Google Photos: Your one-stop tutorial

[@charlottejunker9054]

I am a 83 year old that clicked on your site. It was one of the best moves I ever made. Not being a youngster the digital world is very confusing. By listening to you I can pick out different points that when put all together that world is starting to make sense, I weed out what does not apply to me but expandsmy tech knowledge. Just wanted to let you know who’s out there watching you.

[@dottotech]

that is fantastic, I am so glad you found us!

[@l.l.davidoff1055]

We have never met but you are a favorite friend. Back in the 70's, I bought my first computer, a Commodore Pet. I was completely computer illiterate, there were NO library books, no manuals, no magazines, and minimal poor literature. The first amazing guru I met was Jim Butterfield. Then you came along and I never missed a show. If it had not been for you and Butterfield, my computer would have become an expensive doorstop. Somewhere we parted company. However, because of the Corona virus, I discovered Google Photos and boy, what a program! I'm just learning and once again, I found a favorite guru whose brain/videos I intend to study. My life just became easier!

[@dottotech]

I am so glad we have re-connected!

[@toolfinderhq]

Google Photos is the very BEST application I've tried! A huge saviour for my memories. Thanks for the awesome feature Steve.

[@bakkooing8094]

Pak kooi Ng

[@Aanailda]

Keep Productive day and

[@Aanailda]

Ok thanks for your concern

[@joshuasmith7903]

Keep Productive j

[@FindingJoyServices]

Hello XD

[@nicoletaylor8012]

Thank you for audible volume! Such a plus considering the other murmurs I encountered.

[@DeathByStupidity9]

Thanks for the info. There are a few features in google photos that I'm missing: - An option that will create albums based on the directory the pictures are in - An API that will allow me to communicate with google drive and google photos via google script. - The image search, when utilizing the file name does not work as reliable (not all pictures with a specific pattern in the name where found) - An option to manually add tags to photos, the automatic tagging works fine but its not enough for me

[@davidmlang1]

I really miss your TV shows. I learned so much about computers, thanks to you. You are so awesome!!!

[@dottotech]

I miss working with the team, but we did have a great run! Glad you found us here on KZbin!

[@nathaliem.4190]

Awesome video! I've been using Google Photo for years but never bothered to look at everything it could do. Your video made me want to take better advantage of this amazing tool. The search is indeed amazing. I searched the word "bottle" and found the wine bottle picture I was looking for.

[@dottotech]

SO glad to hear that! thanks for sharing!

[@PCTLadyPuterTutor]

Google Photos has saved me more than once while taking pictures and videos when I have run out of space on my phone. I highly recommend it.

[@ingikjartansson]

I am using 2 Google accounts to back up my photos. One of them is used to backup all my photos from my iPhone, for that I use Original quality, I don't have to pay for storage as this is just temporary. I then every 2 months or so move all those photos to my computer, so there I have them all in their original format and size. I then backup all my photos from my computer to a secondary Google photos account, and this time in "High quality" I also have all my older photos on my computer and backed upp on that account as well, tens of thousands of photos in all. This way I will at least have all my photos in "High quality" if something goes wrong. And I must admit that I really do struggle to see any difference between the original photo and "High quality" Oh and I have both of the accounts setup on my phone so I can easily find even my oldest digital photos on my phone any time.

[@dottotech]

Well designed system! Thanks for sharing!

[@Utubin]

Consider yourself blessed . As for me. Unfortunately anything to do with technology is a severe stress to me. I'm challenged everyday technology I have pictures that are so on my android internal storage sd card google photos . Every thing is in a disarray because I have no idea what Im doing. Every time I think I might have 1 challenge figured out another comes along. I need a techno goo roo that I can put in my pocket and when this kind of stuff happens I pull him or her out of my pocket ask questions get my answer and be less stressed. I have never had any great support that is worth talking of.

[@rhvreugde]

Your Google videos are very straight forward and informative. A lot of confusion resolved in just a half hour of watching your stuff.

[@dottotech]

Good to hear!

[@davidmeyer8756]

Okay, the face recognition just gave me chills. I need this so badly right now.

[@carolriordan5520]

Congratulations Steve! Wishing you and your new bride all the best for the future!

[@abramsRVC]

Nice tutorial on finding photos, but how do I save it to My desktop as a hi res Photo or video?

