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That’s due to basic denoising, not anything more advanced. I have photos from my iPhone 6s circa 2016 that look similar when you zoom in.

• dgacmu 3y ago
  interesting - thank you!
• KennyBlanken 3y ago
  That's not "basic denoising" and photos from my 8 look nothing like that; the "watercolor" or "oil painting" look started around the iPhone 12. Basic denoising is stuff like chroma or hue smoothing. This is very aggressive patterning. That's a daylight photo that the phone turned into an oil painting. https://www.google.com/search?q=pixel+photo+oil+painting+look https://www.google.com/search?q=pixel+photo+oil+painting+loo...
  • dagmx 3y ago
    It’s just what happens when you really aggressively do noise reduction on small sensor data. The noise pattern of any sensor that small will blotch in patterns that when combined with aggressive noise reduction, it will look this way. It’s less apparent on bigger sensors but you’ll see the same if you really crank the noise reduction
    • panarky 3y ago
      Yes, it's denoising and sharpening due to extreme digital zoom that only uses a small portion of an already tiny sensor.
      • dgacmu 3y ago
        That deer image definitely had digital zoom (I wasn't standing next to the critter).
  • alt227 3y ago
    If you go into photoshop and mess around with filters for 5 mins, you will soon see that if you over aggressively apply any filter to a photo it soon starts looking like a cartoon or painting due to the way that image processing groups blocks of colour together for manipulation.