Google Photos Web It has been undergoing a renovation process, and now we can say that it is really useful for those of us who are photography lovers and accumulate thousands of files.
Until now, using Google Photos on your PC wasn't as easy as using it on your mobile phone, but with the latest developments it has become more functional, so we encourage you to try it out.
What is Google Photos Web?
This is an online platform where we can store, organize, edit and share photos in a very accessible and secure way, as long as our device has an Internet connection.
The web version is an extension of the popular Google Photos service that has been present on Android devices for years. Its great advantage is that it allows us to access all the images we have saved directly from the web browser.
If you are wondering why to use this system and not another, here are a few good reasons:
- Unlimited storage. It offers you a large storage capacity for your photos, although in the case of videos it applies some quality restrictions.
- Automatic organization. Using the facial and object recognition functionality, you can organize your photos into thematic albums. This makes it much easier to find the images of a special moment.
- simple edition. You can perform basic image editing such as cropping, rotating, adjusting color, and applying some filters.
- Share. With Google Photos on the web, you can easily share photos or albums with other people. You can even create corporate albums so everyone can add the photos they want.
- Smart search. Allows you to locate snapshots using keywords, dates, places or people.
- Automatic backup. You can set the system to automatically back up your photos and videos from your mobile device to Google Photos.
Tips to get more out of Google Photos web
If you are already a user of this platform, these tips can help you make the most of the features it offers:
Advanced organization
We know that finding a photo isn't always easy. To avoid losing important snapshots, try using custom tags.
With them you can organize your photos by themes such as a specific event or any other criteria you can think of. For example, if you have been traveling, you can organize the photos with a tag that is the name of the city visited.
On the other hand, if there are photos that you don't want to be accessible to just anyone, the Google Photos web app allows you to create password-protected folders.
And to free up space in your library, archive photos you don't need to have on hand often. These are still available, but will not appear in the main view.
Creative editing
Google Photos web has basic editing tools, but there are third-party applications that integrate well with it and allow us to carry outor more complex editions.
You can also make use of other creative editing features of the tool itself, through which it is possible to create animated GIFs or even collages. The good thing is that you don't need to be an expert to get good results, because it is very simple and intuitive to use.
Share and collaborate
Forget about asking for photos to be sent to you via WhatsApp, create an album and share it, so anyone you've given permission to can upload their own photos.
If you want to share content on social networks, you can upload photos directly from this application.
Synchronization with Google Lens
You can sync the photo tool with Google Lens to quickly and easily search for information about objects, places or texts within your own photographs.
Smart Albums
These albums allow you to organize photographs in a very agile way. Because they add to them all the new photos you take that meet the criteria you have determined. It allows you, for example, have all the photographs that have to do with beaches together.
What Google Photos does is use its system to recognize people, places, or objects and add to the album all the photos in which it detects certain people, a certain place, etc.
To create a smart album follow these steps:
- Access Google Photos from your web browser.
- Go to the Albums section and look for the option create a new album
- Choose «Automatically add photos of people and animals».
- Choose the people or pets. Search for them and select their images to go into this album. From then on, all new photos that meet the criteria will go directly into this album.
- Give the album a name and choose whether you want it to be public or private.
The new Google Photos web backup
This tool has not stopped evolving and improving in recent years. One of its latest innovations comes in the form of improvements in backup.
The photo upload system has been revamped to make it faster, simpler and more automatic. Now the backup in the web version will also be done automatically and recurrently, as is already the case in the mobile version.
Once we have made the settings we want for our backup, we can add new folders automatically. That way, when a change occurs in those folders on our computer, it will be automatically recorded in the Google Photos gallery in the cloud. Of course, we have to open the web application to perform the backup, because it does not operate in the background.
Google Photos web is not as dynamic as the mobile version, but it is gradually undergoing improvements that bring it a little closer to what we are used to from the Android app. If you haven't yet decided to try it, we invite you to do so, because it is a very useful tool for managing photos.