Try hard colleagues at work, you might have seen them send out project recap emails with a nice beautiful animated GIFs up top. You can actually do the exact same thing in Google Photos by going to the utilities tab or the library tab on the mobile app and clicking utilities choosing animation here and selecting the photos you want to animate by pressing down shift and clicking create and now you can easily insert this into Google Slides docs Gmail and be a try hard yourself ready for more Google Photos productivity tips let's get started.
Hi friends, if you're new here my name is Okta and if you're like most people you probably don't give Google Photos much thought. It's there it works? but trust me when I tell you there's some practical tricks and one offsetting changes you want to make to save you from headaches down the road. So I'm going to share around 15 tips across four categories storage, editing, albums and power tips, that will hopefully help you make the most out of this free and powerful tool.
Google Photos : Introduction New and Smart Album
Storage
Starting with storage, since this is the most important feature of a photos app, you want to first go to this URL I like it down below to see how much storage you have left and how long Google estimates you have until you run out based on your historical usage patterns.
For example, I purchased 100 gigabytes and I have eight months left then you can review photos and videos, you might want to delete screenshots of blurry photos are self explanatory but for me at large photos and videos it was a game changer, because I actually didn't know Google is backing up so much of my Broll footage from my videos. I'm gonna just move those to trash and if I go back to the main storage page Drive and Gmail are taking up space as well so over at drive if you click your storage tab, you'll see all your files listed from large to small.
You can start the leading as well and over in Gmail you can type in larger: 10M in the search field and this returns all the emails larger than 10 megabytes, usually those with attachments and they usually aren't that many. You can choose which ones you want to leave there as well next head over to your Google Photos settings up top here for those of you on the free 15 GB plan. I recommend a storage saver option since you can't really tell the difference and while you're here feel free to turn off the promotional emails.
If you are Android phone users, you actually get more control over what photos get backed up. Go to settings within the Google Photos app on your Android phone backup and go to settings and go to backup device folders. And I recommend turning off like movie screenshots or WhatsApp folders if you have those. Last but not least and you want 100% full control over your free storage, simply turn off backup and sync and literally set a calendar reminder once a month and manually upload and backup your photos. You can do this by clicking the cloud icon in the top right corner like so.
Photo Albums
Moving on to how I manage my photo albums, I label it my photo albums from 0 to 99 depending on how often I access them and obviously I had to make an exception for the memes. For example on number one I actually have a work and life folder, whereby photos in this album are shared in my corporate account, this is extremely useful if you want to share a photo you took on your personal device with your work account without having to transfer the photos back and having to upload it onto your corporate Google Drive.
Another two helpful albums create is out reference album and edited photos album. For reference I just put like my gym membership card in there or QR codes on disk and sometimes things I need to reference. It's always nice to have an edited photos album so you have to dig through the main page to find that one nice photo.
Editing
Speaking of editing Google Photos is not the most powerful editor in the world, but there are three things I always do on this app because it's just so convenient. First, pick a photo go to the edit option on top right and go to crop on the right first click auto and this just automatically straightens the photo for you which I find to be very useful. Next I like to use the aspect ratio selection and create a square one by one photo for an Instagram post or circle crop in Google Slides. Then I go to the basic correction selection here and choose the color slider, slider all the way to the left to have a very quick and easy black and white version of this photo.
After I pressed done I just right click copy image and paste it into my Google Slides presentation for corporate presentations. You might want all the head shots in black and white to make it a little bit more professional and it's only possible to have a perfect circle crop if you started out with a one by one square photo.
If you're an Android user there are lot more cool things to do here for example the colour pop feature, which I find to be pretty. You know pop out more in the photo and also the portrait light feature where you can literally add a light source into the photo itself which I find to be pretty amazing.
Power Tips
Moving out to power tips first up is a bench search, since we are in Google Photos after all. You can do the boring stuff like, sky or selfie to see totally not embarrassing photos of yourself. But what I find to be the most accurate and useful it actually by location, so this is very useful.
If you want to actually select multiple photos from a single trip and add them into one album staying within search, but now on your mobile app. You can search for screenshots by typing in screenshots in the search bar pinch out to zoom out, long press and select multiple screenshots to share or delete in bulk. Pinch into zoom into a specific week or day, and you actually click the downward arrow to show other pictures you took on that day.
Second power tip is if you go to the photos tab on your mobile app you can see the memory carousel up top and if you click into these you can actually click the three dots in the bottom right corner and view all photos from this day if you're feeling particularly nostalgic.
The third tip is for iPhone users go to your Google Photos settings and under apple photos turn on sync favorites. The next time you take a photo using your iPhone and favorite it within apple photos it will automatically show up in the favorites folder in your Google Photos.
Last but not least a little Easter egg is if you go to the search tab within your mobile app click on your map and this show is a heat map of all the places you visited and taking photos of. Actually shows you the bottom how many photos you took of each area.
Let me know down the comments which tips were favorite or we use a different photos app altogether. See another update news in this blog and follow this link to read more update like Google Doodle Tokyo Olympics,
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