Organizing Old Photos with Google Photos
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Suggestion: before backing up/uploading to GPhotos, organize them into folder/s on your PC by event, or subject, or item. Windows has excellent Batch Processing functionality. Once in File Explorer, locate your folder. Be sure to click "View" tab where you will then see "Panes" and also "Layout" sections at top. Both should be set to "Details." Then rename the folder to whatever: "1970 Jones Family Vacation" or "Jones 1970 Family Vacation." Then highlight all the related photos within it (do NOT include videos). Right click & rename one, using same name as folder. They will all be named the same with a sequential (#) following. Then, while all are highlighted, edit the detailed metadata shown in the far right column with whatever...Date Taken, Location, Comments, Title, Tags, etc. After batch processing your event photos, THEN upload to Google Photos and the basic, important metadata, including date, will stay with each photo, and sort by date.
Great, earlier today also started figuring out everything you said in the beginning about organizing into folders on my pc to make the process easier. Then I searched for a clip on youtube to learn more about organizing. But learned nothing literary. This guy doesn't quite follow through on the promises in the title about organization. Very little information in these 14 min and talking about completely different things. Then I see your text and found much more help. Thanks
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Thumbs up for Folders. There really is no reason for all these companies to abandon the safe and trusted folder paradigm.
Completely. I keep my photos in folders organized by year. Whenever I use an app it organizes it by "date created" and I have to manually change the date for 1000s of photos that were scanned before I had a digital camera. I'm hoping at least one solid developer will make an app that can do this better. Currently, I use google drive folders to organize my photos. Its slower and clunky, but at least I know where my photos are.
@@aquilajedi Thank god i found one with same problem 😔
Yeah, even Dotto pulled his demo photo from a folder while we watched. And he used a folder system within his local backups and Drop box I bet...That's okay Mr. Dotto, keep up the good work.
But I have a question: if we don't want to use the date, the location or the content as far as Google can tell is not useable, can I use some kind of tag? I see I can add a caption but that doesn't seem to work like tags do. Do you have any suggestions for sorting via some kind of tagging?
Great video on Google Photo, however all of us with tons of photos in either Dropbox, iCloud or local stored in folders, as albums... would be great if you could make a video on how to import those into Google Photo, where the folders, albums, are retained so that when imported, that one would be able to see all the great albums which we all have spent years organizing our photos in... and would continue with within Google Photos as addition to the Metadata information, which are amazing in Google Photo :)
Absolutely a great video! I have old photos everywhere, I have needed to organize them from back to 1999 on my old CPU backed up on an ancient hard drive. I am going back and check out your previous Google Photo videos before I start. THANKS! Mike 👍🎥🎇🗾🌠🏙🎑🌃🏞🎆🌌🌅🌇🌉🌄🌆🌁💻📱🙃👏
Hi Steve, thanks as always. You alluded to it at one point, but importing photos that aren't already digitized is a huge issue for many of us "older" folks. Perhaps as another edition of Google photos how to's, you could cover that topic. Scanning photos, scanning negatives and the issues of converting from negative to positives, scanning old slides, taking photos of photos, colour cast, etc., etc., etc. Hope you consider this for further demos
As a certified photo organizer based in Seattle, I'd be happy to consult with Steve so he could do a video on scanner how to's and settings!
good ideas here, love to see you Steve tackle this topic; of getting old photographs (from photo albums to Google Photos) Is there an app that can help? which is best? phone? scanners?
I did digitalise several old pictures I had. How? I do just take a picture of them. Preferably that should be done during the day, and not under direct sunlight. I use a canon eos m. I have heard that canon eos m50 has a great color reproduction. I guess that such camera will do the job.
@@loremipsum7ac thx, I see that Steve has covered Google Photo Scan in a previous video, also please note that Google Photo Scan does not load on all Smartphones, I just upgraded my S3 to an S8 and was able to download and install GPS today and I am excited to try it out on my old photos.
I recently acquired a Kodak Scanza, a small device that enables scanning of old slides and negatives. It works pretty well and is not too expensive.
