photography
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How to Shoot HDR Photos With an Android Go Phone
Earlier this year, Google launched Camera Go, a stripped-down version of its Camera app for Android Go devices. Android Go phones are entry-level devices with weaker hardware but aggressively affordable prices — usually below $US100 ($132). Camera Go lacked most of the Android Camera app’s best features at launch, but select devices can now use…
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The Best Alternatives to Google Photos
4The day has finally arrived. Google has flipped the switch on Google Photos from “free” to “paid.” Soon, you’re going to have to subscribe to a Google storage plan to use the service if, or when, you fill it up your free storage space with too many photos and videos.
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What Is EXIF Data, and How to Remove It From Your Photos
Every time you take a photo with a digital camera or smartphone, your device adds extra information to the image file — metadata about the image that’s stored within the image itself. This EXIF data, as it’s known, is short for “Exchangeable Image File Format,” and it includes the date, time, and geographic location of…
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Where to Back Up Your Smartphone Photos Online (and Why You Should)
A botched Adobe Lightroom app update on iOS accidentally deleted users’ photos and editing presets. Adobe responded to the widespread-bug reports and issued a patch to fix it so others won’t be affected, but it can’t recover any of the lost files.