Hi Steve, thanks as always. You alluded to it at one point, but importing photos that aren't already digitized is a huge issue for many of us "older" folks. Perhaps as another edition of Google photos how to's, you could cover that topic. Scanning photos, scanning negatives and the issues of converting from negative to positives, scanning old slides, taking photos of photos, colour cast, etc., etc., etc. Hope you consider this for further demos
good ideas here, love to see you Steve tackle this topic; of getting old photographs (from photo albums to Google Photos) Is there an app that can help? which is best? phone? scanners?
I did digitalise several old pictures I had. How? I do just take a picture of them. Preferably that should be done during the day, and not under direct sunlight. I use a canon eos m. I have heard that canon eos m50 has a great color reproduction. I guess that such camera will do the job.
@@loremipsum7ac thx, I see that Steve has covered Google Photo Scan in a previous video, also please note that Google Photo Scan does not load on all Smartphones, I just upgraded my S3 to an S8 and was able to download and install GPS today and I am excited to try it out on my old photos.
Completely. I keep my photos in folders organized by year. Whenever I use an app it organizes it by "date created" and I have to manually change the date for 1000s of photos that were scanned before I had a digital camera. I'm hoping at least one solid developer will make an app that can do this better. Currently, I use google drive folders to organize my photos. Its slower and clunky, but at least I know where my photos are.
Yeah, even Dotto pulled his demo photo from a folder while we watched. And he used a folder system within his local backups and Drop box I bet...That's okay Mr. Dotto, keep up the good work. But I have a question: if we don't want to use the date, the location or the content as far as Google can tell is not useable, can I use some kind of tag? I see I can add a caption but that doesn't seem to work like tags do. Do you have any suggestions for sorting via some kind of tagging?
I agree I have photos scanned in from the 1700s of my family and just want to keep everything in their folders where I put them because I wanted them there. I did try one organizing app and Thank God I didn't use it on my original SSD because the first thing it did was delete all duplicate photos from the whole computer drive. I have duplicates for a reason - one stored by date and one stored by subject. And then there are the duplicates from restoring my mom's old memory albums that are also stored by page from which ever album they came from.
Great video! A major limitation of writing descriptions in G Photos is that the field information is not included when the picture is downloaded from Google Photos. This means if you spend a lot of time writing descriptions and only do that in Google Photos, your work does not travel with the photo. Because of this, I personally recommend to anyone who wants to use Google Photos, that you manage your pictures outside of Google Photos so you can add metadata, and then import the picture to Google Photos for broader access, great searching, and display.
Absolutely. Adding metadata (tags, in my case) to my photo/video files are the only reason I am still chained to Photoshop Elements. If PSE's cataloging and metadata management become available on Google Photos (or any other photo management program), I would drop PSE in a heartbeat.
Great video on Google Photo, however all of us with tons of photos in either Dropbox, iCloud or local stored in folders, as albums... would be great if you could make a video on how to import those into Google Photo, where the folders, albums, are retained so that when imported, that one would be able to see all the great albums which we all have spent years organizing our photos in... and would continue with within Google Photos as addition to the Metadata information, which are amazing in Google Photo :)
Thank you. I’m scanning all my photos from the 70’s forward and I’m passing them along. It’s a job for sure- but I’m happy to do it now at 53 and preserve these for my daughter and Grandsons. Many ppl have now opened up their mailboxes and are finding pics from 30 - 40 years ago. Nice surprises. My daughter will now be the keeper of photos but we have digital copies as well. ~~just in case. I will back them up as well. I’m done keeping boxes and boxes of photos. I’m free. Yay🙌🏻✨🎈🎊🪅🎉
Suggestion: before backing up/uploading to GPhotos, organize them into folder/s on your PC by event, or subject, or item. Windows has excellent Batch Processing functionality. Once in File Explorer, locate your folder. Be sure to click "View" tab where you will then see "Panes" and also "Layout" sections at top. Both should be set to "Details." Then rename the folder to whatever: "1970 Jones Family Vacation" or "Jones 1970 Family Vacation." Then highlight all the related photos within it (do NOT include videos). Right click & rename one, using same name as folder. They will all be named the same with a sequential (#) following. Then, while all are highlighted, edit the detailed metadata shown in the far right column with whatever...Date Taken, Location, Comments, Title, Tags, etc. After batch processing your event photos, THEN upload to Google Photos and the basic, important metadata, including date, will stay with each photo, and sort by date.
Great, earlier today also started figuring out everything you said in the beginning about organizing into folders on my pc to make the process easier. Then I searched for a clip on youtube to learn more about organizing. But learned nothing literary. This guy doesn't quite follow through on the promises in the title about organization. Very little information in these 14 min and talking about completely different things. Then I see your text and found much more help. Thanks
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Absolutely a great video! I have old photos everywhere, I have needed to organize them from back to 1999 on my old CPU backed up on an ancient hard drive. I am going back and check out your previous Google Photo videos before I start. THANKS! Mike 👍🎥🎇🗾🌠🏙🎑🌃🏞🎆🌌🌅🌇🌉🌄🌆🌁💻📱🙃👏
Great to hear you encourage folks to forget about folders! We've got to think outside the old box. Google Photos is great for old family photos as well. It can even be used to identify people in old family photos. As a genealogist I've got a video on that on my channel, and I discuss it in my book.
LOL - BRILLIANT M8! As I started watching this and I saw a link to a previous video you made about photo basics, I paused this and watched that one in another tab first. It was about the basics of Google photos. Just as you were finishing and I clicked to close that tab I heard you say "have fun storming the castle!" Awesome, and thanks :-D
Another great video as usual Steve. I’m currently just over half way through scanning old colour slides from the mid 1970’s to early 1980’s. To organise them as I go, I’ve used folders based on years/months on my Mac and used Finder’s bulk rename to give the files a more meaningful name. The next step would be to add dates to the file as you’ve mentioned, but that is another massive undertaking, I need some way to bulk edit, maybe by using the file names and/or folder structure as a source, have you any ideas?
