Google Photos is the home for all your photos and videos, searchable and organized by the people, places, and things that matter.
Q. I like having the automatic online backup and storage for my pictures with Google Photos, but I’d also like to edit certain shots and albums with my desktop photo-editing program. How do I grab those photos back from Google?
A. Google added new features to the web version of its Google Photos service this spring to supplement the controls for cropping, color adjustments and filters available through the toolbar’s pencil icon. But if you want to play around with a photo or album in the desktop image editor of your choice, you can easily download copies from the web. Start by logging into your Google Photos page.
If the image you have open on your screen is one you would like to download, click the three-dot More menu in the upper-right corner of the screen. Choose the Download option.
To grab multiple images for downloading from the main Google Photos thumbnail screen, move the cursor to each thumbnail’s upper-left corner until a white checkmark icon appears. Click it to turn the checkmark blue. When you have selected the photos you want, click the More menu icon and choose Download. You should see a compressed archive of pictures in your Downloads folder (or wherever you put your downloaded files).
If you want to get a whole album of photos, select the Albums icon on the left side of the screen and click the album to open it. In the More menu, choose Download All.
The photos should retain their embedded information (also known as EXIF data), details like camera settings and location coordinates, and you should get the images in the largest resolution Google Photos has for them.
Google Download Pictures From Phone
Because the service allows you to choose between the original resolution and a compressed “high quality” version when you upload them, the downloaded files may be of a lower resolution than the originals. Once you have the pictures downloaded to your computer, import them into your preferred desktop photo-editing program.
If you have hundreds of albums in Google Photos and want to get them all at once, you can use the Google Takeout service for bulk downloading; be aware that the pictures may lose their EXIF data with this method. Google Takeout, available from the Personal Info & Privacy section of your account settings page, can also be used to download data from all the Google products you use, including Gmail, Drive, Contacts, Maps and more.
Google Photos Download All To Pc Download
I have uploaded photos to Google Photos. Now I would like to download these pictures from Google photos to my new Android phone. But Google Photos only allow me to download one photo at a time. How to download all photos from Google Photos at once?
Google Photos works great in backing up photos to cloud storage and syncing them over all devices, while it neglects users' need to download photos, especially all photos, from the service. When you need to download photos from Google Photos to PC, Mac, iPhone or transfer pictures from Google Photos to gallery, you can follow these tips.
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How to Download All Photos from Google Photos to PC/Mac
Select All Photos and Download from Google Photos
Step 1 On your PC or Mac, open photos.google.com in the browser.
Step 2 Select the photos you want to transfer from Google Photos to the computer. Choose Download.
Step 3 Since there is no select all option on Google Photos, to select all photos to download:
Select the first photo on Google Photos;
Keep holding Shift key and scroll down to the last photo;
Click the last photo to select all photos.
Click three dot icon in the top right corner and choose Download.
Google Takeout to Save All Photos to Computer
Google Takeout allows you to download all files/photos from Google Drive, Google Photos, etc. to PC, Mac or other devices.
Step 1 Open Google Takeout in Google Chrome.
Step 2 Select the Google service that you download photos from. To download all photos from Google Photos, choose Google Photos. Click Next.
Step 3 You can choose the file type, size to save the Google photos and how you would like to receive the photos.
Step 4 An archive of photos from your Google Photos will be created. Click Download to save all the photos from Google Photos to your computer.
How to Restore Pictures from Google Photos to Phone
Save Picture from Google Photos to Device
Google Photos app has Save to device option for us to move pictures from Google Photos to Gallery, but only one photo at a time.
Step 1 Open Google Photos on your phone. Select the photo you want to download to Gallery.
Step 2 Tap the three dot icon on the top and select Save to the device. The picture will be downloaded to Gallery.
Download All/Multiple Photos From Google Photos with Google Drive
If you want to download all photos from Google Photos to phone, you can make use of Google Drive.
Step 1 Open Google Drive and choose Google Photos.
Step 2 Select the pictures that you want to get from Google Photos. To select all pictures in Google Photos, tap three dots icon > Select All.
Step 3 Tap Download icon to download the picture to your device.
If you don't use Google Drive, you can also restore all your photos backed up to Google Photo to device in these steps.
Use Google Takeout to download photos on your PC;
Transfer the photos from PC to Android/iPhone.
Google Photos is Confusing? Try A Simpler Backup Method
It is important to back up precious photos, videos on the Android phone. However, Google Photos can be very confusing:
It doesn't provide a straight-forward to restore photos from the Google backup;
Google Photos sometimes can't upload, sync, backup our photos for unknown reasons;
Photos disappear from Google Photos from time to time because of software bugs.
Instead of backing up your photos to unstable and complicated Google Photos, why not switch to a more straight-forward method: backing up the photos to PC? And other than coping all photos to PC, which will occupy much storage of your computer, FonePaw Android Data Backup & Restore can save all your Android photos/videos in a small-sized backup file to the computer. It is easy to back up and restore.
Download Android Data Backup & Restore on PC.
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Step 1 Launch the program and connect your Android phone to PC with USB cable.
Step 2 Click Device Data Backup and choose to back up photos, videos only. Tick Encrypted backup to encrypt the backup. Click Start. A backup file will be saved in a chosen folder.
Step 3 When you need to restore the photos to Android device:
Connect your phone;
Choose Device Data Restore;
Select the backup of your Android photos. Click Start. (If you have encrypted the backup, you'll need to enter the password)
Preview the backed up photos. And select the photos you want to restore, click Restore.
Backing up photos to PC is much simpler than backing up the photos to Google. What do you think? Leave your comment below.
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