If you have been getting started with Google Photos, then you have probably checked out Google Photos on the Web and the mobile device of your choice. That's what I did last week. I am an old Picasa user and struggled through the awkward Photos-as-part-of-Google+ years before blossoming with Google Photos. I love its navigation, cross-platform functionality and search capability, in addition to the fact that Photos is again its own application. I set it up to back up the photos on my iPhone but soon got to wondering how to sync it with the photos I have on my Mac.
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If not done yet, start by installing the Google Photos app on your iPhone (iOS 9). To download pictures and videos from Google Photos to your iPhone camera roll: 1. Open the Google Photos app 2. Select the desired pictures and videos 3. Thanks for posting to the Google Photos Help Forum. To download a video from your Google Photos library, follow these steps: Open photos.google.com. Select the checkmark of the video that you want to save to you want to save. Hit the download icon in the upper righthand corner of the screen (it looks like an arrow pointed downward). Jun 30, 2016 - Automatic backup keeps your pictures in the cloud, but you can download copies if you want to edit them with your favorite desktop photo. How to download your Flickr photo library and transfer it to Google Photos or iCloud Photo library. Photos and Videos is just that: ZIP archives of all your images and movies, with names. Auto upload photos from your computer to Google Photos. While the latter lets you upload full-resolution photos and videos but will almost undoubtedly force you into one of Google's paid.
I don't take as many photos with my dSLR as I did before I began carrying an iPhone with me everywhere I go, but I do occasionally take my Nikon out and dump its photos on my Mac. How do I get those photos to Google Photos without engaging in the two-step process or downloading them to the Photos app on my Mac and then dragging them to the Google Photos Web app?
I didn't have to look far before I found the Desktop Uploader app for Google Photos. You can find the Desktop Uploader here or by opening the sidebar on Google Photos in your browser and clicking App downloads. There are versions for OS X and Windows.
After installing the app and logging into your Google account, you can select which folders Google Photos will automatically back up. I installed the Mac app; the Desktop and Pictures folders were checked, along with Cameras & Storage Cards. This last option means that no matter where I put the photos from my camera's SD card, Google Photos will get them. You can also uncheck the default options listed and add other folders as auto backup sources.
During setup, you must also choose a photo size. You are given the same two options as you encountered on the Web or Google Photos mobile app: High quality or Original. The former caps photos at 16 megapixels and videos at 1080p but provides unlimited storage space, while the latter lets you upload full-resolution photos and videos but will almost undoubtedly force you into one of Google's paid storage plans.
With your options set, click the Start backup button. I found that the Desktop Uploader did not begin backing up my entire photo library contained in the Mac Photos app but only a handful of photos and screenshots outside of my library that I had scattered on my desktop and in a folder on my desktop. Even though I left the Pictures folder selected as a backup source, Google Photos did not touch the library database file that packages my entire photo library in the Pictures folder. You will need to export any existing photos from the Photos app in order to back up them up to Google Photos.
When I tested the ability to back up photos from a camera, I connected my Nikon to my Mac and got this message:
I was pleased to see I could choose different options for different cameras, from Never to Always or Just once.
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Google announced Google Photos last week, a new photo hosting service that combines everything great about Google+ Photos with unlimited free storage for high quality photos and HD videos. Whether you’re trying it for the first time or logging in to see what’s different, here’s what’s new, and how to make the most of it.
Google Photos is impressive, but it’s not totally new. The service was previously pretty tightly tied to Google+ but still let you do tons of awesome things with your photos. Quick photo editing using Snapseed’s powerful tools, photo filters, auto-upload and “auto-awesome” (which creates GIFs and short videos from your photos,) were all features that Google+ fans will recognize, but everyone can use now, whether they have a Google+ account or not. Let’s take a look at some of the other big changes that make managing your photos easier than ever.
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Everyone likes free, and when Google announced free storage for all of your photos and video, the audience cheered. There’s one caveat however: If you choose Google’s “unlimited” free storage, you can only upload photos up to 16 megapixels or 1080p HD video. Anything higher resolution than that will be downgraded to fit. If you don’t want to do that, you can opt out—which means you still get free space for anything at or below 16 megapixels or 1080p, but anything higher resolution will count against your Google Drive quota (15GB for most people, unless you purchase an upgrade,) shared across Gmail and all Google apps. The option is in your Google Photo settings, and the setting applies to all of your devices where the Google Photos app is installed.