Steve, thanks for the explanation! I'm just getting started and uploaded some photos that I scanned from prints. I altered thd meta data and wanted to save those changes to my primary photo storage on my computer. The changes didn't make it and the taken date was the date of downloading to the computer. Maybe I'm making some mistake. I'll keep playing.
This is a great video, as usual, Steve, but I have some issues. I am in the process of scanning thousands of old slides and negatives. To change the metadata date on each would be daunting. Is there a way to batch change the date? Also, I recently uploaded about 800 photos to Google and it didn’t upload 116 of them, but there was no indication of why, or which photos didn’t make it. I’m wondering if Flickr or Dropbox would do a better job. Thanks for your great info.
Great intro. I'd like to see a followup on updating the location information and for doing bulk date and loacation corrections before importing too. For more details on Google Phots I'd recommend your pals at Geeks on Tour.
I recommend using Stagsi if you download those photos in your PC. It's an incredible application that can do marvels along with tagging tools. One of the most useful feature is Tag Decks. It allows to assign hotkeys to one single tag or a group of tags. It becomes easy and faster to sort a long list of unsorted files and photos with quick keystrokes. Simply google for Stagsi to find more useful information. As a game developer, I highly recommend it.
HI Steve, quite a few challenges in importing old photos to Google photos and the cloud. Most important of all - time. Every photo uploaded needs to be edited and tagged in the description section of the Google Photos. That is the TIP; Use the description section that goes with each and every photo. Describe the photo like place, event, name and that makes it easier to pull it out with a search. 2 - Use as many variables especially with spelling and place.
Hi Steve, I love your google how to videos and look forward to seeing your next new one. I have a question/suggestion for another google video. How do you get all your photos from google photo to a hard drive attached to your computer. I’ve tried to do it but all the directions I find want me to select them individually or by date. There must be a better way. Thanks for the videos and keep up the great work.
It would be great if you could share your media backup setup that you mentioned in the last part (mac > nas > google photos > dropbox). is it totally automatic after you import your media from your camera?
Also keep in mind that if you have your settings to "High Quality", which means if the photo is greater than 16mp , Google can resize it to 16mp. With that setting you can store unlimited storage and numbers of photos for FREE. I have 1g+ of photos all on the cheap.
It is really helpful that you explain about the data that is in the photo. Sometimes it is easy to forget that a picture is a file and every app the picture is opened up has the ability to add the information to the data that is stored in the picture file. I have one question though. What is your take on using a cloud based service to back up and maintain your photos regarding the downloading file size? I know that with some services, they condense the file to conserve space on their servers. That could be a potential problem for photographers or graphic artists.
Hi Steve, I love your videos and always learn something from them. However, I noticed that you have many "sort of duplicate" photos of the same scene in your photo albums. Do you ever just edit them by selecting just the best photo of the bunch and deleting the others? Most people seem to do just that and I think that's one of the big issues in creating these tens of thousands of photos that no one is ever going to go through after we're gone. What are your thoughts on that subject? People no longer print photos and put into a family album. These next generations will miss out seeing their relatives in photos because I believe no one is going to take the time and trouble of going through your photos even if they can gain access to your computer. Your thoughts?
Hello Steve, thank you for this great tutorial. When I signed in with my account it was the same as my YOU-TUBE email, would you say to leave it like this or best to create a separate one? Google seems to want to connect with all other Google services? Maybe you and your viewers can give me tips? Thanks
With so many backups. In which one you do the "clean up" and how do they synch from one service to another? or do you do clean up/ editing before uploading to the cloud or other services?
can you explain about the google photo on google drive ? that's same ? everything saved on google photo automaticly saved to google drive also? I got the trouble with my drive storage, I got notice storage full on gdrive, gmail & google photo, I try to downloaded all photo/video (maybe 90%) because I want still receive email, can you help me make the process faster? I already use backup and sync by google apps on my laptop
Thanks for this video. I'm wondering how you change the metadata (date) for lots of photos at once, is there a technique for this? I'm currently importing thousands of old photos, but don't have time to change the date one by one on all of them.
How can I tell which photos I've already put in an album and which ones still need to be put in one? When I look at all photos, I can't tell which ones I've already put in an album.
I know one way to get around this issue, but in involves an extra step taking more time. When you select photos for an album, you can also choose to archive these same photos. Then they will still show up in your album that you created & they will also now show up in your archive section, but they will no longer show up in your main photos category. This will allow you to keep track of your progress if you are wanting to sort through all of your photos, putting them each in different albums. You archive every photo that you put in an album. Your remaining photos that are left to be sorted will keep getting smaller until there is none left. Once you finish sorting everything, you could choose to move them all back out of archive & your main photos section would return to normal, or you could choose to leave them in archive & your photos section would be empty, but it would be replaced by your archive section. I would probably choose to leave them in archive to make any future sorting easier. The downside to all of this is that it takes up twice the amount of time. You spend time moving some pictures to a new album. Then immediately after, you take an additional step moving those same pictures to archive. I'm not aware of any way to move pictures to both an album & archive in one step. So this plan sucks, but it should work. Google needs to create a better way to do this.
@@mwbrazier when you select the photos to move to an album how do you archive at the same time? I tried this but I could only do one thing at a time. So I had to reselect the same pictures again to archive them. Thanks!!
@@brendaquinn8877 That is correct. You have to do it in sperate steps. You move pictures to an album in one step. Then immediately after that, you reselect those same photos & move them to archive before you forget which ones they were. That's why I said that this plan sucks & we need a better way, but this will work.
Hi Steve, Thank you for your videos! Is there anyway to the different photo folders on my computer back up to Google Photos and keep the folders/albums intact and appear in Google Photos? I could really use the help!
Thanks for the video. I'm uploading all my daughters photos into google photos. She's created several albums and selected specific photos for each album. Is there a way to those albums into google photos? She doesn't want to recreate all those albums again. Thoughts?