[@GSSElectric]

Steve, I really enjoy your 'broadcasts'. I stumbled across them a few weeks ago. I own a small electrical business in NW Montana. I have been using and still do use Picasa. I take 20-40 pictures a day of work and projects, family, and the foster kids in our life. My process is: Photos automatically upload to Dropbox, I sort the pictures on my Win 7 PC dropbox folders to the job, or child, or event. Picasa takes over from there and allows me to find job surveys, all the 400 amp services we have installed, special equipment we need to document, etc. I have an external 5TB hard drive that is always plugged in the PC and the pictures eventually go there (after naming the equipment, or customer, or event, and converting MP4 to WMV for Picasa to see it). The same pictures also go to a separate external 2TB hard drive for emergency back up of my pictures. Finally, I notice my Google Photo account uploads many but not consistently all of my camera pictures to the online account (Google gmail, drive, calendar etc). I have a good safe system, but with many flaws: Picasa is getting weaker and weaker with no support, my business is soon moving our files from Dropbox to G Drive, possibly eliminating the valuable tool I have to see, edit, and identify pictures opn my hard drive through DropBox. I dont care if my pic are uploaded to G Photos, even tho 80% are uploaded- it's nice to have that back up even if it's 80% reliable, I really need my pics on my PC, and a job folder, and a ability to create albums, tags, headings, etc. When I open my Dropbox pic folder every day (actually several times a day) I see all my job, event, or kid folders, and the most recent pictures that need to be placed in a new or existing folder. When I open G Photos I see millions of photos and no way to sort them in folders because folders don't exist, and even if it did, that would never copy to my hard drive where I actually need them for work. This is a huge topic for me and my business and I haven't seen any decent picture apps that help me. [e-mail]

[@tomwestheimer8613]

it will search the descriptions ....

[@ericsgotlegs]

I backup on google and Dropbox which subsequently automatically loads to my computer and to my time machine. I use Dropbox as my main photo management because I like to create my own folder structure to follow my personal logic as to how I reference events and people.

[@southwestprepperaz]

Thank you posting this video. I have been searching for a better photo storage service and discovered Google photos, found some video content for my old youtube channel I thought was long gone. I enjoy watching your videos, very clear and in depth.

[@saskfred]

we have a iPad air 2 with about 2583 photo my ios system is 16 GB and I have 7.58 gb in photos. my system is now overfull I thought google photo would automatically backup and then remove the photos on the ios disk to give me more space? its very confusing this icloud and ios. I created some albums on my ios photo program. i am not sure if google photos would transfer these pictures in my ipad photos. info is confusing. we would just like to get the use of our Ipad back and take more photos we are a bit disappoint with apple help any suggestions would be welcome thanks

[@katbedbury389]

I recently discovered your podcasts and, I absolutely love listening to you! I’ve learned so much! Thank you

[@dennishumbla5431]

How do I make it so It doesn't backup screenshots and orher downloads from facebook och internet.. Just backup my camera photos?

[@MrChristian]

Dennis Humbla - I don’t think you can, at least not on an iPhone. On an Android, you have the ability to turn off the Screenshots (or Download) folder from being backed up. Check the Settings screen

[@bobinjapan]

I don't even use google photos. I just enjoy your speaking style so much that I subscribed and dinged! So did my coworker! Now I am going to switch to google photos.

[@dottotech]

That’s just awesome! I’m glad you found us.

[@markalvinchua]

dottotech I believe there is one thing that was left out as one of Google photo's compromises for the free service (apart from what Google does with the photos and videos). When you upload photos and videos there, though they have the same resolution for those under 16 MP and 1080p, they are more compressed versions of them. Thus some details will be lost though barely noticeable if at all. You will notice this when you try to download those images and videos you uploaded. They are significantly lower in file size. Correct me if I am wrong. Nevetheless, I am an avid user of it. The pros heavily outweighs the cons. And I love the fact that I have access to all my photos wherever I have access to Google.

[@peanut924]

Brings up a question... I thought the camera determined the pixel size. However, Google offers the higher resolution... I don't understand how they can do that? I suppose if I took a really good photo that I want to print an enlargement from, I would opt for the higher resolution??

[@evacody1249]

@@peanut924 to have it at the highest level you have to hint hint pay for it. Unless you own a Pixel phone which in that case you don't have to worry about it.

[@Ellenwoodward]

How do I add text 😊

[@Swing_Trader_Bro]

Okay, I've been learning more from you since I found your channel. Then I done learned all my life in about 3-4 days. I'm going to go ahead and subscribe and click the like.

[@STGJones]

THanks for the great tutorial! I had no idea Google photos had so much to offer. What backup method would you suggest to directly download/transfer/move photos from an iPhone to a PC?

[@GavinBollard]

Thanks for that. I've been using Google Photos for years, so I don't need to be convinced but you just gave me a great way to explain it to other people. Well done.

