Question regarding camera settings and Image Editing - Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers

Hello,
I have 2 questions regarding camera modes and editing on my Note 8. First a little back story – I often take pictures for local car dealers and each car generally gets 100-120 pictures before I go to editing. I generally take all of my pictures with “Auto” filter or as the phone calls it “effect” on. However after taking my pictures, if I were to go and access “My Files” and see the sets of pictures under “camera” I can then modify them again by selecting various effects. When doing so and selecting “Auto” again, the image is saved and almost each time comes out brighter, and in my opinion overall better looking than the original picture (which was also taken with “Auto” effect on). I then end up having to choose the pictures I plan to use from my PC, having to manually re-apply “auto” effect on each picture, and re-upload them.
What is happening here? Is the phone not applying “auto” the first time around as I'm taking pictures? Or is there a double “auto” effect going on here, once at the time of the picture being taken, and once post picture? and if so is there a way to have the 2nd version of the image as the result from the first go at it?
Is there an image editing software / samsung tool that I can use on my PC so that I can instantly apply a certain filter/effect for a batch of files in one shot? Or if not, is there a way to edit a whole folder on the phone itself if I were to isolate the images I wanted edited? Or any other solution so I don't have to manually apply an effect on each image.
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Apologies for cross posting, also posted on HowardForums.
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hi guys,
i would really appreciate if any of you could tell me is just me or others facing the same problem. I've set the saving pictures taken as storage card but each time i take a ew photo, it shall show as unsupported format or corrupted file when i want to view t using pictures or resco photo viewer. why does it take so long to go back to camera after taking a picture especially if set it to storage card as default. hope any of you could help me. thanks.
I'm guessing your storage card is corrupt, try reformatting it.
You can change the amount of time the capture review stays on the screen, if that's the other issue you are having.
SlightlyTilted said:
I'm guessing your storage card is corrupt, try reformatting it.
You can change the amount of time the capture review stays on the screen, if that's the other issue you are having.
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Yes absolutely right. I've never seen the point of reviewing the pics one at a time anyway. I've set mine to zero and it makes a huge time saving between pics.
Apologies to the OP for a somewhat hijacked thread - don't know the answers unfortunately.
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For example, I take a picture, it gets numbered as DSC_0042.jpg. If you MOVE that picture off the device, the next picture you take will also be labeled DSC_0042.jpg, instead of DSC_0043.jpg.
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JCBomb said:
So this is annoying me very much.
If you remove a picture off the phone, the file name numeration "resets".
For example, I take a picture, it gets numbered as DSC_0042.jpg. If you MOVE that picture off the device, the next picture you take will also be labeled DSC_0042.jpg, instead of DSC_0043.jpg.
This is terrible. Especially considering all digital cameras and phones I've ever used, keep the counter going. Huge headache when backing up and moving pictures.
I don't see any option to fix this on the phone, am I missing something?
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No you didn't
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