Are You Excited for Google Photos?Īre you looking forward to using Google Photos and all their intelligent search features? What’s the one killer feature that convinced you to switch? Share with us in the comments below. It won’t be full-res, but it’s something. This way, every time you import new photos, they’ll automatically be uploaded to Google Photos. Lightroom or any other photo management app: If you’re using Lightroom or any other pro image editing app, just point the Photos Backup app to the folder where the app saves all the photos. Using the Photos app to do this is a much better idea. Or you can go to and manually download photos from there as well. If you have photos in iCloud Drive, just select them and drag them to the Photos website. If that’s the case, go to the Photos app, turn off Optimized Storage, download the iCloud Photo Library for offline use and then run the Google Photos Backup. This won’t work for photos that are in the iCloud Photo Library and are just syncing thumbnails to your Mac. But you should know that this will only work for photos you have locally stored on your Mac. I’ve migrated my iPhoto library to the Photos app, but the upload still worked for me. Because when you install Photos Backup app, it checks the iPhoto Library option by default. If that’s the case, you don’t really need to do anything. If you’re a heavy iOS user, all your photos are probably in an iPhoto library ( now known as the Photos app). Upload/Sync iPhoto/Photos Library from Mac Once they’re downloaded, drop them in the Photos website.Ĥ. Go to your Flickr profile, from the thumbnail view, click on the photos you want to download and click the Download button. Once they’re downloaded, upload them in the same way to the Photos website. To download all your Instagram photos, use Downgram or follow our guide here. Now go to Google Photos website, locate the Facebook zip file on your PC, find all the photos in there and just drop them in the browser window. In a while, Facebook will send you a link to the zip file. Then confirm on the next screen and type in your password. Go to Settings -> General and click Download a copy of your Facebook data. Transfer Photos from Facebook/Instagramįacebook lets you download everything in your profile using one click. And this was without running two apps from your phone.Ģ. If you have auto-upload to Dropbox enabled, which uploads all new photos to a particular folder, with Photos Backup watching that folder, you now have another copy of the photos in Google Photos. And hey, once it’s done, it’s done.Īnother upside is, once you have this set up, Google Photos can be a secondary place to back up images. Yes, the process of first downloading the images from one cloud storage and then uploading it to another cloud storage sounds counterproductive but currently that’s all we can do. Now, go to the Photos Backup app’s Preferences, click Add and navigate to that Dropbox folder to add it. This will first download all the images to your local storage. If that’s not the case, download and install the Dropbox app, go to Preferences and from Selective Sync, check the folders. If you’re already using Dropbox and the folder that contains all your images is already synced to your Mac/PC, half your battle is over. You can add a new folder using the Add button.īelow, you can switch between the free unlimited storage option that uploads compressed images to 16 MP and the full-res option that’s counted against your Google Drive storage. The app will automatically select some default folders like Pictures and Desktop. Whenever new photos will show up in that folder, they’ll be automatically uploaded to Google Photos.ĭownload the app and sign in to your Google Account. It’s just an automatic uploader app (no two-way Dropbox-like sync here) that you can assign folders to watch. Step Zero: Install Google Photos Backupįirst thing you need to do, even before we start gathering photos from the 63 different services you’ve signed up for, is to install Google Photos Backup. But once it’s done, you can start to reap the many, many benefits of Google Photos. Sadly, there’s no 1-click way to automatically upload all photos from Dropbox to Google Photos (there’s no API yet). Your iPhone photos might be in iCloud Photo Library/Dropbox, DSLR photos might be in the iPhoto/Lightroom library and years old photos might be stashed in a folder somewhere. And because Google Photos didn’t exist till now, your photo collection is messed up. But trying it out means uploading hundreds or thousands of your pictures to Google Photos. As we’ve decided before, it’s not going to hurt you to try it out.
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