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Microsoft Pix does ‘much’ better photos than your iOS camera

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CIOL Microsoft Pix does ‘much’ better photos than your iOS camera

If you think there is nothing better than your iPhone camera, you probably won’t say that after reading this article. The iOS camera is great but it’s not perfect and to make it perfect Microsoft has introduced a new iOS app Microsoft Pix that offers a much better and enhanced camera experience in comparison to Apple’s camera. The app that uses artificial intelligence(AI) to automatically improve your photos also creates Live Images that are like iOS’ Live Photos and much more.

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Microsoft Pix, a free app from Microsoft Research, focuses first and foremost on delivering better pictures of people. It does this by continuously taking pictures when the app is open and using an algorithm to choose the best shot or shots from among 10 images (seven just before the camera button is pressed and three after).

CIOL Microsoft Pix does ‘much’ better photos than your iOS camera

That’s not all. The app also uses these shots to tweak your picture’s color and sharpness settings. After the app is done with the whole auto enhance stuff, it presents you with your original snapshot and the enhanced one. Allowing you to select which picture you like more. As the app is continuously shooting bursts or groups of photos shot in rapid succession, it deletes all the pictures except for the one you select to conserve memory.

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Comparing it with the standard iOS Camera app, Pix truly makes for better images with richer detail and a much more natural color reproduction (it’s already live on iOS, try it to believe me). Not just that, the app makes any plain, random photo seem like it has been shot by a professional.

Pix also allows you to edit and share your favorite photos. All this in a UI that’s nothing more complex than Apple’s own camera client.

The app is also capable of shooting Live Photos. Microsoft likes to call them Live Images, though. These are a batch of pictures taken in rapid succession to simulate motion. But this happens only when the app senses motion. So you don’t have to worry about Pix using up storage space unnecessarily. The app stores your captures in both the iOS device’s default image gallery, as well the Pix app’s dedicated gallery, the latter allows for viewing batches of pics for easier navigation.

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