Bringing HDR photograph assist to Instagram and Threads

Meta’s household of apps serves trillions of picture obtain requests day-after-day. And for those who’re into high-quality photographs, you’ve in all probability observed that Instagram and Threads have added assist for top dynamic vary (HDR) pictures. Now individuals on Threads and Instagram can add and share photographs which can be extra true-to-life, with the total colour and vary their system is able to capturing.

Zuzanna Mroczek, a software program engineer on Meta’s Media Platform Crew, joins Pascal Hartig (@passy) on the Meta Tech Podcast to speak about how her crew, which owns your entire circulation from serving photographs from the CDN to displaying them in your system, is driving up picture high quality throughout apps, platforms, and units.

Hear how the Media Platform Crew introduced HDR to Instagram and Threads, and the way they partnered with main cellphone producers (together with Google and Samsung) on the rollout!

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