This post is brought to you by IdeaSolutions, creator of Memories Photo Scanner.
Do you have a bunch of old photographs — you know, photos printed on paper — stored away in photo albums or yellowing in cupboards? Pictures you wish to see again and share instantly, the way you do with digital photos through apps and social media?
Photo-scanning app Memories makes bringing old photos into the digital world incredibly easy. Using the app on your iPhone, you can scan up to 15 photos per minute. And the results are awesome.
IdeaSolutions’ Memories is the first custom-designed photo scanner app for the iPhone. It is incredibly quick and easy to use. Just download Memories from the App Store, read some basic instructions, and you are ready to start scanning.
All you do is place your photo on a white piece of paper and snap a new photo as you normally would using your iPhone camera. You’ll be instructed to hold your iPhone at a 45-degree angle to the printed photo, and the image will appear foreshortened because you aren’t placing your phone directly above the image being digitized.
Instantly, a green overlay shadows your photo within the app. Then you tap your iPhone’s screen. The app captures your photo and realigns the scanned copy back to its original perspective.
It’s amazing! And the resolution produced by the Memories app is incredible — like taking a new photo using your iPhone camera. It’s no wonder Apple featured Memories in the “best new apps” section of App Store in more than 100 countries.
An angle on photographic perfection
How does it work? Holding your iPhone at a 45-degree angle, rather than directly above your photo, stops the camera’s flash from spoiling your scan. This gives you perfect results every time.
If you line up a bunch of photos you want to scan and capture them one by one, it is possible to scan up to 15 photos per minute.
The app’s editing functions allow you to produce a range of effects for your newly scanned photos. Presets for high-def, portraits, scenery, night shots and others make it easy to enhance your photos, while a bunch of Instagram-like custom filters let you tweak the look of your images.
Watch the Memories photo scanner tutorial video and see how easy it is to scan a dozen photos in less than a minute.
Ready to share
Once you are happy with your scanned photos, the Memories app makes it easy to share them in the usual ways — the Messages app, email, iCloud, Facebook and so on.
The Memories photo scanner is free to download. A $1.99 in-app upgrade to the premium version of Memories is required to remove a watermark from shared and exported photos.
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7 responses to “Memories photo scanner brings your old photos into digital world”
I love this!
This is going to get a download, looks really great and certainly something that interests me…….I have lost count of the amount of print photograpths we have
Don’t use your phone to scan your photos. They are compressed to jpeg, white balance will most certainly be off due to mixed light and the iPhone doesn’t have more than 8MP, an analog photo has ~24MP. In addition to that, smartphone image sensors are tiny (small sensor + high resolution = noise, even at high brightness).
Conclusion: Buy a scanner if you really want to save your old photos.
Of course a GOOD scanner can provide better result, however if you want to quickly scan and share your old photos you can use this app and you’ll obtain excellent result until you don’t need to print in large format!
Why isn’t there a statement in large and bold font above the title that this is an ad masquerading as journalism. Remind me to ignore Cult of Mac in the future. In case you were wondering, there are a total of 6 reviews in the App Store for this groundbreaking app, 4 of them 2 stars or less. Reader beware.
As this is a sponsored article, you might want to read some of the recent reviews in iTunes before you buy…
Since the app is free you can also give it a try…. Reviews are not so valuables for free and new apps