One of the biggest issues with Ultra HDR image has finally been fixed in Google Photos. Currently, editing an Ultra HDR image strips it of its Ultra HDR quality. That was a limitation frustrating to people who want to enhance their photos without losing that high dynamic range.
However, now Google has updated the Photos app to allow basic edits without giving up Ultra HDR. According to Artem Russakovskii on X, first reported, now users will have the ability to crop, rotate, and so on while still maintaining the image in its enhanced quality.
Before this, Google Photos wasn’t handling HDR images very well, it was removing critical brightness data in the process. The reason Google made duplicate copies of edited photos so that HDR would be retained in the original photo was partly due to this problem. With all these efforts, it was far from being perfect and has been causing much dissatisfaction among users.
Now, it seems like Google wants to take its HDR and Ultra HDR image handling seriously. This is a welcome change by Google toward enhancing the user experience with this recent update.
This change makes Google Photos much easier to use, especially for people who care about editing at a high level. This change shows promise for a seamless photo editing experience.