ShoeBox App for Android Review
Digital photography is a relatively new technology. Just more than a decade or so back, people used to print physical photos clicked on film rolls and organize it in a photo album. ShoeBox app for Android gives you an opportunity to turn such physical photos into digital ones so that you can preserve it for the future in one of the umpteen digital storage devices/options you have. You can get ShoeBox Android app for free from Google Play Store.
ShoeBox App Features
ShoeBox app for Android basically let to digitalize and preserve your old physical photos. This is an interesting concept since it is easy to create/save digital photos for one, and you can share digital photos easily with others via email or SNS. Further, you can enhance the photo quality and color using the many photo editing applications available in the web. Above all, having photos in digital format improves its lifetime as it is incredibly easy to preserve or even recover a photograph even if you’ve deleted it accidentally.
ShoeBox Android app uses an efficient edge detection algorithm that preempts the need for photo-cropping. Its perspective correction feature help increase the overall quality of the photos. Further, the app got shoeboxes – albums – wherein you can systematically organized your digitalized photos. You can add location/date or tags to the saved photos, if you wish to give them a reference in space/time. You can also privatize your pictures so that you can control who will be able to view your photos.
Interestingly, ShoeBox’s apparent downside has nothing to do with the app’s own functions. The quality of the photo that you manage to click using your phone camera got a significant bearing on the outcome. Most physical photographs are of good quality. But most phone cameras might not be able to capture it in its full essence, thanks to the limited camera hardware associated typically with mobile phones. Also, the app lacks zoom, which makes it difficult to view some pictures on your Android device. ShoeBox application is designed to work with Android OS versions 2.2 and up.
Conclusion
ShoeBox app for Android is of great utility, if you want to restore your old physical photos and save it in digital format. The app works almost flawlessly, its lack of zoom notwithstanding. Most photos come out better looking than the original ones, thanks to the app’s optimization features. You can have multiple ShoeBox-es to organize your photos. The option to give tags alongside date/location details to the photos comes handy. Integration with SNS and email makes sharing of digitalized photos pretty easy. Overall, an app worth trying out if you got a big collection of old physical photos at home.
Category: Free Android Apps, Free Android Tools