Great video! A major limitation of writing descriptions in G Photos is that the field information is not included when the picture is downloaded from Google Photos. This means if you spend a lot of time writing descriptions and only do that in Google Photos, your work does not travel with the photo. Because of this, I personally recommend to anyone who wants to use Google Photos, that you manage your pictures outside of Google Photos so you can add metadata, and then import the picture to Google Photos for broader access, great searching, and display.
Absolutely. Adding metadata (tags, in my case) to my photo/video files are the only reason I am still chained to Photoshop Elements. If PSE's cataloging and metadata management become available on Google Photos (or any other photo management program), I would drop PSE in a heartbeat.
I’d suggest using Adobe Bridge for metadata. It allows bunch editing
I admire your passion about Google Photos. Thanks Steve.
Thank you Steve! Another great, informative video that I will put to use.
You are absolutely the best teacher! I finally understand and can use Google photos. Thank you!
This video has motivated me to start organizing my photos. Thanks!
Extremely well put together video. Very informative and effective. Thank you.
Another great video as usual Steve. I’m currently just over half way through scanning old colour slides from the mid 1970’s to early 1980’s. To organise them as I go, I’ve used folders based on years/months on my Mac and used Finder’s bulk rename to give the files a more meaningful name. The next step would be to add dates to the file as you’ve mentioned, but that is another massive undertaking, I need some way to bulk edit, maybe by using the file names and/or folder structure as a source, have you any ideas?
is syncing full folders too much to ask for?
Great video as always. Very informative!
I back up all of my photos into Google Photos and Sync cloud storage.
Thank you. I’m scanning all my photos from the 70’s forward and I’m passing them along. It’s a job for sure- but I’m happy to do it now at 53 and preserve these for my daughter and Grandsons. Many ppl have now opened up their mailboxes and are finding pics from 30 - 40 years ago. Nice surprises. My daughter will now be the keeper of photos but we have digital copies as well. ~~just in case. I will back them up as well. I’m done keeping boxes and boxes of photos. I’m free. Yay🙌🏻✨🎈🎊🪅🎉
What an inspiring endeavor, Pamela. Let's preserve the memories!
Good explanations. Very complete, very clear, very helpful. Thanks.
just a big thank you.... this is all fresh 'stuff' to learn for me
So nice of you
I watched you Steve on TV in Canada, did I not? It is good to watch your informative videos again and I will now subscribe and be a regular.
Very good job, Thanks Steve so clear and well stated .
Great intro. I'd like to see a followup on updating the location information and for doing bulk date and loacation corrections before importing too. For more details on Google Phots I'd recommend your pals at Geeks on Tour.
This was excellent, thank you so much for doing this
Glad you enjoyed it, Julian!
Thanks Steve
Great video I also back up up my pictures on a back up drive as well this video is very cool .
This is a great video. Thank you for making this. x
LOL - BRILLIANT M8! As I started watching this and I saw a link to a previous video you made about photo basics, I paused this and watched that one in another tab first. It was about the basics of Google photos. Just as you were finishing and I clicked to close that tab I heard you say "have fun storming the castle!" Awesome, and thanks :-D
Have fun storming the castle!
Lol I was struggling with the folder thing! I miss my folders!! 😩
Thanks Steve - great Tutorial.
Do you know what service or application is the best as finding duplicate images in google photos with different file names. Where the pixels are analyzed rather then just the name.
Thank you so much! The info is so useful!
Really well done video, thank you!
Great to hear you encourage folks to forget about folders! We've got to think outside the old box. Google Photos is great for old family photos as well. It can even be used to identify people in old family photos. As a genealogist I've got a video on that on my channel, and I discuss it in my book.
What is wrong with folders? For most use cases, especially non-professional ones, they are the most efficient way to find what you want.
Steve, thanks for the explanation! I'm just getting started and uploaded some photos that I scanned from prints. I altered thd meta data and wanted to save those changes to my primary photo storage on my computer. The changes didn't make it and the taken date was the date of downloading to the computer. Maybe I'm making some mistake. I'll keep playing.
Also keep in mind that if you have your settings to "High Quality", which means if the photo is greater than 16mp , Google can resize it to 16mp. With that setting you can store unlimited storage and numbers of photos for FREE. I have 1g+ of photos all on the cheap.
