Consejos, trucos y problemas resueltos de Google Fotos

Google Photos es una poderosa aplicación para administrar, proteger, editar y compartir las fotos de su teléfono inteligente. Por lo tanto, es más que una aplicación de galería tradicional. Le mostraremos algunas características interesantes. Aquí los mejores consejos y trucos para Google Photos.

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• Espacio de almacenamiento y costo de Google Fotos
• Alternativas a Google Fotos
• Usar/descargar Google Photos en PC o Mac
• Descarga Google Photos por completo para hacer una copia de seguridad
• Ocultar imágenes en Google Fotos
• Editar y animar imágenes en Google Fotos
• Etiquetado de personas y reconocimiento facial en Google Fotos
• Compartir imágenes de Google Fotos en WhatsApp
• Comparte fotos y álbumes en Google Fotos
• Ver fotos en TV
• Imprimir fotos de Google

Espacio de almacenamiento y coste de Google Fotos

• Sube fotos de forma manual o automática y guárdalas en línea
• Eliminar fotos

Puede instalar la aplicación Google Photos de forma gratuita en dispositivos Android e iOS. Carga automáticamente sus fotos (si tiene una red Wi-Fi conectada) a Google y libera el espacio de almacenamiento en su teléfono inteligente/iPhone después de la carga.

Google le brinda espacio de almacenamiento en línea limitado e ilimitado para fotos y videos. Sus fotos se reducirán a 16 megapíxeles. Para vídeos es de 1.920 x 1.080 píxeles con 30 fps. Si quieres subir fotos con más megapíxeles o en formato RAW además de vídeos 4K, debes optar por la versión de pago.

Usar compresión para almacenamiento ilimitado:

1. Toca el Menú icono en la esquina superior izquierda.
2. Luego, haga clic en Configuración.
3. Allí para Guardar y Sincronizar .
4. Elige el tamaño de carga y listo.
5. Seleccione Alta calidad .

Si el almacenamiento se está agotando, también puede aplicar compresión de forma retroactiva a fotos y videos. Luego, los medios que ya se han cargado se reemplazarán con versiones comprimidas; las copias de los originales en su almacenamiento de Google Drive se perderán.

Costos de almacenamiento adicional

Si decide cargar en su tamaño original, los 15 GB se llenarán rápidamente. Los precios de Google para el almacenamiento en la nube en el momento de la publicación son los siguientes:

Precios de Google Fotos por más espacio de almacenamiento

Espacio de almacenamiento	Precio por mes	Precio por año
15 GB	gratis	gratis
100GB	$1.99	$19.99
200 GB	$2.99	$29.99
2 TB	$9.99	$99.99
10 TB	$99.99	-
20TB	$199.99	-
30 TB	$299.99	-

El almacenamiento de Google Drive cuesta menos si paga un año completo por adelantado. Los costos actuales y las ofertas especiales se pueden encontrar en el sitio web.

Sube fotos de forma manual o automática y guárdalas en línea

De forma predeterminada, Google Photos sincroniza las fotos que tomó con la cámara de su teléfono inteligente. También puede seleccionar otras carpetas para sincronizar. Hay dos formas de hacer esto:

1. Cuando Google Fotos encuentre una nueva carpeta con imágenes, recibirás una notificación. Luego, decida si se debe hacer una copia de seguridad de la carpeta en el futuro.
2. Abre Google Fotos y toca Carpeta del dispositivo en el menú del lado izquierdo. Allí verás todas las carpetas que contienen fotos. Toca la nube gris a la derecha del nombre de la carpeta para asegurarte de que esta carpeta también tenga una copia de seguridad de Google Photos.

Eliminar fotos

Dado que Google Photos no es una aplicación de galería tradicional, sino una aplicación de respaldo en la nube para sus fotos, el proceso de eliminación distingue entre dos variantes. En la vista principal, elimina fotos tanto de la nube como del dispositivo. Para eliminar fotos de la nube o del almacenamiento sin conexión de su teléfono, debe realizar una de las siguientes acciones:

Cómo borrar fotos de tu teléfono

Cuando elimina una foto en Google Photos, se elimina en todas partes, incluso desde la nube. Pero si solo quieres borrar una foto de tu dispositivo pero no de la nube, este truco para Google Fotos te ayudará:

Abre el menú de la izquierda y toca la carpeta del dispositivo. There you can see all the photos that are stored on the device. If you delete a photo here, it will only be deleted from the device, not from Google's cloud. This can be handy if your smartphone memory is running low but you don't want to lose your photos.

To quickly free up internal storage space, you can also delete all previously uploaded photos from your phone at once. Just tap on Free space . The preview for the photos remains visible on the main page of Google Photos and the large version is available online. This is because the high-resolution versions are downloaded ad hoc if required.

How to delete photos from the cloud

If you want to delete photos not only from the device, but from anywhere, you can do so from the main Photos view. Photos deleted there are then deleted from the cloud and from the device, provided the image is still stored on the device. Deleted photos are then sent to the trash. If you accidentally delete an image, you have 60 days to restore it from the trash. Afterward, it will be permanently deleted by Google.

Hide images in Google Photos

If you want to hide especially private photos from other people looking over your shoulder, it will be difficult with Google Photos. You can select individual photos and "archive" them via the menu, but then they can still be displayed in searches. And since image recognition in Google Photos accurately recognizes many details, this can be embarrassing. If you are wearing a hat on an archived nude image and search for "hat", the nude image will be displayed shamelessly.

