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How to move photos from Google Drive to Google Photos?
While on Google Photos click Upload, (probably upper right corner), then click "Google Drive". If for some reason that didn't work, just read this short official Google help made to answer this exact ...
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How can I view Google Photos that are not in a Google Photos album?
At this time it's not possible.
References
Google Photos Help
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How can I rotate multiple photos at once using Google Photos?
While you still can't rotate multiple pictures at once, at least now there is a keyboard shortcut to rotate a picture: Shift-R.
So click a picture you want to rotate, hit Shift-R (once, or 3 times, ...
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How can I view Google Photos that are not in a Google Photos album?
So, this is a bit of an old question.. but it still doesn't seem to be solved.
Here are some additional people complaining about the issue...
How to delete all photos which are not in an album?
Not ...
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How to move photos from Google Drive to Google Photos?
Login to Google Drive
Click on the Settings button ()
Select Settings
Make sure Create a Google Photos folder — Automatically put your Google Photos into a folder in My Drive is checked.
Find and ...
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How to move photos from Google Drive to Google Photos?
The only way I found, which is super stupid and as anti-user-friendly as they go (I guess that's the new Google), is to
download the files (it will take a while, will create a big ZIP file and might ...
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Where went the Google Photos album "Hangouts"?
Short answer1
Go to https://get.google.com/albumarchive/
There you will found a album named Photos from Hangouts
Long answer
When you click a photo in the Hangout history you will be sent to an URL ...
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How to Move Google Photos to an Album and Archive them in a single operation?
If you want all the images in the target album to be archived, then this is easy.
select all the photos you wish
move them to the album
view the archive: https://photos.google.com/archive
at the top ...
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How can I sort my files in Google Photos by size?
This is now, finally, possible @ https://one.google.com/storage/management!
See the full blog post on it here: https://blog.google/products/google-one/free-features/
And also https://photos.google.com/...
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How to get the direct link to an image in my Google Photos?
At this time Google actively changes its image service behavior. Now, there is not any algorithms how to receive direct and permanent links to your shared photos. The URLs are received by the right-...
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Delete all content from Google Photos
In a browser go to photos.google.com
Select Photos from the left side menu
Hover over your first photo and then click the checkmark that appears to select it
Grab the scroll bar on the right and go ...
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How to export photos and albums from Google Photos?
Google Photos is one of the products included in Google Takeout. You can even select exactly which albums you want to download. It will take some time, but once the archive is ready you'll receive an ...
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Wrong person identified by Google Photos
I'm afraid you can't tell Google who the person is, only who the person is not.
Open up the "People" album where there's a mistake
Select all of the photos that are mismarked as being for the current ...
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How can I modify a photo's date on Google Photos?
Probably recently added by Google, it's now possible to edit the date of photos on photos.google.com itself. Simply open a photo, click on the 'i' information icon and there it is; an editable date.
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Exclude specific Google Drive folders from Google Photos
Create a text file with the name .nomedia into the folder you want to hide from the Photos app. The file itself can remain empty.
You can use a File Manager app to create files.
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How to delete all my photos in Google Photos?
After a quick research I found two solutions:
The easy one is, and will work in any amount of images:
delete from Google Photos folder on your Google
drive
reference
the second one is, but a ...
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Can't tag people in Google Photos
I don't know when it was added, but shortly after the functionality for naming groups of faces in Android and iOS it is now available on the web interface of Google Photos.
Click into the "Search" ...
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Can I manually find and convert Google photos that have been saved as 'original size' to the smaller 'high quality' size?
This is now an option in the settings.
https://photos.google.com/settings → Recover storage.
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Create albums on Google Photos from folders of photos on local disk
There is no way in 2017 to do this. Picasa no longer exists.
It surprises me that no 3rd party app has appeared to manage Google Photo upload with combined album creation, I assume Google does not ...
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What's the easiest way to download all albums from Google Photos?
The easiest way to download all albums would be to use the Google Takeout service. It can be used to export data from many Google services, including Photos. If you click the dropdown next to Google ...
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How to remove someone from People results in Google Photos?
I had the same problem. Here's how I fixed it.
On a PC, go to: https://photos.google.com/people
Click on the 3-bubble menu top right
Click on "Show & hide people"
Then click on the faces you ...
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How can I sort my files in Google Photos by size?
You can try: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/quota
You can convert them to high quality so you can reduce the size.
https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6314648
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How to rotate video on Google Photos?
Google plus is not available anymore.
Steps to rotate
Open the Google Photos App on your mobile device
Tap on the vide you wish to edit
Tap on settings at the bottom of the screen
You have the ...
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How is Google reducing file size of my backed up photos when image stats are unchanged?
Google will be resampling the image using a higher level of compression (which your stats don't show). The quality of the image is likely to decrease slightly, although whether this is noticeable to ...
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How to get the direct link to an image in my Google Photos?
It's simple:
open photos.google.com
open album
open any image (black layout will
appear)
right click mouse button on image
copy image URL
URL should look like
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/(...
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How to get the direct link to an image in my Google Photos?
As mentioned by 23W, the long URL you get by copying the image URL of any given photo in Google Photos while logged in to your Google account is "secret" and may be short lived and may stop ...
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How to embed single photo from Google photos album
It's not as straightforward as one would like, but you can do it this way:
Find the photo in Google Photos you want to include
Open the "Share" menu and click "Get link"
Either click the link that is ...
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How to upload existing albums to new (2015) Google Photos?
If you upload using the Google Photos uploader, albums won't get automatically created, but the folder name will get saved with the photo metadata.
Try this: after uploading your photos from multiple ...
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Is there a way to see all of the Google Photos Creations?
To see the Creations you've saved...
Go to the "Search" page
Scroll to the bottom and click "Creations"
To see the Creations the Assistant has suggested, but which you didn't save...
Go to the "...
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Upload images to Google Photos in high (not original) quality from the web
In Settings, you can set whether web uploads are "High Quality" or "Original".
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