5 Google Photo Tips that make a big difference!

[@dottotech]

Table of Contents 00:00 Introduction 01:24 Memories 02:46 Memories Preferences 04:16 Facebook Memories 05:10 Preferences in Mobile 07:02 Search 07:30 Search in Mobile 08:27 Search by Activity or Item 09:21 Organization 09:51 Sharing on Desktop 10:33 Sharing in Mobile 12:30 Google Lens

[@theresawilliams7613]

Hi I have a question how can u change your email password back wen change it

[@theresawilliams7613]

Please help

[@michaeledwards5623]

Subject passwords and emails a library for just that.

[@spencergreer8099]

I. Have a video. On.this Channel I'm trying to find

[@spencergreer8099]

Do you know Kevin booth

[@Caseyd1966]

Great tips! I had a dog named Farley 30 years ago - a little Scottish terrier. She was a lovely little girl and it took me years to be able to think of her with a smile rather than tearing up.

[@dottotech]

Thanks for sharing!

[@Kevansjones]

Thank you Steve. Google Lens has just blown me away. I can now I'd birds I don't recognise from my photos. Fantastic.

[@paulfeiger]

Thanks for getting back to your DottoTech videos. They are the best. Another feature you insure is awesome audio. I can understand what you say!! Far too many presenters do not take the effort, as do you, to make sure the viewer/listener really benefits. Thanks.

[@dottotech]

Glad you like them!

[@FRYEGS6]

Dotto, You Sir, are a true DOG man. I have to respect that. Take all the time you need.

[@trina2100]

I'm sorry about your loss. I actually came to this video right after going into Google Photos for the first time in years and having memories presented that also hurt to see so I for sure understand where you're coming from. Thanks for the tips.

[@lindajwilson9848]

So very happy and grateful to have found your channel!!! Just what I've needed for years questioning, why can't I do this or that? Okay, you have shown me how I can!!! I will be reviewing this video several times, practicing, until I finally get it!!

[@dottotech]

You are so welcome!

[@2GuysTalkingPodcastNetwork]

A tremendously comprehensive note here about Google Photos. I'd like to see something about taking say, hard drives of photos/content and shunting it up to Google Photos/part of the space I'm paying for and then having Google Photos begin including them. Thanks again for great content! You are appreciated!

[@hamrad88]

Omg. This so awesome. Thanks for sharing. Found your channel yesterday and watching all your amazing videos.

[@dottotech]

Welcome!!

[@tglenn13]

Just chanced upon your Google Photo and Maps tutorials both are enjoyable to watch and informative to an educational level. Thanks for the help understanding our technology.

[@gailsullivan2043]

Thank you for all the cool tips! I just found you a couple days ago, and I am so glad I did! Your presentation is great, and your subject matter is interesting. Well rounded and to the point! I really enjoy your show! I look forward to seeing many more of your creations! Thank you again and God bless!

[@dottotech]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@brendanswemmer]

Thank you so much. I didn't even get half way through your video when I discovered Google's Photoscan. That app is also absolutely awesome. Now we don't have to have a separate scanner to scan in photos. We can just use our smart phone!!!

[@dottotech]

Wait till you discover the glare reduction feature for when you are scanning in photos with glare like in a album under a protective sheet!

[@Glenniehubb]

Hi Steve. I so appreciate the humanity you bring to this thread.And no better example than the point you so movingly make about intrusive memories. Thanks for all you do and have done over the years. You have no serious rivals.

[@LuluVeee]

Thank you for the tips. I loved using the lens on my new Pixel 6 - I took a photo of my husband and it came up with photos of Bernie Sanders! Love it.

[@dottotech]

That is awesome!

[@MsSheilacook]

I have the same grief issues with photos. I understand about how sad you are about seeing photos of Farley because my animals are family members to me and when they have passed I grieve for years. Thank you for all that you do to help us😢

[@alanschlesinger2899]

Glad you made this video! The part about Google Lens really helped explain it to me and in testing it out as I watched your video really showed me how powerful a tool it can be. One feature I'd really like to see added to Google Photos would be a way to group albums under a "main folder" as sub folders, as is possible with MS Photo Gallery, which I use on my Win 10 laptop. This way albums for vacations, family, pets, events, etc, could be grouped by category and much easier to find, especially when doing any type of comparisons. I know the search feature can help with this but in many cases, just having albums under the same category, such as those for one's 2021 and 2022 vacations being next to each other would help greatly. As it stands now, I sometimes have to go through my whole list of albums to find a particular one, even though there may be several albums that could go under a specific category, such as "vacations". My 2021 and 2022 vacation albums won't necessarily be together, so finding one doesn't guarantee that the other will be next to it as it would when I am using Photo Gallery. If there is a feature like this, or a technique I can use to find similar category albums, please let us know. Thanks, and again, a great video!

