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Cloudy with rain developing; may begin as a brief period of snow and sleet with a coating to an inch of accumulation in the higher elevations, which gets washed away with a steady afternoon and evening rain. .
Cloudy and increasingly breezy with windswept rain. Temperatures rising through the 40s and into the 50s after midnight.
Updated: December 22, 2022 @ 5:43 am
Tech Reporter
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 background.
It corrects the color and even removes any glare your camera may have captured coming off the photo.
Save the photo to your camera roll, or better yet, save it to your Google account. Google has a terrific photo app, Google Photos, that stores these pictures in the cloud. So you don’t have to use storage on your phone for pictures.
The photos are there for safekeeping and can be downloaded at any time on a computer or any phone or device.
It keeps getting better because Google Photos will organize those photos into albums. It’ll use facial recognition to tag anyone in them so you can search using just a name. Or search by place, what’s in the background. Want sunset pictures? Boom!
It’s a great way to spend family time and tell stories to the younger members of the family. And since the photos are scanned, it makes them easier to share.
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Cloudy with rain developing; may begin as a brief period of snow and sleet with a coating to an inch of accumulation in the higher elevations, which gets washed away with a steady afternoon and evening rain.
Cloudy and increasingly breezy with windswept rain. Temperatures rising through the 40s and into the 50s after midnight.
Cloudy and windy with rain possibly mixing with or changing to snow before ending. A coating to 1″ possible. Mild early with morning highs in the mid 50s, then temps rapidly drop below freezing during the afternoon. Wind chills near zero by evening.
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