[@drphilgardner]

Steve - Unlike you, I am unimpressed by the automated organizing tools in Google Photos. Instead, I wish there were better tools for "manual" organizing; such a folders. I wish Photos were more like Drive and I could organize with folders.

[@alekrudy5993]

I think you can place your photos unlimitely now to folders in Google Drive, as long as you agree to the same size restrictions. This is new feature, maybe a year old.

[@drphilgardner]

Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out.

[@drphilgardner]

Yes, you can add photos in folders in Google Drive. However, there is no way to add folders directly into Google photos, right?

[@alekrudy5993]

I think you are right... (no way to add folders directly; with all the photos in them... looks like a user has to sort photos after downloading... or maybe you can download all photos from folder in your comp into a chosen by you folder in Google Drive ) but I am not sure. A few months ago I remembered this... I am going to do some cleaning in my Google Drive tonight, so I will figure this and answer.

[@alekrudy5993]

Philip Gardner, thank you for the right question. It helped me to start thinking in the right direction. Tonight I finaly realized how Google Drive and Google Photo are connected and how they both work (with some help from articles on Google support and after a few experiments, of cause.) 1) No, there is no such things as independent “folders” inside in Google Photo. But you can assign any photo (or photos) to one or to a few your own “albums” inside of Google Photo, without actually moving photo or photos from its place. 2) There are folders in Google Drive though. 3) In settings in Google Drive (in iOS and in Android) you can choose the option that all photos from Google Photo will synchronize with a folder inside of Google Drive. (There is a similar setting in Google Photo too, but I am still figuring if they are the same.) 4) Article in Google support says that deleting in one of, Google Photo or in Google Drive, will delete in the other... but I am still in process of figuring what happens if in Google Drive I move photo from its [google photo folder] to a diferent folder that was created by me... 5) So far, I figured that in Google Photo I can use the function “share” photos [into my Google Drive] in order to move them from the cloud of Google Photo app - to the cloud of Google Drive app. Then I deleted photos from my Google Photos but their copies stayed in the folder I created for them in Google Drive. 6) There is special Google app for Computer (and for Mac), that you can install on your Computer (or on Mac) and set up automatic uploading to separate folders in your Google Drive cloud for as many different folders with photos in your Computer (or in your Mac) as you want. (Well, (6) - at least this is how I interpreted that part (about Computer/Mac) of the article in Google support. I still keep figuring, sorry.

[@warrenmaloney]

Thank you. That really got us thinking as it is an easier way to save and use phone photos.

[@rachelquillian9538]

I LOVE google photos, but there's one thing I can't seem to figure out. When I delete a photo from my phone but it's in google photos, if I decide I want to post it on social media later (like instagram or facebook) it's kind of hard to access those photos again. I have to actually redownload that photo to the photo library on my phone instead of just being able to upload it directly into the social media platform from google photos. Am I missing something or is this just the way google photos works?

[@dottotech]

Yep I think you are missing something, If you go into the Google Photo App on your phone you can post directly, use the share feature.

[@rachelquillian9538]

Awesome! Thank you! I was trying to do it backwards, starting in Instagram and trying to upload from google photos...

[@actuuaalevythg1295]

I am curious about this too.

[@mhlovelady]

Thanks for your great video. I subscribed and look forward to seeing more of your informative videos. Since Google bought Nest, I'm in the process of migrating over to Google Home, and have recently purchased, not yet installed, the Nest Hello Doorbell, Nest Wifi, and the Google Nest Hub Max. Google Photos will fit nicely with the integration. You asked about our backup plans. My wife and I have traveled extensively over the years and now that we're retired, we do even more. I have over 500,000 photos, at last count, and don't want to lose any. I have two internal 6TB drives that I use when editing photos. I also have two Drobo 5N with the newer one at 22 TB and the older one at 9 TB. I also have a SmugMug account where I store all the edited photos, and for cloud storage, I use Backblaze for unlimited storage of all files, currently over 6 TB. I will use Google Photos as one more backup, and see the facial recognition as a big time saver, over indexing photos in LightRoom. Thanks, again.

[@debbwb4256]

Thanks for this video Steve. I have started to back up all my pics on Google photo and love it. I'm glad you said you also require another backup such as external HD. I have also started to use Google's Photoscan app to digitize printed pictures from my parents. Now that is going to require some work in sorting out the dates. Would love to see a tutorial on that

[@GeeksOnTour]

Here's an article about changing dates: learngooglephotos.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-to-change-date-of-picture-using.html

[@STGJones]

Google Photoscan is also an amazing app for scanning photos easily!

