Back upward photos & videos

Well-nigh back up and sync

Back up and sync is a storage service that automatically saves your photos and videos to your Google Business relationship. These photos and videos will be attainable from any device where you are logged into your business relationship.

Benefits

  • Never lose a retention: Whatsoever photos you accept from a device with backup enabled will be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automatic sync: Any edits you make or photos you lot take volition be accessible across any device that you lot sign in to. If you edit and salvage a photo on your phone, the photo will look the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: Yous can search your photos by the people (when you lot've enabled confront grouping), places, and things in them. No tagging is required.
  • Automatic creations: Bring photos to life with automatically created movies, collages, animations, and panoramas.

Before you lot get started

What you need to dorsum upward photos & videos

  • Skillful internet connexion.
  • File sizes that tin can be backed up.  Your files won't exist backed up 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 exist backed upwardly.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Live photos can be backed upward if you use the Google Photos app on your iPhone or iPad.
    • Videos: .mpg, .mod, .mmv, .tod, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .divx, .mov, .m4v, .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .m2t, .m2ts, .mts, and .mkv files.

If yous try to back up a file blazon not listed here, it may not piece of work with Google Photos.

Of import: Your Google Business relationship storage is shared across multiple products like Google Photos, Google Drive, and Gmail. If you take used all of your storage, you lot won't exist able to back up new files.

Types of RAW files you can back up

Canon
EOS-1D X Marking III, EOS-1D X Mark II, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Mark 3, EOS-1Ds Mark Two, EOS-1D Mark 4, EOS-1D Mark Iii, EOS-1D Mark II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Marking Two N, EOS 5D Mark IV, EOS 5D Marking Iii, EOS 5D Marker 2, 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 Mark 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 REBEL T6S/EOS 760D), EOS Kiss X10i (EOS REBEL T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Kiss X9i (EOS REBEL T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Buss 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 Kiss X9 (EOS REBEL SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Buss 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 Insubordinate XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Buss X90 (EOS Insubordinate T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Osculation X80 (EOS REBEL T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Kiss X70 (EOS REBEL T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Kiss X50 (EOS Insubordinate T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Kiss F (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Osculation Digital X (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Buss Digital N (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Buss G (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS 1000, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 X Marker Two, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 10 Marker III, PowerShot G7 X Marker Two, PowerShot G7 X, PowerShot G5 X Marking II, PowerShot G5 X, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 X Marker Three, PowerShot G1 Ten 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, E-M10, E-P1, E-P2, East-P3, E-P5, E-PL3, East-PL5, Due east-PL7, OM-D East-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 2, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Mark 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 Marking II, RX100, RX100 Marking Ii, RX100 Mark III, RX100 Mark IV

DNG files
All .dng files

There are two means to support your telephone, photographic camera, or storage carte du jour from your computer:

  1. Install Fill-in and Sync.
  2. Upload photos from your browser.

Set up Google Drive for desktop

  1. On your computer, download and install Google Drive for Desktop.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account.
  3. Select the folders or pictures yous want to dorsum upwards and thenBack upward to Google Photos.
  4. Select Done and thenSave.

Important:

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

If you lot already have Backup and Sync for Drive

Backup and Sync is now Google Bulldoze for desktop.

If you already have Backup and Sync installed, you'll be migrated to Google Drive for desktop.

To upgrade sooner, uninstall Fill-in and Sync and and so follow the steps above to ready Google Drive for desktop.

Select a different upload size

Y'all tin can alter the upload size for photos and videos backed up to Google Photos from your reckoner.

Of import: You tin can't change the upload size for files synced with Google Bulldoze.

Dorsum up your Apple tree Photo Library (Mac merely)

If your estimator runs macOS, yous tin can dorsum up your System Photograph Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If yous take more than one Apple tree Photos Library, only the Organization Photo Library will be backed up. You can use Apple tree Photos to modify the Arrangement Photo Library.
  • If your Apple tree Photograph Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and deject will exist backed upward to Google Photos on macOS x.15 and above.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

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

You can besides drag photos from your computer to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If y'all drag a photo to a specific anthology, the photo will exist uploaded to that album.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

In Google Photos, you can view how y'all uploaded your photos and videos.

Related resources

  • Download photos or videos to your device
  • Stop syncing Google Drive files with Backup and Sync
  • How your Google storage works

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