This is a comparison of two photos taken on a Huawei Nexus 6P. One is a jpg straight out of the camera, and one was developed from a RAW file using the mobile app Snapseed.
Since Android 5.0 Lollipop, Android phone cameras can take photos in RAW format. On the Nexus 6P, the default Google Camera app doesn’t support capturing photos in RAW, so I needed to select a 3rd party app to do so. There are a lot of competing apps on Android and I haven’t decided on my favourite yet. I will review mobile camera apps in the future here on Namtastic.
As far as editing RAW format photos, there are few mobile editors that do that, but I choose Snapseed because I’m familiar with it. When you open a .dng file on Snapseed, it automatically launches it’s RAW development tool. You can change a variety of sliders with a greater dynamic range than jpg since RAW files are much larger and hold more photographic information. After you finish developing, it returns you to the regular Snapseed editing panel where you can either save it as a jpg or apply other regular Snapseed jpg edits and filters.
Nexus 6P JPG SOOC (Straight out of the camera)
Nexus 6P RAW developed in Snapseed