[@cbatherley]

Thank you for the info about Google Lens, super awesome! After watching your video and started playing with it, and something so cool, if you a "busy photo" with many elements you can adjust the "focus" of the Google lens to search a particular part of the photo. Very useful, thank you!!

[@dottotech]

Great to hear!

[@hankkendall8241]

This post was very informative & to-the-point. You made me so much smarter than I was on these items. Thanks! Now, I’m curious whether you’ve covered the Memories feature in greater depth. Mainly, I’m curious about the ins & outs of “editing” the suggested Memoies, i.e. adding/deleting images, applying different FX to images in Memories (Ken Burns Effect, etc.) as well as choosing different background audio, (say like using my own original music) & lastly, whether the Memory can be exported as a video. ☮️

[@z8669zzz]

I just started using Google Lens, Awesome!

[@cwestran]

Another great feature of the search, if you are looking for photos of 2 or more specific people, they must be identified in photos then search "name and name"

[@cwestran]

It will even find the people in videos!

[@dottotech]

I actually did not know that! Thanks!

[@katieshayV]

how do you add photos of couples into an album?

[@artsyladie7]

Yes! I just recently discovered this feature, also. It works great!😉

[@larryjoseph1170]

Good tips. I use Lens a lot while hiking to identify flowers, plants, bugs, etc. Google Lens stand-alone app is best to download for this.

[@dottotech]

Thanks for sharing

[@southvillechris]

Brilliant video, Steve! I use Google Photos all the time so knew some of these, but certainly a couple I didn't - hiding memories is a great features, and thank you for such a clear description of Google Lens, which had always puzzled me. Great work!

[@dottotech]

Glad it was helpful!

[@SuperWaynoo2]

Amazing! Outstanding! Your videos are the best thing I've found on KZbin ever! Love the way you use graphics, text highlights and summary recaps.

[@dottotech]

Thank you so much 😀

[@p1dru2art]

I had to give you a thumbs-down I'm on the only one that realizes that you can't delete photos but you can sure buy more space

[@kjaustin1]

Thank you!! I just got a memory pop up a couple weeks ago with my ex & don’t want it. I don’t want to delete the photos because of our children, but I don’t want the memories showing up either. You solved my problem!

[@fpvnwv1493]

sorry about Farley. lost my best friend last year. Tough times. hang in there. appreciate your work, man.

[@dottotech]

Thanks so much. Sorry for your loss as well. We are getting new puppy in about a month. Still kind of reluctant. But getting excited.

[@NickEck]

Just when I think I’m a Goog know-it-all, you teach me something new. Thanks Steve!

[@Rottens100]

Hey Steve great to find you again! I remember you from ~10+ years ago. Up to about10 or 15 years ago Google Maps had the ability to make elevation maps outside of the cycle tab. It was great for showing elevational changes on rivers, hillslopes or even the Grouse Grind.

[@philnewman1110]

Hey Steve, came across you by accident whilst searching for cataloging old photos, some really useful information here. I have loads of old photos and want to know the best way of digitalising them for future generations, any ideas would be great. Thanks for posting this video, well done, I have now subscribed as well.

[@mlsanthem]

Love that you add a "jump ahead" option!

[@catguy4996]

One useful tip for conserving storage in Google photos that no one talks about is cropping your photos. If you crop unimportant parts out of a photo, save it as a copy and delete the original copy, you would've freed up some space. Do that for hundreds and thousands of photos overtime and it really makes a huge difference. For instance, do you really need the grey sky in the background of a photo of your cat? No, your cat is the main focus. So crop out the sky

[@dottotech]

Cool tip!

[@bodinian]

Just don't do it too many times because JPEGs don't like to be altered and resaved repeatedly.

[@thomas1699]

I am a firm believer in cropping photos. Great tip. Don't save what you are not interested in.

[@VioletJoy]

I do that all the time! It really helps.

[@sherrymattingly4309]

Krishen, thanks for touching on the storage issue in Google Photos. Steve shows Photos Settings under the account picture or initial icon, not on my devices.. I don't know if he reads replies. I'll post a comment directly. Yes, storage is giving me fits and I can't see how/where to turn Photos off.

[@dchungmanson]

Really excellent on all the points Very useful. Thanks alot

[@gunswnc]

you always have such great, informative videos. Thank you

[@dottotech]

Glad you like them!

