Automatic Beauty Applied on Selfie Camera????????

[YakuzaNeko]

Basically, I've bought the Mate 20 Pro and I Collected it today from carphone warehouse.

The selfie camera is horrible, there's an automatic beauty filter that's applied to your face to smoothen it out. Even my hair is smoothened out.

Right now, because of this, my S8 Plus' front facing camera looks better in terms of colour accuracy and image quality.

Once you take the portrait shot, it says "Sharpening image" and then when you view the image in your gallery, yes, it's a lot sharper, however why does the live preview have this beauty effect on even when Master AI turned off??

It's making my face extremely white and pale for no reason at all.

The "colourful" filter modes too that remove the backgrounds to add cool colour effects also doesn't work in the live preview. It's only when you take the picture shot will the image itself in your gallery appear with the colour filters which is extremely annoying.

TLDR:

Automatic beauty mode that smooths your skin and hair
Cannot turn it off
Background colour filters not working properly.

 

[yili2008]

Selfie quality

How is the selfie quality compared with s8 or other smartphones? Its really terrible? I tested yesterday the front facing camera. My opinion is, its mutch better than p20 pro

 

[Leechoonhwee]

Automatic beauty mode that smooths your skin and hair
Cannot turn it off
Background colour filters not working properly.

After you switch to selfie cam, switch the mode to photo and there wont be any beauty mod apply.

 

[siaoz85]

I have the exact same gripe. I'm always taking selfies with my son in the morning and both our faces look washed out. I can't stand it when something basic such as this cannot be right. Although I like every other aspect of this phone. If there is no software fix for this I might have to go back to my iPhone.

 

[HellraiserNZ]

The Selfie Cam Lacks Auto-Focus - So the distance from face to phone will make a difference in a crap image or a highly detailed image.

Obviously take steps to turn off beauty mode as well.

 

[roosta]

There's face brightening going on with the front facing cam. Is it anything like this video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUmoTujgXlM&t=52s

Did @Leechoonhwee suggestion above help you fix the issue?

RoOSTA

 

[randomA]

Obviously take steps to turn off beauty mode as well.

By this, do you just mean setting the slider all the way to 0 ?

 

[Jonathan-H]

Go to selfie cam then turn it to photo instead of the default mode. This improves it. Also hold the phone steady after shot as I believe it's taking multiple shots and stitching them so it is better quality if you hold still. ie: "Sharpening photo hold the phone steady" etc.