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How to Take Photos on iOS Without All the Post-Processing Junk
Your iPhone’s camera is smart—perhaps too smart. It’s smart enough to relight your selfies and remove distracting background objects from your photos. It’s the kind of reality-altering power that normally requires an Infinity Stone. It can also make it much harder to get photos that are accurate representations of the real world. Fortunately, there are alternatives. It’s worth noting that…
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How to Take Long Exposure Photos on a Google Pixel Phone
Quick Links How to Adjust Shutter Speed on a Google Pixel Phone Have you ever seen those cool photos of the night sky where it looks like the stars are all shooting in a circular pattern across the sky? Long-exposure photos can be breathtaking, and you may be surprised to know all you need is a Google Pixel phone to…
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Google Messages Just Fixed Some Serious Issues With Receiving Photos and Videos
If you’ve been dealing with Google Messages issues—particular with regards to sending photos and videos—you aren’t alone. Messages users are complaining about images that are slow to load when sent via RCS. Media shows up blurry for minutes at a time before users can actually open them. Photos and videos are also arriving compressed, which is something to be expected…
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We Shot 900+ Photos with the Nothing Phone (3a) Pro and Its Camera Will Surprise You!
Nothing’s new Phone (3a) Pro packs a promising camera setup at the price of just $459. So once we got the phone at the Beebom office, we went on a clicking spree, and before we knew it, over 900 samples were sitting in the gallery. After going through each of the samples, I think there’s a lot to talk about…
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How to find images in Google Photos
Google Photos makes backing up photos and videos from your phone pretty seamless: set it to work in the background and all your precious memories are saved to the cloud without you having to do anything else. The smoothness of this process does tend to mean you can find yourself with a rather gigantic collection, however — which then creates…
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How Does NASA Get Photos Back From Deep Space Probes?
Every once in awhile, NASA publishes a photo of something in space taken by one of their probes. But how exactly do probes in deep space send those photos back to us on Earth? Well, it’s actually pretty simple, and you use technology operating on similar principles every day without realizing it. NASA Uses Wireless Data Transmission to Communicate With…
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iPhone SE 4 appears in new photos and video, notch and all
We might have just gotten our best look yet at Apple’s next affordable iPhone SE, shown in both video and photographs of what’s either a real phone or a convincing dummy unit. Despite some reports that the next SE would adopt recent iPhones’ Dynamic Island design, this model appears to stick with the older notch. Leaker Majin Bu shared a…
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Google Photo’s Document Folders Would Be Great, if They Worked
Quick Links What Counts as a “Document” is Sketchy You Can Fix It Manually… on the Web Google Photos now has a feature to sort certain images into “Document Collections” and auto-archive them—but there are some flaws. As opposed to albums, Google grabs images that don’t look like actual photos (such as screenshots, pictures of IDs, and so on) and…
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Should You Be Shooting Photos in ProRAW on Your iPhone?
Summary ProRAW captures raw photos on iPhone, preserving sensor data for enhanced editing flexibility. The benefits of shooting in ProRAW include greater dynamic range, white balance adjustment, and higher quality images. ProRAW images also have downsides like massive image sizes and less impressive results before editing. Apple introduced the ability to capture ProRAW photos on the iPhone 12, and it’s…
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Stop Your iPhone From Sharing Photos’ Data With Apple
When you think about data privacy on the iPhone, the focus is usually on ad tracking companies and other third-parties that might be siphoning off your personal information without you knowing about it. Unfortunately, it’s time to start paying attention to the data that Apple itself collects, too. Although Apple has continually repeated its commitment to privacy, the company hasn’t…
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