Help samsung galaxy s5 editing problems

[KatOlivia]

Ever since I received my new galaxy s5 I've been having really bad problems with editing my photos on the device. The camera is completely fine and I love the quality but as soon as I start to edit it the quality goes from a 10 to a 2.
I've used the in-gallery editor and a multitude of 3rd party ones and every time I edit it the quality de-pleats further. The problem is loads of lines start appearing on the photo and the more I edit it the more prominent they get. I've scoured many forums looking for an answer/fix but no one else seems to be having the same problem.
Below are examples:

original photo

cropped in the in-gallery app

edited slightly in a 3rd party app

cropped and filter added in in-gallery app

It occurs even worse when editing photos from the front camera, which isn't great for selfies

If anyone could fix this for me I would be very grateful, thanks!

 

[mikedt]

It's because the stock photo editor is saving as JPG, which is a lossy compression format. It means every time you open, edit and save, it's throwing throwing more and more detail away. That's why your images are visibly degrading like that. It's likely that the third-party apps you've tried are also saving as lossy JPG. What have you actually tried? Photoshop Express for Android can work with PNG, which is a lossless image format, but it's not free though, $59 for the full suite.

 

[KatOlivia]

It didn't happen on my old s3 though, I would have thought that used jpg as well? I've used things like pixlr, photowonder etc. which all worked perfectly on my s3, which is why I'm so confused/annoyed.

 

[biggdogg]

Anytime you edit a photo you will lose image quality, especially when you crop an image . Try to go through your camera settings and make sure you have everything set to take the highest quality image to start . I know the whole point in using the phones photo editor is for convenience but have you tried transferring them to a pc and then editing them ?

 

[KatOlivia]

It didn't happen on my old s3 though? Which is why I'm so confused/annoyed.

 

[EarlyMon]

Check out "Photo Editor"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iudesk.android.photo.editor

Unlike most editors, it doesn't suck terribly.

 

[kct1975]

Check out "Photo Editor"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iudesk.android.photo.editor

Unlike most editors, it doesn't suck terribly.

Just wanted to say that I completely agree!

I have used that app myself, and I agree that it is a simple app that works well.