Conseils, astuces et problèmes Google Photos résolus

Google Photos est une application puissante pour gérer, sécuriser, éditer et partager les photos de votre smartphone. C'est donc plus qu'une simple application de galerie traditionnelle. Nous allons vous montrer quelques fonctionnalités intéressantes. Voici les meilleurs trucs et astuces pour Google Photos.

Passe directement dans la section :

• Espace de stockage et coût de Google Photos
• Alternatives à Google Photos
• Utiliser/télécharger Google Photos sur PC ou Mac
• Téléchargez complètement Google Photos pour une sauvegarde
• Masquer les images dans Google Photos
• Modifier et animer des images dans Google Photos
• Marquage des personnes et reconnaissance faciale dans Google Photos
• Partager des images de Google Photos dans WhatsApp
• Partager des photos et des albums dans Google Photos
• Afficher des photos sur un téléviseur
• Imprimer Google Photos

Espace de stockage et coût de Google Photos

• Téléchargez des photos manuellement ou automatiquement et enregistrez-les en ligne
• Supprimer des photos

Vous pouvez installer l'application Google Photos gratuitement sur les appareils Android et iOS. Il télécharge automatiquement vos photos (si vous disposez d'un réseau Wi-Fi connecté) sur Google et libère de l'espace de stockage sur votre smartphone/iPhone après le téléchargement.

Google vous offre un espace de stockage en ligne limité à illimité pour les photos et les vidéos. Vos photos seront alors réduites à 16 mégapixels. Pour les vidéos, c'est 1 920 x 1 080 pixels avec 30 ips. Si vous souhaitez télécharger des photos avec plus de mégapixels ou au format RAW ainsi que des vidéos 4K, vous devez opter pour la version payante.

Utilisez la compression pour un stockage illimité :

1. Appuyez sur le menu icône dans le coin supérieur gauche.
2. Ensuite, cliquez sur Paramètres.
3. Là pour enregistrer et synchroniser .
4. Choisit la taille de téléchargement et là.
5. Sélectionnez Haute qualité .

Si l'espace de stockage est faible, vous pouvez également appliquer une compression rétroactive aux photos et vidéos. Ensuite, les médias qui ont déjà été téléchargés seront remplacés par des versions compressées ; les copies des originaux dans votre espace de stockage Google Drive seront perdues.

Coûts du stockage supplémentaire

Si vous décidez de télécharger dans leur taille d'origine, les 15 Go se rempliront rapidement. Les tarifs de Google pour le stockage dans le cloud au moment de la publication sont les suivants :

Prix Google Photos pour plus d'espace de stockage

Espace de stockage	Prix par mois	Prix par an
15 Go	gratuit	gratuit
100 Go	1,99 $	19,99 $
200 Go	2,99 $	29,99 $
2 To	9,99 $	99,99 $
10 To	99,99 $	-
20 To	199,99 $	-
30 To	299,99 $	-

Le stockage Google Drive coûte moins cher si vous payez une année complète à l'avance. Les coûts actuels et les offres spéciales peuvent être consultés sur le site Web.

Téléchargez des photos manuellement ou automatiquement et enregistrez-les en ligne

Par défaut, Google Photos synchronise les photos que vous avez prises avec l'appareil photo de votre smartphone. Vous pouvez également sélectionner d'autres dossiers à synchroniser. Il existe deux manières de procéder :

1. Lorsque Google Photos trouve un nouveau dossier contenant des images, vous recevez une notification. Décidez ensuite si le dossier doit être sauvegardé à l'avenir.
2. Ouvrez Google Photos et appuyez sur Dossier de l'appareil dans le menu de gauche. Vous y verrez tous les dossiers contenant des photos. Appuyez sur le nuage gris à droite du nom du dossier pour vous assurer que ce dossier est également sauvegardé par Google Photos.

Supprimer des photos

Étant donné que Google Photos n'est pas une application de galerie traditionnelle, mais plutôt une application de sauvegarde dans le cloud pour vos photos, le processus de suppression fait la distinction entre deux variantes. Dans la vue principale, vous supprimez des photos du cloud et de l'appareil. Pour supprimer des photos du cloud ou de la mémoire de stockage hors ligne de votre téléphone, vous devez effectuer l'une des actions suivantes :

Comment supprimer des photos de votre téléphone

Lorsque vous supprimez une photo dans Google Photos, elle est supprimée partout, y compris depuis le cloud. Mais si vous souhaitez uniquement supprimer une photo sur votre appareil mais pas dans le cloud, cette astuce pour Google Photos vous aidera :

Ouvrez le menu de gauche et appuyez sur le dossier de l'appareil. Vous pouvez y voir toutes les photos stockées sur l'appareil. 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 fonction. 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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