[@jimbrown8573]

Good to see you again! I used to watch your TV show all the time!

[@DougPowell01]

Very nice presentation, concise. One thing, you forgot to mention is the Google Lens icon on the mobile app you demonstrated. I especially like using it for recording documents such as business cards and restaurant receipts. It will even interpret phone numbers and web addresses then provide hot links to them. Best, Doug

[@keysandatops]

Steve, this is the best tutorial I've seen from you! Thank you very much. I'm currently storing my photos on DVDs, and an external hard drive. Of course, it's a labor-intensive process, and indexing takes an inordinate amount of time. It seems Google Photos is really going to help me and I love the face recognition.

[@truthseeker7029]

The album function is not really good without sorting, I want them to be ordered.

[@bymepjstewart]

I found a photo that I've been looking for. Search found it for me!!!! Thank you Dottotech.

[@janiceflaherty1920]

It didn't answer my question how to backup my cloud photos.

[@NCRoots2011]

Love the video started watching to figure out how to get photos into Google photos. Will continue searching for the answer on KZbin.

[@DASyam-tb7qt]

By far the best photo gallery/photo management app. It's unbelievable that it's free! Google can easily make it paid app/service and I would still pay for it. Thanks Google! Also, face recognition and Google Lens are available here in Indonesia.

[@TomSmallwoodinOz]

This neanderthal has accumulated quite a few HDDs from expired machines etc over the years and that's where my backups go. Google Photos is just that an emergency back up (house fires, burglary etc) but will now start using GPhotos more for search etc. Good video dotto.

[@tillerman35]

I'm not a fan of Google photos & I was actually hoping this video would show me how to just leave my pictures alone.

[@donnathompson6452]

Wow I got thrown into Google Photos with my business partner. I had no idea how to use it. Thank you for clarity and demonstration of how this app works!! I really enjoyed watching it too!!

[@KooldadiJ]

Please adopt a ""This is how to do it, step 1, step 2, and step 3 and so on approach, then all the background editorial. Good info, but just too long.

[@ALLQUEEN51]

I agree ! I’m like GEESH! SMH 🤦‍♂️

[@goldmakers2382]

My best friend, Passport, one terabyte external drive. Twice, my MacbookPro was attacked and the operating system had to be reinstalled. Not a problem. When I brought my baby home, 2 hours later, all my essentials were reinstalled and I was back in business. Well worth the $60.00 for the hard drive and the peace of mind because of the backup!

[@send2gl]

I find Google backups confusing. Never sure if copies on photos and drive are identical copies or links to one or the other.

[@punkluckey8886]

I agree. When I delete useless photos from my phone I see them disappear from Google photos too.

[@GreenMountain565]

Yep that's why I prefer Apple's photos better. Googles is a bit confusing as you said. Too much duplication of things. Things like sharing videos is much easier on Apple. When I add a video to a shared stream on Apple it's instant. On Google photos it has to upload it first then I think you share a link or something like that.

[@TheKingKrusher]

Thank you for this video, it helped me get more comfortable with Google Photo. Im loving it, and it's now a part of my total "backup system".

[@UnpluggedDiesel]

Here is biggest problem with Google photos, all of my photos are organized by folders and sub-folders on my external hard drive. For example: Photos> 2018> Hawaii Family Vacation. If I were to upload my 25,000 I have taken past 10 years they would all just be in a single Google photos folder and not organized. Is there a way around this problem?

[@st.josephcollegeseminary2532]

I agree 100% this is very frustrating, and i'd love an override option to keep existing file structure when folders are imported.

[@adams1355]

flightskate2 Download all pic on your PC /Mac and then use an app Backup and Synchronisation ( translated from my language so U may find it under a bit different name), which u can download legally of course. It will make back up of all photos in Google Picture and at the same time on your Drive BUT ON YOUR DRIVE IT WILL STORED IN THE SAME FOLDERS AS ON YOUR COMPUTER. I forgot the best. There is no limit on your Drive as in Google Pic. I have 70 G B stored for free in myDisc done the way I described above. Dont forget to click on the 3 lines on the right in your Drive menu and choose Computer from the list (should be belove of Picture )

[@markalvinchua]

What I did was I upload by folders (the inner-most folder) and create an album for it - which can be done after the photos are uploaded (Google will prompt you in the PC, do not know for phones). They are sorted by date as well

[@mkrbu50]

My photo and video backup looks very much like your. I keep my photos on Google photos for easier access and all the cool features your showcasing here.