As always you're on point.. I purchased a more space and I scarfed up a lot of old photos and vids that I had stashed in Dropbox many years ago.. straight to Google photos they went.. if I run out of space I will buy more.. I trust them.. maybe I'm foolish.. but what else can I do.. not to mention how easily I share videos, pictures and whatnot by way of a link. Hell, it's basically having your own channel.. but let's not give them any ideas.. LOL LOL love your content man, keep it up.... Please💯
I needed to see this! Also have a question you may be able to help me with? I have 3 older laptops & want to get the pictures off of them? I recently purchased 2 SD cards & have 2flash drives to to save all my photos on. Just to be sure I won't loose them. I have another question I have downloaded the Sprint Complete app. & I have photos & videos from yrs ago when I was given advice to get dropbox. Is there away i can upload the photos&Videos from Dropbox alone? Because I want to delete Dropbox. Forgive me I'm not very tech savy:/ (I Really need to take computer tech classes) Thank you, Appreciate any help or advice.
Hi Steve. I am wondering if you know of a simple way to transfer Google Photos out of Google and download locally or copy to the cloud somewhere? Takeout is very clunky and includes lots of metadata mixed in with the photos...which is frustrating. There must be a solution out there somewhere...I hope.:). Thank you and keep up the great job with your videos...I consider you one of my mentors and I am grateful for your work. Best Regards...Dane:)
Ever since google stopped synchronizing Google Photos with Google Drive I've ended up with a mess; some are in one place, some in the other. Often I will download a photo from Photos to edit and use in a document, but then the version in Google Photos is not the nicely cropped, adjusted one. How can I keep all this organized and in sync?
How do you backup your goggle photos? The only way I know of is to download the from goggle and copy them somewhere else. But that is so tedious and not automatic. Is there a better way?
You used as example a photo in which you knew the date taken. But most old photos you don't know the dates and all the dates are different. I've been copying loads of old slides - that's another story - but when I uploaded them from my compie to Google - they land on Google in the date I copied them. So I had to scroll down to find each batch and somehow put them together. Thanks for the info on changing the date but you presumably have to do that AFTER you've uploaded them - so you still have to fish around among loads of photos uploaded on different days. I've also found problems sometimes uploading photos which if a large number, some photos are skipped and I have to go back and upload them a second time.
Steve: I just found your wonderful (now old) video. If you are still reading comments/questions: I just scanned about 1000 old photos organized in folders. I plan to upload to Google Photos with albums corresponding to those folders. But I want to share these with many others. If I have 50 folders will each recipient have to agree to receive the albums 50 times or can all be sent at once?
Hi Steve, I want the photos that I delete on my phone to also be deleted on Google photos. Is there a way to do that??? Instead of doing it manually? Thanks!
Users who added photos to a shared (collaborative) album can only edit or remove their own photos. The owner can delete all photos, change the order, but also not edit photos added by others.
Another wonderful review, I enjoyed it. Few comments if you don’t mind. All these platforms are one security breach away. We already saw that already happened. After certain number of photos these run out of space, few of us are not fortunate enough to afford monthly payments, how to circumvent this? If we start scanning old photos which do not have meta data how we fill this gap. What do you think.
I have a question following this presentation please: If we don't want to use the date, the location or the content, can I use some kind of tag? I see I can add a caption but that doesn't seem to work like tags do. Do you have any suggestions for sorting via some kind of tagging? Thanks!
Do you know what service or application is the best as finding duplicate images in google photos with different file names. Where the pixels are analyzed rather then just the name.
I have enjoyed your tutorials so much. My google albums are all over the place with regard to location in Google albums due to their annoyingly program of putting old albums at the top if one edits them in any way. Is there a way to stop this and the albums stay where they were as dated to begin with? I know you can edit the date and time. It seems so labor intensive. And, if you are looking for an album and are not sure of the year, how best to find it? Personally I liked Picasso better.
I wish I had watched this yesterday before downloading some old pics and videos into Google Photos. I didn't know that the metadata could be edited and now have a chronological mess. Thanks for tech advice that isn't in Hindi🙂
Steve... You are so easy to follow... though filled with brilliance... Please tell me how to access my photos when in word or powerpoint or email... Add photo links don't go go google photos??? HELP!
its great WHEN IT WORKS!~ i have been TRYING to improve the "photo identifier" aspect, it works great on EVERYONE except my one grandson (1 of 3 brothers) that look like triplets! it always ask " same or different person, would you like to improve these results?" on everyone BUT the one i want..it NEVER ASKS ON HIM! PLEASE PLEASE tell me how to fix this
Hi Steve ... good vid for sure. This may have been answered in the comments. I followed your steps exactly and uploaded a FB photo to Google Photos, put in an album. But when I click on the photo, I do not get the 'metadata' menu. I get the standard 'save download image etc. Is this capability to manually name the ''old' photo available only on the paid Google Photo version and not the free version? Thanks!
great videos , got a question ,how do i move a photo to an album from either another album or from a time it was taken and it only shows in the album i am moving it to? any way to drag and drop to the desired album?
Google photo is very useful. I combine it with Dropbox. I guess you know you can set Dropbox to automatically upload photos to "Camera Uploads" map. Thankyou for many interesting videos in your channel.
Hi, what if you are importing 100's of old photos from a site like Shutterfly and they were taken by a digital camera and they are not dated. Do you have to go into each photo and change the date manually or is there a way to do a bunch at a time?
I just finished scanning 340 slides. They are organized chronologically I would like to include them I in Google photos in a similar way. Unfortunately all the dates and locations disappeared during the scanning process (they look great). I there a way left to organize them ?
