How do I prevent this horrible 'filter' on my pictures?

[beagle]

Hi,

Can somebody help me as this is driving me mad.  I've only been using my S10e for a short while and I've noticed that the camera seems to apply a horrible 'filter' to my outdoor pictures.  (see attached image).  This renders them pretty useless.
I think I've turned off everything...any ideas how to fix this please?

[Pugs1957]

I can't see anything wrong. Can you elaborate?

[beagle]

Really?  It looks like a Photoshop 'artistic' filter has been applied: everything has a dark outline or edge, detail has been smoothed and highlights are burnt out - it looks like some really heavy noise reduction has been applied and basically looks very unrealistic.  Photos from my S7 never used to look like this...you cant see it on the phone screen unless you zoom in... but it means the images are useless if you want to print one... I can't believe it's supposed to look this artificial..

[Jasonseery]

its awful I see what you mean, Samsung have scammed everyone with the ***** camera, my partners IPhone 6 takes better pictures then my s10, and when I even zoom the slightest my videos are a blurred mess, tried all the fixes and repairs, shame on samsung, after my contract is up I'll never buy another Samsung, this is coming from a Samsung fan who had the Samsung s6 s7 s8 s9 s10 and when I read real reviews of people who owned the s20 and not fall for paid reviews, im Done with Samsung

[doc1964]

They now over process the hell out of pictures to the point of some of them looking waxy or cartoon like.

[beagle]

Urgh...my worst fear. Surely they can't leave it like this.  It looks *****e.  Embarrasing compared with my wife's iPhone and even my old S7.

Unbelievable that somebody at Samsung thinks this looks good...

[Jasonseery]

same here but I guess nothing looks wrong about this photo either, im watching Fawlty towers which was made in 1970 something and the picture quality then looks better then this photo but then again some samsung fans say we are not using the camera right 🤔 which all other phones can just press the take photo and look 10 times better on other phones

[beagle]

Yeah, that's exactly the same.  Looks terrible doesn't it.

In case anyone's interested, I've been testing 3rd party camera apps. So far I've tried Camera MX and ProCam X and, although they're not as responsive or slick as the stock camera,  they're both BETTER because they don't apply this dreadful post-processing.

[Jasonseery]

I must try them out Beagle, I never thought to do this, its unbelievable how anyone at Samsung can say this is OK when previous phones didn't do this, then some say what can you expect its only a phone or else we are using it wrong!! that's a load of ***** because all other phones you just point and click and photos came out so much better, I hear the s20 100s are complaining, im done with samsung

[DavidVHecke]

I had this on my previous phone...isn't this the 'beauty' filter or something. It gives you a smoother skin in some instances.

Tap the little magic and in the right top corner of the camera app, then tap 'beauty' and see that it's off.