[@andrepotgieter4984]

This is great, Steve can I replace Gallery on Samsung with Google photos so that my photos go into it immediately, even from WhatsApp? Also can I resize and change the picture as in Gallery?

[@marcelwolters8315]

Thx Steve, well done. One great feature of Google lens is to point at a piece of text you want to copy, eg a label. Then options appear and you have the possibility to copy directly to the clipboard of your computer, and you can paste as editable text in any document . Just sayin...amazing.

[@dottotech]

That is a great feature!

[@HawaiianoPH]

Thank you so much 🙏... I especially like the lens feature.

[@robertmahler8894]

You are a treasure! Thank you!

[@sarahstewart2059]

Great to see someone else mention the memories filters. Absolutely our mental health and well-being is affected by 'hey remember when?' Hurts a lot in some instances. Definitely surprising for me too why Google doesn't promote these functions to users. Think it would be rather cool if they did. Once again, great video. thank you Cheers from Canada 🍁 🍁

[@007donj]

Great tips Steve, thank you

[@dottotech]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@CallLeeFree]

I wish google photos had sub-albums or categories to put albums under. I have over a 100+ albums. Would be nice to categories them like, friends, family, vacations, etc...

[@alanschlesinger2899]

I have to agree! I also use MS Photo Gallery on my Win 10 laptop and it does allow this, so I can put all my trips under one main folder, etc, and this keeps all folders of a certain subject together. Unfortunately, with Google Photos, the albums are scattered so that your trips from 2022 and 2023 won't necessarily be together and you may have to go through your hole list of albums to find either one. Adding the categorization feature to Google Photos to better organize albums would be great!

[@p1dru2art]

I'm not happy with it at all

[@peterbonser7084]

Great stuff as always, thanks! With respect to search by content (your example 'cooking') - Can I teach this system? Can I tell it that a particular image was not a cooking image so next cooking search it will not show that image? Thanks!

[@OLeonOfficial]

Excellent video, well structured and to the point. The recap is very usefull. Thanks again!

[@MyMomSayNoDota]

memories. when i look back at myself 10 years ago, it make me sad. i'm growing old. time flies..

[@kld2009]

Wow. KZbin recommended a new channel that's good. 🤔 Subscribed. 😎

[@dottotech]

Awesome! Thank you! I love to hear that!

[@EdBrumley]

I love the search capability of Google Photos. If you can remember the month (or date) this too is another way to find a particular photo. Also; “dog”, “water”, or a particular person. These search features are POWERFUL especially if you take a lot of photos. Great video!

[@catguy4996]

Of course. This is Google we're talking about after all

[@EdBrumley]

@@catguy4996 well, Google Photos has some very nice features, but Google destroyed one of their best photo editing/storage programs. Picasa was a superior program, but something tells me that Google wanted to promote other costly, subscription based, photo editing programs. Maybe Photoshop? IDK, but there are lots of features I dearly miss, but now in order to get those features you have to pay big bucks. ☹️

[@TravelingBrigitte]

I love using Google photos and I learned a couple new tips from you today. I’m working on scanning my parents old photos and was wondering if there’s some type of software like Google photos that I can use on a hard drive. I don’t want to load up my Google Photos even more. I’m already paying for storage. TIA!

[@sherrymattingly4309]

I'm using a free version of Plex. It's not as freindly as I'd like but I've heard the paid version isn't much better. But it does have some features that may be interesting, like making playlists to view on your tv.

[@elmersonmiguel8438]

Hi, Dotto. Please help, I dont have the people button on my both phone and desktop. Is there a way to activate this again? Your videos are great! Thanks!

[@WaltBankes]

I use Google photos to document every new piece of equipment that I get. I take pictures of the shipping labels and the labels on the equipment. And I take pictures of the insides of the computers to document the chips. Then I use Google docs or Google sheets to include those pictures into a document that allows me to continue to record the history of my working on that piece of equipment such as even links to or images of manuals. Also, shortcuts and passwords.

[@patmulh4245]

Learned so much from this video!!!

[@nancythackerduncan1213]

Best technology tutorial ever!

[@eddiewilmot]

Fantastic tips, thank you for sharing

[@dottotech]

Glad it was helpful!

[@AdventureHorseRidinginNYS]

Distance tremendous information and I learned so much thank you

[@marilynmcconnell-twiss3046]

Thank you. I love your explanations.

[@dottotech]

I'm so glad!

[@rvaway06]

Thank you for the great video. I agree organizing and locating photos is sometimes so involved. We take loads of travel photos. I have started naming my photos so I can search them on my phone fast. Working great. However on Google photos, I haven't been able to figure out how to search these. When you open a photo the name shows under the details section. Any thoughts. Thanks again

[@trudi1962]

I remember you on the telly. How far we've come!

