❓Did Instagram change their color temperature and exposure handling lately? Any previously edited photo uploaded to Instagram looks totally blasted out after posting. Photos that look ok in drafts get big color shifts and exposure changes after.
It’s been this way for a couple weeks. It’s annoying that a photo app can’t do WYSIWYG editing reliably.
Is it just me? Makes me never want to post to Instagram again.
@mathowie I just discovered that the Pixel 8 does that for seemingly all photos. Luckily you can turn it off but if they're going to inflict that on everyone at least make it not so bad.
Here’s a video of Instagram running on my iPhone. See how each time I pick an unedited photo, half a second later it “flashes” to some sort of auto-optimized one?
I don’t want this “feature”. I can see Instagram is trying to improve drab photos for folks but I know how to edit my own work and would prefer not to have my shit blown out exposure-wise. And I can’t turn it off?
@dan@mathowie Yeah, it’s HDR. If you load photos from an old camera or screenshots, that aren’t HDR you’ll see it doesn’t pop in brightness. Apple’s thumbnails in the photos app are SDR, but when you tap on them they get brighter, but it hides that in the zooming effect. Especially noticeable with bright skies.
@mathowie@dan At least my combination of Ivory and this server don’t support HDR. What gets pulled down from the server is JPEG (which does not really support HDR (except for some weird shit in some circumstances)). If you convert your iPhone HEIC to JPEG before you upload to Instagram it’ll be SDR. If you want to accomplish the same thing in the IG app you can use the IG image editor, which they have not updated for HDR, and touch the brightness slider 1 percent and it’ll kill the HDR too.
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