Many Thanks Steve, I only have one paper photo of my mother, using your expertise, I was able to save a much better digital picture than the original paper photo. Many Thanks for saving my memories.
I am so very glad I ran across your video. I have now officially switched to this Google Scan App to scan all of my old photos. Thank you for this video.
Love using this app! All we have to do now is unearth our overflowing tub(s) of photos. in the basement and get to work re-organizing them to make some sense of if all!🤪 I love how you explain all these apps so simply!! I have only used PS so far to take some photos for selling DVDs or CDs on eBay. Works great for that use as well if any other sellers are reading this!👍🏻
Take the tubs out of the basement, it's the second-worst place they could be after an unheated attic.. Go through the one tub at a time, putting aside only those that you think your kids or grandkids might care about when they are adults. Box up everything else and put in in a temperate dry area until you're visited by a family member. Take what's left and have another adult, ideally a sibling, go through those together and choose the best half. I suggest a few of you growing up and the best one that you can find of each family member at that time and deceased grandparents If there are more than 100, invest $100 in a used photo scanner. Otherwise, take them to a photo scanning shop.
Thanks for this! I have many old photos and have tried scanning them but glare is such a problem. I have downloaded the app and plan on using it alot. As usual, great presentation, right to the point. Quite a family resemblance in those photos!
Hi! Thanks for the information. I know I am a little late to the party. LOL. My question is this: After I have completed the transfer of my old photos to my computer, should I delete them all off of the PhotoScan app before I begin to use the app again for a new project?
A really good photoscanner passes the captured image straight to the best editor available. A DSLR with the appropriate quality lens can get results no phone app will produce in a long to come. I use the phone scanner app for capturing snippets from the daily newspaper and suchlike. For quality improvements one needs quality raw material with wide tonal ranges. Any decent photoshopper knows the pitfalls and for stuff worth preserving that little extra time makes the difference. Those that understand histograms will agree with me.
The version that is currently in the play store is not compatible with the Samsung galaxy note 9. That was the message I got when I attempted to download today.
Question that I haven't seen answered anywhere ... yet. Maybe you can help. After we scan with PhotoScan is there any way to eliminate red eyes? Or, do you know of another app that can do this, easily of course. The ones I've tried with the circles give an unnatural bright blue to all eyes. Thanks so much.
I was hoping to use this app to scan receipts to email to clients. It tells me I have. "no recommended people to share with". I'm using a Pixel 3X. Do I send it to Google Drive first or is there a way to email it directly? Thanks for your videos!
PhotoScan is not compatible with my Lenovo TB-X304F. Apparently lots of users of different devices, including Google's own devices are having this problem and Google don't seem to be able to give a reason why or fix it.
Hello Steve, i want to scan my family images dating back to the 1920's when photos were very small approx 3"x3" or 4"x4" The issue is i need to insert a text box or footer on the digitized photo stating who these people were, or after my passing no one will have a clue.. can this google app provide a footer for text?
Thanks Steve, but I have found after taking 100 photos its just stopped. I have upgraded my icloud storage but still only doing one photo a minute. cannot work out why > any thoughts ?
Great video, Steve. Google PhotoScan is something I will use. Slightly off topic, but I have a question for you about glare. When making your video at your desk, how to you reduce the reflection from your computer screen so it doesn’t appear in your eyeglasses? I’m currently making a series of videos for my own RUclips channel, and I use my computer screen as a teleprompter, and when I inspect the finished footage, sometimes I can’t even find my pupils-just the reflections from the computer screen beaming back at me. How do you compensate for this in your own work?
Nice tutorial but I'm finding the results are hit or miss. With a little understanding, I'm finding I can find a better positioning to reduce glare myself. But it's not a bad attempt from Google.
Like your videos but in this case I beg to differ. Flat bed scanning is almost always higher quality. Photo Scan is fine for snaps in a hurry but its not archival and not as clear.
How about detail, dynamic range, and color rendition? I guess these depend on the quality of the phone's camera. If so, I don't expect great results from my iphone.
I have to be honest. I wanted to love this app, but I must be a super klutz because I find it very difficult to line up the dots - so does my wife. Perhaps we are using it incorrectly.
Tom Wilson Don’t try too hard! As you’re using the app, it’ll tell you to ”keep the device flat” (can’t remember the exact wording, but you know what I’m talking about). THIS IS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE to anyone struggling!
Realize that you don't need to touch anything, no finger on the screen - just hold the phone and move it so the circle is over the dot and you should hear a click - then move on to the next one.
Thats just for dummies. With sufficient lighting you dont need a flash to make copies of your photographs. Even better: Take the negatives and make digital images out of them, invert them and voilà the image quality is better than copying your photographs. Printed photos are like JPG files while negatives are like RAW files.
