diff --git a/components/album/histogram-chart.tsx b/components/album/histogram-chart.tsx
index da048a40..4a85c4da 100644
--- a/components/album/histogram-chart.tsx
+++ b/components/album/histogram-chart.tsx
@@ -374,7 +374,11 @@ export default function HistogramChart({ imageUrl, className = '' }: Readonly<Hi
 
   return (
     <div className={cn('relative w-full h-32 group', className)}>
-      {loading && (
+      {/* Only show the loading overlay on the very first computation. On a photo
+          switch we keep the previous histogram canvas visible and let the spring
+          animation morph to the new one — flashing this backdrop-blur spinner on
+          every switch was the panel "flicker". */}
+      {loading && !histogram && (
         <div className="absolute inset-0 z-10 flex items-center justify-center rounded-sm bg-overlay backdrop-blur-xl">
           <div className="animate-spin text-xl text-foreground/70">⟳</div>
         </div>
@@ -398,7 +402,9 @@ export default function HistogramChart({ imageUrl, className = '' }: Readonly<Hi
           ref={canvasRef}
           className={cn(
             'h-full w-full rounded-sm ring-1 ring-white/10 backdrop-blur-xl transition-all duration-200 group-hover:ring-white/20',
-            loading && 'opacity-30',
+            // Dim only during the first load (no prior canvas). On a switch the
+            // previous histogram stays fully visible until the new one morphs in.
+            loading && !histogram && 'opacity-30',
           )}
         />
       )}
diff --git a/components/album/preview-image.tsx b/components/album/preview-image.tsx
index ac136b3f..ec4ad726 100644
--- a/components/album/preview-image.tsx
+++ b/components/album/preview-image.tsx
@@ -299,8 +299,23 @@ export default function PreviewImage(props: Readonly<PreviewImageHandleProps>) {
     return null
   }, [current?.width, current?.height])
 
-  // Image URL for tone analysis and histogram
-  const imageUrl = current?.preview_url || current?.url || ''
+  // Histogram/tone source: the same display-sized variant the current slide has
+  // already loaded (≈1280, browser-cached → no extra fetch) instead of the raw
+  // full-resolution `preview_url`. preview compression is off on this deployment,
+  // so preview_url is the ~30MP original — pointing histogram/tone at it made
+  // every switch RE-FETCH + RE-DECODE a 30MP image (the panel "flicker"). The
+  // histogram/tone scale to ~300px, so a 1280 variant is more than enough. Falls
+  // back to preview_url only when the photo has no generated variants.
+  const histAvifOk = useAvifSupport()
+  const histVariantBase = configData?.variantBaseUrl ?? ''
+  const imageUrl = current && hasReadyVariants(current.image_key, current.ready_max_width, histVariantBase)
+    ? makeVariantLoader({
+        base: histVariantBase,
+        imageKey: current.image_key,
+        readyMaxWidth: current.ready_max_width,
+        format: histAvifOk ? 'avif' : 'webp',
+      })({ src: current.image_key, width: 1280 })
+    : (current?.preview_url || current?.url || '')
 
   // Debounce the histogram/tone source: those run an image-load + getImageData +
   // full-pixel scan, wasteful to fire for every photo flashed past during fast
diff --git a/components/album/progressive-image.tsx b/components/album/progressive-image.tsx
index 1f555f05..b64b5694 100644
--- a/components/album/progressive-image.tsx
+++ b/components/album/progressive-image.tsx
@@ -1,12 +1,20 @@
 'use client'
 
 import type { ProgressiveImageProps } from '~/types/props.ts'
-import { useEffect, useState, useRef, Activity } from 'react'
+import { useEffect, useState, useRef, Activity, memo } from 'react'
 import { createPortal } from 'react-dom'
 import { useTranslations } from 'next-intl'
 import { MotionImage } from '~/components/album/motion-image'
 import { useBlurImageDataUrl } from '~/hooks/use-blurhash'
 import { WebGLImageViewer } from '~/components/album/webgl-viewer'
+
+// Memoized so the high-res XHR's loadingProgress ticks (which re-render
+// ProgressiveImage many times during a multi-MB load) don't re-render the WebGL
+// viewer — its props (src/dimensions) are stable until the image actually loads,
+// so without this the viewer re-rendered on every progress tick = the zoom
+// "flicker during loading". Only mount/unmount (the #510 destroy lifecycle) and
+// a real src change re-touch it.
+const MemoWebGLImageViewer = memo(WebGLImageViewer)
 import type { WebGLImageViewerRef } from '~/components/album/webgl-viewer'
 import { isWebGLSupported } from '~/lib/utils/webgl'
 import { hasReadyVariants, makeVariantLoader } from '~/lib/image/loader'
@@ -289,7 +297,7 @@ export default function ProgressiveImage(
 
               {/* WebGL 图片查看器 */}
               <div className="w-full h-full">
-                <WebGLImageViewer
+                <MemoWebGLImageViewer
                   ref={webglViewerRef}
                   src={highResImageUrl}
                   width={props.width}