Let’s talk about storage. Ya need it, ya want it,
ya gotta have it. Luckily getting a snapshot of your Google Photos storage is super easy.
All we have to do is head to photos.google.com/storage.
If you are signed into your Gmail account,
you’re going to get an automatic snapshot of your overall Google storage space.
And you can easily review and delete photos and videos right from here too because Google tells
you what type of content is taking up how much space. Plus, you can either buy storage from here,
or scroll down to review your Gmail and Drive files. So, if I click on review, I’m taken to
my Google One account storage page and I can easily manage all my account storage from here.
Because remember, all your Google storage is connected. Google Photos,
Gmail, and Drive all count towards your overall storage.
Want even more Google Photos Productivity tips? Then come on, what are we waiting for?
Hey friends, I’m Tasia Custode, and welcome back to my YouTube Channel where I share tech tips,
app reviews, and a metric TON of Google tips. You got a little sneak
peek of Google Photos goodness in the beginning of this video, but that storage tip just scratches
the surface of what we can do with Google Photos. So, in this video, I’m sharing 10
Google Photos productivity tips that are sure to improve your user experience. Let’s go!
Sticking with our storage vibe we’ve got going, let’s talk about photo size.
You can adjust the upload size for your photos and videos.
To do so from the web, just head to your settings gear icon in the upper right hand corner
and ensure that ‘storage saver’ is toggled on. This will save a slightly reduced quality
of the image or video, but truly to the untrained naked eye, you won’t notice much difference. And
you can also do this on your mobile device too. From your Google Photos app,
head to your profile icon and select ‘google photos settings,
then select backup and sync. And under ‘upload size’ just make sure storage saver is toggled on.
If this tip seems familiar, that’s because it is. I’ve mentioned it before in some of
my other Google Photos videos that you can see via the links in the description below.
And if you want even more tips on how to free up space in Gmail for your overall Google storage,
you’ll want to check out this video here or via the link below.
Moving on. Did you know you can actually edit photos in Google Photos?
Well you can and it’s super easy to do so.
Just click on the photo you want to edit and then select the edit option in the top right.
From here you’ll have a bunch of different options. You can add filters if you want,
or you can click on the basic correction sliders option to the right and access a lot more options.
If you click the arrow to the right of the Light option, you can adjust the exposure,
contrast, highlights, shadows and more. The toggle to the right of the color option will
give you sliders for saturation, warmth, tint, and skin tone. Which, by the way, if you want to
make this a quick black and white photo, you can just drag the saturation right down. Or,
you can just play around with the Pop slider. Now here’s the cool thing. When you’ve made changes,
you can now just use your mouse to click and hold on the image to compare the original to the edited
version. Kinda like how you can do on Instagram. So I’ll click and hold and boom original,
now I’ll let the mouse go and boom edit. But, you can also use the third button in the top right
to adjust the orientation of your photo. From here, I actually really like the auto option,
because it automatically straightens your photo. And then, if you click on the aspect ratio button,
you can adjust the size of your image too. So, if you want a square photo for Instagram,
you can choose that option. And of course, you can click and drag to readjust your photo.
When you’re all done your edit, just click on ‘done’.
Now of course you can do this all on mobile as well. And Android users,
you have a few more editing options than us iPhone users.
But, where there’s one editing tip, there’s more, as they say… or something.
There is a very very cool option in the Google photos app that’s worth noting here.
There is now a suggestions feature. So, when you open the photo you want to edit, tap your
basic correction slider on the bottom and ensure you’re in the suggestions option, and you’ll have
some auto suggestions based on the photo. So my suggestions are enhance, wam and
cool. So, i’ll tap enhance. And for any of these you can just tap the options to toggle
them on or off. Or, like with we saw on the web, we can long press on the image itself
to see what the original looked like and let go to compare to the edit. How cool is that?
But we’re not done with the Google Photos productivity tips yet, oh no.
Now that you’re a master Google Photos editor, you might want to actually print your photos.
That’s right, you can create photo books and prints
right from Google Photos. Yes, indeed you can.
Earlier when we were done our edit on the web, you may have noticed the
additional option to order your photo right here at the top. If you click on order photo,
you’re given three options: photo book, prints or canvas prints. So, if you click on photo book for
example, you’ll be taken to a book edit page in google photos where you can easily use the plus
symbol to add more images to the photo book, as well as add titles and captions to your images.