You completely missed the point. Often you don't have an environment with sufficient lighting, or the photo is glossy or under glass, or there are no negatives to be found. This is a great solution, there are better ways, but this is a practical way.
I have borrowed old photos of my dad , I was looking at buying a scanner. But cannot find one in stock that I have chosen. In need of a new phone , I’ve purchased a Samsung . I will be trying this . TFS
I normally don't hit the dislike, but I did on this one. Photoscan is good if you don't care how the image looks compared to the original and that the outcome is very low resolution. But for higher quality copies of old pictures that you want to archive at there best, this is not the app to use. Scanning on a flatbed at 600 ppi, or even a straight photo with your phone camera is better.
Many Thanks Steve, I only have one paper photo of my mother, using your expertise, I was able to save a much better digital picture than the original paper photo. Many Thanks for saving my memories.
I am so very glad I ran across your video. I have now officially switched to this Google Scan App to scan all of my old photos. Thank you for this video.
Thanks once again, Steve! What the heck would all of us do without you?!
Oh wow! Thanks! Perfect for putting together pics for my brother's funeral. Thank you.
Well done, so well explained and easy to follow. Great teacher and instructor
Love using this app! All we have to do now is unearth our overflowing tub(s) of photos. in the basement and get to work re-organizing them to make some sense of if all!🤪 I love how you explain all these apps so simply!! I have only used PS so far to take some photos for selling DVDs or CDs on eBay. Works great for that use as well if any other sellers are reading this!👍🏻
Take the tubs out of the basement, it's the second-worst place they could be after an unheated attic.. Go through the one tub at a time, putting aside only those that you think your kids or grandkids might care about when they are adults. Box up everything else and put in in a temperate dry area until you're visited by a family member. Take what's left and have another adult, ideally a sibling, go through those together and choose the best half. I suggest a few of you growing up and the best one that you can find of each family member at that time and deceased grandparents If there are more than 100, invest $100 in a used photo scanner. Otherwise, take them to a photo scanning shop.
Thanks for this! I have many old photos and have tried scanning them but glare is such a problem. I have downloaded the app and plan on using it alot. As usual, great presentation, right to the point. Quite a family resemblance in those photos!
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Thanks, Steve. I never knew this App existed.
What a coincidence! I was using this app for a project yesterday. The only downside is the footer that you'll have to cut off with a photo editor.
You know, it allows you to adjust the corners even after you have saved the photo. So long as it's still in the app's history.
Excellent video. Didn't know this app existed. Please keep up the good work with Google products.
I know. It has been around for year! I am late to the game as well!
wow I'm so glad I learn about this today.
Hi! Thanks for the information. I know I am a little late to the party. LOL. My question is this:
After I have completed the transfer of my old photos to my computer, should I delete them all off of the PhotoScan app before I begin to use the app again for a new project?
Can this be used to improve photos already on your phone?
A really good photoscanner passes the captured image straight to the best editor available. A DSLR with the appropriate quality lens can get results no phone app will produce in a long to come. I use the phone scanner app for capturing snippets from the daily newspaper and suchlike. For quality improvements one needs quality raw material with wide tonal ranges. Any decent photoshopper knows the pitfalls and for stuff worth preserving that little extra time makes the difference. Those that understand histograms will agree with me.
Indeed, I tried it on an iPhone: the quality of this app is poor, colors are wrong, lighting is wrong, sharpness is poor.
Thanks Steve ... Very useful application ....
thank you so much I have learn something new must be very useful
Your presentations have been invaluable to me. Thank you so very much for them!!!!
So glad!
Another cool app, can’t believe O didn’t know about this. Thanks Steve
I know, me too! It has been out for a year!
For the ppl who use Polaroid camera this is good idea for pics you want to post online
Awesome, glare is/and is now "was" the bane of my photo capturing life. LOL
How does this compare (in regards to picture resolution and quality) to that of using something like a flatbed scanner or Epson Photo Scanner?
Thanks for the info
Thanks Steve
This is a cool app this was just what I was looking for when I am taking pictures .
Landon
Are we able to scan slides?
Nice infomative video.
Thanks for this proposal, Steve! Comes at the right time, as I just planned to scan all photos in my mums folders and planned to do it with Photomyne.
Nice tip. Thanks again Steve.
what about the shadow of the i phone you see in the photo when you snap it
The version that is currently in the play store is not compatible with the Samsung galaxy note 9. That was the message I got when I attempted to download today.
Thanks so much for this video! Very useful!
What is the link for this app?
Great info, thank very much :)
Question that I haven't seen answered anywhere ... yet. Maybe you can help. After we scan with PhotoScan is there any way to eliminate red eyes? Or, do you know of another app that can do this, easily of course. The ones I've tried with the circles give an unnatural bright blue to all eyes. Thanks so much.
