Cropping photos in the Camera Roll renders them horribly pixelated

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Cropping photos in the Camera Roll renders them horribly pixelated

I downloaded a photo from my sister's Facebook timeline just now and cropped it using the Photos app on my iPad. Unfortunately the moment it was saved back to the Camera Roll it suddenly became blocky and pixelated -- it was fine up untl that instant.

Tried using iPhoto on the iPad, same deal: crop worked fine, but the moment I saved it back to the Camera Roll, suddenly it became unrecognizable, block and pixelated.

I'm not just talking low-res here, I'm talking almost unrecognizable. Has anyone else seen this behavior? I'm on a new 64GB iPad with over 1GB of free space.

Posted on Mar 31, 2012 5:28 PM

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Diavonex

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Mar 31, 2012 5:40 PM in response to Eric Westby

Ask your sister to email you the picture in full resolution; you can then crop it using Photos App

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Eric Westby Author

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Mar 31, 2012 5:46 PM in response to Diavonex

No, you misunderstand. The original downloaded photo was approximately 1,600x2,400 pixels. Its resolution was more than sufficient.

As I said in my post, the crop tool in the Photos app mangled the photo beyond recognition. It's not a case of me being dissatisfied with a low-res image. ;^> The crop tool caused large, roughly 12x12 pixel blocks to appear in the image in place of its original resolution.

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iCrizzo

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Mar 31, 2012 5:49 PM in response to Eric Westby

I have seen it a couple of times, it seems to only do it with certain photos, I can crop 2 different photos taken with my iPhone, pictures that are taken one after the other, then when I go to edit them, 1 crops fine, the other a mangled mess.

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iCrizzo

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Mar 31, 2012 5:51 PM in response to iCrizzo

I can't find any photos in my Photostream, but here was one I tweeted a few weeks back: http://cl.ly/1r1X352s1O2i0h3O0U2Y

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Eric Westby Author

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Mar 31, 2012 5:56 PM in response to iCrizzo

That's it: that's the exact issue I'm having.

Were you able to narrow down a cause? I doubt it's a low-memory issue since I'm on a new iPad whi 1GB of RAM. Did it do it consistently with certain images but never with others? If so, what was the source of the image(s) it mangled?

Thanks for your help!

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KRK2012

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Apr 1, 2012 11:57 AM in response to Eric Westby

I started to have the same issue after I updated my iOS. Has anyone found the fix?

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Dec 26, 2012 6:10 PM in response to Eric Westby

I have the same issue!! I hope there is a fix. I have some very special pictures that have been affected !

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