Working With Your Digital Pictures Online

Working With Your Digital Pictures Online

Get Apps – Free Up Storage – Search & Share – Photo Prints – Edit – Editor Apps

Google Photos is free and has no storage limits. It automatically backs up all your smartphone images with the free Photos app, and Google Photos for Desktop will do the same on your computer.

When you’re ready to share, Google gives you a link to download, which you pass on via e-mail. Videos, as you know, are big files that can clog up an e-mail box or be so big that the e-mail provider will reject them altogether.

In the background, Google also does fun stuff with your photos, turning them into animations, making collages, panoramic stitches, and the like.

The most significant issue we face when we snap hundreds and hundreds of photos is finding them. Google does a great job on smartphone-snapped images since they contain information about where you shot them and include dates. Finding pictures snapped with the camera isn’t as easy. So, title your photos with tags, like New Mexico, 2015, or create albums on Google Photos to bring similar themed images together.

Backup – Computer, Android & IOS phones and tablets.
Free up storage on your Android and iOS devices by deleting photos and videos that are already backed up.
Organize – Manage your photos in one place and find pictures you forgot you had. Search for People, Places, and Things.
Edit – Rotate, crop, adjust color, and more.
Create – Turn photos into albums, movies, stories, collages, animations, panoramas, stylized images, and Rediscover This Day albums.
Remember – Google sends “Rediscover this day” anniversary notices.
Share – You can share photos, videos, albums, movies, and stories with anyone, even if they don’t use the Google Photos app.

Get started with Google Photos on a phone or tablet

Download the Google Photos app on your phone or tablet:

After installing the app, take a photo using the mobile device and camera app you usually use. Try taking a picture of yourself or the setting around you.

What Is Google One, and Should You Subscribe? – by Wired

Google One’s starter plan includes 100 GB of storage, More Google Photos editing features, Access to Google experts, the ability to share with up to 5 others, and monitoring of the dark web. The starter plan is 100 GB, $1.99 monthly, or $19.99 yearly.

Google Photos on Android: “free up device storage” option

To free up storage on your Android device by deleting photos and videos that are already backed up, do the following:

Open the Google Photos application on your device.
Tap on the menu and select Settings.
Tap on “free up device storage.”
A prompt will display after scanning, revealing the amount of storage space you will recover when you proceed.
Select delete, and then delete again.

This process removes the photos and videos from the device. Some may still be cached by the Photos application afterward, but the majority will no longer appear in the app.

Search your photos

Find people, things, & places in your photos. Search your photos for anything – a wedding you attended last summer, your best friend, or even New York City.

Find & label people. Search for people in your photos by seeing similar faces grouped. Note that this feature is not available in some countries.

Share photos & videos.

You can share photos, videos, albums, movies, and stories with anyone, even if they don’t use the Google Photos app.

Edit photos, movies, & stories.

Edit photos, add filters, crop photos, and more on your mobile device or computer. Tip: If you have backup & sync turned on, your edits will sync to your Google Photos library.

Adjust, crop, or rotate a photo.
Undo edits
Change the date & time stamp. Using a computer, you can change a photo or video’s date or time stamp.

Photo Prints

Get started with photo prints from Google Photos – You can order photo prints from Google Photos for home delivery or same-day pickup at CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart Super Centers for $0.25–$0.39 + tax (4 by 6-inch prints).

Settings

Change the “Back up & sync” settings to control how and when your photos and videos are saved to your Google Account.

Open the Google Photos app on your mobile device.
At the top left, touch the menu icon.
Select Settings > Back up & sync.
If “Back up & sync” is on, you can change the settings below:

Settings on Android & iOS

Choose a Google Account
Upload size
“Back up photos” or “Photos back up using cellular data.”
“Back up videos” or “Videos back up using cellular data.”

Settings only on Android

Choose folders to back up
Roaming
While charging only
Back up all

Photo Editor apps for Android

Autodesk Pixlr – photo editor (Free)
Lightroom Mobile (Free with subscription options)
PicSay (Free)
PicSay Pro ($3.99) This is my favorite!

The Latest Google Photo Features

Transfer photos

Google Photos is a great way to store all your past and future pictures in one place. It offers unlimited private storage and access from any internet-connected device. There are many more choices on Google Play to find the photo app that works perfectly for you.

On your iPhone, download the Google Photos app from the App Store.
Open Google Photos and sign in using your Google account (i.e., your Gmail address and password).
Select “Back up & sync” for your photos by selecting the menu and gear icons at the top right. Now go to “Camera and Photos,” touch “Back up & sync,” and switch it on.
Sit back as Google saves all your photos to the cloud.
Open the Photos app on your new Android device to see your photos from your iPhone or iPad.

For more help with setting up backup and sync, see here. If you use iPhoto on your Mac, please note that any new photos taken with your Android phone or tablet won’t automatically upload to iPhoto.