What does Google Photos do when it "archives" a photo?
Great question. Archived photos will stay in your albums and search results, but won't appear in your main Photos tab.
One drawback to this app is it’s poor final resolution, which I believe is about 3mp.
Thanks probably would never have come across this
I was hoping to use this app to scan receipts to email to clients. It tells me I have. "no recommended people to share with". I'm using a Pixel 3X. Do I send it to Google Drive first or is there a way to email it directly?
Thanks for your videos!
PhotoScan is not compatible with my Lenovo TB-X304F. Apparently lots of users of different devices, including Google's own devices are having this problem and Google don't seem to be able to give a reason why or fix it.
This was announced a long time ago BUT it would not work on my tablet or phone SO
Which phone's / tablets will this app work on????? Today.
Iphone works
I have found that app very very useful I've even scan some photos dating back to the 80s
Hello Steve, i want to scan my family images dating back to the 1920's when photos were very small approx 3"x3" or 4"x4"
The issue is i need to insert a text box or footer on the digitized photo stating who these people were, or after my passing no one will have a clue.. can this google app provide a footer for text?
Yes you can,
Ok so I saw this comment and reply and I’m not sure how to do that
Thanks Steve, but I have found after taking 100 photos its just stopped. I have upgraded my icloud storage but still only doing one photo a minute. cannot work out why > any thoughts ?
This was helpful
Great video, Steve. Google PhotoScan is something I will use.
Slightly off topic, but I have a question for you about glare. When making your video at your desk, how to you reduce the reflection from your computer screen so it doesn’t appear in your eyeglasses?
I’m currently making a series of videos for my own RUclips channel, and I use my computer screen as a teleprompter, and when I inspect the finished footage, sometimes I can’t even find my pupils-just the reflections from the computer screen beaming back at me.
How do you compensate for this in your own work?
High index lenses (I think mine are Nikon) Smaller lens antiglare coating.
thanks!
Nice tutorial but I'm finding the results are hit or miss. With a little understanding, I'm finding I can find a better positioning to reduce glare myself. But it's not a bad attempt from Google.
Like your videos but in this case I beg to differ. Flat bed scanning is almost always higher quality. Photo Scan is fine for snaps in a hurry but its not archival and not as clear.
Excellent!
Many thanks!
Just checked Apple Store on my iPad and don’t see Google Photoscan.
app store not the apple store
You can get it on the iPad, but you need to change the App Store filter to "Supports: iPhone only"
Coooooooooooool app, thanks
How about detail, dynamic range, and color rendition? I guess these depend on the quality of the phone's camera. If so, I don't expect great results from my iphone.
Yep, the newer cameras do a pretty good job, but this in no way is going to compare with a quality scanner
Love the plants
Doesn't work too well
Thanks
I have to be honest. I wanted to love this app, but I must be a super klutz because I find it very difficult to line up the dots - so does my wife. Perhaps we are using it incorrectly.
I found it pretty easy. PLay around with moving the whole phone, not jut tilting it for the buttons
Tom Wilson Don’t try too hard! As you’re using the app, it’ll tell you to ”keep the device flat” (can’t remember the exact wording, but you know what I’m talking about). THIS IS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE to anyone struggling!
Realize that you don't need to touch anything, no finger on the screen - just hold the phone and move it so the circle is over the dot and you should hear a click - then move on to the next one.
Geeks on Tour Or feel a vibration if your phone’s on silent.
same here. they always get messed up!
Thats just for dummies. With sufficient lighting you dont need a flash to make copies of your photographs. Even better: Take the negatives and make digital images out of them, invert them and voilà the image quality is better than copying your photographs. Printed photos are like JPG files while negatives are like RAW files.
You completely missed the point. Often you don't have an environment with sufficient lighting, or the photo is glossy or under glass, or there are no negatives to be found. This is a great solution, there are better ways, but this is a practical way.
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I have borrowed old photos of my dad , I was looking at buying a scanner. But cannot find one in stock that I have chosen. In need of a new phone , I’ve purchased a Samsung . I will be trying this . TFS
Actualizare Google Foto😮
Do what? Do Google Photoscan!
The quality sucks, the colors come out completely wrong, and I'm using iPhone.
I'd rather scan on my printer. I don't have time to capture the 4 dots for every photo.
Hi uncle
🖐🏼🙂
I normally don't hit the dislike, but I did on this one. Photoscan is good if you don't care how the image looks compared to the original and that the outcome is very low resolution. But for higher quality copies of old pictures that you want to archive at there best, this is not the app to use. Scanning on a flatbed at 600 ppi, or even a straight photo with your phone camera is better.
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