Hello Steve, My questions will sound so basic but that is what I am. I was looking at how to free GB in my Android of Google pictures, without going to the Cloud or Dropbox, I found your video on how to back up your photos, you suggested four different options, well for me now, I just need back up mines on my laptop, and later will be in an external drive and a Pendrive. Far I can open my Google photos on my Laptop, can I delete those ones on my Android? Also, I would like to know how to get what is exactly the amount of pictures I have, or what will be the free space I'm going to have then. I would appreciate your suggestions.
Hi Steve, I wonder if you can suggest a way to find and delete duplicate photos from my Google Photos account. In the past I used Picasa and Picasa web, but when Google took it over it really messed things up so now I have thousands of duplicates in Google photos. I would like to have a quick and reliable way of finding and deleting them.
Curious, if you add the meta data inside Google Photos... what method can you use to backup these photos to a local HD or other cloud service that preserves that info?
Is there a way to use Amazon Photos as a backup for my Google Photos? And when I crop or delete or whatever adjustments I make in Google, for that to carry over to Amazon Photos?
It would be very nice if Google did boolean operations on my photos. Ex: Ryan-Dennis = All photos of Ryan that do not include Dennis. There are other operations as well (divide, multiply, add) and can be very helpful in photo organization. You have a much bigger audience than I, spread the word if you agree.
Great video as always, I am in the process of importing my photos, mostly old into Google Photos. This video did and will help in that process. BTW, can you move the mike & boom off to the side, kind of distracting! Thanks.
can you update this video please? I can't get the facial recognition to work correctly. How do you correct when it thinks a person is someone else? Thanks
I considered Dropbox to also backup my photos since I'm paying and it's 2TB of storage but decided to go with Shutterfly since I had it since it was Kodak Gallery, then switched hands then to Ofoto. Shutterfly has unlimited photo storage and it'll be easier for me to order prints and items from Shutterfly then Dropbox.
Have you noticed that Google Photos is one of the very few apps that nobody swaps or changes? In the productivity space, I find it is very common for many folks to jump between apps. A few months on Trello, then a semester on Todoist, then a trimester on Asana, then explore TikTik - even Notion is part of the "app hopping". But, nobody talks about how they "app hop" with photo apps, specifically Google Photos. I think this brings to the forefront how good Google Photos is with organizing and all the other little features it has - like automatically creating GIFs or collages among a few others. I personally really enjoy when it shows me photos and albums from yester-year. It is always a treat to open up Google Photos either for doing some personal exploration or because of a rediscovery notification. It seems like whatever new features they add, they can't get anything wrong - everything always makes Google Photos better.
Eduardo Carrillo yeah, that's because it's so convenient with the cloud storage right out of the box when using an Android device. It becomes a hassle to switch because of setup and moving a lot of data plus you don't know if it will work or if you should trust other services. It's still massively under-featured though.
Great videos, Steve! Some questions: 1. When I take a photo with my smart phone, the photo will be automatically saved in Google Photos, but not in Google Drive. Am I correct? If so, I have to upload the photo from Google Photos to Google Drive, right? 2. If I delete a photo from my cell phone's Gallery, it will be deleted automatically from Google Photes as well, am I correct? Thank you!
When you open tha app your new photos are uploaded ti Google Photos. You do not need to move the photos to Drive, Google Photos is a part of Drive already. No if you delete your photos from your phone they will remain inside of Google Photos unless you tell Google to also delete those.
Hi! I have two Google accounts with two different email addresses, etc. I have in each a Google Photos (app?) with a fair amount of pictures in each. Is it possible to move all the photos from one account to the other? Thank you.
Some advice - is it a good idea to get the 8,000 photos removed from my iphone? I don't think there's enough space on my mac book either - so is a memory stick a good option?
do you have a suggestion on how to add a picture where someone's face is turned away from the camera, so they are not recognized by Google, but you want to include it in that person's album?
As a pro photographer I have over 15 Terrabytes of photos. So easy to file using nothing more than File Explorer - specially with its search parameters. All you need is a good file title - no metadata required. Universal.
I do not use social media or cloud based services. I just want to organize my photos on my phone myself in the same system I have been using for years. How can I do that
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Hi Steve, thanks as always. You alluded to it at one point, but importing photos that aren't already digitized is a huge issue for many of us "older" folks. Perhaps as another edition of Google photos how to's, you could cover that topic. Scanning photos, scanning negatives and the issues of converting from negative to positives, scanning old slides, taking photos of photos, colour cast, etc., etc., etc. Hope you consider this for further demos
As a certified photo organizer based in Seattle, I'd be happy to consult with Steve so he could do a video on scanner how to's and settings!
good ideas here, love to see you Steve tackle this topic; of getting old photographs (from photo albums to Google Photos) Is there an app that can help? which is best? phone? scanners?
I did digitalise several old pictures I had. How? I do just take a picture of them. Preferably that should be done during the day, and not under direct sunlight. I use a canon eos m. I have heard that canon eos m50 has a great color reproduction. I guess that such camera will do the job.
@@loremipsum7ac thx, I see that Steve has covered Google Photo Scan in a previous video, also please note that Google Photo Scan does not load on all Smartphones, I just upgraded my S3 to an S8 and was able to download and install GPS today and I am excited to try it out on my old photos.
I recently acquired a Kodak Scanza, a small device that enables scanning of old slides and negatives. It works pretty well and is not too expensive.
Thumbs up for Folders. There really is no reason for all these companies to abandon the safe and trusted folder paradigm.
Completely. I keep my photos in folders organized by year. Whenever I use an app it organizes it by "date created" and I have to manually change the date for 1000s of photos that were scanned before I had a digital camera. I'm hoping at least one solid developer will make an app that can do this better. Currently, I use google drive folders to organize my photos. Its slower and clunky, but at least I know where my photos are.
@@aquilajedi Thank god i found one with same problem 😔
Yeah, even Dotto pulled his demo photo from a folder while we watched. And he used a folder system within his local backups and Drop box I bet...That's okay Mr. Dotto, keep up the good work.
