How to use Depth Editor and Color Pop in Google Photos

I used the Color Pop feature to make our
Geeks on Tour coffee mug stand out.

Have you ever wished you could make a photo of a flower, or a person, really stand out - with the main subject in color and the rest in black and white?

Now you can!

It's ...

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Are your cellphone photos backed up? Are you sure?

When you take some new photos, you will see them right away in the Google Photos app. That DOES NOT mean they’ve been backed up. Google Photos will show you photos in your camera roll on the device. At the top of your Google Photos library, you ...

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Google Photos: How to view your photos in order by date-uploaded rather than date-taken

On a computer, you can see the timeline of your
photos by moving your mouse to the right sidebar.
These dates represent the date the photo was taken.

When you use Google Photos to store your pictures, they are organized in one great big stream, by ...

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Using Google Photos to Edit Video

If you know how easy it is to trim off the beginning and end of videos, you will take more videos and share them with friends! Google Photos has this trim capability built right in to the mobile app, on your iPhone, iPad or Android mobile ...

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How to use Google Photos Editing Tools: Crop

Do you think you can't get a good picture of that bald eagle with your smartphone? Take it anyway! You may be surprised at how good you can make it look with just a couple of tweaks from Google Photos editing tools.

Zooming with the camera

I used ...

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If you can scan a code, you can get our Google Photos eBook FREE

Mrs. Geek's Guide to Google Photos - 2nd Edition

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• 25 more pages, complete index (see table of contents below)
• All instructions up to date
• Covers new features like Shared Libraries, Google Lens, Favorites and more
• Updated videos
• eBook available NOW ...

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Google Photos - Your questions answered

We got your questions! Lots of them! We'll answer them live as we record Episode #145 of What Does This Button Do?"

• Sunday June 17, 2018
• 2pm Eastern time
• Geeks on Tour YouTube channel - Subscribe and click the Bell icon to be notified when ...

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Google Photos "Free Up Space" command is scary

An opening screen of Google Photos encourages users to
remove photos from their device

The moral of the following story is this: Make a separate backup of your photos, either to your computer, or to another cloud storage like OneDrive or Dropbox ...

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Bad News about Picasa ... but we were warned

How do you upload photos from your computer to Google Photos? 

If you're still using Picasa to do this, you're in for a rude awakening next time you try to click that green button - or any option for "Upload." 

If you don't use any upl...

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Google Photos: Everything you need to know

I wrote a book about Google Photos. It's titled Mrs. Geek's Guide to Google Photos. The subtitle is "Your lifetime of photos, effortless and free." I keep thinking, if Google Photos is so effortless, why do I need a 100+ page book to teach how to ...

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