[@jeannerogers711]

Fabulous. Great info. Thank you.

[@robira1313]

Amazing information!

[@joybreytenbach3809]

Thank you sir God bless you for helping me. Please keep it up sir

[@boomstheory5361]

The other day Google photos put pictures of me and my puppy on my memories so I can completely relate with what you're talking about. I Miss Betty bites

[@goliath9081]

What a great video thank you so much for sharing.

[@dottotech]

So nice of you

[@bennettrichards6851]

Dear Steve..... I feel your pain. I just lost my friend and confidant, my Cocker Max. The pain is as great as the love. My condolences.

[@dottotech]

And to you, thanks.

[@debreale5236]

Fantastic! Many thanks, Steve. 😊

[@dottotech]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@terryhunsaker8317]

As always, you are succinct and entertaining. I love your videos. Thanks for your persistence.

[@ChristianAasted]

Tak!

[@dottotech]

thank you so much!

[@marinadebondt]

Thank you so much for these useful tips. Could you please spend some time on how to include a picture in an email? I struggle with that so much, I just don’t get it. Maybe because I am creating an email in outlook and want to include a picture from Google photo’s. Thank you so much!

[@send2gl]

Very useful reminder, thank you.

[@MakeWorldBetterPlace3553]

Awesome !!! thanks for sharing wonderful tips.

[@jbmorrow5390]

WOW - great as always - can you attach the results of the "identification / lens" to the photo? Or is it only temporary? 2nd question: Can google photos find dups?

[@dottotech]

I don't know of a way to add the info to a photo, and alas, no de-duplication is still not a feature.😞

[@z1gandalf]

Rename pic title and include the information, or if you have a few pics of the same or similar people or things then create a new album; Pics by A N Other for example.

[@doceyetjw]

Hi Steve, thanks for another great video. When discussing the sharing options for Google photos you mentioned that selecting photos on the Android app was a bit finicky. The trick is to do a longer press on the first image that you want to share and then just simply quick tap the remainder of the photos that you wish to share.

[@dottotech]

Great suggestion! Thanks for sharing it!

[@dianneeagle4686]

Very useful. I'd love to see a video of how to do basic editing in Google photos. For example how do you edit a picture and also retain the original? Can you somehow duplicate it and then just edit one copy?

[@dottotech]

Great suggestion!

[@z1gandalf]

Save your edited pic as a copy

[@p1dru2art]

There's so much unexplained...... this no one realized that you can't even delete a photo you can just move it to Archive.... there's so many times when I might take five pictures and I need to delete four of them....... but I'm stuck I can buy more storage space..... but I can't delete

[@Wahian1]

Google also reads and remembers text in your photos/screenshots. So if there’s any text in something you’re looking for, search for that as well. I find it useful when searching for car photos, you can search by it’s number plate ( or part of it) as well as by make, color, ( or both together), or if you know the year or location taken. I find this useful at work and can save a lot of time looking for a car photo/s.

[@z1gandalf]

Really useful to know, but how scary is that. Lesson to be taken onboard… Always Look Around and Behind and make sure that there is Nothing that Google’s computers can associate with you that would be somewhat misleading. 😳🙀👍

[@JulesMoyaert_photo]

Super!!! Thanks! Subscribed!

[@grahamrankin4725]

Several of these will proof useful.

[@billb295]

Great video thanks.

[@shotgunlefty4057]

Rad video, thank you!

[@rosariodelavalle1593]

Hi! Thank you! Is it possible to share an album and then add pictures to it placing them in a chronological order? I need this to share family photos with my husbsnd, son and daughter. I do not want to br the only one keeping them. We would like to keep on adding to that album giving it a chronological order.

[@BrookeT9462]

I learned so much on this video

[@PressureCleaningSch]

Do you have a video of Front coming out soon or ready have one? Noticed it on your apps and researched it, looks very interesting, but would like to hear about from "THE MAN"

[@dottotech]

I am not sure, it is a very powerful app, I have a few friends who really like it, I am on the fence with it myself.

[@PressureCleaningSch]

@@dottotech thank you. Looks great for companies like ours w multiple email/social accounts. Would love to hear more of your thoughts as your Time permits. Know your a busy man

[@dottotech]

We are too small a team to really use it effectively, but with a larger team, even 5+ it has some terrific capabilities. Assigning communications to other team members and threaded sidebar conversations on external messages is a great tool!

[@Pir8AU]

Well done sir. I'm sorry to hear about Farley!

[@mcpeko]

Wonderful! I'd love to know more about the slide show function.

