Heads up - Dont use the default Huawei Photo Editor to crop - Huawei Mate 10 Guides, News, & Discussion

I tried cropping a 20mp 4:3 ratio image to 16:9 ratio using the built in huawei gallery app - It SHRUNK the whole photo to 3.6megapixel completely wrecking it
Any other image editor will correctly crop to 16:9 and you end up with a (correctly cropped) 14.7megapixel photo.
I contacted Huawei live support - they repeated it there end while i waited and apologised for the problem as it does it for them as well. Should be fixed in a later update I guess but for now....DONT use the huawei app for cropping at all. Im new to these forums and tried to attach a attachment but if it didnt work - you can see the result here I passed onto huawei https://ibb.co/cxAqQy

dan mc said:
I tried cropping a 20mp 4:3 ratio image to 16:9 ratio using the built in huawei gallery app - It SHRUNK the whole photo to 3.6megapixel completely wrecking it
Any other image editor will correctly crop to 16:9 and you end up with a (correctly cropped) 14.7megapixel photo.
I contacted Huawei live support - they repeated it there end while i waited and apologised for the problem as it does it for them as well. Should be fixed in a later update I guess but for now....DONT use the huawei app for cropping at all. Im new to these forums and tried to attach a attachment but if it didnt work - you can see the result here I passed onto huawei https://ibb.co/cxAqQy
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I just tried it on my USA branded Mate 10 Pro and it shaved off some of the size (due to the crop) but other than that it all worked fine.
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dan mc said:
I tried cropping a 20mp 4:3 ratio image to 16:9 ratio using the built in huawei gallery app - It SHRUNK the whole photo to 3.6megapixel completely wrecking it
Any other image editor will correctly crop to 16:9 and you end up with a (correctly cropped) 14.7megapixel photo.
I contacted Huawei live support - they repeated it there end while i waited and apologised for the problem as it does it for them as well. Should be fixed in a later update I guess but for now....DONT use the huawei app for cropping at all. Im new to these forums and tried to attach a attachment but if it didnt work - you can see the result here I passed onto huawei https://ibb.co/cxAqQy
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Same here. 3840x5120 4:3 becomes 1920x1080 16:9

Thanks for the heads up!
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Try the 20mp setting (Ive not confirmed its a issue with 12mp on mine yet but will give it a try later on today) I should of provided my phone details sorry - Im in australia "Mate 10" (not pro) ALP-L29 8.0.0.132 (c636) Was confirmed as a bug by a huawei live support (they asked me to wait while they reproduced the issue themselves)

Just as a update - I ran the same test on the phones 12mp setting - The 16:9 crop using Huawei editor crops *correctly* for 12mp photos (just not 20mp photos) *edit - my tests were both done in landscape mode dunno if that makes a difference or not, but sounds like 20mp vertical/portrait photos also have the issue from another user*

I have a p20 lite and I have the same problem with 16mp photos.
The standard gallery app resizes every edited 16mp photo to a smaller resolution size on save (or when opening the editor, don't know).
Is this also the case with you guys or only when cropping your large size images?
It does this for every type of edit or tweak I've tried so far.
This is not a problem on the standard editor on the p8 (but maybe that is because the max 13 mp on that camera was 'small enough' for the editor).
My old phone HTC one mini 2 standard editor did also resize every photo (this was not updated in the years of use) . And since (at least with me) it seems to be a problem with every type of edit,
I'm not sure whether this is a mistake or deliberate...?
I'll test an edit on a 16 mp image or larger on the p8 later. If it doesn't resize the photos there:
Maybe there is a way to use the old p8 gallery app on newer models?
I even prefer an aspect of that editor (numeral indicators with the sliders instead of none)

It's possible to disable the gallery app? I'd like to replace it by Google photos.

JEELK said:
I have a p20 lite and I have the same problem with 16mp photos.
The standard gallery app resizes every edited 16mp photo to a smaller resolution size on save (or when opening the editor, don't know).
Is this also the case with you guys or only when cropping your large size images?
It does this for every type of edit or tweak I've tried so far.
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I tried a couple other photo edits using the stock editor (not cropping) and it shrunk my photos again (12mp photos were affected as well) Ive just outright abandoned the default editor as a complete buggy waste of time its pretty obvious the huawei programmers arnt very good at their job

Tiago A said:
It's possible to disable the gallery app? I'd like to replace it by Google photos.
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yes, you can change the default photo app using the default apps setting
the crop seems fine to me though

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[Q] Can I take 1920x1080 pictures?

