Plenty of photobooks are available through digital sharing sites, but this app may actually be quite useful for those of us who have been eyeing daily deals for mass photo scanning packages. Using this free app, which will soon be available on Android and other mobile platforms, users can produce scanned 4x6 photos with a DPI of up to 550 (web quality only requires 72 DPI, optimal printing DPI is around 300). The best photos will come through the new iPhone 4S, which will produce scans at 2448 x 3264 pixel resolution. The app will take advantage of the improved f2.4 lens, for lower-light scans to show up in better quality.The app will remain compatible with all previous iPhone models, including the iPhone 4, 3G, and 3GS, as well as the iPad.
Shoebox also incorporates cropping and straightening as it auto-detects the edges of a photo. Users who already caption and tag photos taken on mobile phones, Shoebox users can do the same with these scans. The photos are then automatically uploaded to 1000memories, where it can be organized and shared with friends and family.
1000memories claims your account will never expire, and it has partnered with the Internet Archive "to make your content as close to permanent as possible." To feel a little safe, users can download unlimited copies of their entire photo collections at any time.
Since it has such a keen stake in digital images, 1000memories noted in a blog post that an estimated that 2.5 billion people around the world own digital cameras (also those with mobile phones). If the average person snaps 150 photos this year that would total 375 billion photos this year — a third of them on Facebook.
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