But I have a question: if we don't want to use the date, the location or the content as far as Google can tell is not useable, can I use some kind of tag? I see I can add a caption but that doesn't seem to work like tags do. Do you have any suggestions for sorting via some kind of tagging?
I agree I have photos scanned in from the 1700s of my family and just want to keep everything in their folders where I put them because I wanted them there. I did try one organizing app and Thank God I didn't use it on my original SSD because the first thing it did was delete all duplicate photos from the whole computer drive. I have duplicates for a reason - one stored by date and one stored by subject. And then there are the duplicates from restoring my mom's old memory albums that are also stored by page from which ever album they came from.
Great video! A major limitation of writing descriptions in G Photos is that the field information is not included when the picture is downloaded from Google Photos. This means if you spend a lot of time writing descriptions and only do that in Google Photos, your work does not travel with the photo. Because of this, I personally recommend to anyone who wants to use Google Photos, that you manage your pictures outside of Google Photos so you can add metadata, and then import the picture to Google Photos for broader access, great searching, and display.
Absolutely. Adding metadata (tags, in my case) to my photo/video files are the only reason I am still chained to Photoshop Elements. If PSE's cataloging and metadata management become available on Google Photos (or any other photo management program), I would drop PSE in a heartbeat.
I’d suggest using Adobe Bridge for metadata. It allows bunch editing
Great video on Google Photo, however all of us with tons of photos in either Dropbox, iCloud or local stored in folders, as albums... would be great if you could make a video on how to import those into Google Photo, where the folders, albums, are retained so that when imported, that one would be able to see all the great albums which we all have spent years organizing our photos in... and would continue with within Google Photos as addition to the Metadata information, which are amazing in Google Photo :)
Thank you. I’m scanning all my photos from the 70’s forward and I’m passing them along. It’s a job for sure- but I’m happy to do it now at 53 and preserve these for my daughter and Grandsons. Many ppl have now opened up their mailboxes and are finding pics from 30 - 40 years ago. Nice surprises. My daughter will now be the keeper of photos but we have digital copies as well. ~~just in case. I will back them up as well. I’m done keeping boxes and boxes of photos. I’m free. Yay🙌🏻✨🎈🎊🪅🎉
What an inspiring endeavor, Pamela. Let's preserve the memories!
Suggestion: before backing up/uploading to GPhotos, organize them into folder/s on your PC by event, or subject, or item. Windows has excellent Batch Processing functionality. Once in File Explorer, locate your folder. Be sure to click "View" tab where you will then see "Panes" and also "Layout" sections at top. Both should be set to "Details." Then rename the folder to whatever: "1970 Jones Family Vacation" or "Jones 1970 Family Vacation." Then highlight all the related photos within it (do NOT include videos). Right click & rename one, using same name as folder. They will all be named the same with a sequential (#) following. Then, while all are highlighted, edit the detailed metadata shown in the far right column with whatever...Date Taken, Location, Comments, Title, Tags, etc. After batch processing your event photos, THEN upload to Google Photos and the basic, important metadata, including date, will stay with each photo, and sort by date.
Great, earlier today also started figuring out everything you said in the beginning about organizing into folders on my pc to make the process easier. Then I searched for a clip on youtube to learn more about organizing. But learned nothing literary. This guy doesn't quite follow through on the promises in the title about organization. Very little information in these 14 min and talking about completely different things. Then I see your text and found much more help. Thanks
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If you put this to me to read .it would be the same as writing in Chinese sorry
Absolutely a great video! I have old photos everywhere, I have needed to organize them from back to 1999 on my old CPU backed up on an ancient hard drive. I am going back and check out your previous Google Photo videos before I start. THANKS! Mike 👍🎥🎇🗾🌠🏙🎑🌃🏞🎆🌌🌅🌇🌉🌄🌆🌁💻📱🙃👏
Great to hear you encourage folks to forget about folders! We've got to think outside the old box. Google Photos is great for old family photos as well. It can even be used to identify people in old family photos. As a genealogist I've got a video on that on my channel, and I discuss it in my book.
What is wrong with folders? For most use cases, especially non-professional ones, they are the most efficient way to find what you want.
LOL - BRILLIANT M8! As I started watching this and I saw a link to a previous video you made about photo basics, I paused this and watched that one in another tab first. It was about the basics of Google photos. Just as you were finishing and I clicked to close that tab I heard you say "have fun storming the castle!" Awesome, and thanks :-D
Have fun storming the castle!
You are absolutely the best teacher! I finally understand and can use Google photos. Thank you!
I watched you Steve on TV in Canada, did I not? It is good to watch your informative videos again and I will now subscribe and be a regular.
Another great video as usual Steve. I’m currently just over half way through scanning old colour slides from the mid 1970’s to early 1980’s. To organise them as I go, I’ve used folders based on years/months on my Mac and used Finder’s bulk rename to give the files a more meaningful name. The next step would be to add dates to the file as you’ve mentioned, but that is another massive undertaking, I need some way to bulk edit, maybe by using the file names and/or folder structure as a source, have you any ideas?
Steve, thanks for the explanation! I'm just getting started and uploaded some photos that I scanned from prints. I altered thd meta data and wanted to save those changes to my primary photo storage on my computer. The changes didn't make it and the taken date was the date of downloading to the computer. Maybe I'm making some mistake. I'll keep playing.
This is a great video, as usual, Steve, but I have some issues. I am in the process of scanning thousands of old slides and negatives. To change the metadata date on each would be daunting. Is there a way to batch change the date? Also, I recently uploaded about 800 photos to Google and it didn’t upload 116 of them, but there was no indication of why, or which photos didn’t make it. I’m wondering if Flickr or Dropbox would do a better job. Thanks for your great info.
Extremely well put together video. Very informative and effective. Thank you.
This video has motivated me to start organizing my photos. Thanks!
Do you know by chance how to use scrollbar in google photo instead of dates bar in a right?
Have you find out how to use a scrollbar?