Hello ,
Is it possible to set resolution to 1920x1080 for the camera pictures? I want to see them on my LG display. I am using stock , unrooted. Thanks in advance.
no you cannot
1920x1080 are a 16:9 video resolution, not a picture resolution
Pictures are allways shot in a 4:3 aspect ratio
For pictures you can select 8mpixels (3264x2448) or 5mpixels (2560x1920) or 3mpixels (2048x1536) or 2mpixels (1600x1200) or less
Thank you , but I have a photo camera that can shot pics in 16:9 , so i thought that the aspect can be overwritten on this phone too. Some other opinions though?
Maybe if you're willing to install CM7, it may be possible to tweak some files a bit to get the desired effect
George , can you please be more specific?
jepcar said:
George , can you please be more specific?
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He means that if you install another rom on your phone you _might_ be able to set the camera resolution somewhere in it.
I would try to google for another camera app in your place. (Have you tried downloading any from the market, maybe some of them can crop images to the right size directly?)
I haven't found one yet. I have tried all camera apps from the market and none of them worked....Maybe someone can help me a little more , please ?
There are no camera apps for Android that can take pictures in that resolution.
Your photo camera that does it, cant really either - all it does is crop the picture afterwards in software, but the picture itself is taken natively in 4:3 aspect
There are no camera apps for Android that offer that option, so we cant really help you with that part.
If you want pictures in that resolution (or rather in 16:9 aspect) you will have to crop them yourself using a picture editor after they are taken. There are a number of photo editors for Android that will crop pictures on your phone, for instance "Photo Enhance" which will let you crop pictures in different fixed aspect ratios, including 16:9 widescreen. You need the paid version to save pictures in high resolution.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.wheadon.photoenhancepro&feature=more_from_developer
Else try and look at some of the other editors - heres a list of some
http://www.web3mantra.com/2011/07/06/25-android-apps-for-photo-editing/
PS: You can offcource also crop and resize your pictures using a picture editor on your computer and then transfer them back to the phone again after cropping and resizing
I have a camera that takes picture in 1920x1080. It is a Samsung DV150F. They are 8 MB look good on my new TV monitor.
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jepcar said:
Hello ,
Is it possible to set resolution to 1920x1080 for the camera pictures? I want to see them on my LG display. I am using stock , unrooted. Thanks in advance.
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I have a camera that takes picture in 1920x1080. It is a Samsung DV150F. They are 8 MB look good on my new TV monitor. Full Screen

[GUIDE] [ROOT] Enable RAW capture in the stock EMUI camera app

If this is common knowledge, I apologize for the redundancy of this post, however I doubt it, since I searched for a way to do this for quite a bit of time, until I finally found a way.
As you probably know, if you're into photography, the P9 Lite supports Camera 2 API which allows for the capture of RAW pictures in .dng format.
This is especially useful for editing, as RAW images contain lots more information, especially in the shadows and highlights.
While there are several 3rd party camera apps that allow RAW capture, having tried most of them, none even comes close to the stock camera app. They're either clunky to use, or they're ugly as sin (I'm looking at you Open Camera, which is both).
To enable this feature on the P9 Lite is actually very simple, but it DOES require ROOT.
This is how to do it:
1. Ensure your device is rooted
2. Use a root file explorer and navigate to /system/emui/lite/prop/local.prop and open the file as text.
3. Change the value of ro.build.hw_emui_lite.enable from true to false
4. Save the file
5. Reboot the device
6. Open the stock Camera app
7. Enable Pro Photo mode
8. Go to settings and enable RAW.
Happy shooting, happy editing.
Already had that line disabled for other reasons. Didn't know it also makes shooting in RAW possible. Thanks!
I had it disabled for the transparent notification panel, bit yeah...I needed this so much!
Thanks!
ZeusftW97 said:
I had it disabled for the transparent notification panel, bit yeah...I needed this so much!
Thanks!
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Haha, to each his own.
Personally, I dislike the transparent notification panel. I would like to keep it solid black and still have RAW, but hey... I'll take what I can get, and RAW capture is more important.
Cool, https://www.xda-developers.com/guide-enables-raw-capture-in-the-stock-huawei-p9-lite-camera/
Nice, also seems to work for the (Huawei) Honor 6X. Thanks.
My joy at this discovery was short-lived, but then again, isn't that the very nature of joy?
Poetry aside, here's what's wrong.
Shooting RAW, the camera takes one compressed .jpeg and one RAW .dng. However, no matter the shooting conditions, the RAW .dng always comes out blurry and very soft.
I used a tripod, very very fast shutter speeds, in broad daylight and the .dngs ALWAYS come out unfocused.
Anyone able to chime in an maybe offer some insight?
zgomot said:
My joy at this discovery was short-lived, but then again, isn't that the very nature of joy?
Poetry aside, here's what's wrong.
Shooting RAW, the camera takes one compressed .jpeg and one RAW .dng. However, no matter the shooting conditions, the RAW .dng always comes out blurry and very soft.
I used a tripod, very very fast shutter speeds, in broad daylight and the .dngs ALWAYS come out unfocused.
Anyone able to chime in an maybe offer some insight?
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It seems like the default gallery app doesn't render the RAW files properly. View them in another gallery app with RAW support or import them to your prefered photoeditor and they look fine
Mara-X said:
It seems like the default gallery app doesn't render the RAW files properly. View them in another gallery app with RAW support or import them to your prefered photoeditor and they look fine
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You're right.
Imported into Lightroom, the .dng is actually quite a bit sharper than the .jpeg.
Thanks muchly!
Thanks, im wating for this a long time
hello
gallery app of p9 can read .dng picture
it works well in our p9 lite
simo255 said:
hello
gallery app of p9 can read .dng picture
it works well in our p9 lite
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It can read them, but not properly. It shows them really blurry, like they're not focused.
Can you recommend me good raw viewer if you use one?
ZeusftW97 said:
Can you recommend me good raw viewer if you use one?
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I don't use any. I open the files in either Snapseed on my phone, or Lightroom on my PC and edit.
zgomot said:
I don't use any. I open the files in either Snapseed on my phone, or Lightroom on my PC and edit.
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Ok, thanks!
Last time when I tried to open raw photos in snapseed it didnt work, and yeah...that was after they added the support for editing raw photos, but I tried now and it works!?
ZeusftW97 said:
Ok, thanks!
Last time when I tried to open raw photos in snapseed it didnt work, and yeah...that was after they added the support for editing raw photos, but I tried now and it works!
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probably user error
Thanks, is there anyway to disable jpeg format?, It's very annoying both Jpeg and raw Messing in gallery.
Heuxhog said:
Thanks, is there anyway to disable jpeg format?, It's very annoying both Jpeg and raw Messing in gallery.
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Sadly, I'm afraid not. At least not to my knowledge.
raw without pro mode
Just wanted to ask if it captures raw in all the modes like light painting and night and even in just normal photo mode. does it works only with pro mode ?
Please reply.
Thanks in advance.
roxy2j said:
Just wanted to ask if it captures raw in all the modes like light painting and night and even in just normal photo mode. does it works only with pro mode ?
Please reply.
Thanks in advance.
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No. Only in Pro Photo mode.
But you can do light painting in Pro Photo mode with longer exposures and get the best of both worlds. RAW and light painting.

