Googles New PhotoScan App Will Transform Your Prints Into Digital Images

Googles New PhotoScan App will Transform Your Prints into Digital Images

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Published 15 Nov 2016

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Google is offering a solution for turning your old prints into digital photos. A new app called PhotoScan enables you to scan your photographs with a smartphone. Then save them to your Photos library. The app will detect the edges, straighten the image, eliminate glare, and properly crop it.

Once the process is finished. You can access and edit the images from the Photos app. You can get PhotoScan in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Additionally, in Google Photos, there are also a few new tools for editing that are also out. There’s a new, improved auto-enhance, some filters, and more sophisticated editing tools.

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There are more options for adding some filter-powered flair to your pictures. When you edit a photo, you’ll see more opportunities for tweaking the lighting. Such as exposure, contrast, whites, highlights, and shadows. Additional tools are for editing and other elements of your pictures.

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You can make more precise edits with the new tools inside of Photos. The new tools are in the latest version of Google Photos for Android and iOS.

The impact on you: PhotoScan is a clever way to digitize old photos. It is often challenging as you have to spend a long time using a scanner. Or sending them to a specialized store for this service. The app is also an excellent hook for Photos, as it may introduce many people to the service. Since that’s the storage location for all those new digital memories, you create.