In the age of smartphones and the cloud, the vast majority of photos can be backed up to the cloud pretty easily, but what about your polaroids or old printouts? Of course, traditional scanning and backing up has always been an option, and there are also a variety of services that will scan and digitise your images for a fee (or not, as was recently the case for scanmyphotos.
com), but Google’s new app makes the entire process much easier.
Much like a panorama, the app will prompt you to take multiple exposures are different angles and of different areas of the image. Once the entire photograph has been scanned, the app then composites each of the exposures together into a single image. By using this method, Google promises to eliminate glare and make photo scanning as easy as possible, dubbing the app the “the scanner of the future. ”
Using Google Photos or whatever backup solution you prefer, your analog memories can then be backed up forever in the cloud, rather than being eaten away slowly by moths in your attic.
The PhotoScan App is available for free on Android and iOS now, so be prepared for the incoming wave of baby photos on Instagram in 3, 2…
. digitalrev.com2016-11-16 03:00
