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google has a new app that quickly scans a printed photo without any annoying glare getting in the way using just your smartphone camera it's a new app called photo scan available on iOS and Android devices simply hover the camera over the photo and then move it to capture the four dots in the corners by moving it the camera can see around the glare just like you do when you move your head and it'll find similar pixels and stitch all those different angles together for moving the parts with glare and also it crops out the table or picture frame and it straightens and rotates it to the correct orientation it's not gonna be as high-quality as taking it to a professional scanning service but it sure is faster than doing them one by one on a typical flatbed scanner that means when you visit the family for the holidays and go through the old photo albums or pictures hanging on the wall you can now save them digitally without ever needing to take them out of the frame or photo book but what if you want to do a little editing scan photos can be saved to the Google Photos app that saves everything to the cloud the Google Photos app offers new tools for editing and adding filters open a photo tap the pencil icon to edit you can now adjust the saturation in new ways like just brightening up the deep blues in the sky or changing just the warmth of your skin tone there are also twelve new filters to make photos pop more or look a little antique google photos is also adding new ways to automatically create slideshows of photos and videos set to music and new ways to share those with anyone in your contacts list I'm Bridget Carey keep up with the biggest tech stories at cnet.com slash