring, but not always. And the blurring never appears in Edit mode, only in the normal display mode.

I still have this problem after so many years, since Mojave, seems like Apple might not know what could have caused it.

I would suggest to any professional photographers just switch to paid version of CaptureOne or something else; Photos.app is simply unpredictable and may waste so much of your time and risk delivery schedule. Casual user may consider switching to free version of CaptureOne if able to accept limited functionality.

I doubt any professional shooter is relying on a give-away app for mission critical work. There are other alternatives to CaptureOne, among them the Lightroom suite of apps, Mylio, On1 Photo Raw, Photo Supreme and DxO Photo lab. Of them all Lightroom CC and Mylio are closest in feel to Photos.

Definitely NOT fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.0, the public release.

Apple chose to implement a load of eye candy nonsense that is nothing but fluff and gimmicks yet can't resolve an issue that's impacting many users on a daily basis.

Very, very disappointing.

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.

That'd be a great solution (I didn't know it exists).

But when I try to use any of Affinity's plugins, I get an error message: Cannot load representation of type PUEditingInitialPayloadTypeIdentifier

Seems like Photos doesn't have just one bug… :(

I use an Olympus EM5 mk 2 which I shoot RAW+JPEG. Am now running Sonoma 14.0 and don't see this blurry photo after editing in Apple Photos. But I also don't remember seeing it prior to upgrading to Sonoma. So perhaps the issue is with certain RAW files. (I also shoot RAW+JPEG with my Sony RX100mk5 and have never seen this issue with the RAW photos from that camera.) Admittedly I have never just imported the RAW files from either camera alone - I allow Photos to import the RAW+JPEG pairs - so perhaps that is also why I have not seen the issue. (And yes, when I read this thread and tested it out on my M1iMac I did switch from the original being JPEG to RAW.)

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

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

Unfortunate, then, as I would not be expecting an update to the previous version of Photos. I might be wrong, but that is my read based on experience. By all means contact Apple and let them know what you think.

@Deb_B I couldn't agree more! I loved Aperture and it had far more functionality than Photos. I used to be able to 'colour pop' images and to precisely clone and remove artefacts but it's no where near as fine in Photos. 

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Aperture was a pro-level app, designed for the professional or serious hobbyist. Photos is aimed squarely at the iPhone shooter- not that it won't do more, but that's its target audience. If, like me, you miss Aperture then you need to look at similar apps, like the various forms of Lightroom, CaptureOne, OnOne Photo Raw, DxO Photolab and so on. If Aperture is your measure of a good app Photos will enver make you happy. It's just not designed for that.

Hi,

No blurry issue for me after editing RAW files from my Canon Powershot G7X or my iPhone 12 Pro (ProRAW photos).

I was not using Photos app on Ventura, but it's OK (for these cameras at least) on Sonoma 14.4 / Photos 9.0.

Same problem here. Exporting photos after editing also exports the blurry image rather than the edited one.

Could it be Ventura as I didn't have any issues previously?