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The home for your memories.

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The home for your memories.

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Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. It was announced in May 2015 and separated from Google+, the company's social network. Google Photos gives users free, unlimited storage for photos up to 16 megapixels and videos up to 1080p resolution.

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Several interesting improvements, especially following yesterday's announced camera updates in iPhone 7: Live Photos bring photos to life with sound and motion, but can suffer from the everyday bumps and shakes that happen when you take photos. Plus, they can be hard to share with friends who don’t have an iPhone. Now, using advanced stabilization and rendering, you can make your Live Photos smoother and more shareable in just a tap. Google Photos can freeze the background in your Live Photos or create sweeping cinematic pans, turning your Live Photos into beautiful, captivating moments. Easily save it as a looping video and share it with anyone. Also in this update: • Choose a new thumbnail for faces in People • Sort photos in albums chronologically or by recently added • Easier sharing to YouTube • Performance improvements

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9yr ago

Chatlio

Adding "the sort photos in albums chronologically or by recently added" almost makes it possible for us to switch from flickr for family photos. One big pain point for me, is adding descriptions to photos in album view is missing. You have to go in to each photo one by one and add a description. Also, first class support for embedding an album in a blog post, etc would be very nice.

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9yr ago

@jeberly I recently made the transition and haven't looked back. 200K photos and videos later, I'm completely migrated. For me it wasn't a feature-set, more than shelf-life. Flickr's future is shaky at best.

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9yr ago

Chatlio

@brettsinn Thanks Brett. I realized I could probably get beyond the description, but there is one last big thing for me I realized after posting this. How best do families use Google Photos? Ideally my wife and I would share a photo album or automatically have access to each other's photos. Anyone?

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9yr ago

TOKO

Nice. To be honest Google photos is far better than iCloud but I feel this missed out on one key feature - an importer! I have so much on iCloud that downloading it all to my device and uploading to Google photos makes the whole thing a non-starter. Google should really invest in the ability to import media from other sources (iCliud, Dropbox) before AI tagging, auto-albums and all that.

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9yr ago

SelfDriving.fyi

@shai_alon They have that! https://photos.google.com/apps

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9yr ago

TOKO

@michaelrbock Thanks by I have tried the Mac version and it is the worst Google product I have ever used - there is no control of what it's doing... I once tried to upload a 4 gig folder of photos. I later decided to cancel it, but there is no option to cancel the operation... you can't even delete the files! :(

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9yr ago

Linear

@shai_alon @michaelrbock agree, it's terrible. Mine keeps deciding it needs to reimport 30,000 photos - for funsies.

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9yr ago

since this is on producthunt, could someone please develop an app that allows my google photos to be printed through photo printing services?

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9yr ago

Should I switch to "High quality" from "Original" given that my iPhone 6s Plus maxes out pictures under Google's free picture ceiling (12MP < 16MP) while maxing out videos above their free video ceiling (4K > 1080p) ? I would like to keep my 4K videos 4K but how many GB are those 4K videos taking up in the 196.22 GB used in Google Photos, with the 6s Plus media representing only one year of the 12 years of photos uploaded?

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9yr ago

Where can I find an iPhone 7?

2014: Year of Whatsapp 2015: Year of Snapchat 2016: Year of Google Photos "Free Up Space" feature saving my life

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9yr ago

Hitlist

Google Photos is an excellent example of how machine learning/AI will power the next generation of consumer products. The search is amazing which makes users want to let them suck up all their photos, which will just 'feed the brain' and improve the service further.

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9yr ago

I'm a 200GB iCloud subscriber, however Google Photos High quality (free unlimited storage) is my backup service followed by Amazon Photos (prime account). I can't say enough how well Google Photos has worked along with the Assistant features...

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9yr ago

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