Buried in the depths of my grandparent’s cabinets sit 20 photo albums with memories from the past 50 years.
My mum comes from a big family: she’s one of 8 siblings, her father the eldest of 11, and her mother the eldest of 16; so we’ve got hundreds of photos spanning many generations.
Every time I’m back in Malaysia, I spend a few hours pouring over these photos, resolving to digitise them one day, but never actually doing it.
This trip is different.
A couple days ago, I downloaded PhotoScan by Google Photos, sat down with the photo albums, and got to work.
The app is great; as you’d expect from Google. The user captures an image from multiple angles, and the app stitches it together into one image without the glare. And it’s all saved immediately to the Camera Roll and Google Photos.
If you’re visiting family this holiday season, and have those albums that you’ve always been meaning to digitise, an hour with PhotoScan should relieve you of the anxiety that you may lose those memories.