Portraits are becoming more and more dominant in mobile phone images, no longer limited to still life or landscapes, but highlighting individual emotions and stories. Mobile phone images are not only records, but also the inheritance of emotions and memories. Each mobile phone portrait photo is a freeze frame of a unique moment in life, carrying the individual's emotions and life trajectory.
In terms of portraits, the vivo S series has always been the best among mobile phones, and it is loved by people who take portrait photography. So in the past five years, vivo S series has been deeply engaged in portrait selling points, and has developed a lot of portrait black technology, and now it is officially released for the S18 series, and it has made great progress in portraits. This achievement is naturally inseparable from the accumulation of beauty technology in the vivo S series over the years, and the following will take you to review the development history of the vivo S series portrait beautification technology.
1 vivo S1: The beginning of a personalized beauty selfie
The first model in the vivo S series is the vivo S1 phone, which was launched in March 2019, and it features an innovative lift-up front camera and industry-leading AI beautification features. This function can identify 103 basic facial landmarks, and intelligently allocate beautification solutions according to different face attribute monitoring and scenes, so as to achieve a personalized beautification selfie experience.
2 vivo S5:开创5重超质感美颜
As the second-generation selfie flagship of the vivo S series, the vivo S5 is equipped with the vivo S series' signature 5-fold ultra-textured beauty solution for the first time. This solution is a beauty solution independently developed by vivo, which includes five beauty functions: skin rejuvenation, textured skin, vitality beauty, smart beauty, and refined facial features, which can be optimized for more comprehensive and exclusive optimization of the five major areas of the face. And it can be optimized for different users' different face shapes based on AI technology.
With the help of the vivo S5's 32 million pixel high-definition front camera, which can present and record more detailed information, the 5-fold super texture beautification function can intelligently identify the gender and face shape characteristics of selfie users, so as to provide targeted optimization of beauty, which can be said to achieve the "high definition" of selfie beautification.
3 vivo S6: Bringing more light
As a model that inherits the achievements of the vivo S series in the field of beautification selfie algorithms, vivo S6 has been improved at the hardware level. The vivo S6 is equipped with a 32-megapixel front-facing ultra-high-definition camera, and the lens aperture has been increased to f/2.08, bringing more light intake.
The art of photography itself can be said to be the use of light, while portrait shooting has higher requirements for the amount of light, and more aperture can often significantly improve the imaging quality of portrait photos. And this hardware upgrade of the vivo S6 does exactly that.
In addition to the hardware upgrade, the vivo S6 has also been upgraded in algorithms. The five-fold super-texture beautification algorithm has been upgraded to version 2.0, and the new version has added functions such as combined beauty effects, face delicate adjustments, and full-face highlight effects. On the basis of the five-fold super texture beautification algorithm, vivo S6 is also equipped with a new night scene selfie algorithm and screen soft ring technology and portrait multi-style 2.0, and it also supports 1080P high-definition video beautification recording.
4 vivo S7:前置双摄时代到来
The vivo S7 released in 2020 has brought a significant upgrade of the vivo S series selfie function in terms of hardware, vivo S7 is equipped with a front 44 million ultra-high-definition PDAF autofocus main camera and a 105° ultra-wide-angle secondary camera, of which the 44 million pixel front main camera uses the GH1 image sensor, which is equipped with the phase detection autofocus technology PDAF used by the DSLR camera, which can achieve front-facing extremely fast focus, and is equipped with f/2.0 ultra-large aperture and EIS image stabilization.
Therefore, the vivo S7 front main camera not only has a higher pixel count than the previous generation, but also has a wider aperture than the previous generation, which can bring clearer and more stable imaging results. On vivo S7, the five-fold super texture beautification function has also been upgraded to version 3.0, and it has brought the "face file" function, which can create the most suitable beauty solution for users based on the user's facial data AI intelligent analysis, amplify the user's facial advantages, make the beauty selfie beautiful, and refuse to be the same.
5 vivo S9:步入3D美颜时代
The recently released vivo S9 series selfie flagship phone has greatly upgraded the beauty selfie function at the software algorithm and hardware level. Compared with the previous model, vivo S9's beautification algorithm has been greatly improved, realizing the evolution from a 2D point-to-point algorithm to a 3D stereoscopic modeling algorithm, which naturally makes vivo S9's beautification effect reach a new level.
The newly upgraded beautification algorithm is named "3D Five-Layer Super Texture Beautification", which will first build a virtual 3D face model after taking a photo, and then obtain depth information that cannot be obtained from the 2D plane, so that the same 3D drawn photo information can be used to complete the three-dimensional beautification effect.
