What’s this about a ‘soft filter’ on my selfies?
It doesn’t exist. I don’t want to say that some people make up controversies to get Youtube impressions, but you do have to take things on the internet with a grain of salt.
People feel the iPhone XS ‘smoothens’ things for two reasons:
Better and more aggressive noise reduction due to merged exposures, and
Merged exposures reducing sharpness by eliminating sharp light/dark contrasts where light hits parts of the skin
For the latter, it’s important to understand how our brains perceive sharpness, and how artists make things look sharper.
