Google Photos-ios/android and web

[WelshBloke]

not workie

 

[SAWYER]

Web is working now. In some pics I am uploading the camera date was wrong, can i edit this?

 

[Skurge]

Not available in your country..... Thanks Google.

 

[ponyo]

I didn't use it before because of the Google Plus requirement. I might have to check it out. But I'm partial to Imgur now.

 

[WelshBloke]

How do you tag photos in the web app?

I didn't use it before because of the Google Plus requirement. I might have to check it out. But I'm partial to Imgur now.

What put you off about using it before?
You didnt have to use the rest of google plus, functionally it was the same.

 

[Eug]

Can you hot link the photos, eg. to post at AnandTech forums?

And what are the copyright specifics?

 

[Oyeve]

I have installed on all my devices. Man, have pics going back to 2008! I'm loving this.

 

[kpkp]

Can you hot link the photos, eg. to post at AnandTech forums?

And what are the copyright specifics?

Apparently it works?

 

[Capt Caveman]

When I switch my backup of pics to original size, it tells me I only 435mb left.

 

[WelshBloke]

Apparently it works?

Is that just right clicking to get an url rather than using the shareable image link?

The shareable image link has ******* in it for me which kicks off the word filter.

That way has worked for a few years AFAIK.

Edit: That would be G00.gl

 

[blairharrington]

I uploaded a video on Google Photos yesterday and I see no ability to label videos. You can get the title info once you hit the menu button but I'd want to be able to look at several videos and see what they are listed as without having to do that.

 

[kpkp]

Is that just right clicking to get an url rather than using the shareable image link?

The shareable image link has ******* in it for me which kicks off the word filter.

That way has worked for a few years AFAIK.

Edit: That would be G00.gl

I didn't use it before... But yeah the share URL is still https://*******/photos/GUviXNENABFgJ5Fs8
G00.gl

Edit:
They need to do that so you can save the photos to your clowd

 

[WelshBloke]

I didn't use it before...

Absolutely no offence intended but I get a feeling that a lot of people didnt looking at the amount of wowing going on at features that have existed for a few years.

 

[blackdogdeek]

When I switch my backup of pics to original size, it tells me I only 435mb left.

Were most of them significantly larger than 16mp?

 

[ponyo]

What put you off about using it before?
You didnt have to use the rest of google plus, functionally it was the same.

You had to create Google Plus account to use it. It's the same reason I didn't use Hangout on iOS til Google removed the Google+ requirement. I don't want Google Plus and I don't need it shoved down my throat.

 

[theeedude]

I am having issues. I went to Picasa and updated (re-uploaded) my photos at native 12MP, and ran out of Google drive space. I thought it was unlimited photos up to 16MP. Ugh.

 

[quikah]

I am having issues. I went to Picasa and updated (re-uploaded) my photos at native 12MP, and ran out of Google drive space. I thought it was unlimited photos up to 16MP. Ugh.

To get unlimited you have to choose the "High Quality" setting which recompresses the photos (and downsamples them to 16mp if they are larger). Choosing the "Original" setting will use the gdrive space. The idea that there is unlimited 16mp photo uploads is incorrect.

BTW: was picasa updated with this new stuff? To get the free setting I am guessing you need to use the photos.google.com website or the app.

Completely non-scientific test. I uploaded an ~8mp image which was ~2.5MB at the "high quality" setting and got a ~1.5MB file as a result. Pretty significant change, but didn't really notice any difference in viewing them.

 

[WelshBloke]

You had to create Google Plus account to use it. It's the same reason I didn't use Hangout on iOS til Google removed the Google+ requirement. I don't want Google Plus and I don't need it shoved down my throat.

You only need to use the bits that you want though, if you dont want to use the social aspects of Google+ its like they never existed.
That seems a really weird reason to avoid something that you now seem to find useful.

 

[quikah]

I uploaded a video on Google Photos yesterday and I see no ability to label videos. You can get the title info once you hit the menu button but I'd want to be able to look at several videos and see what they are listed as without having to do that.

I checked this out, seems like they are treated just like pictures. So you only see the thumbnail which doesn't work for video all the time. Maybe they will fix this later.

Overall this doesn't seem all that special. No idea what the fuss is about. About on par with all the other options out there.

 

[blairharrington]

I checked this out, seems like they are treated just like pictures. So you only see the thumbnail which doesn't work for video all the time. Maybe they will fix this later.

Overall this doesn't seem all that special. No idea what the fuss is about. About on par with all the other options out there.

Maybe. Maybe not. Pretty useless for video storage unless you don't need your videos listed with titles.

Well, no. iCloud Drive is very pricey. Dropbox costs money beyond 2 GB. Flickr is free up to 1 TB. We are talking unlimited storage (if you allow them to compress). Plus for photos this looks like a great option.

 

[quikah]

Maybe. Maybe not. Pretty useless for video storage unless you don't need your videos listed with titles.

Well, no. iCloud Drive is very pricey. Dropbox costs money beyond 2 GB. Flickr is free up to 1 TB. We are talking unlimited storage (if you allow them to compress). Plus for photos this looks like a great option.

The real appeal to me for the unlimited storage is video, since those can actually take a lot of space, but the way it is setup now seems pretty worthless for video.

I don't really see the appeal of this unlimited storage for photos when they are recompressing them. The appeal of unlimited storage for me is as a backup. I would want the original for that, so flickr seems like a better option for online photos. Onedrive is pretty generous with space also (30GB if you setup auto upload of camera roll) and has some nice photo features as well.

 

[blairharrington]

The real appeal to me for the unlimited storage is video, since those can actually take a lot of space, but the way it is setup now seems pretty worthless for video.

I don't really see the appeal of this unlimited storage for photos when they are recompressing them. The appeal of unlimited storage for me is as a backup. I would want the original for that, so flickr seems like a better option for online photos. Onedrive is pretty generous with space also (30GB if you setup auto upload of camera roll) and has some nice photo features as well.

It's pretty useless for video IMO if you want to store anything beyond vacation vids, etc.

I believe for anything below 16 MP the photos are not compressed.

 

[quikah]

I believe for anything below 16 MP the photos are not compressed.

They are, see my unscientific test above...

 

[blairharrington]

They are, see my unscientific test above...

If you can't really notice the difference it probably won't matter to anyone beyond professionals.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Were most of them significantly larger than 16mp?

No, all were taken in 8mp with my Nexus 5. The issue seems to be that it still has the Google+ limit of 2048x2048 and anything bigger which all of my photos are 3200x2368 in 8mp. Hopefully, it's something that just needs to be updated on their side and they'll do it quickly as I'm about 335mb from the 15gb free limit.