[@billykid6824]

I have a network drive 1.5 Tb and a 2Tb drive off network. I also use Google photos and OneDrive. Plus my Lap top has an internal separate backup drive. lol

[@dianakenealy6593]

Thank you for sharing important knowledge. I back up photos to the Google photos but I just have no clue what I'm doing and I'm ending up with photos every place. I'm happy to comment but need to get back to your videos so I can learn this new fangled technology. 😊. Thx again and gotta hear this video now.

[@VagabondArtist]

totally amazing!! was very skeptical in using google photos from a very long time, now surely gonna use! thanks a ton!! :))

[@dottotech]

I hope it was worth the wait!

[@psdaengr911]

I really like the clear way that you explain what you have learned. I hope that you were a teacher/mentor when you were younger and used that talent. Most of my photos are from a digital camera that knocks the socks off the best in-phone camera in every respect except carrying convenience. My background being engineering and IT, I've never trusted any system of storage that used only one kind of media or location, and still don't. My "backup" system has evolved from timed backup of data on a local PC to magnetic tape. Tape was replaced by external hard drives, then removable solid state storage, with the backup copies in a safe and secure "other" location. A year ago I transitioned from using PCs to a Chromebook, which has practically no internal storage. Initially I manually copied my camera files to a removable microsd card in the Chromebook, and those copied to Drive,. When I started using Photos, I didn't use its sync capability, but manually selected the foldrrs of photos that I wanted from Drive. Now I don't bother with any of that. I plug my camera into my Chromebook and let Photos make high quality copies. Photos IS my backup. When I run out of space on ony cameras memory card, I repalce it and put the older card in a fireproof box. Drive has a feature to present what's in Photos as a folder within Drive, organized by Regarding backup - Google itself backups up all files srored in its services. The files are not just redundantly spread across RAID storage within one data center, but replicated to at least one other data center. If very concerned about having redundant copies of Google data files, don't copy them into Drive and Photos, they use the same infrastructure. Instead, Google has an export tools that lets you download zipped files of any combination of data types that you store in its services. So long as you have a device that can handle unzipping very large files, those zip archives are a convenient way to create archives for offline storage, on thumb drives or DVDROMS, which I'd argue is better than keeping them on any actively used device..

[@dottotech]

Thanks! Great overview of your system!

[@JonBushell]

I still use google Picasa. I’d rather tag myself than rely on google as I think it’s not fool proof but haven’t tried it for couple of years.

[@montanasojourn]

Jon Bushell I prefer picasa. It has better editing and allows me to add comments that show during a slideshow. Nice for vacation pics.

[@rhondalyn100]

I love Picasa and am SO SAD it is no longer supported! So easy to use and manage!!!

[@caroleaholmes3161]

I too love Picasa. Have got all my photos organised in folders for each subject and although the editing tools are a bit basic (opposed to Photoshop) they are adequate for my needs.

[@artmontesa1]

Picasa is dead. All photos from there have been transferred to Google Photos.

[@CoffeewithChu]

Thanks for this valuable content!

[@Jivolt]

Google Photos is by fa the best photo management platform. It's crazy awesome. Speaking of Google... Google Hangouts Chat is now available for GSuite users, however, I can't seem to find a good video that highlights the features. I'm now shining the big DottoTech logo into the sky (kinda like how they signal Batman).

[@ChunkyLoverMark]

Whilst you're waiting for him to make that, check out when Google introduced the products: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIKmlGOCYpqAba8

[@deelavers6958]

I’m not computer saavy and google has taken my whole camera roll almost 12,000 pi’s!!! It’s taken me over 3 yrs. to collect!!! I want my photos and albums back now!! How can I do this? Thank you, Dee Lavers

[@markalvinchua]

@@deelavers6958 please clarify what happened. Google deleted everything? Or just the originals? And is this Google photos?

[@jasonstewart4508]

John Marshall

[@guillermogray9752]

5- June 20 - Thanks, Steve! Well done! I have learned a lot!

[@fernandomiranda4499]

Hi: I have question Google photo I can see the photos in TV? Thank you

[@dottotech]

Yes using Chromecast or Apple TV

[@HanemanClass]

Steve - Great video! I also love my photos and have been using Google Photos. I use it for backup, I also systematically move phone photos to my iMac during the year; I archive photos in folders by seasons/events (about 3-4 months worth) on 30G thumb drives AND I burn folders to CDs. In addition, I keep particularly special photos in Dropbox (by year) for quick access. Keep up the good work! Long time subscriber from Texas

[@dottotech]

Sounds like you have a pretty efficient system!

