Hello and welcome back to another Cloudwards.net video.
My name is Mauricio and today we’re looking at our top three picks for online photo storage.
There are a number of reasons to store your photos online, but three main reasons will
hit home for most people.
The first is to free up space on your phone.
Over the years phone cameras have improved tremendously in quality and resolution while
the storage space available on phones has remained largely the same, meaning your phone
seems to fill up faster than ever.
The second hugely important reason to store your photos online is to make sure you will
still have all your treasured photos if something happens to your phone.
Data loss is no joke and can be pretty heartbreaking, so we’re going to look at some options,
including some that offer free storage space, so that you can start backing up your pictures
and memories right away.
And the third is that you want to be able to quickly share your photos with people by
sending them a link to an album or even have them upload files to a folder.
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At the top of our list is a service that many of you watching could probably be taking advantage
of right now, but you just didn’t know it.
Amazon Photos is an excellent service that is provided for free to anyone with an Amazon
account.
Just for having an Amazon account you’re given five gigs of storage that can house
both photos and videos.
If you have or sign up for a Prime membership, your photo storage is expanded to store unlimited
photos, but you’re still capped at only five gigabytes of video.
You can expand this storage by one hundred gigs for about twenty dollars a year, but
the better deal is to purchase storage by the terabyte for sixty bucks a year.
This brings the cost per gigabyte down by almost seventy five percent over the hundred
gig package.
Amazon Photo is easy to use and has a mobile application that lets you set up your phone
to automatically sync your pictures with your Amazon Photo storage.
There’s also a feature called “family vault” which allows up to five people to
share photo storage together.
The second option on our list comes from another prolific tech giant, Google.
Google offers a variety of services to help you store just about anything online, but
for our purposes in this video we’re specifically looking at Google Photo.
Google Photo allows users to upload an unlimited amount of pictures and videos, however, there’s
a catch.
Anything uploaded for free is compressed.
Images larger than sixteen megapixel are scaled down to this size when uploaded, and videos
are downscaled to ten eighty P if they are in a higher resolution.
Even things that are already below these resolutions are fed through Google’s compression, which
is still high quality but you inevitably will lose some detail.
This is what Google calls “high quality” in the settings of Google Photos.
If you select “original quality” in the settings, this compression will not happen,
but you’ll be limited to only fifteen gigs of storage at this quality.
You can purchase two terabytes of added storage at this quality for only ten dollars a month,
up to a maximum of thirty terabytes.
Google Photos has desktop clients as well as mobile applications that make setting up
automatic backup easy.
On top of that, Google has a better search AI than anyone, making it possible to search
through your images for things like “dog” and have the scary accurate Google algorithm
find relevant images stored on your account.
Of course, this does lead to some privacy concerns surrounding Google scanning your
photos and feeding them into its AI.
Anyone concerned about privacy might want to avoid Google’s cloud storage services
if possible.
Finally, our third pick is pCloud.
While pCloud isn’t explicitly geared towards storing photos, its software and features
make it a good fit for the task.
pCloud has a weaker free plan than Amazon or Google, capping out at ten free gigs, but
the paid plans are competitively priced.
You can get five hundred gigs for only about five bucks a month and a whopping two terabytes
for only ten dollars a month.
If you’re looking for a cloud storage solution anyway, I highly recommend you watch my pCloud
review or our overview video of the best cloud storage solutions.
pCloud is great if you plan to upload lots of video files thanks to it’s built in media
player that lets you watch HD videos right from your storage.
On top of that, pCloud’s apps make syncing your photos easy and you can even sync your
social media accounts.
PCloud can be set up to backup your FaceBook and Instagram pictures every three days.
One feature I like the most is that you can create “File Requests” which generates
a link that you can send to friends and have them upload their photos as well.
This can be handy after a party of wedding if you need to collect people’s pictures
without going through each and every social media posting.
While it may not have everything that massive brands like Amazon and Google offers, pCloud
is a flexible alternative that you can use for much more than just photo storage.
I personally use it every day and I mainly use Google drive for document editing and
collaboration.
If you want to know all about pCloud I’ve created an intense deep dive that shows you
all of the features and you can access by clicking the card here.
Hopefully, this has given you a good starting point to begin trying out some photo storage
options.
We still recommend you head over to our full article, which will be linked in the description
below.
Our written article covers a total of thirteen different cloud storage services and goes
into greater detail than we did here.
If you have your own experience with online photo storage, be sure to let us know about
it in the comments below, and don’t forget to like and subscribe if you found this video
helpful.
As always, thanks for watching, and we hope to see you in the next video.