It is time for Google to embrace the camera filter on Pixel 10

You already know how much we usually like googles Pixel camera experience. There is no launch where we do not praise smart wrinkles such as the remodeled panoramic function or excellent image processing in any lighting conditions. And yet it is not without occasional squir. We have beaten Google for taking eternity to add manual camera controls, and we have danged the natural color profile that is occasionally too natural. So with pieces of both of these complaints in mind, I think it’s time for Google to add a camera filter to the Pixel 10 series, and here’s the reason.

Before I start asking Google to change one of the most basic parts of the pixel camera experience, let me say one thing – I like Google’s standard color profile. The pictures have always skewed so natural as can be, which does just about everything taken on a sunny day pop and looks full of life. I took with me Pixel 9a With me for a weekend wedding in Mexico, and I don’t think I counted a bad shot among those I took through the trip. Of course, I don’t think I counted a cloud in the sky, which probably helped.

Unfortunately, not every day is a sunny. I spent my first week with Pixel 9a covered by the bleak grayness of a Baltimore -spring that got a little too hung up on the idea of ​​April shower, and I can hardly imagine showing any camera tests taken during that time. Where everything I caught in Mexico is punchy, vibrant and exciting, most of my home cameras are gray, sad and natural. Pixel 9a did a brilliant job of capturing exactly what the streets of my neighborhood look like, it just didn’t make them look so exciting.

Do you know what will make these streets seem a little more exciting? Camera flashes. How do I know? Well, I spent long enough time hunting for a new photo editing app on Pixel 9 Pro, and I know there are many simple ways to spice up mobile images after taking them. As a photographer who primarily shoots with Fujifilm Cameras, I’ve gotten used to making most of my edit in camera thanks to movie simulations that save me lots of time and effort later, and I don’t think it would be too difficult for Google to implement a similar pipeline in the pixel.

Besides, Apple and Samsung have proven just as much with their respective Photographic styles and filters. They take different approaches – Apple lets you refine the tone and color of each style independently, while Samsung lets you upload a picture you already love and make it a filter – but the end product is a picture you don’t need to mess with later in the editing studio.

Even Nothing has a bold approach to camera filtersSo you download LUT -er to your phone to record presets for specific scenes. It may be the nerdest approach, and I don’t think Google will ever copy it, but it shows that almost everyone besides Google is aware that users will stylize their images before and later.

Of course, it is also fair to point out that pixels have camera filters – they just are not in the camera app. Instead, if I wanted to look up something I brought with Pixel 9a, I had to open my shot on Google images, press the Edit button and roll through Google’s options over there. At a basic level it is perfectly fine, but when I like to have an idea of ​​what my final image is going to look like when I press the shutter, it’s tough to remember exactly what filters with names like honey, clay and alpaca will do for my colors.

At least, when I first settled on one of the filters on Google images, I can further refine things like white balance, saturation and contrast, which gets pretty close to feeling like a skilled Photo editor. At that time, I would probably switch to Lightroom Mobile because I already have presets that I know and love. Unfortunately for Google, I am too determined to streamline my editing process to go through each slider separately.

With Apple and Samsung, my job is already done at this time. I have already put my photographic style or selected my filter, and the changes to color and tone are already in place. If I do not like a finished result, I can easily swipe from one filter to the next, and each one will keep the editions I use straight out of the camera. I tried to combine Google’s recommended dynamic improvement with the alpaca filter mentioned above, and it decided that I had to choose one or the other. Sorry Google, but I need all the help I can get on a cloudy day.