The situation is similar with albums. These can be "Hidden from albums". However, images contained in it remain in their place and are discovered both by searching for recognized objects and scenes and by the name of the album in the search function.

To protect individual folders from syncing, you can temporarily assign a different write path to your camera app, pause Google Photos sync manually, create an empty file named .nomedia in the tricky folder on your phone.

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Use or download Google Photos on PC or Mac

The Google Photos app is also available for download for PC and Mac. Then you can save the photos from your regular digital camera to your picture folder on your computer and then save, organize and share photos in Google Photos according to the above criteria.

The application is available for free download from Google and is set up as a background service during installation. It monitors the folders you set for changes and uploads files to Google according to your preferences.

Similar to the smartphone app, you define the upload quality. All videos and photos end up in the Photos web app and are then accessible from any computer/tablet/smartphone in the world - if you sign in with your Google Account. Files of other formats end up in Google Drive, but the backup is only done in one direction. The Google Photos app for Windows and MacOS does not download photos already saved in the cloud.

Download Google Photos completely

If you no longer want to use Google Photos or even delete your Google Account, you should download your images from Google Photos completely and save them locally. Unfortunately there is no button "Download all pictures" in Google Photos. Instead, you can export the photos via Google Takeout. We have already dealt with the process in a separate article:

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How to edit photos

Google Photos offers the usual filters for editing your photos. Open a photo and tap the three horizontal bars that symbolize horizontal sliders. Then adjust light and color, automatically optimize photos or use Instagram-style filters. Cutting and turning are also possible. Changes can be undone.

Being creative

The Google Photos wizard will occasionally notify you with automatically created galleries and animations. Of course, you can also create them manually. To do this, press For you on the main page. Above, Google suggests an album, photo book, movies, collages, or animations. Tap it and select the photos. Google Photos does the rest for you.

Tips for using Google Photos

Quickly select and tag photos

To quickly select multiple photos at once, hold your finger on the first photo and then swipe to the other photos. All photos between the first and the last one you touch are then also selected.

Changing the photo view

Google Photos sorts your photos chronologically (Today, Yesterday, Monday, December 2018, ... ). You can also change the view by spreading the preview display with two fingers to enlarge the photos. Conversely, the same applies analogously. If you pinch the view, you can switch to the month or year view and see a larger time period.

Search for people, places, things and more

On the cloud storage, an algorithm tags the images stored in Google Photos with keywords. If you are looking for Berlin, a cat or a bicycle, you will probably find what you are looking for. It's so accurate, it's almost a little creepy.

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Easily share photos (via WhatsApp)

Google Photos makes it easy to share your pictures with friends and family. It does not matter whether other people also use Google Photos. You send a link through which the shared photos can be viewed by others on a website. Just follow this Google Photos tip:

Select the photos you want to share, then tap the share icon (to the left of the plus sign) at the top of the menu. In the new Sharing menu you have to click on Get Link . A sharable link is generated, which is then copied to your clipboard.

You can now share this link with friends, for example via WhatsApp or by email. This is better than the direct upload via WhatsApp, because the images are not compressed again in a lossy way.

Google Photos:Shared photo albums

Google Photos allows different users to upload pictures to the same album. To use this function, simply send a link to the corresponding photo album so that your contacts can access the folder. Each link recipient can then add more pictures as a user of the album itself. All people associated with the album will receive a notification on their device when new photos are added. So you can easily collect pictures of birthday parties, weddings or joint excursions.

To get to the albums you were invited to later on, tap Sharing in the bottom navigation bar on the main Google Photos page.

By the way: Albums are not folders. This means that images can be assigned to multiple albums without creating duplicates.

Commenting photos and albums

Shared photos and albums can be commented on directly in the app. If you have opened a shared album, you can share photos and albums with your friends and they can comment directly in the app. There is a speech bubble icon in the lower app area. If you click on it, the comment field opens and you can comment immediately. Alternatively, you can also press the little heart if you simply like a picture.

All users who have been approved for the image or album will then receive a notification that a new comment or the heart is available. With this comment or like function, pictures and albums get a more interactive and social component.

Google Photos:People tagging and face recognition

You cannot also tag people or persons. Apparently, the face recognition feature has come under criticism because it is extremely questionable from a privacy perspective. This feature is not available worldwide as a result.

View Google Photos on TV

Slide evenings are generally considered torture. So what could be more natural than presenting photos to the family on the television? Thanks to the support of Chromecast, it's easy with Google Photos.

Before the pictures land on the big screen, you can choose which of them are displayed on the smartphone or tablet. Videos and animated GIF files can also be displayed in this way.

Scanning old paper photos

Although digital cameras have been on the market for a good 20 years, many photos are still analog and only available on paper. If you want to digitize such memorabilia, you can try out the Scan Photos función. Behind this is an additional app that is specialized in taking old photos. The photo scanner does not simply take a photo, but captures the old picture several times and with different perspectives. The app calculates a total of five photos. Reflections have no chance, so that the photo is digitized in its full brilliance. After you save the photo, it will be automatically uploaded to Google Photos.

Print photos

Of course, you can print individual photos directly from the app. If your smartphone recognizes a printer in the Wi-Fi network, this is as easy as you could imagine.

However, if you want to print out a whole bunch of Google Photos at a store, the following procedure is worthwhile:

1. Create album.
2. Add photos to the album.
3. Download the complete album to a USB stick via PC.
   1. Top right menu:Download all .
   2. Extract the ZIP file to the stick.
4. Use the stick at the store.

What is your favorite feature of Google Photos? Or what alternative do you use to share and sort pictures with your family? Leave a comment with your story!

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