[@normaleigh]

***I would love to hear about the other aspects of your photo-managing.*** I am struggling terribly to understand the relationships of PHOTO LIBRARY, iPHOTO LIBRARY, iCLOUD PHOTOS, the PICTURES directory, etc. on my iMac. It is just way to complex for me. I have been a windows user for years and just recently moved from using Android to iPhone & iPad, and now to getting situated on an iMac. Can you please tell more about how you are using Google Photos in relation to your Mac's photo systems? I'm going to depend on Google Photos again now instead of iCloud... many thanks for your help!! ~Angela from Ohio

[@michaelneild5133]

I like to use the animation feature in Google Photos because it creates some really cute little videos. There are so many ways to edit all of my photos and experiment with all of the different features. Also being able to return to the original is a very useful feature. These videos are so helpful.

[@eduardohowcomedf6971]

hello from Southern California . my question is on my smart phone when I open a photo or video on the upper right corner theres 3 dots theres a. option button save on device what the purpose for that ?

[@GarettMcDermid]

not sure if you figured it out in the 11 months since asking, but if it was backed up in google photos then deleted from your device, downloading it to your device would be required if you wanted to post it on a social media platform or edit it.

[@LynnePedigoRidayReiter]

I just love to watch top-notch videos made by my fellow baby boomers. You are a class act. A high-five and a hug to you!

[@pgale]

So you didn't really show anything apart from search feature. Basic things like setup,what else can it do apart from search can you have a secured folder only you can access sensitive work I do for example.

[@SassyT71]

That is what I need help with. How to get started how to find a pic you upload, where are these photos collected from?

[@kef103]

Absolutely one feature and he’s so amazed he mentioned nothing else

[@DidiGrooves]

I looked for how to create my own folders that I need to sort for work and they are not based on faces or activities. Nothing. For me it's useless.

[@twmarkets]

Regarding the identification of faces in Google Photos... I have a difficult twin boys and also my daughter looks stunningly like my nieces and yet it manages probably 90% of the time to capture the face correctly so for the GEN pop you’ll probably be very very happy with this feature. I was actually quite amazed at how accurate it was picking out my twins over the years

[@milliecookie147]

Can you please tell me how I can retrieve a photo that I deleted when I deleted an album with one picture? thank you,

[@lorimcginnisl5001]

Hey lady

[@Ticatornado]

LOVE YOUR PERSONALITY. INTERESTING, SMART , FUNNY AND VERY HELPFUL GUY

[@koozino]

I really like Google Photos but as with anything Google I worry about how long until the kill it. I loved Picasa as well, but we all know how that ended... I hate to invest a lot of time in an ecosystem only to have it evaporate one day.

[@Nero972000]

Picasa for Windows 10 can be found here: www.oldversion.com/windows/picasa-3-9-10-4

[@tomwestheimer8613]

@@Nero972000 yes but you can no longer upload them to photos easily :-(

[@LizLaFollette]

Thanks for the education. Much appreciated.

[@robbien.3964]

My father’s name is Cliff. When I search for photos of him in Google the search results include El Capitan in Yosemite and the Grand Canyon. 😄

[@dottotech]

too funny!

[@pplastridge]

Why don’t you rename his photo as Clifford and then the results would be better?

[@mamamarianovits9029]

Robbie N. Thank you, we all need to laugh loudly once in a while.!! Especially when, in a crowded yet somewhat quiet place, everyone can turn to scowl at this crazy lady who was just disturbing their peace.!!....😂 I'm not sure why that tickled my funny bone so, nonetheless, it was welcomed indeed.

[@mamamarianovits9029]

Peter Plastridge Yes.... the results *could* be better with "Clifford", as it pertains to trying to find photos of her father....I suppose. Have you ever googled "Clifford" yourself though...? She may just find the beloved character from the well known children's books.... Clifford, the big red dog..!! This too brought a smile to my face this day, though it be unintentionally so.lol. ...thank you.😊

[@joaquinrau1398]

Wow, tNice tutorials opened my eyes to the beauty of soft soft. Your tutorial is as clear as the layout of the program.

[@quatie]

I need help with Google Photos, it says backed up and when I try to delete from device storage it says delete from Google Account and synced devices?

[@dottotech]

You may be able to trouble shhot here productforums.google.com/forum/#!categories/docs/forms

[@ChrisGuld]

It sounds like you're using the trashcan, you need to use the 3-line menu and Free up space

[@davidprice2861]

You've got to turn off syncing, that's why I manually upload.

