Table of contents:
- Table of Contents
- Use 4: 3 aspect ratio to take pictures
- In videos use the 16: 9 aspect ratio
- Activate video stabilization (or Superstable mode if not)
- Use HDR to take photos during the day
- Scene optimizer and composition suggestions: your two great allies
- Install Google Camera if your Samsung mobile is compatible
- Improve the quality of photos and videos in Google Photos with this trick
The photographic quality of today's phones has little or nothing to do with that of a few years ago. This improvement does not depend solely on hardware aspects: the software is an equally important piece when it comes to taking quality photos. In the case of Samsung mobiles, the company uses a quite worthy application that allows us to play with the different parameters of photography. No, there is no method that allows us to improve the Samsung camera by magic. What we can do is follow a series of indications to obtain the best results depending on the conditions of the scene, indications that we will discuss below.
Table of Contents
Use the 4: 3 aspect ratio to take pictures
In videos use the 16: 9
aspect ratio Activate video stabilization (or Super Steady mode in its default)
Use HDR to take pictures during the day
Scene optimizer and composition suggestions: your two great allies
Install Google Camera if your Samsung mobile is compatible
Improve the quality of photos and videos in Google Photos with this trick
Use 4: 3 aspect ratio to take pictures
Neither 16: 9, nor 1: 1, nor 21: 9: the best ratio to take pictures with our mobile is 4: 3. It is by making use of the maximum resolution of the sensor. After all, the physical shape of today's photographic sensors is 4: 3. Making use of other proportions will lead to digital clipping that will reduce the resolution of the sensor, and therefore the final quality of the image.
In the case of Samsung mobiles, applying this ratio is as simple as clicking on the corresponding icon in the top bar of the native camera application. We can see it just above this paragraph.
In videos use the 16: 9 aspect ratio
So is. Due to the obsolescence of the 4: 3 aspect ratio in televisions and monitors, the most used option for recording videos is 16: 9. In fact, Samsung's own camera application does not allow us to choose a video format beyond 16: 9, 1: 1 or 21: 9.
If we are going to make use of the aforementioned proportion, it is also recommended to use the maximum resolution supported by the sensor. We can configure this parameter in the Video Resolution section in Settings.
Activate video stabilization (or Superstable mode if not)
Are you going to record videos walking or practicing a sport that requires movement? In this case, it is best to use the stabilization of the phone.
By clicking on the cogwheel in the upper bar of the camera application we can activate the aforementioned option. If the activity requires a greater degree of movement, we will have to resort to the Superstable mode, which we can activate by clicking on the hand icon that will be shown in the video interface.
This mode will reduce the impact of vibrations significantly. On the contrary, the final quality of the video will be diminished, especially in situations where the light is scarce.
Use HDR to take photos during the day
HDR implemented in most phones today aims to expand the dynamic range of images in situations where there are contrasts between light and shadow. Using this mode can make the difference between a good photo and a bad photo.
To make use of HDR we will have to go to the settings of the camera application in the gear wheel and then enable the HDR tab (rich tone).
Scene optimizer and composition suggestions: your two great allies
Two of the most useful camera functions for enhancing photos on Samsung mobiles with One UI 1.0 and One UI 2.0. The first can be activated by clicking on the icon that will appear in the lower right corner of the camera application. Its main task, by the way, is to apply Artificial Intelligence to images to improve the contrast, saturation and brightness of the scenes.
If we talk about the Composition Suggestions option, the objective of this function is limited to guiding the user to improve the placement of the phone to achieve a more correct visual composition if we stick to the rule of three thirds. We can activate it by going back to the application settings, the section with the same name.
Install Google Camera if your Samsung mobile is compatible
It is not for nothing that Google phones take the cake in everything that has to do with mobile photography. Google's camera app has a good blame for this, making use of algorithms that improve dynamic range and HDR. Thanks to the XDA Developers community we can install the aforementioned application on any phone with a Snapdragon processor; also on some models with Exynos.
To download the best version of the Google camera on our phone, we can use the Gcamator application, a tool present in the Android application store that identifies the hardware of our device and lists the most optimal versions of the aforementioned application to install them later. on the phone. You can also take a look at the article where we collect all the APKs of GCam for Samsung.
Improve the quality of photos and videos in Google Photos with this trick
An application that is included in all Samsung phones and that often goes unnoticed. A trick of Google Photos that we already mentioned in the article that we have just linked and that will help us improve the quality of the images consists of resorting to the automatic adjustment and the Pop and Color parameters within the manual editor of the application, as we can see in the image below.
If we want to improve the quality of the videos, the stabilization function of Google Photos will help us to stabilize any video. The improvement is especially remarkable.
