Monthly Archives: February 2019

What Are the Best Photography Apps?

Posted on February 7, 2019 by

How to enjoy photography and get the most out of your smartphone camera’s apps?

One of the biggest challenges we hear is how to take better pictures and do more with your saved photos, especially from those pre-digital pictures after all are scanned. Our team of photo experts at ScanMyPhotos have compiled this comprehensive list of apps that are worth checking out. As you identify others, please let us know.

MemoryWeb photo metadata app. If you only read one recommendation, our must download photo app is MemoryWeb. This app is for family historians, genealogy archivists and everyone who had ScanMyPhotos digitize their pictures. It brings generations of photos together in one place, creates interactive connections between them, and preserves “back-of-the-photo” details forever. @MemoryWeb

Halide is a groundbreaking camera app for deliberate and thoughtful photography. Use gestures inHalide’s to change exposure and manual focus with a swipe. Halide’s professional tools include focus peaking, a detailed histogram, adaptive level grid, and RAW support. Halide is a Great, Gesture-Based Pro Camera App for iPhone — @halidecamera


Halide uses a fantastic gesture interface that is easy to use and can tap into the pro features of your camera like RAW, white balance, manual focus, and more.

Digital photography never looked so analog. Swipe through lenses and films with Hipstamatic, the original analog camera. The original analog photo experience, with an all-new editing suite. Hipstamatic is the best way to create beautiful photography. Order from the Apple Store. @Hipstamatic


Digital photography never looked so analog. Swipe through lenses and films with Hipstamatic, the original analog camera. Exclusively available on iPhone.

ProCamera HD, the gold standard for professional iOS photography, provides a highly intuitive interface for beginners as well as DSLR-like controls for experts. Leveraging the capabilities of the iPad, ProCamera HD is easy to use, yet deep when needed!  @ProCamera


In this video, you’ll get an idea of what you can do with ProCamera. Although there’s a lot more to explore, this should help give you a brief introduction to the app

It doesn’t matter if you’re new to photography or a pro, Polarr has it all. Novices will appreciate that Polarr offers advanced auto-enhance tools and sophisticated filters to edit all the details of your photo. Pro photographers will look forward to our layer support, curve tools, local adjustments. @polarrist


Polarr Photo Editor Tutorial Basics – Filters

Transform your world into a live cartoon. ToonCamera is an amazing video and photography app that turns your world into a live cartoon. Apply real-time cartoon and art effects to your camera feed, record video and snap photos. @ToonCamera


Transform your world into a live cartoon with the ToonCamera app

Take stunning 360 panoramas everywhere. Panorama360 turns your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad into a full-featured 360-degree panoramic camera. Easily capture immersive panoramas in seconds and instantly share your 360 views with the world. Simply pan the camera and watch as images are stitched seamlessly. Panorama360 captures the scene in a way you never could with a traditional camera. @TeliportMe

PicLab provides the tools you need to create neat photo collages, add text, stickers, and artwork, and apply one of over 50 filters. You can use image overlays and masks, adjust the brightness, saturation, and contrast, or add captions with text or drawing tools. @PicLab


PicLab Photo Editor is the premier all-in-one photo editor. Available on iOS & Android!
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The History of The World Through NY Times’ Pictures

Posted on February 4, 2019 by

Archiving Historic Photographs

The New York Times has more than a hundred years of pictures never seen before. This Google partnership with the NYT is providing help to archive a trove of historic pictures.


Google Cloud is helping the New York Times digitize millions of photos from its archive. Picture what the cloud can do.

Follow “Past Tense” as the NYT’s digitize about six million photo prints in their files — dating back more than 100 years — they are using those images to bring vivid narratives and compelling characters of the past to life. Click to follow the adventure through these historical pictures

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Prior to the digitization, millions of photographs, along with tens of millions of historical news clippings, microfilm records and other archival materials, existed only in a physical archive three levels below ground near The Times headquarters in New York City called “The New York Times Archival Library,” also known as the “morgue.” Though The Times officially began clipping and saving articles in the 1870s, they were not formally codified into a library until 1907.

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Tech Expert Marc Saltzman Interviews ScanMyPhotos

Posted on February 2, 2019 by

Go inside the world of photo scanning with tips and advice to digitize photos, 35mm slides and film negatives with ScanMyPhotos

Come inside the world of photo scanning as TECH IT OUT, broadcast on over 250 radio stations and all the top podcast syndicates interviews Mitch Goldstone, CEO of ScanMyPhotos.

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Marc Saltzman is one of North America’s most recognizable and trusted technology experts, who specializes in consumer electronics, business technology, interactive entertainment and internet trends.

Along with his weekly syndicated column with Gannett and USAToday.com, Marc currently contributes to more than 40 prominent publications, including USA Today, AARP, Yahoo, Costco Connection (U.S. and Canada), MSN, Toronto Star, Metro, Media Planet, Rogers Connected, Common Sense Media, TELUS Talks Business, Homefront and Condo Elite.

Marc has written 16 books. His latest is Apple Watch For Dummies (Wiley).

 

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