Back Up Your Photos With Google Photos

Author: David A. Cox
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Using Google Photos to Back Up Your Photos We’ve all got valuable pictures, videos, contacts, and documents on our phones and computers, but many of us don’t have a backup plan in case something happens. Google Photos is a great application in it’s own right, but today I am going to show you how to use it to make backups of all of your photos on your computer and/or mobile device. Google Photos allows you UNLIMITED SPACE to back up high resolution photos or 15 gigs of space to save them at full resolution. Google’s definition of “high resolution” is 16-megapixel images and 1080p videos (if you upload higher resolutions, they will be downsized to these dimensions). That is perfectly fine for the vast majority of us since most of our cameras don’t shoot higher than that. If you need higher resolution, Google gives you 15 gigs of space to start with and you can buy more very inexpensively. *Note that you do share that 15 gigs with your gmail, Drive account, etc* There are many other ways to back up your photos as well and there’s no reason not to use multiple backup solutions if you like. In future videos, I will show you how to use Dropbox, GoogleDrive, and other options to save your content, so watch our channel for those soon. 1:04 Backing up pics using your desktop/laptop 3:35 Backing up pics on your phone

Comments

  1. How long does it take to backup your photos on your iPhone. I only have 800 photos and 27 videos. I've been waiting for 2 days and it's still backing up.
  2. Great way to give away all of your privacy.
  3. I did this on my iPhone 5, but I still have several hundred images in the photostream on my iPhone. How do I get the photo stream to move to Google Photos? Thanks so much!
  4. ok
  5. is Google photos and Google photos back up different apps?
  6. i cant get it to download to my desktop!!!
  7. Awsme
  8. Too long. This should be a 30 second video. Not 5 minutes.
  9. Thanks for this great explanation - I've just upgraded my phone to an Android one (from Windows for over 4 years) - so these sorts of explanations are really helping me to understand all these fantastic freebies which are thrown in with the android system :)
  10. I am not able to get past the sign in after downloading the photos app for iphone (5). I used my usual sign-in for my gmail (google account) but I keep getting an error message that "Something went wrong". Any help? Thanks.
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  12. Any Idea how I can get the Google Photos Backup app to run on a WD MyCloud? It would be cool to utilize the google cloud as an offsite backup for my photos. I have the app running on some PC's and mobile devices, but I have some folders on the WD MyCloud that are from other computers in the past that would be nice to have backed up.
  13. Can you merge two videos in the google app?
  14. can I move my photos from google photos back to my gallery on my Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime
  15. thank you i take my photos :)
  16. Good video simple and easy to follow thanks
  17. thanks
  18. hey i have a question plss if anybody can anwer me... what happen if i want to change my device how can i log out or somthing from one device to log in on another in order to access my photos to my new device... anwer pls
  19. Ever since I have been using Google photos I have regretted it. It seems once my photos are in Google photos, they become Google's property. I can't post to craigslist, I can't save them in files on my computer for offline viewing, Google limits and controls what I can do with my own photo's. I think I'll have to quit Google photos all together.
  20. point,