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Whip out your cell phone, fire up the app, snap, and share, and you're done. Like when it's your brother's birthday, and you want to h̶u̶m̶i̶l̶i̶a̶t̶e̶ honor him by posting a snap of him at his junior prom, sporting a mullet and a red Members Only jacket. It's only fit for transitory uses like social media. It's a fast and easy way to get an old snapshot onto Facebook or Instagram. PhotoScan is not a good option for creating a digital archive.īefore I get to the why nots, here's the one good thing I'll say about PhotoScan: As an advocate/evangelist/obnoxiouswindbag about preserving our history, and also as a former professional photographer, I am here to tell you that there are many ways to digitize your photos, and some are better than others. What is most horrifying about PhotoScan to me is that Google is marketing it as a legit tool for you to digitize your old photo albums.
#Made in the am album scan movie#
What could go wrong? (Cue horror movie music.)Īfter trying out PhotoScan on my Samsung Galaxy Note, I have only this to say: your old photos should be afraid. Easy peasy! Just snap, and it gets rid of glare and automatically straightens your photo. So I had high hopes for Google's PhotoScan phone app: their "photo scanner from the future." The app is supposedly an alternative to getting out a nasty, big old scanner to archive your old photo albums. It saves my cell phone photos to the cloud without my intervention and it can do some cool other things too.
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As I have stated in a previous post, I am a big fan of Google Photos for a number of reasons.