Samsung’s flagship Galaxy is already ranked among the world’s best camera phones, but the company’s new AI-powered photo-editing app is a handy safety net for shoots that don’t go as planned. expected to be.
The Samsung Galaxy Enhance-X app, originally released less than a year ago, was removed from the Galaxy store with the arrival of Android 13, but is back in beta for some select phones. it was done. These include the Samsung Galaxy S23 and Z Fold 4, and a full list of supported phones can be found further down.
So does this app really have features you can’t find anywhere else? Some of the features like HDR and noise reduction are already available in the best photo editing apps like Snapseed, but… The most useful feature of the Galaxy Enhance-X app is its AI-powered fixes for common photo problems.
For those in a hurry, there’s a one-tap fix mode called Magic that lets you do basic things (reduce noise and blur, add texture). You should try it first to see how powerful it is. But perhaps more interesting are the specific local adjustments like ‘Remove Shadows’, ‘Fix Blur’ or even ‘Remove Reflections’.
A few years ago, it would have taken an experienced Photoshop wizard a long time to perform this type of editing naturally. But now that the app can effectively remove shadows through a combination of auto-detection, masking, and generated fill, it can be easily handled on the device, turning some photos from “cull” to ” You can change it to save.
Another benefit of these AI abilities is that Galaxy Enhance-X apps like Google PhotosScan can enhance old film photos. The built-in old photo tool promises to “restore old or damaged photos and make them even sharper.” I’m looking forward to seeing how this compares to rival scanning tools like Google.
Unfortunately, the Galaxy Enhance-X app is not available on all Samsung phones. However, in addition to all Galaxy S23, S22, S21, S20 and Note 20 series phones, Z Fold 4, Z Flip 4, Z Fold 3, Z Flip 3, Z Fold 2, Z Flip 5G and One UI Z Flip LTE devices running 5.1 or later.
Even if you have an older device, you should be able to use the app one day. Samsung says support for the Galaxy A-series, Galaxy M-series and Galaxy tablets will be coming “later.”
AI vs. Reliability
The best AI art generators may be making headlines these days, but AI-powered photo editors like the Galaxy Enhance-X app are equally useful, especially on smartphones.
Our phones are memory catchers, and thanks to Samsung’s new apps and comparable desktop apps like Luminar Neo, it’s now much easier to refine those memories rather than generate them. .
Samsung’s app is perhaps a response to Google’s big efforts in this area, especially Magic Eraser. Magic Eraser is now available for your iPhone or Galaxy phone as part of your Google One subscription.
Whether or not this perfect photography technique is actually a good thing for our photos is debatable, with TechRadar camera editor Tim Coleman recently suggesting that authenticity is more important than the brilliance of AI-powered perfection. argue that it really matters.
It’s great to live in an age of photography where you have choices no matter where you stand in the debate.
