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A digital photo frame has been compared to the "magical portraits" in the fictional world of Harry Potter.

For years, Apple's iPhone Live Photos has offered the coolest camera trick. With one click and no tripod, I could easily transform a body of water into a long exposure like dreamy shot, with long flowing water.

Apple's big announcements of the day are mostly hardware focused—new iMacs, and that crazy powerful iMac Pro. But the Cupertino-based company also previewed the next version of its mobile operating system, iOS 11, complete with some creative and useful updates for mobile photographers.

The Google Photos app wants to be a staple... for iOS photographers. Just a month after poking fun at 16GB iPhones and offering Google Photos as a storage solution, the tech giant has updated the app once again. This time, they want to make your iPhone's 'Live Photos' a lot more usable.

The Polaroid brand has launched a new free mobile app called Polaroid Swing. It's "an innovative moving photo app" that opens the door to a "new visual medium for the mobile era."

Google just made Apple's 'Live Photos' feature a whole lot more usable. No, that's not a typo, a new iOS app created by none other than Google just took the neat-but-often-ignored Apple feature to the next level.

Just days after Tumblr announced support for Apple's Live Photos, Facebook is following suit. The social networking giant announced today that the official Facebook app on iOS can now lets you share and experience Apple's Live Photos.

Tumblr has just announced that it's introducing support for Live Photos, a feature Apple released earlier this year with the introduction of the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. Live Photos lets you watch a few moments of video that are recorded immediately before and after your snapshot.

In the video above, I'm shooting with a DSLR (a Canon 6D in this case) and everytime I snap off a shot it goes instantly to a web gallery... from the road anywhere. I got the idea while contemplating doing live video streaming for the first time this year. Not wanting to mess with another camera as I stormchase, I thought, it'd be cool to do the same thing but have the live page be for DSLR photographs.