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Google has always taken photos seriously. For a long time they’ve offered one of the best photo editing and management experiences available, and Google+ remains to be the best social network for photos. Today they’ve taken a fresh approach to photos again.The new Google Photos app looks a lot like the old Photos app that came with Google+ (same icon and everything). The big difference is that this is a standalone app. It’s no longer tied to Google+, and you can backup your photos to Google Drive. It’s a single place for all your photos, videos, and memories.
The new Google Photos app looks a lot like the old Photos app that came with Google+ (same icon and everything). The big difference is that this is a standalone app. It’s no longer tied to Google+, and you can backup your photos to Google Drive. It’s a single place for all your photos, videos, and memories. They really mean all your photos and videos. Google is including unlimited storage for photos up to 16MP and videos up to 1080p for free. FOR FREE.
https://youtu.be/ydBjsZnHrwM
The new Photos app has a bunch of other new features as well. You can search through your photos with keywords of things that show up in the photo. Your photos are automatically organized into People, Places, and Things. And it’s easy to share full res images and videos with a link. The new Google Photos app is everything we’ve been asking for. It will be available later today.
Will dowlonad
I wonder what happens with the photos I currently have stored in Google Photos. Will those no longer count toward my Google account storage?
That’s my biggest question, too.
I am thinking that will be the case. You can bet the question came up a zillion times in their daily scrum meetings etc.
I hope you are right. I have just over 10 GB of Google+ Photos stored on my Google Account right now. All were uploaded at Full Size (Limited to available account storage) as opposed to the Standard Size (Unlimited free storage at 2048 px) but fall within the new parameters for unlimited storage (16 MP or less and 1080p or less).
Ahh, so here are the details… https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791?p=storage&rd=1
It isn’t the “original” for free, it is “high quality”, which is probably just fine for 95% of everyone. If you want “original” then it counts towards your storage.
I would classify that as false advertising from the keynote I saw.
Don’t you guys proofread your posts?
“Today they’ve taken a fresh approach to photos again.The new Google Photos app looks a lot like the old Photos app that came with Google+ (same icon and everything). The big difference is that this is a standalone app. It’s no longer tied to Google+, and you can backup your photos to Google Drive. It’s a single place for all your photos, videos, and memories.
The new Google Photos app looks a lot like the old Photos app that came with Google+ (same icon and everything). The big difference is that this is a standalone app. It’s no longer tied to Google+, and you can backup your photos to Google Drive. It’s a single place for all your photos, videos, and memories. They really mean all your photos and videos. Google is including unlimited storage for photos up to 16MP and videos up to 1080p for free. FOR FREE.”
In fairness for this one post, these guys are in a highly active environment right now (Google IO) and they are probably a million things they are missing just to write this post.
True, but it’s not just one person that runs or even posts to this site. Could have text/email the copy to someone else to proof/post. IMO, No sense being the first one with the story if your article makes you look amateur.
I can agree with that. What I think Phandroid could do is to implement a publishing workflow like some developers do with code. For instance, on our team, we write code and the rule is that the developer who wrote it is “never” allowed to actually publish (merge) it. Another developer has to merge it, it can be anyone just not that developer. You don’t want to make it one person otherwise you get a bottleneck. And the person who merges it is just looking for obvious “oh my, you need to fix that” stuff, not be a hardcore grammar or content nazi. Then the list of stuff to be published just goes into a queue and the team helps each other out.
We do this with code, they should do this with theirs.
I don’t know if WordPress supports anything like that though. I know Drupal does but that would be a big shift for them.
That’s pretty smart.
Google Photos website is not up instead has a Google+ Photo link. I do like this since my 50GB Samsung/Dropbox deal expires soon and $10 for 1GB seems too much.
It is up now, https://photos.google.com
Also take a look at https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791 for the fine print on the free storage details. tldr; it isn’t unlimited free for “original” but is free for “high quality”.
I seen that if you want to keep the original quality. Most pics I take are 16mp or less so good deal for me.
Bout damn time.
Tim Cook better bring it on next week ijs
Epic proofreading fail…
So is there a web app for this too?
Update: yup, https://photos.google.com
Update2: Looks like they really went balls deep with Google Photos. https://plus.google.com/photos/ redirects to https://photos.google.com and the Android app appears to have been renamed.
This is good so at least there won’t be 2 competing products/services/apps. All one product now.
Fresh links:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/picture-this-fresh-approach-to-photos.html (official announcment)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.photos (download)
A feature that Google Photos for Android desperately needs is “Delete photos from phone after backed up”. I wonder how many millions of hours are wasted trying to free up space on the phone. As a developer myself, I have to only assume they are working on this as it just seems to logical to not have this on the product roadmap.
they took snapseed’s awesome photo editing features out of it and replaced it with junk
Quite a few phones today have higher than 16MP cameras but if you change the aspect ratio it lowers the resolution. My droid turbo has a 21MP camera but only shoots at full resolution in 4:3. When I change it to 16:9 the resolution drops to 15.5MP. Most people I know shoot in 16:9 mode.
Just pointing that out.
Is anyone else missing HDR Scape? Am I looking past it or did they remove it?