XZ2 and Lightroom

Has anyone tried to import the XZ2 photos to Lightroom? I'm having lots of problems. It seems for some photos it may have lost the 16:9 aspect ratio? Hard to reproduce, since the latest system update a few days ago it doesn't seem to happen anymore. Not sure if I'm going insane or if it really happened.
Then there's another elephant in the room: Lightroom Classic CC seems unable to read the date tag in the EXIF data? Never had this issue before with any camera I've ever used. But other programs can read the EXIF data? It's all very odd. Photo orientation seems to be interpreted wrongly too.
Am I the only one having issues? Now I'm using a third party tool to rename the files according to the EXIF data.
Btw., it's very annoying that every time you move all photos to your computer the counter is being reset... I know few cameras that behave that way. For good reason.
Switch to 4:3
Then you get 19MP
16:9 has only 12MP or 17MP
It's not that easy. With 16:9 you get a wider image, with 5500 pixels instead of 5000. So in scenes where you want to capture as much of a landscape (for example) as possible you'll absolutely benefit from 16:9. Also, the MP don't really matter. I wish the sensor had a lower resolution.
I've found the solution to some of my issues... Lightroom has problems when it keeps importing files of the same name, and the XZ2 keeps resetting the counter to 1...

P20 Pro camera - Problems in Jpeg compression at 40mp

Personally, I just realized that even taking photos at 40mp with the stock camera a high compression ratio is applied without any criteria. I took several identical photos and realized that some have a size of 15mb and others were with 3mb. Photos identical with the same settings. I tested other applications and encountered the same problem. Lightroom CC and SnapCamera. Here comes the surprise! With cameringo+ I got files with a bigger size at 40mp. That it would be the right thing to do to others as well. Please take a test and comment.

Image Quality Different Across Devices

I sent my phone in for a cracked back repair and got a loaner from a friend,. While taking pictures I immediately noticed how much sharper the telephoto lens on the loaner is.
Here are some examples - left photo is my original phone, right photo is the loaner:
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
These are all taken with the stock camera app with identical settings. The only interesting thing I've found is that there seems to be more jpg compression as seen here - all settings are the same but the file size is smaller. Almost looks like OIS isn't working.
I don't see any discernable difference in quality when shooting with the pro camera app in RAW or RAW + JPG, and jpegs from the pro app have the same size as the normal camera app.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Hey! I am sorry you are going through such an experience with your 1 II. Doesn't seem to be worthy of the price you've payed for the device, and i doubt it is a software issue.
I would suggest to copy your message here and send it in to Sony officials, but maybe instead of the loaner, mention that those are the pictures your phone took before you gave it in for the back repair and after. This might sound a little unethical, but at least you won't be ignored in terms of provide of service.

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