Support photos & videos

Nearly support 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 exist accessible from any device where you are logged into your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a retentiveness: Any photos yous have from a device with backup enabled volition be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automated sync: Any edits yous brand or photos y'all have volition be accessible across any device that you sign in to. If you edit and salve a photo on your phone, the photograph will look the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: You lot tin search your photos past the people (when you'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.

Earlier y'all get started

What you lot need to back up photos & videos

  • Expert internet connection.
  • File sizes that can be backed up.  Your files won't be backed upward 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 tin can be backed upwards.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Live photos can exist backed up if yous utilize 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 you endeavour to support a file type not listed here, it may non work with Google Photos.

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

Types of RAW files you lot can dorsum upwardly

Catechism
EOS-1D X Mark 3, EOS-1D X Marking II, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Marker Iii, EOS-1Ds Mark 2, EOS-1D Mark 4, EOS-1D Mark Iii, EOS-1D Mark Ii, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark II Northward, EOS 5D Mark IV, EOS 5D Mark III, EOS 5D Mark II, EOS 5D, EOS 5Ds, EOS 5Ds R, EOS R5, EOS 6D Mark 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 Osculation X10i (EOS REBEL T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Osculation X9i (EOS Rebel T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Kiss X8i (EOS REBEL T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Kiss X7i (EOS REBEL T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Buss X6i (EOS REBEL T4i/EOS 650D), EOS Osculation X10 (EOS REBEL SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D Ii), EOS Buss X9 (EOS Insubordinate SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Kiss X7 (EOS REBEL SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Kiss X5 (EOS Rebel T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Kiss X4 (EOS Rebel T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Kiss X3 (EOS REBEL T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Buss X2 (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Kiss X90 (EOS Insubordinate T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Kiss 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 Kiss Digital Ten (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital Northward (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Osculation M (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark Two, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS One thousand, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 X Marker Ii, PowerShot G9 10, PowerShot G7 10 Mark III, PowerShot G7 X Mark Two, PowerShot G7 Ten, PowerShot G5 X Mark Two, PowerShot G5 10, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 Ten Mark III, 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
Due east-M1, E-M5, Due east-M10, East-P1, E-P2, E-P3, Due east-P5, E-PL3, Due east-PL5, E-PL7, OM-D E-M5 Marker 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 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 Mark 2, RX100, RX100 Marking Two, RX100 Marking III, RX100 Marking IV

DNG files
All .dng files

There are 2 ways to support your phone, camera, or storage card from your computer:

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

Prepare up Google Drive for desktop

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

Important:

  • If you lot remove a photograph or video from your computer that you previously backed upward to Google Photos, it stays in Google Photos.
  • If you remove a photograph or video from Google Photos, it isn't removed from Google Drive or your estimator.
  • Uploads can be slower and utilize more storage if y'all back up to both Google Photos and Google Drive. Unless you need a second re-create in Drive, we recommend you back up photos and videos to Google Photos.

If you already take Backup and Sync for Drive

Backup and Sync is now Google Bulldoze for desktop.

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

To upgrade sooner, uninstall Fill-in and Sync and then follow the steps in a higher place to set upwardly Google Drive for desktop.

Select a dissimilar upload size

You can change the upload size for photos and videos backed up to Google Photos from your computer.

Important: You lot can't alter the upload size for files synced with Google Bulldoze.

Back up your Apple Photo Library (Mac only)

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

Tips:

  • If you lot accept more than one Apple tree Photos Library, just the System Photo Library volition be backed up. Yous tin can use Apple tree Photos to alter the Arrangement Photo Library.
  • If your Apple tree Photo Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and cloud volition be backed upwardly to Google Photos on macOS 10.15 and above.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

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

Y'all tin can also drag photos from your computer to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If you lot drag a photo to a specific anthology, the photo volition be uploaded to that album.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

In Google Photos, you can view how you 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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