Ask Google Photos to Find a Photo with 2 Named People

by Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.comOn our What Does This Button Do? show this past week (Episode 85) we demonstrated some search tricks with Google Photos. Slide the YouTube playhead to the 17 minute, 13 second mark to see the demos. Step One: Automatic Face Groups If you use Google Photos, you probably know that it automatically …

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Google Photos: Getting Started on the Right Path

We help people started with Google Photos nearly every day! We decided to set it up as a class using online Webinar tools. This is for a very small group – limit 5 people. We will meet together for 2 sessions – 1 hour each, then each person will get one followup private session. Session …

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Google Photos–Is it Really Unlimited and Free?

Google Photos will store your entire library, many thousands of photos, for free! YES!! If you choose the photo size called High Quality and not Original, Google Photos will store your entire photo library of many thousands of photos, for free. Learn more from the Google Photos Help page. What is High Quality? At the High …

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Using Picasa and Google Photos Together

by Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.com This is what I do now: All my photos collect in the cloud with Google Photos, I make albums of my best photos there, then I download those albums to my computer so I have them in Picasa for safekeeping, collages, text on photos etc. Picasa can Upload to Google Photos, …

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Google Photos vs. Apple’s iCloud Photo Library

*updated 9/25/18If you use an iPhone, you are in the Apple world, and it seems logical to use the Apple photo solutions: Apple Photos and iCloud Photo Library. But, you also have the option to use the Google solution called Google Photos. Have you been getting frustrated with constant messages by Apple that your iPhone …

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How to Change the Date of a Picture Using Google Photos

We recently presented a Google Photos seminar to a Genealogy group. We used our smartphone and snapped pictures of old photos in a photo album. These were pictures of my Great Grandfather, Charles Noyes, and my Great Grandmother, Mae Manning Noyes. Charles was born in 1869 and Mae was born in 1872, yet when I …

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Google Photos: All Play and No Work!

I went for a walk with my Mom the other afternoon. We have this favorite little park, and it was a gorgeous day. She’s walking pretty slow these days, so I had ample opportunity to take my phone out of my pocket and snap pictures. I showed her each picture I took and she would …

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Getting Your Pictures Down from the Google Photos Cloud

It’s easy to get your pictures UPloaded to the cloud – just turn on the Backup and Sync feature of the Google Photos app on your phone. But how do you get them down to your computer? Computers are not “synced” devices in the Google Photos system. The only way to get photos to your …

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