Can I refocus a Huawei P9 Aperture Mode photo after transferring it to a computer?
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I know I can change the focus in the Huawei P9 camera app when the photo was taken in Aperture Mode. If I transfer that photo to a computer, can I still refocus it there? If so, how?
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Pretty much, no. The Huawei P9's dual cameras are actually capturing two entirely separate images and then combining them, with a bit of software processing, to simulate the effect of adjusting focus. On the assumption that you're downloading a JPEG or similar from the camera, you've reduced yourself to just one image and thrown away the extra information you need do this kind of modification.
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Yes—sometimes. A normal exported JPEG usually won’t let you refocus, because the phone has already combined the data into a single image. Refocusing works only if you still have the original Huawei P9 Aperture Mode file that contains the extra depth/refocus information.
If you kept that original file, community members pointed to desktop tools that can read the embedded data and let you change focus on a computer, such as the open-source "jpg-refocus-tool." Another answer also mentioned a command-line utility, "dual-camera-edof," for extracting the image data.
So the key is: if the transferred file is just a standard processed JPEG, probably not. If it’s the original file with Huawei’s embedded depth data intact, then yes, with the right third-party software.
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