Google Photos: Your one-stop tutorial

Google Photos-- the easy way to keep your photos safe, organized and easy to find. Learn how you can use Google Photos to manage your pics and keep your precious memories safe.

In this video:

1:38 Google Photo Overview
4:58 Google Photos Demo

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[charlottejunker]

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.

[l.l.davidoff]

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!

[keepproductive]

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

Thanks for the awesome feature Steve.

[katbedbury]

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

[DeathByStupidity]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[VagabondArtist]

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

[DougPowell]

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

[Matt.Gillard]

Fantastic personality! subbed, AND first Bell icon I ever Wanted to use.

[MarleyMacMedia]

Nice job Steve! I exclusively use it to manage and do simple edits to my photos such as adjusting exposure and adding filters. I need to start backing up separately though (I do some but not all)

[nathaliem.]

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.

[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.

[donnathompson]

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!!

[douglasfriesen]

THANK YOU STEVE!!!! I have struggled with photo organization ever since digital came into the picture (haha pun there). You have given me hope!!!! Love your helpful tips and incredible knowledge!! Thanks again.
LaurieJaye Friesen (Douglas's wife -- apparently I am in under his account which is another whole digital challenge). ;)

[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

[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).

[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".

[aaronanderson]

Love the videos and the energy. Like you a was floored with the photo AI. I would mention it’s ability to tag my photo progressions over time left me speechless - from infant to adult. I even, as you noted the potential mistakes, love the ones where there is some logical mistake that tag the photo into a category. There are sometimes little Easter eggs in the photos.