I recommend using Stagsi if you download those photos in your PC. It's an incredible application that can do marvels along with tagging tools. One of the most useful feature is Tag Decks. It allows to assign hotkeys to one single tag or a group of tags. It becomes easy and faster to sort a long list of unsorted files and photos with quick keystrokes. Simply google for Stagsi to find more useful information. As a game developer, I highly recommend it.
It would be great if you could share your media backup setup that you mentioned in the last part (mac > nas > google photos > dropbox).
is it totally automatic after you import your media from your camera?
This was really useful!
Hello Steve, thank you for this great tutorial. When I signed in with my account it was the same as my YOU-TUBE email, would you say to leave it like this or best to create a separate one? Google seems to want to connect with all other Google services?
Maybe you and your viewers can give me tips?
Thanks
Hi Steve, Thank you for your videos! Is there anyway to the different photo folders on my computer back up to Google Photos and keep the folders/albums intact and appear in Google Photos? I could really use the help!
I needed to see this!
Also have a question you may be able to help me with?
I have 3 older laptops & want to get the pictures off of them?
I recently purchased 2 SD cards & have 2flash drives to to save all my photos on. Just to be sure I won't loose them.
I have another question
I have downloaded the Sprint Complete app. & I have photos & videos from yrs ago when I was given advice to get dropbox. Is there away i can upload the photos&Videos from Dropbox alone? Because I want to delete Dropbox.
Forgive me I'm not very tech savy:/ (I Really need to take computer tech classes) Thank you,
Appreciate any help or advice.
This is sort of an eye opener for me
This is a great video, as usual, Steve, but I have some issues. I am in the process of scanning thousands of old slides and negatives. To change the metadata date on each would be daunting. Is there a way to batch change the date? Also, I recently uploaded about 800 photos to Google and it didn’t upload 116 of them, but there was no indication of why, or which photos didn’t make it. I’m wondering if Flickr or Dropbox would do a better job. Thanks for your great info.
great videos , got a question ,how do i move a photo to an album from either another album or from a time it was taken and it only shows in the album i am moving it to? any way to drag and drop to the desired album?
Thanks for this video. I'm wondering how you change the metadata (date) for lots of photos at once, is there a technique for this? I'm currently importing thousands of old photos, but don't have time to change the date one by one on all of them.
Google search 'batch edit photo metadata'
Excellent! Thank you.
Thanks for the video. I'm uploading all my daughters photos into google photos. She's created several albums and selected specific photos for each album. Is there a way to those albums into google photos? She doesn't want to recreate all those albums again. Thoughts?
Super great video... Your problems are similar to my problems... Thanks.....
Curious, if you add the meta data inside Google Photos... what method can you use to backup these photos to a local HD or other cloud service that preserves that info?
With so many backups. In which one you do the "clean up" and how do they synch from one service to another? or do you do clean up/ editing before uploading to the cloud or other services?
So helpful. thank you 😊
Is there, as far as you know, any chance to use IPTC data in google photos? especially the copyright/creator information? Thx Tom
How can I tell which photos I've already put in an album and which ones still need to be put in one? When I look at all photos, I can't tell which ones I've already put in an album.
Same!!! What is up with that!
I know one way to get around this issue, but in involves an extra step taking more time. When you select photos for an album, you can also choose to archive these same photos. Then they will still show up in your album that you created & they will also now show up in your archive section, but they will no longer show up in your main photos category. This will allow you to keep track of your progress if you are wanting to sort through all of your photos, putting them each in different albums. You archive every photo that you put in an album. Your remaining photos that are left to be sorted will keep getting smaller until there is none left. Once you finish sorting everything, you could choose to move them all back out of archive & your main photos section would return to normal, or you could choose to leave them in archive & your photos section would be empty, but it would be replaced by your archive section. I would probably choose to leave them in archive to make any future sorting easier. The downside to all of this is that it takes up twice the amount of time. You spend time moving some pictures to a new album. Then immediately after, you take an additional step moving those same pictures to archive. I'm not aware of any way to move pictures to both an album & archive in one step. So this plan sucks, but it should work. Google needs to create a better way to do this.
