Google Photos
Google Photos is the home for all your photos and videos, automatically organized and easy to share.
- Freemium • Proprietary
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What is Google Photos?
Google Photos is a photograph and video sharing and storage service by Google. It allows the users to store and share images and videos using the 15 GB free storage space of their Google Account or a Google One subscription. Google Photos is also able to automatically create albums and to organize images and videos thanks to an Assistant function.
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bukit thinks Nextcloud is an alternative to Google Photos- Douze added Google Photos as alternative(s) to picodav
- Douze added Google Photos as alternative(s) to karadav
As title suggests above
The free* has a caveat to it. The free plan is such that google compresses its images with its propietary algorithm so you have a much smaller image file uploaded to googlephotos. The same is true with their videos as well, using the same technology they use for youtube
I personally cannot discern any difference in quality from images + videos uploaded to google photos though, so this is a minute point for me.
If you do any sort of photography work, and need high res .raw image file format backup, I would suggest using another cloud-based service dedicated specifically for that task
On terms of the actual PROS of google photos:
I've tried a lot of other solutions like
None of them are as good as google photos though
[Edited by Kagerjay, July 09]
Although Google Photos is a web based service, it is a great Picasa alternative. These are the few reasons why it replaces Picasa very well:
I used to use Picasa a lot before, but since it's been discontinued Google Photos seems like the best option. The only downside might be that it's web based so you need to upload pictures first, and that sharing to other services like Facebook is either done through a Google Photos Album or by downloading and uploading each individual picture.
Google photos is a clunky slow web interface that does not compare to Picasa It has no support for faces it wont allow you to quickly locate photos. And it has no sync option that works. Google has abandoned PC users and now only supports and carers about mobile users. Mobile users dont use a computer like laptop users do thats why all these options are missing.
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The unlimited free storage will **end ** in 1st July 2021
I use Photos because I have a ton of cloud storage via Google One. If that weren't the case, I wouldn't be using this service. It has the bare minimum album & sorting features, but my biggest complain is the interface. You better learn the shortcuts (like SHIFT+A to archive & SHIFT+CLICK to multi-select) to avoid extra clicks. The mobile Photos interface is better than the desktop version - I'm sure the touchscreen plays a role in that.
What disappointed me the most was losing synced data through what I'd suspect is a bug. At this point, I've gone through and tagged each photo with people's faces. Part of the curse of my OCD is doing this while training Google's facial recognition. My main laptop is Windos 10, but while doing some cleaning I found my old Chromebook from a few years ago. If you weren't aware, Google account login is mandatory. For whatever reason, logging into this Chromebook wiped all saved photo tags. I don't know what happened, maybe logging into the Chromebook synced old data or something. Google support is useless as usual, so I decided to let it be & not redo the people tags. In a way, Photos helped me combat my OCD in a weird way.
User-friendly interface. I especially like the facial recognition feature.
there is simply no setting to not upload videos to google photo. I really like the way I can share my synced photos with my partner by doing nothing. Compression is ok'ish.
Very convenient to use