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"Novelize" Your Family History Story - Live (sort of) from RootsTech 2020 It takes 4x longer to capture an image using PhotoScan than it does with your phone's camera app.For instance, if you are capturing a photo with a lot of people in it and their heads are pretty small, it's a good bet that you may not be able to recognize these people when zooming in on the PhotoScan result. But if you are capturing this photo to save forever, share, print, or view on a large screen, the file will be damaged beyond repair. This amount of sharpening and contrast actually makes the photo easier to see if it's zooming by on a tiny phone screen. Over-sharpening and contrast obliterates fine detail.When it stitches all these pictures back together, your dad's head may not be the same shape it used to be. The app uses your phone's flash to take the picture, and then combines further multiple shots to remove the glare that is created by the flash. High compression means you'll see weird color shifts and blocky artifacts if you ever want to enlarge or print this photo.(My 3-year-old phone's camera takes a pic that's 5312 x 2988 I could print a decent 9 x 17 at least.) But what's worse: Low pixel count (only 2000 x 1500) means it's only good for the web.Very low image quality makes these "scans" useless for anything other than a quick social media post.
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WHY YOU SHOULD NOT USE PHOTOSCAN TO DIGITIZE AND ARCHIVE YOUR OLD PHOTOS
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It does automatically upload the photo to your Google Photos account, but then so will your cell phone's regular camera app (if you have a free Google Photos account). And your phone's regular camera takes much, much better pictures. It'll look fairly decent as it whizzes by in his friends' feeds. 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:
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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.
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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. As I have stated in a previous post, I am a big fan of Google Photos for a number of reasons.
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