Support photos & videos

About back up and sync

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

Benefits

  • Never lose a memory: Any photos you take from a device with backup enabled volition be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automatic sync: Whatsoever edits you make or photos you take will be attainable beyond any device that you sign in to. If you edit and save a photograph on your telephone, the photograph volition look the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: Y'all can search your photos by the people (when you've enabled face group), 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 go started

What you need to back up photos & videos

  • Good 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 ten GB.
    • Items smaller than 256 x 256.
  • File types that can be backed upwards.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Live photos can exist backed up 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 y'all try to support a file type not listed here, it may not work with Google Photos.

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

Types of RAW files you can dorsum up

Canon
EOS-1D X Marking III, EOS-1D X Mark Ii, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Mark 3, EOS-1Ds Marker 2, EOS-1D Mark IV, EOS-1D Mark Three, EOS-1D Mark II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark II N, EOS 5D Marking IV, EOS 5D Mark III, EOS 5D Mark II, 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 Insubordinate T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Osculation X9i (EOS Rebel T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Buss X8i (EOS Insubordinate 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 Two), EOS Buss X9 (EOS Rebel SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Buss X7 (EOS Insubordinate SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Kiss X5 (EOS Rebel T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Kiss X4 (EOS Rebel T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Osculation X3 (EOS Rebel T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Kiss X2 (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Osculation X90 (EOS Rebel T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Kiss X80 (EOS Rebel T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Buss X70 (EOS Insubordinate T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Osculation X50 (EOS REBEL T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Kiss F (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Kiss Digital X (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital N (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss G (EOS M50), EOS M6 Marking II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS M, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 X Marker II, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 X Mark Three, PowerShot G7 10 Mark Two, PowerShot G7 10, PowerShot G5 X Mark II, PowerShot G5 10, PowerShot G3 Ten, PowerShot G1 X Mark Three, PowerShot G1 X Marking II, PowerShot G1 Ten, 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, E-M10, E-P1, E-P2, E-P3, E-P5, E-PL3, East-PL5, Due east-PL7, OM-D E-M5 Mark 2

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 Marker Two, A99, A700, A3000, A5000, A5100, A6000, QX1, NEX-v, NEX-5N, NEX-5R, NEX-vi, NEX-7, NEX-C3, NEX-F3, RX1, RX1R, RX10, RX10 Mark 2, RX100, RX100 Marker II, RX100 Marker Three, RX100 Mark 4

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.

Set up Google Bulldoze for desktop

  1. On your computer, download and install Google Drive for Desktop.
  2. Sign in to your Google Business relationship.
  3. Select the folders or pictures you want to support and thenSupport to Google Photos.
  4. Select Done and thenSalve.

Important:

  • If yous remove a photograph or video from your computer that you previously backed upwardly to Google Photos, information technology stays in Google Photos.
  • If y'all remove a photo or video from Google Photos, it isn't removed from Google Drive or your computer.
  • Uploads tin be slower and use more storage if you support to both Google Photos and Google Bulldoze. Unless you need a 2d copy in Drive, we recommend you back up photos and videos to Google Photos.

If yous already take Backup and Sync for Drive

Fill-in and Sync is at present Google Drive for desktop.

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

To upgrade sooner, uninstall Backup and Sync and and so follow the steps above to fix Google Drive for desktop.

Select a different upload size

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

Of import: You tin't alter the upload size for files synced with Google Drive.

Back up your Apple Photo Library (Mac only)

If your computer runs macOS, y'all tin back upward your Organization Photo Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If you take more than one Apple Photos Library, but the Organisation Photo Library will be backed up. You can utilise Apple Photos to change the System Photograph Library.
  • If your Apple Photo Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and deject volition exist backed up to Google Photos on macOS 10.15 and to a higher place.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

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

You tin can also drag photos from your computer to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If you elevate a photo to a specific album, the photo will be uploaded to that anthology.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

In Google Photos, y'all 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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