Pro-tip: In the morning, around 7:30 to 8:30, the sunlight casts shadows an angle. You want the surface of the photograph to be uniformly lit. Try to avoid whatever light source you’re using cast shadow(s) onto the subject, as in, your hard copy photograph. I find during the daytime, outside on the veranda or somewhere no direct sunlight is, but well-lit from all angles. What I found to be effective with my scans was doing the photo scans in an open, well-lit space. Underestimate this point, and come crying to anyone, we won’t hear you out.Īs much as your phone camera might be great, feed the lens with the right amount of light for crystal clear scans with the PhotoScan app. Like any photography stunt, your lighting is key to the good-looking-ness of your photograph. In addition, I share what to look out for and the rough edges in the PhotoScan app. In the article, I’ll share with you some of the tips I’ve gathered after using the recently launched app to capture over 300 1-to-2-decade-old hardcopy photographs. PhotoScan cuts down the entire steps into a single one: Take the shot and save! With CamScanner, a few tweaks here and there, ‘Lighten’, ‘Grayscale’, bla bla happens, which although are great options to enhance the resulting scan, in many cases, 8 out of 10, I didn’t need those steps.Ĭonsider CamScanner as the Professional gear for photo scanning on phone, and PhotoScan from Google as the ‘point-and-shoot’ equivalent. Yet, the workflow never struck me to use it for something as extensive as I did with the PhotoScan. I’ve always had CamScanner (the paid version) for God knows how long. Rather Underdo!’ CamScanner post-pro (click to enlarge) However, as the 37Signals guys, who wrote Rework puts it, ‘Don’t overdo your competition. You get to export the resulting scans into different formats. Designed for scanning documents and images, it does a far better job, with extra options. In fact, I know a couple apps within the competition that without a doubt, can blow PhotoScan out of the water. What Google PhotoScan does has been heard of before. And caveats to look out for when using the app.Tips to get the best of your photo scans.How different is the Google PhotoScan app from the competition.Three things to look out for in this article: However, what actually sets PhotoScan apart from the competition? Out of the box, PhotoScan is straightforward and gets to the business why you’re in the app. PhotoScan is the next addition to taking the photo experience to the next level, by transforming all these photos in our hardcopy albums into shareable memories via Google Photos. If you’re into digitizing all historic photos of yours, of the family, or for a friend, PhotoScan might be what you need. Google PhotoScan is the new Google app in the block to help you bring those old rusty photos of yours to life.
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