Great intro. I'd like to see a followup on updating the location information and for doing bulk date and loacation corrections before importing too. For more details on Google Phots I'd recommend your pals at Geeks on Tour.
is syncing full folders too much to ask for?
I recommend using Stagsi if you download those photos in your PC. It's an incredible application that can do marvels along with tagging tools. One of the most useful feature is Tag Decks. It allows to assign hotkeys to one single tag or a group of tags. It becomes easy and faster to sort a long list of unsorted files and photos with quick keystrokes. Simply google for Stagsi to find more useful information. As a game developer, I highly recommend it.
I admire your passion about Google Photos. Thanks Steve.
HI Steve, quite a few challenges in importing old photos to Google photos and the cloud. Most important of all - time. Every photo uploaded needs to be edited and tagged in the description section of the Google Photos. That is the TIP; Use the description section that goes with each and every photo. Describe the photo like place, event, name and that makes it easier to pull it out with a search. 2 - Use as many variables especially with spelling and place.
I need the folders!
Hi Steve, I love your google how to videos and look forward to seeing your next new one. I have a question/suggestion for another google video. How do you get all your photos from google photo to a hard drive attached to your computer. I’ve tried to do it but all the directions I find want me to select them individually or by date. There must be a better way. Thanks for the videos and keep up the great work.
It would be great if you could share your media backup setup that you mentioned in the last part (mac > nas > google photos > dropbox).
is it totally automatic after you import your media from your camera?
Also keep in mind that if you have your settings to "High Quality", which means if the photo is greater than 16mp , Google can resize it to 16mp. With that setting you can store unlimited storage and numbers of photos for FREE. I have 1g+ of photos all on the cheap.
It is really helpful that you explain about the data that is in the photo. Sometimes it is easy to forget that a picture is a file and every app the picture is opened up has the ability to add the information to the data that is stored in the picture file.
I have one question though. What is your take on using a cloud based service to back up and maintain your photos regarding the downloading file size? I know that with some services, they condense the file to conserve space on their servers. That could be a potential problem for photographers or graphic artists.
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Thank you Steve! Another great, informative video that I will put to use.
Hi Steve, I love your videos and always learn something from them. However, I noticed that you have many "sort of duplicate" photos of the same scene in your photo albums. Do you ever just edit them by selecting just the best photo of the bunch and deleting the others? Most people seem to do just that and I think that's one of the big issues in creating these tens of thousands of photos that no one is ever going to go through after we're gone. What are your thoughts on that subject? People no longer print photos and put into a family album. These next generations will miss out seeing their relatives in photos because I believe no one is going to take the time and trouble of going through your photos even if they can gain access to your computer. Your thoughts?
Google makes a nice animation out of the multiple shots of same subject.
Its fun to watch like a GIF especially photos of babies and children.
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Hello Steve, thank you for this great tutorial. When I signed in with my account it was the same as my YOU-TUBE email, would you say to leave it like this or best to create a separate one? Google seems to want to connect with all other Google services?
Maybe you and your viewers can give me tips?
Thanks
Lol I was struggling with the folder thing! I miss my folders!! 😩
With so many backups. In which one you do the "clean up" and how do they synch from one service to another? or do you do clean up/ editing before uploading to the cloud or other services?
can you explain about the google photo on google drive ? that's same ? everything saved on google photo automaticly saved to google drive also? I got the trouble with my drive storage, I got notice storage full on gdrive, gmail & google photo, I try to downloaded all photo/video (maybe 90%) because I want still receive email, can you help me make the process faster? I already use backup and sync by google apps on my laptop
Great video as always. Very informative!
I back up all of my photos into Google Photos and Sync cloud storage.
Thanks for this video. I'm wondering how you change the metadata (date) for lots of photos at once, is there a technique for this? I'm currently importing thousands of old photos, but don't have time to change the date one by one on all of them.
Google search 'batch edit photo metadata'
How can I tell which photos I've already put in an album and which ones still need to be put in one? When I look at all photos, I can't tell which ones I've already put in an album.
Same!!! What is up with that!
I know one way to get around this issue, but in involves an extra step taking more time. When you select photos for an album, you can also choose to archive these same photos. Then they will still show up in your album that you created & they will also now show up in your archive section, but they will no longer show up in your main photos category. This will allow you to keep track of your progress if you are wanting to sort through all of your photos, putting them each in different albums. You archive every photo that you put in an album. Your remaining photos that are left to be sorted will keep getting smaller until there is none left. Once you finish sorting everything, you could choose to move them all back out of archive & your main photos section would return to normal, or you could choose to leave them in archive & your photos section would be empty, but it would be replaced by your archive section. I would probably choose to leave them in archive to make any future sorting easier. The downside to all of this is that it takes up twice the amount of time. You spend time moving some pictures to a new album. Then immediately after, you take an additional step moving those same pictures to archive. I'm not aware of any way to move pictures to both an album & archive in one step. So this plan sucks, but it should work. Google needs to create a better way to do this.
@@mwbrazier when you select the photos to move to an album how do you archive at the same time? I tried this but I could only do one thing at a time. So I had to reselect the same pictures again to archive them. Thanks!!
@@brendaquinn8877 That is correct. You have to do it in sperate steps. You move pictures to an album in one step. Then immediately after that, you reselect those same photos & move them to archive before you forget which ones they were. That's why I said that this plan sucks & we need a better way, but this will work.
@@mwbrazier ah that sucks! Thanks for the help! Guess I can’t move 50 photos at once 🙈🤣
This was excellent, thank you so much for doing this
Glad you enjoyed it, Julian!
Hi Steve, Thank you for your videos! Is there anyway to the different photo folders on my computer back up to Google Photos and keep the folders/albums intact and appear in Google Photos? I could really use the help!
just a big thank you.... this is all fresh 'stuff' to learn for me
So nice of you
Thanks for the video. I'm uploading all my daughters photos into google photos. She's created several albums and selected specific photos for each album. Is there a way to those albums into google photos? She doesn't want to recreate all those albums again. Thoughts?
