Support photos & videos

Almost support and sync

Back upwardly and sync is a storage service that automatically saves your photos and videos to your Google Account. These photos and videos will be attainable from whatsoever device where yous are logged into your business relationship.

Benefits

  • Never lose a retentiveness: Any photos you take from a device with fill-in enabled volition be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automatic sync: Any edits you brand or photos you take will be attainable across whatever device that yous sign in to. If yous edit and save a photo on your phone, the photograph will look the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: You lot can search your photos by the people (when you've enabled face up group), places, and things in them. No tagging is required.
  • Automated creations: Bring photos to life with automatically created movies, collages, animations, and panoramas.

Before you lot become started

What y'all need to back up photos & videos

  • Good internet connexion.
  • File sizes that tin be backed up.  Your files won't exist backed upwardly if they are:
    • Photos larger than 200 MB or 150 MP
    • Videos larger than x GB.
    • Items smaller than 256 x 256.
  • File types that can be backed up.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Alive photos tin can be backed up if you lot use the Google Photos app on your iPhone or iPad.
    • Videos: .mpg, .modern, .mmv, .tod, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .divx, .mov, .m4v, .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .m2t, .m2ts, .mts, and .mkv files.

If y'all try to support a file type not listed hither, it may non work with Google Photos.

Important: Your Google Account storage is shared across multiple products like Google Photos, Google Drive, and Gmail. If you have used all of your storage, you lot won't be able to back up new files.

Types of RAW files you tin dorsum upwardly

Canon
EOS-1D X Mark Iii, EOS-1D X Mark Two, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Mark III, EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-1D Marker IV, EOS-1D Marker III, EOS-1D Marking II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark 2 N, EOS 5D Marking IV, EOS 5D Marking III, EOS 5D Marker Two, EOS 5D, EOS 5Ds, EOS 5Ds R, EOS R5, EOS 6D Marker II, EOS 6D, EOS R6, EOS R, EOS Ra, EOS RP, EOS 7D Marking II, EOS 7D, EOS 90D, EOS 80D, EOS 70D, EOS 60D, EOS 60Da, EOS 50D, EOS 40D, EOS 30D, EOS 20D, EOS 20Da, EOS 9000D (EOS 77D), EOS 8000D (EOS Insubordinate T6S/EOS 760D), EOS Osculation X10i (EOS Rebel T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Kiss X9i (EOS Insubordinate T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Kiss X8i (EOS Rebel T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Kiss X7i (EOS Rebel T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Kiss X6i (EOS REBEL T4i/EOS 650D), EOS Kiss X10 (EOS REBEL SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D II), EOS Buss X9 (EOS REBEL SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Kiss X7 (EOS REBEL SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Osculation X5 (EOS REBEL T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Kiss X4 (EOS REBEL T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Kiss X3 (EOS REBEL T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Kiss X2 (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Kiss X90 (EOS Rebel T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Kiss X80 (EOS REBEL T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Osculation X70 (EOS Insubordinate T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Buss X50 (EOS Rebel T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Kiss F (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Kiss Digital X (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital N (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss M (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS 1000, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 Ten Mark Two, PowerShot G9 Ten, PowerShot G7 10 Marker III, PowerShot G7 X Mark II, PowerShot G7 X, PowerShot G5 Ten Marking Ii, PowerShot G5 Ten, PowerShot G3 10, PowerShot G1 10 Marking III, PowerShot G1 X Mark II, PowerShot G1 X, PowerShot G16, PowerShot G15, PowerShot G12, PowerShot G11, PowerShot G10, PowerShot S120, PowerShot S110, PowerShot S100, PowerShot S95, PowerShot S90, PowerShot SX70 HS, PowerShot SX60 HS, PowerShot SX50 HS, PowerShot SX1 IS

Fuji
X100

Nikon
1AW1, 1J1, 1J2, 1J3, 1J4, 1S1, 1S2, 1V1, 1V2, 1V3, D3, D3X, D4, D4S, D40, D40X, D50, D60, D70, D70s, D80, D90, D200, D300, D300s, D600, D610, D700, D750, D800, D800E, D810, D3000, D3100, D3200, D3300, D5000, D5100, D5200, D5300, D5500, D7000, D7100, D7200, Df
Coolpix: A, P7800

Olympus
E-M1, E-M5, Eastward-M10, E-P1, E-P2, East-P3, Eastward-P5, E-PL3, E-PL5, E-PL7, OM-D E-M5 Mark II

Panasonic
CM1, FZ300, G70, GF1, GF3, GF5, GF7, GH3, GH4, GM1, GM5, GX1, GX8, LX5, LX7, LX100

Sony
A7, A7R, A7S, A7 Mark II, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Marker II, A99, A700, A3000, A5000, A5100, A6000, QX1, NEX-5, NEX-5N, NEX-5R, NEX-6, NEX-7, NEX-C3, NEX-F3, RX1, RX1R, RX10, RX10 Mark II, RX100, RX100 Mark Two, RX100 Mark III, RX100 Marker Iv

DNG files
All .dng files

In that location are ii means to back up your telephone, camera, or storage card from your reckoner:

  1. Install Backup and Sync.
  2. Upload photos from your browser.

Prepare up Google Drive for desktop

  1. On your computer, download and install Google Drive for Desktop.
  2. Sign in to your Google Business relationship.
  3. Select the folders or pictures you lot desire to back up and thenBack up to Google Photos.
  4. Select Done and thenRelieve.

Of import:

  • If you remove a photo or video from your computer that you previously backed up to Google Photos, it stays in Google Photos.
  • If yous remove a photo or video from Google Photos, information technology isn't removed from Google Bulldoze or your calculator.
  • Uploads can exist slower and use more storage if you back up to both Google Photos and Google Drive. Unless you need a 2nd copy in Drive, we recommend yous support photos and videos to Google Photos.

If yous already have Backup and Sync for Drive

Fill-in and Sync is now Google Drive for desktop.

If yous already have Fill-in and Sync installed, you lot'll be migrated to Google Drive for desktop.

To upgrade sooner, uninstall Backup and Sync and then follow the steps above to gear up Google Drive for desktop.

Select a different upload size

You tin change the upload size for photos and videos backed upward to Google Photos from your estimator.

Important: Y'all tin can't modify the upload size for files synced with Google Drive.

Back upwardly your Apple Photo Library (Mac but)

If your computer runs macOS, you tin can back up your System Photo Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If you have more than one Apple Photos Library, only the System Photograph Library will be backed up. You can utilize Apple Photos to change the System Photo Library.
  • If your Apple tree Photograph Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and cloud volition be backed up to Google Photos on macOS 10.fifteen and to a higher place.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

  1. On your computer, open photos.google.com.
  2. At the top correct, click Upload and thenComputer.
  3. Find and select your photos.
  4. Click Open.

You can also drag photos from your calculator to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If you drag a photo to a specific album, the photo will be uploaded to that anthology.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

In Google Photos, yous tin view how you uploaded your photos and videos.

Related resources

  • Download photos or videos to your device
  • Cease syncing Google Drive files with Fill-in and Sync
  • How your Google storage works

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