At the same time, in order to better improve the beauty selfie performance of vivo S9 in low-light environments, vivo S9 also has a "unique artifact". vivo S9 adds two LED soft lights to the top gap of the screen without affecting the volume of the mobile phone, which can provide users with uniform and three-dimensional light on their faces in the polar night environment, thereby improving the imaging effect in low-light environments.
From the portrait samples actually shot with vivo S9, it can be seen that its treatment of portrait beautification effect is very natural, ensuring the three-dimensional sense of facial images, and there are no common problems of detail discarding blur and flat face that are common in other beautification algorithms.
vivo S9 is able to achieve such excellent beauty shooting results, not only thanks to its own significant upgrades, but also the result of the vivo S series years of technology accumulation in the field of beauty selfies. For example, vivo S1 has established the concept of personalized beauty selfies, vivo S5 debuted the vivo S series' iconic "five-fold super texture beautification" solution, vivo S6 expands the lens aperture and improves the amount of light, and vivo S7 brings a front-facing dual-camera design to vivo S series, laying the foundation for the birth of the subsequent vivo S9's "3D five-fold super texture beauty".
6 vivo S10: 44-megapixel dual-camera natural soft-light portrait
At the hardware level, it's the flagship of selfie phones. It has two cameras on the front, one of which is a 44-megapixel main camera with autofocus.
Front main camera sample
The other is an 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera with a 105-degree viewing angle, which can meet the needs of selfies in a variety of scenes, including group photos.
Group photo of the front ultra-wide camera (low-light environment)
Then there are 2 soft lights hidden on both sides of the handset grid of the phone. Combined with the AI Polar Night Mode (automatically on), Night Mode (manually on), and the soft light ring on the front, the vivo S10 Pro solves the problems of dark faces in selfies in low-light environments, as well as poor noise and smudge control.
In low-light environments, the main camera soft light on the front is filled with light
In low-light environments, the main camera soft light on the front is filled with light
7 vivoS12:双色柔光灯
In portrait photography, light is very important. Especially in low-light scenes, if there is no suitable lighting, the finished effect is basically unacceptable. In order to solve this problem, vivo S12 Pro integrates four dual-color gentle lights in the front camera module, which is double the number compared with the previous model, and supports color temperature adjustment, so as to achieve a brighter and more accurate fill light effect.
vivo S12 Pro搭载四颗双色温柔光灯
In the sample shots, the vivo S12 Pro's front ultra-clear main camera achieves a clear and bright portrait image in low-light conditions, and there is no loss of detail caused by overly dark images. It is worth mentioning that the vivo S12 Pro has optimized the details of the portrait frame quite well, not only has just the right beautification effect, but also presents the model's own facial features.
As can be seen from the night portrait selfie samples shot with the built-in fill light using the vivo S12 Pro, the vivo S12 Pro's fill light effect on the face is very moderate, and there is no overexposure or partial underexposure, which can effectively help users shoot in low-light environments.
8 vivo S18:前后都有柔光灯
As the signature configuration of the S series, the soft light has not fallen behind on the S18. The front studio-level dual soft light and the rear studio-level soft halo ensure that the fill light in portrait shooting is softer, and say goodbye to blurry black faces or unevenly lit yin and yang faces.
The vivo S series, which has always focused on portrait photography, has always attached great importance to the impact of light on shooting, and the just-released vivo S18 series can be described as a masterpiece, not only the front is equipped with studio-level dual 90° wide-angle soft lights as standard, but also the rear also has studio-level soft ring intelligent lighting.
vivo S18 supports a larger 90° wide-angle soft light at the front studio to illuminate the corners of the picture and make selfies and shots clear.
vivo S18 is equipped with a 6.78-inch screen with soft light, which can achieve better lighting effects, and the fill light is not only softer and brighter, but also more ambient. Choose between warm and cold ambient lighting effects, and infinitely adjust the color temperature of the supplemental light, which not only highlights the mood but also shows the spirit, bringing the portrait shooting experience of smartphones to a whole new level.
The soft light ring can also be intelligently filled with color temperature depending on the shooting environment, for example:
The two portrait samples above use warm and cool light to fill in the light, but the effect is not ideal. The first face has a very strong color cast, and the second cold light makes the face pale.
And when we turn on the soft halo intelligent lighting, vivo S18 selects the appropriate color temperature according to the current environment for supplemental light, which not only makes the character's complexion ruddy, but also improves the overall temperament.
As we look back at the history of the S series, from S1 to S18, we can't help but sigh that the series has gone through eleven generations in just five years. In the process, the S-Series has not only made huge improvements in design, performance, and imaging, but has also successfully succeeded the X-Series in the high-end market and occupied an important position in the mid-range market. Especially when it comes to portrait photography, the performance of the S series is even more impressive.
For users who like selfies and portrait photography, the vivo S18 is undoubtedly an option worth considering.
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