[@theblade1959]

If you have Google Photos set to automatically backup and free up space on your device, the photo isn't there anyway. You are only seeing a representation of it. So, yes, if you deleted it in Photos, you removed it from the cloud and all other devices. Keep in mind that the purpose is to keep your device's memory freed up. You can still download them to your device if you find it necessary for the pic to actually be in your device's memory.

[@YoungDen]

I would say just archive them

[@thenorthsleeve5159]

I agree 100%. Great video and very informative. Google photos is now in my wheel house. Thank you!!

[@rodsapyta7059]

HOW do I DELETE all my photos.from google

[@shat5742]

Thank you. Going to work on it tonight

[@LynSauberli]

My LG used to automatically put my photos in google photos. I just got a Samsung S9 and it doesn't do that. How can i get my new phone photos to automatically go to google photos?

[@daytripper75]

Thank you for this video. How do I copy ALL my photos from Google Photos to a external drive connected to my laptop?

[@julieboyd4771]

Not helpful. I have a need to label photos. Still don't know how.

[@mmanek3465]

Wonderful video. Question, were would be the best device to delete/remove photos, so I don't have junk photos hanging around.

[@matthewdarroch-thompson7925]

We don't seem to get the facial recognition tool in the UK. I suspect it's something to do with privacy laws in the EU. Does anyone know?

[@cybermaru]

I have the facial recognition feature in Germany.

[@matthewdarroch-thompson7925]

cyber maru interesting! Perhaps I have disabled it somehow, but if I have I don't know what I did.

[@matthewdarroch-thompson7925]

AHA - I've found out how to switch it on...

[@tome_time_andy]

Hi Matthew. I have the same problem. Could you let us know how you switched the feature on, please? Thanks!

[@matthewdarroch-thompson7925]

In Google Photos, go to Settings (three lines top left, then Settings link). In settings, look for "Group similar faces Manage preferences for face grouping" and make sure everything is switched on in that section. It took an hour or so for the system to reset itself, but now mine looks just like the one in the video. Good luck.

[@amyhoeppner9344]

great tutorial....do I have to do something to make sure that all my photos show up on any system I use to access my google photos...such as, I have pics on my phone, my laptop, my desktop each in my google photos...thank you

[@NicoVeenkamp]

I backup to a local 2T external drive, to my NAS and specific important stuff is backuped to Google Drive. My foto's are automatically backed up to Google Foto and to Flickr.

[@ahmedfaysal4418]

Photos*

[@Just4UTravelWichita]

Thank you thank you- I had no idea of the search capabilities!!!

[@amfada2]

I thought I was backed up and I realized I am not. Thanks.

[@dottotech]

glad you checked!

[@ralfses]

Thanks Steve another gerat and joyful video with lots of good suggestions and ideas. You are opening my eyes for Google more and more. Thanks.

[@petagonkyi]

The only missing feature on Google Photos is text insertion in photos.

[@artmontesa1]

I can't even copy and paste my photos from Google Photos.

[@gabrielhamill1950]

I use Google photos on my iphone to help keep the phone clean and free up space. great app love it.

[@ThomasPrivitor]

I trust google photos to back up but the stuff i really want to backup i put in google drive.. yea Google Owns me lol

[@randyvfromtheperch]

Great overview. How do I add it to my iMac dektop machine? i have it installed on my android phone already.

[@conrdohenriquez8215]

Privacy Some people don't want their face to be recognized ???? Sure they haven't done bad but some people could do !

[@psdaengr911]

If you don't want your face recognised, it's too late. Whether you agreed to it or not, you are in pictures taken by others, one of your "friends", acquaintances, a business contact, or government agency (like the DVM) has labelled your photo, and it's online.

[@DidiGrooves]

Exactly. Someone said that. The silly little dude thinks it's great as do the rest of the sheeple think this is great to have the data mined. Anyway, I'm resorting to film photography soon. Also, I'm so over this photos up photos thing. Last time on an exotic vacation I barely took any photos at all.

