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Introduction to Google Photos!
Introduction to Google Photos!
Many people have asked about Google Photos. This week, we'll take a look at Google Photos on your computer. Next week, we'll take a look at how photos works with your phone and then your Google Drive.
To open Google Photos, log in to your school Google account and go to the waffle. Scroll down until you see Google Photos.
You may or may not have anything in your photos.
On the left, there are options: Assistant, Photos, Albums, Sharing, and Photo Books.
Assistant - Here you can create Albums, Shared Albums, a Photo book, a Collage, or an animation. Play with the options. The photo books are Google's answer to Shutterfly books. They do cost and must be shipped.
- Animations are cool, but the pictures go by too fast for a good view. This might be fun to create an animation with student drawings or even claymations. There are no settings on animations. You can download them and also make a slideshow from the animation, but again, no settings to slow them down.
- Collages are easy to make! There are also editing options available!
- Photo Books are really just that - PHOTOS! You can put a title on the front of the book, but there is no way to add captions and change the layout of the pages.
- And from the assistant, you can create a new album and shared album.
Photos - Here is where all your photos are stored. This is also where you can Upload Photos from your computer to Google Photos. These are all searchable by date, but also location if you had location services turned on when you took the photos (on your phone).
Albums - Do you have a lot of photos and want to organize them? This is where you create albums and add photos to them.
Sharing - Here, you can create albums to share with people. You can invite people to collaborate or share links to your albums. If you've created a website, you can put your albums on your site!
Photo Books - Create a photo book to remember an event. See above.
Even though you have unlimited access for Google Photos in your school account, please only put photos that are related to school in this drive. If you should ever leave the school, you may inadvertently lose all your photos if your account is deleted and you haven't switched them over to a personal account.
If you take a lot of personal photos on your phone, think about signing up for a free personal Google account.
To Upload Pictures From Your Computer to Google Photos
To Upload Pictures From Your Computer to Google Photos
To upload photos on your computer to Google Photos, just follow these steps:
- Click on the Photos tab on the left side.
- Click on Upload on the top right. (See picture above)
- You'll be directed to find your photos on your computer. Just find them and click OPEN. The picture you've selected will be uploaded to your Google Photos.
- You can select more than one picture to upload at a time. You'll have to open a folder and you can't upload folders, but you can select all the photos in that folder to be uploaded at the same time!
- To find them, in Google Photos, the photos are organized by the date so you can scroll to the date. You can also do a search within Google Photos to find those photos.
- Remember to create a folder to organize your photos!!!
Next week - we will learn how to upload your photos using your phone.
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