Raw editing on Android?

@Isaac The details you recovered in the cliff area is seriously impressive! I just received my Nexus 6P which shares the same sensor as your 5X and I can’t wait to explore the possibilities of this sensor.

The UX on both Snapseed and Lightroom Mobile is pretty good, though I find editing them on a tiny screen to be quite exhausting, and I don’t think any of these displays are accurately calibrated. That’s why my idea is to adjust the images on a PC and make a few profiles that works well on a variety of scenes, and then process these images on the mobile using those profiles.

On an unrelated note, I really like the selective adjustment tool in Snapseed. You choose a point on the image and it calculates a mask based on color similarity and proximity, then you can adjust brightness/contrast/saturation with that generated mask. I find it a lot more user friendly and intuitive than fiddling with parametric and drawn masks in darktable for localized edits. Are there any chances we can get a similar tool in our RAW editors?

@Tobias Yeah, unfortunately Camera2 API support is mostly restricted to Nexus devices and some flagship phones from other OEMs,

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