Apple Photos vs. Google Photos

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Apple Photos vs. Google Photos

Two of the most popular photo apps being used today are Google Photos and Apple Photos. I thought it would be helpful to look into and talk a bit about how they both work and what they actually do with your photos once they have them. You will find a number of other websites that show side by side comparisons of their editing features and the others bells and whistles they both offer, but as a professional photo organizer I am more concerned with how they handle your photo files, how accessible your photos are, and most importantly, if they keep them safe for years to come.

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Before and After - A 100 year old print of my paternal Grandmother.

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Before and After - A 100 year old print of my paternal Grandmother.

I have been scanning thousands of my old family prints. It is not very realistic to retouch and restore every print that I scan, but the good ones, maybe images I will want to print in an album, I will take some time and fix them up. It is very cool to see an old yellowed, faded and damaged print look like new (almost).

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Picjoy – mini review

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Picjoy – mini review

I get notices about all sorts of products and photo organizing apps, in the last week alone I received articles about apps and products called Everalbum, 61N and Picjoy. They all pretty much work only on smartphones and/or utilize cloud storage, which is fine, but there are already so many of these, what makes one different form the next. Well Picjoy caught my eye because it mentioned story-telling, and that IS something I am interested in.

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