Archive for November 18th, 2016
Google’s New App Can Digitize Your Old Photos in Seconds — TwistedSifter
Google’s amazing PhotoScan app turns your phone into a digital scanner. Instead of taking a picture of a picture, the app creates an enhanced digital scan with automatic edge detection, perspective correction and smart rotation. It’s time to dig out that old box of photos!
via Google’s New App Can Digitize Your Old Photos in Seconds — TwistedSifter
And just to show how good it is I was able to capture this image from a block mounted print on the wall next to me.
And in case you are wondering I got the app from the AppStore for my iPhone6
Photo Challenge: Magic
No, sorry I do not believe in magic. When I go to a magic show, all I want to do is figure out how the illusion is achieved. I did a search on my photostream, and the only references to magic that I found was my own reaction to an early effort at stitching pictures together – which at that time seemed almost magical to me – “hey, you can’t see the join” – but now my iPhone 6 can do that for me!
In 2010 I went on my first cruise, to the Caribbean, and in St Maarten we berthed next to a Disney ship.
I guess that’s as close to Magic as I am going to get.
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