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Questions tagged [photos]

Questions about photos (pictures) on your device. For the Photos app, use its corresponding app-specific tag instead (see tag-wiki/info for details) if it exists.

This tag is for questions on photos taken with or stored on your Android device.

Related tags

  • [google-photos]:
  • : if your question rather focuses on the Photos app
  • : if your question is specifically for contact photos (i.e. those displayed in your contacts list)
  • : specific to screenshots
  • : the more generic tag about "visual representations", meaning "pictures in general" – including e.g. screenshots, drawings, etc.
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How do I sharpen photos on my phone?

I am looking for a photo editor app or website that will let me sharpen photos, preferably using unsharp mask. I tried several free photo editors from the market, but none of them lets me sharpen photos. I don't mind paying for an app, I just don't…
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Wallpaper is blurry when cropped from downloaded image

When creating my own wallpapers on my Nexus S, they always end up being low quality. The image is slightly blurry. Edges are not crisp. These are the steps I'm doing: Download a very large image from the web browser. Long tap my current…
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Where is the trash that the stock camera/photos app moves to?

In Android 10, if you take a photo with the stock camera/photos app (which identifies itself as either "Camera" or "Photos" in the app switcher¹) and then view it afterwards, one of the "buttons" is a trash can. If you tap it, the phone prompts you…
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Photos app - can't I copy some photos to a new album?

I have a Nexus 5. I am in the Photos app, looking at the camera roll. I want to move/copy some photos to a new album, so I enter bulk-selection mode. When I select certain photos, the 'Copy to album' link disappears. Why does this copy icon…
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How can I easily tag a photo I am previewing?

I take a lot of photos on my Droid M THEN I have to go through them and select the best ones to upload. I need to preview full-screen to see if it's a good photo but then there is no way to mark/tag/select it in preview mode. You can Select a photo…
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What does it mean for a corrupted photo to appear on my album?

So I decided to clear out some photo for storage and I pasted by this photo here, but it was corrupted: The photo was actually took yesterday (12/25/18) but today I open to find it like this. I don't know how the image got to be like that, but I'm…
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android/data/com. folders

While searching for .jpg images that seem to be scattered ALL OVER my Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014), I discovered that, when connected to my Win7 PC, I can see .jpg images (my own photos with my unique naming system), in the android/data/com.* folders. …
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How can I view and easily delete pictures?

Could you advise me of some way to view pictures and easily delete some of them when viewing (with one or two taps)? I'm using Android 2.1.
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Photo Goo App to squeeze and twirl the camera input

Is there a way to use the camera on Android like with the old built-in Photo Booth app on iOS? Photo Booth can apply effects on your photos like mirror, squeeze, twirl, kaleidoscope, light tunnel and stretch:
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Can I add metadata to a jpeg in Android?

Does anyone know of a way to take jpegs imported from my camera onto my Android tablet then add the metadata properties that Windows calls Title, Tags (I assume, possibly wrong, that this is Keywords in EXIF terms) and possibly Subject so that they…
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Android image copy break original file date and time

I have found that if I have a WhatsApp image that I want to copy into a different folder on my Android device, keeping the original in place, then the date and time changes for the image. So if I go into the phones gallery the date and time of both…
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Capture still image from recorded video

I'm using a Motorola Moto g5 with latest Google photos. I try to find a way to select and export still images from my recorded videos. Preferably within Google Photos but could be another app as well.
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Android and/or Whatsapp degrading photos

My friend asked me about a problem on her Android phone with Whatsapp. Phone is Huawei, Y330-U01; Android 4.2.2. No apps related to Cloud (see comments below) except latest versions of Google Drive and Huawei backup. People send her pictures and…
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Some JPEGs from micro SD card munged, others OK

Relevant contents of micro SD card: 437 files in DCIM > Camera directory 177 JPEGs can't be read (HEX dump begins with 0000 instead of FFD8) 138 are damaged (HEX dump includes a series of 0000 bytes) 118 photos are intact 3 videos can't be read 1…
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Easiest way to resize and email pictures?

I have some clients that need to take high quality photos with their cell phones, send the photos via email, but keep the original size for later. (don't ask :P ) I'm looking for the easiest way to resize a bunch of pictures and email them, without…
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