Ghosting or artifacts appearing upon image loading

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May 18, 2024
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All of my photos are now loading with this weird ghosting or artifact, even unedited ones. Any help with what this is called or how to fix it would be greatly appreciated. Please see attached photos for an example.

iOS: iPhone

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Jao vdL

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I see now what you are looking at. You appear to be screenshotting a screenshot in the images which can cause issues if the device you are working on is a HDR capable device which all recent iPhones are. What format are the original images in? Are they HDR capable formats such as HEIC?

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Danielle2839845680jmAuthor

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I screenshotted a video to post an example but all the original pictures are in RAW format. So lightroom shows smart previews of that on mobile, but even downloading the original file does not fix the issue.

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

Check if HDR is turned on on these images in Lightroom. Tap on "light" and go down all the way. You'll see a toggle switch. If on, turn it off, If off, turn it on and see what effect it has. These sort of poesterization issues can also be caused by the choice of profile. For this go to the profiles screen and see what it has selected there.

Lastly, know that Apple's proRAW format is not actually raw. It is heavily cooked. So if you shoot proRAW with your phone, you're not actually shooting raw at all but something else.