The “unlimited” option is probably good for most people, though. Unless your phone has a really high-resolution camera or is capable of shooting in 4K, you probably won’t notice too much of a difference if you enable this feature, and being able to automatically store everything sweetens the pot. Most of us look at our photos in web browsers or on mobile screens anyway. However, if you’re a stickler for quality or all of your devices have high-end cameras, “unlimited” might not be for you. In that case, you might consider leaving it off or finding a service that doesn’t trim the quality of your shots. Oh, and even though we’re talking about uploading here, if you want all of those photos on your computer, or backed up offline (and you should), now you can download them all with one click over at Google Takeout.
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Let Google Organize Everything (or, If You Must, Create Your Own Albums)
Google Photos’ new “collections” feature automatically arranges your photos by date or location, which is a big improvement over the way the feature worked before. The new “Assistant” is the place you’ll go for newly generated auto-awesome photos, highlight reels, and short videos. By default, your photos are still organized by date, the way they’ve always been. Click or tap “Collections” to see photos of specific events, like an afternoon photo walk or a trip to the beach.
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Google Photos is good at automatically bundling up photos you took from a specific time period and creating a collage of them—it’s not perfect at knowing where you were (it labeled some photos I took outside of the Capitol Building as the National Portrait Gallery, which is definitely not the same thing or even nearby) but the collections are easy to tweak and add detail to. You can even share them with others, and the whole experience is much more interesting than a simple photo album could ever be. Your notes and narrative are in-line with the photos, right next to the geo-locations where took the pictures. (Speaking of geo-tagging your photos, your photos are automatically tagged with their location now. If you’d like to turn it off, it’s a toggle in your settings.)
If you prefer to take matters into your own hands, you can still create your own albums, generate your own stories or animations, or build your own collage of photos. Click or tap the plus sign next to the search bar (or at the top of the screen in the mobile app) and select the photos you want to be in your album. Add notes, select music, and share it with friends. You can let Google Photos do the heavy lifting for you here, but even if you want to do it yourself, it’s surprisingly easy.
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The big new search bar at the top of Google Photos is probably the most impressive update. Type in just about anything you’ve taken a picture of, and it’ll find your photo. It’s a bit like Google’s Image Search, but just for your photographs—and it works remarkably well. Type in “people,” and any photos or portraits of individual people will come up. When I type “Air and Space,” all of the photos I took at the Air and Space museums here in DC appear instantly. Even when I type in “salad,” I get multiple photos of, well, salad that I’ve taken (A fact of which I’m sufficiently embarrassed). That said, it’s not perfect—if you type in “people,” you might find art you’ve taken photos of or downloaded, but that’s okay.
The search bar is hiding another neat feature you’ll want to try: Quick access to all of your photos in Google Drive, your videos, recently added photos, and any creations (auto-awesome photos, highlight reels, or GIFs) you’ve made. Just click or tap the search bar once and scroll to the bottom of the list of suggestions to see quick links for each.
Being able to search for photos is incredibly powerful. Ideally, you could start just taking shots and letting them upload automatically, and then search for what you want to see instead of painstakingly creating individual albums or folders. Google Photos allows you to create them manually, but the changes to the way photos are organized makes it less necessary than other photo sites, and the fact that I can just search for broad terms to see all of my matching photos is a huge boon.
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Share Your Photos with Everyone
Sharing is much better than it used to be. Back when Google+ Photos was tied to Google+, your sharing options were essentially a link that would bring a visitor to G+, or to share your photo with your Google+ Circles. Now, you have the option to share direct links to your photo, or to send the photo to Facebook and Twitter as well as Google+. All of those shared links can be tracked from the sidebar too, so you can always see which photos are out there and visible to other people, which is a nice touch.
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Customize Your Gallery View
This feature is mobile-only, but it’ll completely change the way you look at your photos. By default, your photos are organized by the day you took them. If you take a lot of photos, or just want a broader view, you can zoom in (making the photos larger but displaying fewer on-screen) to a daily view, or pinch to zoom out, making the photos smaller individually, but showing more on-screen. As you zoom, the organization changes to better suit the view—photos you took “yesterday” are merged with all the photos you took over the past week, then this month.
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Zooming around like this makes it really easy to find photos you took last month, or even last year, but it’s also great for looking right at photos of an event, or getting a nice view of all of the shots you took on your week-long vacation, or while you walked around town yesterday.
Of course, these are just some of the new and newly upgraded features. All of the things that made the service great are still here, like the ability to edit your photos, crop and resize them, apply layers, and download them to your computer, from the web or your mobile device. Google Photos also now lets you delete your photos from your smartphone or tablet once they’ve been uploaded, which gives you more space on your phone for apps or other things.
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There’s a lot to love about the new Google Photos, and a great mix of new features and old ones that have been substantially upgraded. If you’re not already using it to manage your photos, it’s worth a look—and even if you’re using another service, like Flickr or Facebook, the fact that it’s free gives you one more place to back up, organize, edit, and share your photos for free.