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Enable HDR on a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge

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You're watching VisiHow. This is a tutorial on how to turn HDR on or off for the camera on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. "HDR" stands for "High Dynamic Resolution". It's photo technology that takes more than one photo at a time.

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To use HDR, we need to be on the unlocked home screen of our phone
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Then, we need to tap on the Camera icon
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We double-tap the home button
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We'll open Camera. The quick launch for the Camera application will have been used.
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We can turn off "Quick launch" by tapping on "CAMERA SETTINGS", or we can tap on "OK" to keep the setting
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Now to enable HDR, we locate the icon that shows a sun and a moon
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The icon also looks like two circles, depending on how we look at it. The icon is at the top of the screen. The icon is the HDR toggle. We tap on the setting. We will see that "HDR AUTO" will change to "HDR ON".
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We tap on the HDR toggle again
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It will change to "HDR OFF".

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Finally, we tap it one more time
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It will switch back into the "HDR AUTO" mode. HDR allows to take several photos. These photos are then combined into one image; so, we will have more than one image taken at a time. As the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge has a limited amount of memory, and it's not expandable, it is advisable to only use HDR when we would like to have the best possible photo for the situation. This is something that we can learn about in the tutorials on VisiHow.
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When we've finished, we press the home button
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We'll go back to the home screen.

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