If you are anything like us, you have thousands of pictures saved on your iPhone. We'd rather just leave them all on our smartphones than take the time to look through all of them to delete the ones we don't like or need.
However, this means you might have some hidden gems that you totally forgot about. It also makes it close to impossible to share your best #tbt pic on Instagram, or to text your friend the best photo of you two from that party.
What you need is a way to organize your crowded camera roll. That means what you really need is this app in your life.
Called The Roll, this app sorts photos to help you find the exact one you are looking for, and uncovers the best photos that are saved on the your camera roll so that you don't have to continuously scroll.
Developed by Eye'Em, The Roll serves as a way to organize all of your photos by automatically grouping together like photos by date, location, event and topic, such as "best of the week," "portraits" and "city," so that all these related images can be found within said category. The app displays the best images from each group on top.
For example, if you took three similar selfies, the app will group these together and showcase the best one above the others. This will help you see all the similar photos and go ahead and delete the duplicates or ones taken by accident.
To determine which photos are the best, the app uses an algorithm to give them an aesthetic score. The algorithm uses both artistic principles and deep learning that is based on choices from curators to give a score between 0 and 100. The higher the score, the better the photo.
That means if you took a whole bunch of photos at the family barbecue over the weekend, it will rank the images and put the best shots on the top of the pack by their scores.
The Roll also uses image recognition technology called EyeEm Vision to identify objects, moods and emotions so the app can then tag photos. This feature further sorts photos and makes searching for a specific image easier. For example, photos can be tagged with things like "summer," "outdoors" or "alone." You can also use the search bar to find your photos.
Users can also receive more information when tapping on an image, such as keywords and photography information like shutter speed.
Not only is The Roll a lifesaver for neat freaks who need some form of control over their ever-growing camera roll, but it also helps users see what kind of photos look good. While this may just be preference, it could help you see which of your selfies look the best and which cool vacation photos aesthetically look amazing.
The Roll is available to download for free for iOS, with the Android version expected to be released in the near future.
Source: Tech Crunch
