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Just so you know, Google Photos has a feature where you take 4 photos of a physical picture(one each corner), and it will stitch them together into one really nice quality photo and save it in the cloud.

EDIT: Link to the app/feature: https://www.google.com/photos/scan/

Video of how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEyDt0DNjWU

Supposedly they will be rolling out tech soon to colorize black and white photos.

Google voice for voicemail

Google trusted contacts (advanced location sharing)

Duo and Allo (similar to imessage) (I still like hangouts but it has not seen many new features in a while)

Android auto (kicks the shit out of apple's offering since it can be used without a head unit)

Google drive app can scan documents

Google Photos (not that you can't use it on an iphone but it can replace icloud photo backup)

https://www.google.com/photos/scan/

Holy cow! Those are amazing! A real piece of history that wouldn't else exist if it wasn't for these! Also, maybe download the Google PhotoScan App? That takes 4 pictures for each one, and stitches them together for a higher quality capture. That's how I backed up all my albums, works a charm!

Instead of using a physical scanner, try the Google PhotoScan app which uses your smartphone's camera as a scanner. It's available for Android and iPhone.

Once you've digitized your prints, you then have to think about how to safely preserve the digital photo files. I would recommend an online storage service such as Google Photos (if you trust Google...) or Dropbox or Forever. Be careful with trusting your digital photos to optical/magnetic storage media such as backup CD/DVDs or hard drives since they can become (invisibly!) unreadable after only a few years. Although photo prints might seem low tech, they are actually a better long-term storage solution than digital media because they can last unattended for decades in a shoebox.

FYI Google offers a Photoscan app that converts physical photos into a digital image with just your smartphone camera. https://www.google.com/photos/scan/

It does a pretty good job

I don't know if you're on Android or iphone... But Google makes an app called Photoscan that will take pictures of a photo like this and make them a clean-ish digital image (without the glare and edges). It'll give you a much better picture than snapping a single one with your camera (even though it still uses your camera).

https://www.google.com/photos/scan/

I've used the Google photoscan app for exactly this purpose. It's available for Android and iPhone. https://www.google.com/photos/scan/

You can scan photos right from your phone without removing them from the wall, frame, or album. The app cleans it up magically and removes the glare.

Hope this helps make the process a tiny bit easier for you and the family.

Theres a really solid google app called scan or something similar i used a few years ago to quickly scan in some photos. It takes multiple pictures of each photo to get a solid scan. Link

I've never listened to their podcasts, so I'm not sure what service they talk about. If you're fine doing it yourself one by one, I've had good experiences with PhotoScan by the Google Photos team. It's on the play store and I think also on the App Store. You can find more info and a download link here - https://www.google.com/photos/scan/

I didn't have too many photos so this worked perfectly for me.

Google has a relatively new app that might help:

Google PhotoScan

iOS App Store link

Probably not the solution you need, but in a pinch, Google's PhotoScan app (sometimes) scans photos and large images pretty well ... scanning it from four corners and making a compilation of shots to help reduce glare.

If you have an iPhone or android phone, you can try Google's PhotoScan to get a (hopefully) pretty decent quality scan using just your phone, without the glare.

https://www.google.com/photos/scan/

I've used it on old photos around here and it works great on everything I've tried so far.

Have you tried the Google PhotoScan app? https://www.google.com/photos/scan/

You use your phone to take four shots of the image and it merges the shots to eliminate glare, reduce dust and enhance prints while still being super fast (all done in the app). Results nearly as good as my high end flatbed scanner but "scanning" a photo takes seconds instead of minutes.

I will say another option is using google's photoscan app available on android and iphone. I use this to scan my instax mini and can provide examples. Here's the link to the app (https://www.google.com/photos/scan/) if you want to check it out.

New batch of cards going out today! Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend!

I've started digitally archiving my postcard collection and for anyone who's looking to do the same and does not a scanner at home, I highly recommend PhotoScan. I found it to work much more consistently than similar apps like Genius Scan.

Google actually has a PhotoScan app that I primarily use for receipts. Crops them well, get all the detail even on a shiny receipt, and plops them into a different folder than my normal photos, so I don't have to sort through normal photos to find receipts.

• try what u/wunmoonday suggested (that might be the best solution)
• buy a used scanner off eBay/CL
• try this: https://www.google.com/photos/scan/ I use it for documents (not Art), so not sure about the quality

There are a few other options. If you have an iphone there's an app called film lab, or if you have prints of the photos you can use google's photoscan. You could also take/send them to a lab to be scanned/printed. There's lists of labs here:
/r/analog/wiki/labs
http://emulsive.org/articles/global-film-lab-map

1. buy a scanner in the used market. They are dirt cheap.
2. You can always get an 8.5x11 scanner, do 2 scans and then stitch it together with PhotoShop or GIMP, it's not that big of a deal (I can do that with my limited skills)
3. https://www.google.com/photos/scan/

Another tip; if you do not have access to a scanner and cannot get access to one, use Google Photoscan. It's the next best thing to a scanner and is still much better than just taking a picture of it with your phone. It's available for both Android and iOS here, and is very easy to use.

Perhaps he mailed you his only copy of the photo, or can't find the original anymore?

Either way, you have the photo, and you could (and probably should) make a copy of it yourself. Use google's photoscan, it does a great job: https://www.google.com/photos/scan/ (It uses your phone's camera, but combines multiple pictures to get the lighting right)

Email him a copy when you're done. "I scanned this in case you lost the original". He might be angry at himself for losing it, and will find it thoughtful that you helped fix it.

You have to keep in mind some things about ADHD and life in general. As we get older, our working memory declines. Us ADHD'ers just have a massive head start on you! I am legitimately afraid of what my memory will be like in a few decades when I get there. Before being diagnosed, I really thought I had some kind of early onset Alzheimer's.

As for choosing to be unmedicated, I'm sure the day will also come where I have to choose between being unmedicated or a heart attack. I'm not looking forward to that.

This is a great new app for scanning photos: https://www.google.com/photos/scan/

I find it faster than using a scanner then cropping. The only downside is it doesn't do super high res (last time I used it last year)

For your photos, I suggest Google's Photoscan. https://www.google.com/photos/scan/

It takes a four separate pictures of your photo, all with the lighting on, and then cancels out the reflection on them.

Photoscan is similar to CamScanner but it works on pictures so that you can save all your old photos onto your phone, in case of any unforeseen circumstances, or even to share with friends and family photoscan app

I'm in the middle of a project to scan old family photos and have been very happy with Google Scan. Here's an article about it from Wired.