

If you won’t be able to get .nomedia to work, you can hide directories in the albums tab in Aves Libre - long press an album, and in the triple-dot menu in the top right you can select “Hide”
This will hide the directory only on Aves’ end, and it will still be able to be accessed in the settings menu, under “Privacy”













that might just stem from the camera that took the photo. tons of budget phones have all kinds of messed up post processing integrated into the camera. i have a Xiaomi POCO X3 that has something akin to this smudging, and it persisted even after I flashed Ubuntu Touch on it