Google Photos It is sometimes a somewhat unknown application despite being part of the environment of the search giant. The Mountain Viewers propose with their tool to have a storage system in the cloud by images your devices, a utility that many users are not always aware of or that it exists or how practical it is.
It is for this reason that we want to explain step by step how to activate the possibility of doing backup of the images of your terminal and save them in the cloud in a free of charge with this app, that is, how to take advantage of the potential of saving photos in Google Photos online albums.
Activate backup in Google Photos
Go to the app and open it. Go to the button tools (the three lines at the top left) and select the option to Settings. In Settings, click on Backup and sync and activate the option.
From that moment, all the images that you save on your phone will become part of a private album in the cloud that you can access from your different devices.
Configure which folders you want to upload to Google Photos automatically
It's simple. In the same Settings tab, with the option to Create backup and synchronization activated, you enter and a screen will appear in which you can buy more storage with some rates quite cheap (for free accounts with more than a dozen gigabytes).
In the section of Device folder backup you can choose others image storage folders of your terminal that for whatever reason are not being shared in Google Photos, as may be the case of Whatsapp image (the images you receive through the popular messaging app) or others.
Select the folders you want to be part of the Backup from Google Photos and thus, once photos are added to these folders, they will automatically go to the cloud thanks to this Google app.
Select the quality of the photos that are uploaded to the Google Photos backup
Also in the same Settings tab, within the Create backup and synchronization options, you will see an option that is Image quality. Click on it to be able to select what quality you want the photos of your device to have once they go online.
The reason is obvious: the higher the quality, the more space it will occupy in your limited gig rate.
If you upload them in high quality, the storage will look great, since it is a compressed photograph at good resolution.
If, on the contrary, you want to upload the original photo, that is, with its full dimensions (depending on the camera and your device it may weigh more or less, but an original image can reach an average of 5 or 6 megabytes), you could reach the limit of space soon.
Make a collaborative folder with one or more friends
Beyond the various backup options, you can even make an album of photos, memes or whatever you want in Google Photo with one or more friends.
To do this, all you have to do is choose in Settings the tool of Shared libraries.
Once here, you will have to choose the contacts with which you want to start that shared folder. Wait for your friends to accept and the rest you know how it goes: upload the photos you want to have shared in this common album.