Google フォトのヒント、コツ、解決した問題
Google フォトは、スマートフォンの写真を管理、保護、編集、共有するための強力なアプリです。つまり、単なる従来のギャラリー アプリではありません。いくつかのエキサイティングな機能を紹介します。ここでは、Google フォトの最高のヒントとコツを紹介します。
次のセクションに直接ジャンプします:
- Google フォトの保存容量と費用
- Google フォトの代替
- PC または Mac で Google フォトを使用/ダウンロード
- バックアップのために Google フォトを完全にダウンロード
- Google フォトで画像を非表示にする
- Google フォトで画像を編集してアニメーション化する
- Google フォトでの人物タグ付けと顔認識
- Google フォトの画像を WhatsApp で共有
- Google フォトで写真やアルバムを共有する
- テレビで写真を見る
- Google フォトを印刷
Google フォトの保存容量と費用
- 手動または自動で写真をアップロードし、オンラインで保存
- 写真を削除
Google フォト アプリは、Android および iOS デバイスに無料でインストールできます。写真が自動的に Google にアップロードされ (Wi-Fi ネットワークに接続されている場合)、アップロード後にスマートフォン/iPhone のストレージ スペースが解放されます。
Google では、写真や動画用の無制限のオンライン ストレージ スペースを提供しています。写真は 16 メガピクセルに縮小されます。ビデオの場合、30 fps で 1,920 x 1,080 ピクセルです。 4K ビデオだけでなく、よりメガピクセルの写真や RAW 形式の写真をアップロードする場合は、有料版を選択する必要があります。
圧縮して無制限に保存:
<オール>ストレージが不足している場合は、写真やビデオにさかのぼって圧縮を適用することもできます。その後、すでにアップロードされたメディアは圧縮されたバージョンに置き換えられます。 Google ドライブ ストレージ内のオリジナルのコピーは失われます。
追加のストレージの費用
元のサイズでアップロードすることにした場合、15 GB はすぐにいっぱいになります。公開時の Google のクラウド ストレージの価格は次のとおりです。
保存容量を増やすための Google フォトの料金
| 収納スペース | 月額料金 | 年間価格 |
| 15 GB | 無料 | 無料 |
| 100 GB | $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 | - |
1 年分前払いすると、Google ドライブ ストレージの料金が安くなります。現在の費用と特別オファーはウェブサイトで確認できます。
手動または自動で写真をアップロードしてオンラインで保存
デフォルトでは、Google フォトはスマートフォンのカメラで撮影した写真を同期します。同期する他のフォルダーを選択することもできます。これには 2 つの方法があります:
<オール>写真を削除
Google フォトは従来のギャラリー アプリではなく、写真のクラウド バックアップ アプリであるため、削除プロセスは 2 つのバリアントを区別します。メイン ビューで、クラウドとデバイスの両方から写真を削除します。クラウドまたはスマートフォンのオフライン ストレージから写真を削除するには、次のいずれかを行う必要があります:
携帯電話から写真を削除する方法
Google フォトで写真を削除すると、クラウドを含むすべての場所で写真が削除されます。しかし、デバイス上の写真だけを削除したいが、クラウド上では写真を削除したくない場合は、Google フォトのこのトリックが役に立ちます:
左側のメニューを開き、デバイス フォルダをタップします。 そこには、デバイスに保存されているすべての写真が表示されます。ここで写真を削除すると、デバイスからのみ削除され、Google のクラウドからは削除されません。 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 関数。 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:
<オール>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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