Picture color saturation / white balance

[King_Moon_Racer]

Hi!

I traded in my old dinosaur of an S5 2 weeks ago and picked up an S10. Love it. The 3 lenses are excellent. I read about it has good performance in low light situations. Yes, it utterly kills my old dinosaur S5.

I also read about how much better the Google Camera app is with Night Sight. I figured it couldn't be that much better, but it is. Sorry for the pun, but it's "night and day" better.

Here's the issue. After installing the apk for the Google Camera, I started taking comparison photos between the stock Samsung Camera app and the Google Camera app. Images taken with the Samsung Camera app come out far more saturated whereas the Google Camera app images come out considerably more lifelike. I can color correct / adjust white balance in post processing, but I really want to just be able to take a pic and share it immediately without the hassle of any post processing.

I'd prefer to keep using the Samsung App for now (excluding low light photos) because the Google Camera app doesn't utilize all 3 lenses (yet).

Anyone here have any tips / tricks on taming the white balance / saturation in the Samsung Camera app?

I am using the Samsung App in full auto. I can tinker with the Pro mode and "get it right", but I want to point, shoot, and share without having to go through a whole lot of post processing - basically, I want an "easy button".

Here are my camera settings in the Samsung App:

Scene Optimizer enabled

• Bright Night enabled
• Document Scan disabled
• Starburst disabled

Shot Suggestions disabled
Flaw detection disabled
Motion photos disabled
HDR (rich tone) enabled

• Apply when needed

Tracking auto-focus enabled

To be honest, I have not yet disabled Scene Optimizer and HDR for a test vs the Google Camera app.

In the attached file, the top pic is with the Google app, the bottom pic is from the Samsung camera app.

I look forward to suggestions and feedback!

 

[King_Moon_Racer]

Update: I thoroughly tested all the Samsung options enabled / disabled yesterday evening. Pics still come out with more green/yellow saturation than with the Google Camera app.

 

[King_Moon_Racer]

Update: I was recently able to get the ASD3 update on my phone.

• Google Camera now able to access 2 of the 3 lenses (standard and wide angle)
• No change in the stock Samsung camera app.

In the following image, I have a comparison of 2 images.

• Top is from Gcam
• Bottom is from the stock Samsung camera app.

These were taken under a fairly overcast sky.

• Gcam image is true. Realistic. Lifelike in color
• Samsung image appears to be auto-processed. The shadows are enhanced and brightened. The overall color has saturation boosted (almost looks like "Vibrance" boost in Adobe Lightroom)

To be fair, this image from the Samsung camera app looks really good. I believe this is because there isn't a large degree of varying light / dark contrast as in the first image I posted. In an instance with a large amount of light / dark contrast (like the first image I posted), Gcam is far superior.

My hope is that the Samsung devs turn the auto-processing down in their app so that images come out more true to form and lifelike. It's a cool app with good features and it is easy to use. The images just don't quite look right.