As always you're on point.. I purchased a more space and I scarfed up a lot of old photos and vids that I had stashed in Dropbox many years ago.. straight to Google photos they went.. if I run out of space I will buy more.. I trust them.. maybe I'm foolish.. but what else can I do.. not to mention how easily I share videos, pictures and whatnot by way of a link. Hell, it's basically having your own channel.. but let's not give them any ideas.. LOL LOL love your content man, keep it up.... Please💯
I needed to see this!
Also have a question you may be able to help me with?
I have 3 older laptops & want to get the pictures off of them?
I recently purchased 2 SD cards & have 2flash drives to to save all my photos on. Just to be sure I won't loose them.
I have another question
I have downloaded the Sprint Complete app. & I have photos & videos from yrs ago when I was given advice to get dropbox. Is there away i can upload the photos&Videos from Dropbox alone? Because I want to delete Dropbox.
Forgive me I'm not very tech savy:/ (I Really need to take computer tech classes) Thank you,
Appreciate any help or advice.
Hi Steve. I am wondering if you know of a simple way to transfer Google Photos out of Google and download locally or copy to the cloud somewhere? Takeout is very clunky and includes lots of metadata mixed in with the photos...which is frustrating. There must be a solution out there somewhere...I hope.:). Thank you and keep up the great job with your videos...I consider you one of my mentors and I am grateful for your work. Best Regards...Dane:)
Good explanations. Very complete, very clear, very helpful. Thanks.
Ever since google stopped synchronizing Google Photos with Google Drive I've ended up with a mess; some are in one place, some in the other. Often I will download a photo from Photos to edit and use in a document, but then the version in Google Photos is not the nicely cropped, adjusted one. How can I keep all this organized and in sync?
Wonder what you think of the photo finder USB being touted all over social media? Loved this video, could OneDrive be my backup place for photos?
Thanks Steve! Loved the tutorial! New subscribers here :)
Awesome, thank you!
Hi, I was wondering if you use this in conjunction with Apple Photos or in place of it. Thank you.
This is a great video. Thank you for making this. x
How do you backup your goggle photos? The only way I know of is to download the from goggle and copy them somewhere else. But that is so tedious and not automatic. Is there a better way?
You used as example a photo in which you knew the date taken.
But most old photos you don't know the dates and all the dates are different.
I've been copying loads of old slides - that's another story - but when I uploaded them from my compie to Google - they land on Google in the date I copied them.
So I had to scroll down to find each batch and somehow put them together.
Thanks for the info on changing the date but you presumably have to do that AFTER you've uploaded them - so you still have to fish around among loads of photos uploaded on different days.
I've also found problems sometimes uploading photos which if a large number, some photos are skipped and I have to go back and upload them a second time.
Steve: I just found your wonderful (now old) video. If you are still reading comments/questions: I just scanned about 1000 old photos organized in folders. I plan to upload to Google Photos with albums corresponding to those folders. But I want to share these with many others. If I have 50 folders will each recipient have to agree to receive the albums 50 times or can all be sent at once?
Hi Steve,
I want the photos that I delete on my phone to also be deleted on Google photos. Is there a way to do that??? Instead of doing it manually?
Thanks!
Great video. When you share photos with someone can they edit or even remove a photos from your account that you've shared with them?
Users who added photos to a shared (collaborative) album can only edit or remove their own photos. The owner can delete all photos, change the order, but also not edit photos added by others.
@@dottotech Thank you very much for your reply. Merry Christmas!
Another wonderful review, I enjoyed it.
Few comments if you don’t mind.
All these platforms are one security breach away. We already saw that already happened.
After certain number of photos these run out of space, few of us are not fortunate enough to afford monthly payments, how to circumvent this?
If we start scanning old photos which do not have meta data how we fill this gap.
What do you think.
I have a question following this presentation please:
If we don't want to use the date, the location or the content, can I use some kind of tag?
I see I can add a caption but that doesn't seem to work like tags do. Do you have any suggestions for sorting via some kind of tagging?
Thanks!
Do you know what service or application is the best as finding duplicate images in google photos with different file names. Where the pixels are analyzed rather then just the name.
I have enjoyed your tutorials so much. My google albums are all over the place with regard to location in Google albums due to their annoyingly program of putting old albums at the top if one edits them in any way. Is there a way to stop this and the albums stay where they were as dated to begin with? I know you can edit the date and time. It seems so labor intensive. And, if you are looking for an album and are not sure of the year, how best to find it? Personally I liked Picasso better.
I wish I had watched this yesterday before downloading some old pics and videos into Google Photos. I didn't know that the metadata could be edited and now have a chronological mess.
Thanks for tech advice that isn't in Hindi🙂
Steve... You are so easy to follow... though filled with brilliance... Please tell me how to access my photos when in word or powerpoint or email... Add photo links don't go go google photos???
HELP!
its great WHEN IT WORKS!~ i have been TRYING to improve the "photo identifier" aspect, it works great on EVERYONE except my one grandson (1 of 3 brothers) that look like triplets!
it always ask " same or different person, would you like to improve these results?" on everyone BUT the one i want..it NEVER ASKS ON HIM! PLEASE PLEASE tell me how to fix this
wtf is the difference between a folder and an album
Hi Steve. Any plans for webinar Wednesday's?
Hi Steve ... good vid for sure. This may have been answered in the comments. I followed your steps exactly and uploaded a FB photo to Google Photos, put in an album. But when I click on the photo, I do not get the 'metadata' menu. I get the standard 'save download image etc. Is this capability to manually name the ''old' photo available only on the paid Google Photo version and not the free version? Thanks!
great videos , got a question ,how do i move a photo to an album from either another album or from a time it was taken and it only shows in the album i am moving it to? any way to drag and drop to the desired album?
Google photo is very useful. I combine it with Dropbox. I guess you know you can set Dropbox to automatically upload photos to "Camera Uploads" map.