This is soooo convenient. Talk about productivity, heck ya! We
don’t even have to leave the Google Photos app. Love it.
And speaking of app, yes, of course you can do this right from the app too. There are a couple
ways to do so, but from a photo, if you click on the three dot menu icon in the top right,
you’ll get some additional options, including a little shopping cart ‘order photo’ option.
If you tap on that option, you get the same three order options as on the web:
photo book, photo prints, and canvas prints. Ya love to see it.
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The next Google photos productivity tip is quite literally my most used. Utilize the search feature
in Google Photos. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve had to search for a location
or specific people in Google Photos because I can’t remember dates of when events happened.
What is time?
So, if you’re like me and can’t remember when you were last in Montreal, say..
Go Habs Go
Simply use the search bar at the top to search for the location,
hit enter and bam. Oh, and this reminds me of another search hack. You could literally type in
bagel, or phone, or some item you need to locate and Google Photos will do the work on that one
too. Or, you could even type in people and Google Photos will do its best
facial recognition to pull up all the photos and videos of that person.
You can even search for screenshots or recipes, literally anything you can think of.
Did I mention this is my most-used Google Photos feature? And of course
you know you can do this all on mobile too. Because, duh.
Just head to search, and by the way, let’s take a second to review this on mobile.
You can sort right in this screen by people and pets at the top, or by places, or things. So,
I’ll click on view all for people and pets and I’m going to blur my fam and friends,
but check this out - my doggo and kittie are included in this search. If I tap on
one, boom all the images of my pup come up and you can use the expander dropdown arrow here to
see the other pictures from that day, or you can even share this entire
search as an album. How easy is that to create an album of all your pet pics? Back in the search
tab, we can head to things and tap on sunset and there we go, all pictures of sunsets.
This next tip is one part search tip and one part just plain awesome.
Google Photos will show you a map of all the places in the world where you’ve taken photos.
Ah, makes me nostalgic for travel.
From your app, head to the search tab and underneath places, tap on ‘your map’. Use your
fingers to pinch to zoom out and move around the map and you can see like a heat map of all
the places you’ve ever taken photos. It’ll show you at the bottom how many photos you’ve taken
and you can click on a location to pull up all the photos from there. Or, you can also
enable a timeline so, as Google says, you can see your path through the world. Simply amazing.
And while we’re searching around here on mobile, let’s go over some more tips
I find really helpful when in the app. These are things to just better your user experience.
From the photos tab, use the carousel at the top to swipe through some memories. If
you tap on one of them, you can then tap the three dot menu icon to pull up all the images
from that day. An easy way to head back in time. Also, from either your photos tab,
or in an album, you can simply use your fingers to pinch to zoom out on the photos or
pinch to zoom into the photos. If you tap and drag, you can easily and quickly
select a bunch of photos to either share in bulk, order for an album or delete in bulk.
Now this next productivity tip is just for my iPhone users. You know I’ve got your backs. Tap on
your profile icon and head to your Google Photos settings. From here, select Apple Photos. Now just
toggle on the sync favorites option. Now, whenever you favorite something in your iPhone camera roll,
it will automatically sync to your favorites folder in Google Photos. Heck ya!
So let’s round out this top 10 list with my 10th and final Google Photos productivity tip.
And I’ll be honest, it’s just more of a cool hack
than a productivity tip, but I think you’ll let it slide.
Did you know that you can create Gifs in Google Photos?
And ya, it’s Gifs ok? Don’t go spelling it with a G and then tell the world later
it really is supposed to be pronounced with a j sound? This isn’t peanut butter ok!?
And with that, if you head to your utilities section, and click on animation, then just
select the photos you want to string together by holding shift then clicking each photo,
you can just click create in the top right and voila a little animated GIF is created.
And of course the same can be done on mobile, you just head to your library,
then tap on utilities, then scroll down and select animation.
Can you all believe some of these tips? There are so many, it was hard to narrow it down for this
video, so let me know in the comments below if you want even more Google Photos tips.
But you know I want to hear from you! What do you think of these Google Photos productivity tips?
Have any others? Let everyone know in the comments below. As always, thanks so much for watching,
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