[@JerryNordstrom]

Google photo is an amazing time saver and the search functionality is uncanny in its accuracy. You hit many points in a very concise video - well done. You did touch on this as well, but i believe it deserves a bit more attention for those making this choice. The data that Google automatically associates with your photos and videos is largely based on Google's image recognition and put simply, this data lives separately from the image itself. This is both the beauty of Google photo's that makes it amazingly simple and fast, but also potentially the downside. If Google's service goes away, as unlikely as that may seem right now (Hello Google+, MySpace and Yahoo) then you are left with a collection of images that no longer have any data relationships (organization). Okay so you start from scratch - that might be a risk many will take in exchange for the free service now. The other option is embedding data into each and every image, which can be done with tools like lightroom from Adobe - Note that lightroom uses XMP format for metadata that is technically a separate file that is connected to each image - They didn't want to risk corrupting an image file with extensive metadata. Adding this data can be a long and tedious process for sure, but it has the huge upside in that once it's complete - its there with the image forever and can be leveraged by any future photo storage/organization solution. So perhaps a combination of both may be a good idea for those who are very detail oriented. Also, be aware that your camera often has meta data settings (Exif data) that you can include with each photo when it's being taken, this includes all the camera's tech specs, as well as Geo location, time, date, copyright and more. My Sony A6000 provides this data and if set properly can be a huge time saver regardless of the photo apps you use. Thanks again for your great information.

[@hrishikeshgarud7177]

Google photos reduces the size of photos and videos *even if the photo size is less than 16MP and video quality is 1080p full HD.* *Resolution remains the same but the physical size is reducing e.g. 5 mb to 2mb. I have uploaded video of size 1.5 Gb (1080p FullHD) but after some time I saw that the size of the video is reduced to the 280 Mb* and its quality was very poor. But the resolution was same. And in my case face recognition is not working for archieved photos, if I again unarchiev photos, the face recognition works but as soon as I archive all photos People folder becomes empty.

[@ZaTTTel]

...why would you archive all your photos? That's not what the archive feature is for

[@hrishikeshgarud7177]

ZaTTTel To clean up the library.

[@alekrudy5993]

“To clean your library” means that you clean up your library from screenshots, paper documents photos so on. At least that is what I put to my archive. Also I put to my archive tons of downloaded from Internet funny pictures of Obama and Putin, because I do not want Google to add their faces to the list of my real friends... At one day I will maybe use that pictures to bag and to annoy Russian Foreign Office representative Maria Zaharova right in her Facebook, but for now I want the pictures to be stored away and I do not want them to be included in my collections of friend... that is for your Google Archive is: for removing some of your stored pictures of cartoon heroes from the face recognition area of your Google Photo, lol... Goggle Archive does the right thing: that is you who did not figure what archive is for...

[@barrieblenkinship3071]

I have used Google Photos for a few years now but learned new things from your excellent tutorial. One thing which has recently bothered me: When I open Google Photos it now insists on opening with a photo taken several months ago! What have I done? and how can I get back to opening with the most recent photo?

[@Turk380]

I'm still mourning the loss of Picasa here. Google Photos is infuriating by comparison!

[@ibrahimalromaihi1525]

Thanks tons for this valuable tutorial. I was about to give up on my digital life, but I can tell you that with this app I have the upper hand now . Keep it up bro!

[@BillMorgan7]

Thanks for Sharing! That was very Helpful! I use 2 separate onsite USB drives, alternating monthly backup using Active @ Disk Image! It does work

[@markatkinson167]

I need advice on whether you should upload with original resolution or the free reduced size option.

[@mranderson8191]

Thanks for the clear presentation!

[@johnedieter739]

Thank you for that overview. It helps. I am looking for how to manage the albums. eg, main albums with sub albums, or to have them arranged in the album filter the way I want them to be. Many of my photos cannot be sorted by date as they are scanned from original hardcopy, and the metadata that comes with digital photos doesn't apply.

[@tizio54]

I use Dropbox as my main (online) backup, maintaining my own folder structure. Phone photo's are automatically uploaded to Dropbox (in the Camera Uploads folder), which I later move to my own folder structure. In addition, I back up on a USB external drive several times per year.

[@tomwestheimer8613]

dropbox is fine BUT no spiffy search capabilities

[@tizio54]

@@tomwestheimer8613 I use Dropbox only for backup... It is not an image management system. For that I use a *real* solution i.e. ACDSee and Lightroom, combined with my own folder structure.

[@tomwestheimer8613]

@@tizio54 not trivial! Way to much for this amateur :-)

[@shazamhawaii]

Hi. Good tips on organising my photos. However. I use iPad pro exclusive and I'm not seeing the tools on the left margin you show . How to do these things on iPad pro , iOS 14? Thanks

[@h.duffhues3821]

Thank you again, Steve. I am still using Picassa, but will check out how the Google Photo's app works. You are always enlightening me with your tech into. Keep up the good work

[@Turk380]

Google Photos isn't a desktop app like Picasa! don't delete it or you'll be disappointed!

[@johnmeyers3954]

Is there a way to see the GPS location of where the photo was taken? There have been several pics that I have no idea where I was when I took it. THANK YOU.