Photo file format .heic?
My boyfriend took 13 photos in .heic format with his iPhone. These images are extremely sharp and detailed on his phone. He sent them to me via AirDrop on my MacBook, and I uploaded them from there to Dropbox. When I look at the images in my Dropbox on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S21), the quality of these images is terrible. The images are blurry and look like they were taken in 2004. The quality of the images on the MacBook is also not entirely convincing. What could be causing this? Is it the file format? Dropbox? Or my phone?
Unfortunately, I have a lot of really poor-quality pictures. I'm grateful for any tips.
I've already converted an image to .jpeg as a test and uploaded it again to Dropbox, but then the image on my phone in Dropbox was just as blurry.
Thanks for your answers
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It would be easiest if your friend connects your iPhone to your MacBook via cable and you import the photos from the Digital Images program (heared to macOS). Then you have the original quality.
After that, you need to check which format your Samsung is best and if necessary convert it accordingly.
The HEIC format is optimized for Apple devices. When viewing on Android devices or macOS, the quality can be impaired by conversion problems. In this article you will find some HEIC-to-JPG converters: https://4ddig.tenorshare.com/en/foto-reparatur/heic-in-jpg-umwandeln.html
I guess it’s on Dropbox. How about you turn to Jpeg and then save the pictures on your phone and open it from the gallery. Do they still look so bad?
I think it’s about the heic format. Don’t you think?
But if he turned them into Jpeg and they still look like that, it can’t be the format. And his Macbook would have to show the pictures without any problems.
Unfortunately, yes. Have the images exchanged via email now, they were formatted as .jpg and now see top from 🤷🏻 ♂️
I don’t know. The important photos are taken with the DSLR
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Is there an official HEIF plugin from MS in the Microsoft Store, have it already? To make it work, the HEVC plugin might also need.
I read the part with the Macbook.
With me, the transformation sometimes takes a little longer. My Windwos PC doesn’t like heic.
This is not on the device or on the Dropbox.
HEIC is an iOS format, so to speak a further development of JPG. This is not supported by Android, there you use the HEIF format. If you now have an image format that your phone does not understand, it may be able to read the embedded preview file, the result is naturally unusable.
You need to convert the file to JPG or PNG on your Mac, only then upload it to your Dropbox and to your Android phone.
Or your friend could convert the photo on his iOS device into a JPG or PNG… By the way, Dropbox allows you to share a whole folder, so your friend can load the file directly into your Dropbox and you can view it on all your devices that are rerouted via iOS -> Airdrop -> Mac -> Dropbox -> mobile phone.