Google High Quality Photo Storage

Just head into the google photos settings panel and then select high quality from underneath upload size.

Google high quality photo storage. Google photos storage won t cost money but you should know what you re signing up for. Photos are compressed to save space. Intro updated on 5 29 10am et to add information from steven levy s excellent interview with google vice president of streams photos and sharing bradley horowitz and to add information about google s high quality photo pricing tiers. Switch to high quality this setting doesn t consume even an iota of storage.

Videos higher than 1080p will be resized to high definition 1080p. It has unlimited free storage and it should back up the images much. When you decide to back up your images to google photos you ll be able to choose between three different sizes express backup original quality and high quality. They connect to google photos in different ways so you must choose the high quality photo storage option on each device.

Since it won t save any captures shot at larger than 16 megapixels all images larger than that will be scaled back to match that. A video with 1080p or less will look close to the original. Google s photo sharing service was designed primarily as a way to back up photos and video taken on smartphones but it has evolved into a decent photo editing and sharing service. Photos are compressed to save space.

As noted google cuts the space occupied by images uploaded in the original quality from your available free plan of 15gb. Videos higher than 1080p will be resized to high definition 1080p. A video with 1080p or less will look close to the original. You can print good quality 16mp photos in sizes up to 24 inches x 16 inches.

If a photo is larger than 16mp it will be resized to 16mp. Limited free storage 15gb. The express backup is the most recent option allowing you to compress large images and use less storage. The high quality option allows for unlimited storage.

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