What the Tech? Safekeeping physical photos, downloading them onto your smartphone, computer | What The Tech?

It’s easy to save someone’s photos by taking a picture of their picture with your phone. But the results are not perfect. Scanning old photos is best, and the app Google Photo Scan makes it easy.

It captures more accurate colors in the picture by actually snapping four photos and combining them to make one digital file. Use the dots to scan the photo, moving the camera to line them up. This tells the app where the edges are. Once that’s done the app automatically crops out the background, leaving you with just the photo and not the table or