[@JD_-_]

Good channel! I am currently going through the same ‘ordeal’ where my Maya (goldendoodle) pops up and that isn’t good right now 💔

[@miltonbrownrigg8409]

Love your Google content. Is Farley still around?

[@dottotech]

Sadly no, we lost him last year, and we do miss him a lot

[@miltonbrownrigg8409]

@@dottotech sorry Steve and family.

[@rakanaltassan7797]

Such a nice personality, I love your enthusiasm and interest in collecting memories. And yes I agree technology is going beyond our expectations, it is somehow scary sometimes when you think about it deeply!! Greetings from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦

[@p1dru2art]

The enthusiasm is the scary part........ why would they create a storage without the ability to delete......... you can't delete your photos but you can sure buy more storage........

[@DougPipersr]

Any suggestions on a workflow to download a dozen years of Google Photos (over 50GB) and retiring the files in a usable format? I want to retain all of the metadata too (original dates etc).

[@SusannaM]

Very useful, thank you.

[@platinumtoast99]

Great video, Steve!

[@dottotech]

Glad you think so!

[@CitlalliRios]

Thank you for sharing these cool (and somehow creepy) features. I'm sorry for your loss, I can relate :(

[@srinivasangopalachari5985]

Thanks for the great video. How do I stop all what's up photos are loaded in Google photo?

[@shariatukorala7095]

I lost my beloved Dusty too in 2020 he was only 8. Like you I too have heaps of photos of Dusty. I like looking at him but it's also sad and I miss him so much .

[@dottotech]

Sorry to hear that. I bet Dusty was an awesome Dog.

[@shariatukorala7095]

@@dottotech yes he was.

[@spunbearing]

So, if I share photos with someone with a Google account. Does that eat into their google storage space? Or does that just allow them to view tagged images within my storage space?

[@MalibuBon]

Thank you so much for this! I am going to try out Google Lens to see if it is a nest of honeybees or hornets that I took a picture of in a tree in the back yard the other day.

[@dottotech]

Did it work?

[@MalibuBon]

@@dottotech Yes, it wasn't hornets or bees, it is a fungus of some sort. Thanks! I am going to use it to identify trees and plants on my property!

[@debbiejester751]

LOVE YOU videos-- what kind of phone do you have?

[@dottotech]

iPhone 13 Pro Max...the bigger the better :-)

[@glhanson7669]

How do you add photos to and existing folder/album After I select the photo

[@VesaVuorinen]

Is there any way to manage faces and face recognition on Google Photos? My use cases would be: 1. Tell photos who this face in this chosen picture belongs to 2. Tell photos to exclude/ignore this face (or this photo) altogether 3. Tell photos if it has misidentified someone

[@Daniel_pc70]

Thanks for this video I never know all those settings.

[@dottotech]

Happy to help!

[@supervidere7]

... I have a second question, due to this video being so good. Many of us have multiple Gmail accounts, for various reasons, in my case that's in addition to a G-Suite account. All these accounts want to sync' to prevent exploitation of the (total) storage capacity allocation for any individual. My question is how do you deal with the subsequent duplication of images on a desktop PC. It's gotten to the point where it doesn't make any difference if i delete all the video's, my primary gmail storage account remains maxed out. Do you think Google do this to force the purchase of additional storage space? (edited to correct "of")

[@danielgeorge7234]

I have thousands of photos still in Google's Picasa. I love the editing of Picasa but feel I need to transfer these photos to Google Photos. What is the procedure to transferring a folder over to Photos?

[@dottotech]

I am not sure, but I am going to look into it, maybe it is a goo idea for a video.

[@ejstewart3098]

Good Day Sir, Love your channel. Question for you. I have attempted to share photos with my son who is on Gmail, etc. and for whatever reason, I cannot add him to a shared album, he cannot be found, I don't know why, do you have any idea?

[@lesprice42]

Is there a way to turn photos in an album into a slideshow video, with music added, suitable for posting on KZbin?

[@b991228]

If you want to show someone an imbedded photograph that may possibly be turned into a framed photograph for the wall can you do that in Google Photos? Does a viewer have a way to download the full size image that can be taken to the store to print? What I do now is use Google mail to imbed images with attached full size files.

Good stuff, but i have ONE question... How to you move pictures from one person to another? Feels like a logical thing but I haven't found a way to do this, as it assigns many faces to wrong people and should be easy to adjust so it learns more better faster!

[@dottotech]

I do not know how to do that, good question.

@@dottotech yeah i asked google foto on twitter but no response to that one!

[@ChrisGuld]

Use the partner sharing feature