Thankyou for many interesting videos in your channel.
Dotto, is there a way to move google drive photos to google photo….without selecting each photo in folders….wish I could just upload the folder.
Hi, what if you are importing 100's of old photos from a site like Shutterfly and they were taken by a digital camera and they are not dated. Do you have to go into each photo and change the date manually or is there a way to do a bunch at a time?
I just finished scanning 340 slides. They are organized chronologically I would like to include them I in Google photos in a similar way. Unfortunately all the dates and locations disappeared during the scanning process (they look great). I there a way left to organize them ?
Hello Steve, My questions will sound so basic but that is what I am. I was looking at how to free GB in my Android of Google pictures, without going to the Cloud or Dropbox, I found your video on how to back up your photos, you suggested four different options, well for me now, I just need back up mines on my laptop, and later will be in an external drive and a Pendrive. Far I can open my Google photos on my Laptop, can I delete those ones on my Android? Also, I would like to know how to get what is exactly the amount of pictures I have, or what will be the free space I'm going to have then. I would appreciate your suggestions.
Really well done video, thank you!
Hi Steve, I wonder if you can suggest a way to find and delete duplicate photos from my Google Photos account. In the past I used Picasa and Picasa web, but when Google took it over it really messed things up so now I have thousands of duplicates in Google photos. I would like to have a quick and reliable way of finding and deleting them.
Curious, if you add the meta data inside Google Photos... what method can you use to backup these photos to a local HD or other cloud service that preserves that info?
Hello, quick question, can you create a folder within a folder? Thanks!
Is there, as far as you know, any chance to use IPTC data in google photos? especially the copyright/creator information? Thx Tom
Is there a way to use Amazon Photos as a backup for my Google Photos? And when I crop or delete or whatever adjustments I make in Google, for that to carry over to Amazon Photos?
Use MultCloud to transfer files between cloud stores. 50GB free each month. or look for a 200GB/month for 3 month special.
It would be very nice if Google did boolean operations on my photos. Ex: Ryan-Dennis = All photos of Ryan that do not include Dennis. There are other operations as well (divide, multiply, add) and can be very helpful in photo organization. You have a much bigger audience than I, spread the word if you agree.
Is there a way to caption photos outside of the description option so that it can be seen below it?
Thanks Steve
Great video I also back up up my pictures on a back up drive as well this video is very cool .
2010 - twenty years ago ?!? - Canada's gone back to the future !
Very good job, Thanks Steve so clear and well stated .
Great video as always, I am in the process of importing my photos, mostly old into Google Photos. This video did and will help in that process. BTW, can you move the mike & boom off to the side, kind of distracting! Thanks.
This is sort of an eye opener for me
Thank you so much! The info is so useful!
can you update this video please? I can't get the facial recognition to work correctly. How do you correct when it thinks a person is someone else? Thanks
This was really useful!
I considered Dropbox to also backup my photos since I'm paying and it's 2TB of storage but decided to go with Shutterfly since I had it since it was Kodak Gallery, then switched hands then to Ofoto. Shutterfly has unlimited photo storage and it'll be easier for me to order prints and items from Shutterfly then Dropbox.
Have you noticed that Google Photos is one of the very few apps that nobody swaps or changes? In the productivity space, I find it is very common for many folks to jump between apps. A few months on Trello, then a semester on Todoist, then a trimester on Asana, then explore TikTik - even Notion is part of the "app hopping". But, nobody talks about how they "app hop" with photo apps, specifically Google Photos.
I think this brings to the forefront how good Google Photos is with organizing and all the other little features it has - like automatically creating GIFs or collages among a few others. I personally really enjoy when it shows me photos and albums from yester-year.
It is always a treat to open up Google Photos either for doing some personal exploration or because of a rediscovery notification. It seems like whatever new features they add, they can't get anything wrong - everything always makes Google Photos better.
Eduardo Carrillo yeah, that's because it's so convenient with the cloud storage right out of the box when using an Android device. It becomes a hassle to switch because of setup and moving a lot of data plus you don't know if it will work or if you should trust other services. It's still massively under-featured though.
Great videos, Steve! Some questions:
1. When I take a photo with my smart phone, the photo will be automatically saved in Google Photos, but not in Google Drive. Am I correct?
If so, I have to upload the photo from Google Photos to Google Drive, right?
2. If I delete a photo from my cell phone's Gallery, it will be deleted automatically from Google Photes as well, am I correct?
Thank you!
When you open tha app your new photos are uploaded ti Google Photos. You do not need to move the photos to Drive, Google Photos is a part of Drive already.
No if you delete your photos from your phone they will remain inside of Google Photos unless you tell Google to also delete those.
Steve, I think that you are incorrect or at least not accurate. As of 2019 Google Dr. does not automatically sync to google photos.
Hi! I have two Google accounts with two different email addresses, etc. I have in each a Google Photos (app?)
with a fair amount of pictures in each. Is it possible to move all the photos from one account to the other? Thank you.
Some advice - is it a good idea to get the 8,000 photos removed from my iphone? I don't think there's enough space on my mac book either - so is a memory stick a good option?
do you have a suggestion on how to add a picture where someone's face is turned away from the camera, so they are not recognized by Google, but you want to include it in that person's album?
As a pro photographer I have over 15 Terrabytes of photos. So easy to file using nothing more than File Explorer - specially with its search parameters. All you need is a good file title - no metadata required. Universal.
I heard that after you get to a certain amount a photos it's not free anymore is that accurate
Super great video... Your problems are similar to my problems... Thanks.....
Excellent! Thank you.
Hi Steve , you could see my photo is Sideview , how can I change it?
I do not use social media or cloud based services. I just want to organize my photos on my phone myself in the same system I have been using for years. How can I do that
Does the photos stay on my phone or do they upload to google, because I don’t have a lot of storage on my phone
So helpful. thank you 😊