Getting a New Phone? Wait! Don’t Lose Your Pictures

Get your Mrs. Geek's Guide to Google Photos!
Google Photos is the best way to store your entire library of photos in one place. If you do it right, you will never need to worry about losing your photos.

Before you Give Up Your Old Phone

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Book Launch: Mrs. Geek's Guide to Google Photos

The book is now available on Amazon and we are bundling it in a December Special on our website. We live streamed our Book Launch on Sunday, 12/18/16 at 2pm Eastern. Click here to watch.

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Geeks Teach Google Photos at Central Florida Computer Society

Central Florida Computer Society, cfcs.org, meets at the Seminole county library just north of Orlando. This is not too far from the Thousand Trails RV park where we are members, so we used the meeting as an excuse to go RVing for the week.

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Try Searching your Photos

You may be very surprised at what Google Photos can deliver just by searching for whatever comes to mind.

On your phone, your tablet, or your computer bring up Google Photos and notice the search field at the top of the screen. Type anything in ...

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Google Photos is NOT a "Backup" of Your Photos

A Backup is an EXTRA copy kept in a safe place.

First, here's the definition of "Backup" that I use:

The procedure for making extra copies of data in case the original is lost or damaged.

Backup files are EXTRA copies. 

These extra files are ...

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Top 7 Reasons to Love Google Photos

#7: It makes fun creations from your photos and videos. 

Sometimes it does it automatically without you even asking. Sometimes you want to make some yourself. This fireworks example is an animation. The movies even add music!

#6: It's so easy ...

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Want to be an Expert in Google Photos?

by Chris Guld
When Google Photos first came out, I knew I wanted to become expert in it. I specialize in helping people manage their digital photos. I have been using, and teaching, Picasa (Google’s free photo management software)  for over 10 ...

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Three ways to Delete Photos with Google Photos

Losing precious photos is what we want to avoid! Google Photo’s primary purpose is to keep your photos backed up and safe, but if you don’t understand where they’re getting backed up and how delete works, you could still end up losing them! I have ...

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Google Photos Can't Add Text to Photos ... or Can It?

Just last week, Google released an update to the photo editing app called Snapseed. Snapseed is companion app to Google Photos, and with this update, it now has the ability to add text. Here are a few examples:

I LOVE it! Up until now, if I wan...

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How to Get Started with Google Photos

This is the icon for Google Photos. If it is installed on your 

phone, use it instead of the Photos or Gallery app that 
came with your phone.

Updated Aug 2020.

If you have a smartphone and you take pictures with it, you should be using ...

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The Easy Way to Get Videos from your Phone to Youtube

July, 2019 - this feature is set to be retired on July 10. See article by PeggyK
If you use Google Photos on your phone, they’re already there! All you have to do is go to your Youtube channel and select the videos you want.

1. Youtube.com and log in ...

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Google Photos Animations of Fireworks Photos

We hope you enjoyed the July 4 holiday as much as we did. But, that would be hard to do! July 4 is also our wedding anniversary - we call it inTERdependance day!

We took a water taxi ride to watch the fireworks in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It was a ...

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Ask Google Photos to Find a Photo with 2 Named People

by Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.com
On our What Does This Button Do? show this past week (Episode 85) we demonstrated some search tricks with Google Photos. Slide the YouTube playhead to the 17 minute, 13 second mark to see the demos.

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Google Photos: Getting Started on the Right Path

We help people started with Google Photos nearly every day! We decided to set it up as a class using online Webinar tools. This is for a very small group - limit 5 people. We will meet together for 2 sessions - 1 hour each, then each person will ...

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How Do I Send My Photos to a Friend?

by Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.com
If you and your friend both use Google Photos, it is so easy to send them photos. You can send just one, or you can send hundreds of photos with one link, no need to break it up into small pieces, no need to attach to ...

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Google Photos–Is it Really Unlimited and Free?

Google Photos will store your entire 
library, many thousands of photos, for free!

YES!! If you choose the photo size called High Quality and not Original, Google Photos will store your entire photo library of many thousands of photos, for ...

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Using Picasa and Google Photos Together

by Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.com

This is what I do now: All my photos collect in the cloud with Google Photos, I make albums of my best photos there, then I download those albums to my computer so I have them in Picasa for safekeeping, collages, text ...

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Photo Albums Using Google Photos

I have roughly 50,000 photos collected online using Google Photos.

Wanna watch my slideshow? I’ll bet not! You’d need a few days of uninterrupted time, and several buckets of popcorn!

No, I want to select just my best pictures and put them in ...

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