Google Photos

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Google Photos is just getting better and better. On here I'll keep articles to any cool stuff.

Tips

Backing up your Photos from your Phone and Computer

• Backing up photos to the cloud

Sharing Photos and Videos with a Friend at Full Resolution

For this, simply click the photos you want to share (remember you can hold shift to select multiple)... and then click Share > Create Link > Copy... then paste it to your friend in WhatsApp/text/email/whatever. This is much better than uploading the photo or video via any messaging app, because messaging apps will usually massively downsize the videos and photos to save costs. Really it's the only way to share... you might even just create an album so you can add or remove more photos later.

Sharing photos is really easy guys!

Don't have a Google account?

What? Who doesn't have a Google account?! I guess one can survive life without one..... if you prefer not to setup a Google account, any file sharing app like Dropbox will also work. :-D

Creating and Sharing a Live Album with a Friend

One of Google Photos's coolest features is being able to cluster and recognize faces... but few people use that effectively!

1. In Google Photos click the "People and Pets" bar on your computer or the "Collections" tab on mobile and you'll see a list of faces ... alternatively you might see a list of face and click the expand arrow on the search bar
   
   

   Google Photos search - click to see the list of face pictures
   
   ... ⭐or⭐ go directly to photos.google.com/people.
2. Look through these faces to find your friend!.. Click their face and then click the "Share as Album", and add your friend's name (the friend in the photo). An "Automatically adding photos" dialog will appear (to add all future photos of that person), and you should check "OK". You've just created a new "live album"!
3. Be sure to share the album with them. An email works best (especially a gmail address), as they'll be notified anytime Google Photo detects a new picture of them (and adds it to live album).
4. Wohoo! For bonus points, you can add their name to the face and it will link to their Contact entry in your phone - meaning that next time you search for them, you can just type their name into Google Photo. Double score!
   

It will automatically keep adding and sharing any new pics you take of your friend!

The two most wonderful things about this feature:

• Friends don't have to bother you with a "Can you send/share that photo with me" every time you hang out. Some people do this more than others, but with live albums (which I think is also sometimes called auto albums) you just get to set-and-forget, and they're usually really grateful to see all their pics!
• Next time they have a birthday, type their name into the Google Photos search bar and you'll immediately have a big array of pics of them you can print or post to their Facebook in a montage. Nice!

Final tip: As you browse Google Photos, you can click the "Info" button to add a searchable description... & often you'll see some of the "faces" in that pic. It doesn't always appear, but when it does, that's another entry pints to see all pics of that person.

I've clicked into a picture and notice it (sometimes) lists faces for me to explore into.

A recap on how to quickly add a label and create and share an live album.

Favorite Photo

This has nothing to do with Google photos, but I thought it would be fun to upload my favorite photo of me, ever. :)

These eyes.. wow. This was in Borneo when I was little. i'm the one on the right.

See Also

• Backing up photos to the cloud

Links

• Google Photos - official site.