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    > Edit photos anywhere with Snapseed™

The "before" and "after" images [0] are completely different photographs!

[0]: http://www.kodak.com/KodakGCG/uploadedImages/Consumer/Produc...

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It's a continuation of scene. I think they were attempting a panorama where half was "before" and half was after, but the subject and feel of each side of the pano is just so different, that it hardly has a comparison effect!

For a true before/after, see these images:

http://kp.kinsta.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/before.jpg

http://kp.kinsta.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/after.jpg

Eww that looks like the kind of thing you find in reddit's shitty HDR sub.

Agreed, the "before" picture looks so much more natural.

It's not bad tone mapping, which is what most people think of when they think of shitty HDR. It's sharpening and increasing local contrast. This particular effect can also be created in Lightroom by pushing the "clarity" slider too far to the right.

Yeah, it's completely backwards. I thought we were past Instagram filters, but now Kodak is trying to build it into their camera?

The after is too sharp, but I don't see a problem with applying filters to a photo. If it gives a nostaligc feel, so what?

It looks like mostly local (think sharpening) and global contrast changes, based on the artefacts. In addition tonality changes.

Sharpening effect is very prominent on these examples. Hopefully there is an configuration option for this.

I've seen these things be "sliders" before. Where you slide the middle line & can see both "before" and "after" just by sliding it.

Seems like they got the two photos, but didn't figure out the tech behind it.

that comparison accompanied the mention of snapseed. wtf? It's the same set of processing potential that anyone with iOS and Android can accomplish.

Shuldnt they tout the expected superior output from the sensor compared to leading camera smartphones? Galaxy S7, iPHone 7?...

The "After" looks insanely grainy to me.

Where did you find those?

It's a panorama image split in the middle. What it lacks to be useful is that split bar should be a slider so you can see the before after effect on that image.

It's actually a single wide shot with a bar down the middle. I agree that it's unintuitive.

It's not just unintuitive, it's useless as a comparison.

If it were of a fruit bowl, you could make the joke "they're literally comparing apples and oranges".

You can't say "look at photo X, and now see how much more awesome photo Y is that has been edited with our software!"

That's the first thing I noticed and it made me laugh pretty hard. Such nice editing software haha.

it is working here: http://www.kodakphones.com/ektra/#

You're right, they changed the page.

That must be a hell of a piece of software then!!

I noticed that as well. For the one in the article, the after photograph has fewer clouds too.

Was that so difficult Kodak? https://codecanyon.net/item/multipurpose-before-after-slider...

Or just use something free instead...

http://codepen.io/nikolaygit/pen/wFqjE

it's one long panoramic with the left side the before and the right side the after.

Sure. So different photographs, with many other moving parts beside the application of Snapseed wizardry.

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