LUT applied? (Samsung Gallery)

[Remydrh]

I notice the Samsung Gallery view of photos is brighter and more saturated than when I edit the image in another app like Snapseed or Instagram. It seems there's a LUT applied and I don't see an option to convert or bake the LUT. It should do so automatically if exporting externally to maintain the same colors. Is there a setting I'm missing?

[Pianodude58]

Samsung's native Gallery app doesn't support exporting and "baking" standard LUT conversions for photo editing, it does offer a workaround for creating and applying custom color filters. For a more professional workflow that involves baking a LUT file, you will need a third-party application. 

[Remydrh]

I mean it's displaying something that clearly has a LUT on it because when I export it to any other photo app it looks different than it did in the gallery. That means the gallery is doing something to the underlying image for viewing that when I export it to anything else it's not the same. Any external app agrees on what the image looks like, only Samsung gallery shows it as brighter and more saturated.

[Remydrh]

It's subtle but the image on the right is how the picture is displayed on the Samsung gallery. On the left is the slightly less saturated and darker version that is exported to literally any other app from Samsung gallery. I don't know why there's a subtle shift.

[Pianodude58]

The Samsung Gallery app does not use custom LUT files for viewing regular photos. I haven't noticed any difference on my phone from viewing to exporting photos.

Sorry you are having this issue. and that I am unable to help.

[maird]

It might be a deliberate attempt to "adjust" simple display attributes such as brightness, contrast and saturation (perhaps even regional application of them) in order to do best justice ito mages from a HDR sensor. That wouldn't necessarilly be a LUT but would be intended to improve the view when there are subtle dynamic range differences the app intends to make clear. Animal fur might be expected to have a high probability of detected detail occupying minimal dynamic ranges. Without the source to Gallery it's only a guess but I suspect best display of HDR images might be more likely than a raw LUT.

Any tool the image could be exported to might not receive a HDR export copy in the firt place for portability reasons but assuming it is a HDR export most modern tools would support HDR images, though the display device might not.

[Remydrh]

There's usually an HDR to SDR save option but this doesn't exist here, I have HDR and RAW off.