In this post you will learn how to upload your photos, images and/or videos to the Google Photos cloud Step by Step.
Google Photos is a photography cloud storage and management software, which was announced in May 2015, and by early 2019, one billion users were already using it.
This official Google service incorporates a Intuitive and easy-to-use management to manage and manage the photos and videos on your phone, in addition to being able to distinguish between people with the help of artificial intelligence.
As we told you, Google Photos manages multimedia content, but it can also upload all those photos and videos for you so that you have storage memory for other things, but this must be configured.
Join us throughout this step-by-step guide so you can configure Google Photos and be able to upload all those images, photos and videos to the cloud storage service. Come on!
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Steps to upload photos and videos to Google Photos
There are different ways or methods to carry out this action. and have Google Photos store our content in the cloud.
We can either upload our photos and videos through the official portal using our computer, or using the official Android application.
In any case, here we show you how to do it step by step, and also how to configure a backup for Google Photos.
Upload files to Google Photos on PC
If you have a Windows or Mac computer, the procedure will be carried out through an official Google online portal, where you can upload all the photos you want to the Google service.
Follow these steps to carry out the procedure:
1.- First, access the official Google Photos portal at photos.google.com.
2.- Once inside, you must log in with your Google account. Press the blue “Go to Google Photos” button and log into your account.
3.- When you enter, you will be able to enter the main portal, at the top right, Click on “Upload”, as you can see here:
4.- A mini menu will be displayed. Click on "Computer", and then select the photo or video you want to upload.
5.- After uploading the photo to Google, the following window will open:
We suggest you always choose the "Original" option.
6.- Ready! This is how you can upload videos and photos to Google Photos. When it is uploaded, a dialog box similar to this will appear:
Here we uploaded a test image, which is a cancel icon, it was no error. You will see 2 buttons below:
- Add to an album: Albums are collections of photos that have a similarity or a specific purpose that you want to collect. For example: If you create an album called “puppies,” it is common that you will want to add all the dog photos there.
- Shared album: You can share an album for other people to see.
Upload files to Google Photos from Android
If you directly have an Android device, be it a tablet or cell phone, the procedure is much simpler, and will only require downloading the official app.
Follow these steps to download Google Photos and upload images and videos:
1 First, Go to Google Play, and search for the app «Google Photos». If you prefer, we leave you the direct link below.
2.- Later, download the app, and once downloaded, open it.
3.- When you open it for the first time, the initial setup wizard of the application:
We recommend you activate the “Backup and sync” option, since this will automatically upload all the photos and videos on your cell phone and the new ones you take.
If you choose this option, you will not have anything else to do, but in case If you want to upload only certain photos, you must select them one by one.
Follow these steps to upload photo by photo to Google Photos:
1 First, Select the photo, and click on the 3 vertical dots from the top right.
2.- Next, click on "Create backup now." Ready!
How to activate sync and backup?
Many users who already have Google Photos want to activate synchronization and backup of the application, in order to avoid uploading photo by photo.
This is very useful because this way you can automate backups and not have to do them manually from time to time.
Follow these steps to activate sync and backup in Google Photos:
1.- First, access the Google Photos application.
2.- Subsequently, click on the icon or photo of your user (upper right), and then Click on “Photo Settings”, as you can see below:
3.- Once inside, click on the “Backup and sync” option, and then activate the “Backup and sync” option. Ready!
We hope this article has been very helpful to you and you have been able to upload your photos and videos to Google Photos.
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