Google PhotoScan-- The Glare-Free Way to Capture Old Photos

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Looking for a great photo scanning app for your phone? A way where you can easily scan precious photographs without a dedicated scanner?
Meet PhotoScan. With this genius app from Google, you can scan old photos with your phone and get a professional-looking result.
Discover what makes PhotoScan so special.
- 1:08 PhotoScan Demo
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@roykemp6502 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@HAEngel-cr5gp 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks once again, Steve! What the heck would all of us do without you?!

@johnwest6806 7 ай бұрын

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.

@edzukation Жыл бұрын

Oh wow! Thanks! Perfect for putting together pics for my brother's funeral. Thank you.

@bernardmcdermott766 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Steve. I never knew this App existed.

@KatieFrys 6 жыл бұрын

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!👍🏻

@psdaengr911 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@Anthony-gq7dk 7 ай бұрын

Well done, so well explained and easy to follow. Great teacher and instructor

@landonpraught5958 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve This is a cool app this was just what I was looking for when I am taking pictures . Landon

@samuelspira2711 6 жыл бұрын

Nice tip. Thanks again Steve.

@sameagle2538 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve ... Very useful application ....

@ImRichardShepherd 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for this video! Very useful!

@thestitchcafe8295 Жыл бұрын

wow I'm so glad I learn about this today.

@BobRoffey 6 жыл бұрын

Great info, thank very much :)

@wiredawg2005 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, glare is/and is now "was" the bane of my photo capturing life. LOL

@whatsupdate 6 жыл бұрын

Another cool app, can’t believe O didn’t know about this. Thanks Steve

@dottotech 6 жыл бұрын

I know, me too! It has been out for a year!

@dillonlek 2 жыл бұрын

thank you so much I have learn something new must be very useful

@christinestokes7193 6 жыл бұрын

Love the plants

@goldenhawk786 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Didn't know this app existed. Please keep up the good work with Google products.

@dottotech 6 жыл бұрын

I know. It has been around for year! I am late to the game as well!

@1734245 2 жыл бұрын

Your presentations have been invaluable to me. Thank you so very much for them!!!!

@dottotech 2 жыл бұрын

So glad!

@berniesr 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks probably would never have come across this

@CutieRingoJoy 4 жыл бұрын

For the ppl who use Polaroid camera this is good idea for pics you want to post online

@07vossi 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@thedevilsadvocate6619 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@gsau3000 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@kevinmcgrath3591 6 жыл бұрын

Coooooooooooool app, thanks

@asifiqbal7804 2 жыл бұрын

Nice infomative video.

@johnthere297 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@lev2727 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, I tried it on an iPhone: the quality of this app is poor, colors are wrong, lighting is wrong, sharpness is poor.

@CutieRingoJoy Жыл бұрын

This was helpful

@Lizerator 6 жыл бұрын

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!

@raziahmad9265 2 жыл бұрын

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@raziahmad9265 2 жыл бұрын

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@NychelleStephens 2 жыл бұрын

thanks!

@503stick 6 жыл бұрын

One drawback to this app is it’s poor final resolution, which I believe is about 3mp.

@ponytailhawk 6 жыл бұрын

I have found that app very very useful I've even scan some photos dating back to the 80s

@gracetsiang7628 7 ай бұрын

Excellent!

@dottotech 7 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

@oooo0O0oooo Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@gwen2966 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@ronaldpalmer6433 6 жыл бұрын

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 KZfaq 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?

@dottotech 6 жыл бұрын

High index lenses (I think mine are Nikon) Smaller lens antiglare coating.

@kyla_09 Жыл бұрын

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?

@Meechety Жыл бұрын

How does this compare (in regards to picture resolution and quality) to that of using something like a flatbed scanner or Epson Photo Scanner?

@76suezq 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@ajwalker4416 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@matthews4159 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@CutieRingoJoy 4 жыл бұрын

Iphone works

@9imagination 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@njl1007 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@suemasten9230 Ай бұрын

Can this be used to improve photos already on your phone?

@care1198 3 ай бұрын

what about the shadow of the i phone you see in the photo when you snap it

@alisonrook7623 5 жыл бұрын

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 ?

@TomWilson8003 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@dottotech 6 жыл бұрын

I found it pretty easy. PLay around with moving the whole phone, not jut tilting it for the buttons

@KatieFrys 6 жыл бұрын

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!

@GeeksOnTour 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@KatieFrys 6 жыл бұрын

Geeks on Tour Or feel a vibration if your phone’s on silent.

@StorytellerThaker_presents Жыл бұрын

same here. they always get messed up!

@jerrymoran8323 Ай бұрын

Are we able to scan slides?

@limocro1 3 жыл бұрын

What does Google Photos do when it "archives" a photo?

@dottotech 3 жыл бұрын

Great question. Archived photos will stay in your albums and search results, but won't appear in your main Photos tab.

@rishabsalian4338 6 жыл бұрын

Do what? Do Google Photoscan!

@chriss6906 3 жыл бұрын

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?

@dottotech 3 жыл бұрын

Yes you can,

@kristinewendorf114 3 жыл бұрын

Ok so I saw this comment and reply and I’m not sure how to do that

@xmc7189 Ай бұрын

What is the link for this app?

@andreidandu3799 3 ай бұрын

Actualizare Google Foto😮

@Thoracius 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@dottotech 4 жыл бұрын

Yep, the newer cameras do a pretty good job, but this in no way is going to compare with a quality scanner

@TheDobsonic Жыл бұрын

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.

@Ullimately 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@dottotech 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@Ullimately 6 жыл бұрын

@charlesfrogley3152 6 жыл бұрын

Just checked Apple Store on my iPad and don’t see Google Photoscan.

@dottotech 6 жыл бұрын

app store not the apple store

@GeeksOnTour 6 жыл бұрын

You can get it on the iPad, but you need to change the App Store filter to "Supports: iPhone only"

@koko137591 3 жыл бұрын

🖐🏼🙂

@sujith.ssujith.s4260 Жыл бұрын

Hi uncle

@terrybrooks395 2 жыл бұрын

Doesn't work too well

@shondra6 Жыл бұрын

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

@kiranthakur7211 5 жыл бұрын

L0ve

@pebkit6763 4 ай бұрын

I'd rather scan on my printer. I don't have time to capture the 4 dots for every photo.

@lev2727 2 жыл бұрын

The quality sucks, the colors come out completely wrong, and I'm using iPhone.

@tomjmartinez 5 жыл бұрын

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.