@@mwbrazier when you select the photos to move to an album how do you archive at the same time? I tried this but I could only do one thing at a time. So I had to reselect the same pictures again to archive them. Thanks!!
@@brendaquinn8877 That is correct. You have to do it in sperate steps. You move pictures to an album in one step. Then immediately after that, you reselect those same photos & move them to archive before you forget which ones they were. That's why I said that this plan sucks & we need a better way, but this will work.
@@mwbrazier ah that sucks! Thanks for the help! Guess I can’t move 50 photos at once 🙈🤣
Thanks Steve! Loved the tutorial! New subscribers here :)
Awesome, thank you!
As always you're on point.. I purchased a more space and I scarfed up a lot of old photos and vids that I had stashed in Dropbox many years ago.. straight to Google photos they went.. if I run out of space I will buy more.. I trust them.. maybe I'm foolish.. but what else can I do.. not to mention how easily I share videos, pictures and whatnot by way of a link. Hell, it's basically having your own channel.. but let's not give them any ideas.. LOL LOL love your content man, keep it up.... Please💯
HI Steve, quite a few challenges in importing old photos to Google photos and the cloud. Most important of all - time. Every photo uploaded needs to be edited and tagged in the description section of the Google Photos. That is the TIP; Use the description section that goes with each and every photo. Describe the photo like place, event, name and that makes it easier to pull it out with a search. 2 - Use as many variables especially with spelling and place.
Yoo love your vids Steve keep up the good work 🤗🤗
Hi, I was wondering if you use this in conjunction with Apple Photos or in place of it. Thank you.
It is really helpful that you explain about the data that is in the photo. Sometimes it is easy to forget that a picture is a file and every app the picture is opened up has the ability to add the information to the data that is stored in the picture file.
I have one question though. What is your take on using a cloud based service to back up and maintain your photos regarding the downloading file size? I know that with some services, they condense the file to conserve space on their servers. That could be a potential problem for photographers or graphic artists.
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Some advice - is it a good idea to get the 8,000 photos removed from my iphone? I don't think there's enough space on my mac book either - so is a memory stick a good option?
Great video. Some fab info
Hello, quick question, can you create a folder within a folder? Thanks!
I wish I had watched this yesterday before downloading some old pics and videos into Google Photos. I didn't know that the metadata could be edited and now have a chronological mess.
Thanks for tech advice that isn't in Hindi🙂
Thank you!
Hello Steve, My questions will sound so basic but that is what I am. I was looking at how to free GB in my Android of Google pictures, without going to the Cloud or Dropbox, I found your video on how to back up your photos, you suggested four different options, well for me now, I just need back up mines on my laptop, and later will be in an external drive and a Pendrive. Far I can open my Google photos on my Laptop, can I delete those ones on my Android? Also, I would like to know how to get what is exactly the amount of pictures I have, or what will be the free space I'm going to have then. I would appreciate your suggestions.
Is there a way to caption photos outside of the description option so that it can be seen below it?
How do you backup your goggle photos? The only way I know of is to download the from goggle and copy them somewhere else. But that is so tedious and not automatic. Is there a better way?
Wonder what you think of the photo finder USB being touted all over social media? Loved this video, could OneDrive be my backup place for photos?
Very helpful.
Great, BIG thanks
Hi Steve ... good vid for sure. This may have been answered in the comments. I followed your steps exactly and uploaded a FB photo to Google Photos, put in an album. But when I click on the photo, I do not get the 'metadata' menu. I get the standard 'save download image etc. Is this capability to manually name the ''old' photo available only on the paid Google Photo version and not the free version? Thanks!
Hi, what if you are importing 100's of old photos from a site like Shutterfly and they were taken by a digital camera and they are not dated. Do you have to go into each photo and change the date manually or is there a way to do a bunch at a time?
2010 - twenty years ago ?!? - Canada's gone back to the future !
Great tips. I have imported many photos but they always showed up on the date of import. I can now reorganize those.
addressed in this video. You need to change the Meta Data to the date of the image...easy but time consuming. also update location
Is there a way to use Amazon Photos as a backup for my Google Photos? And when I crop or delete or whatever adjustments I make in Google, for that to carry over to Amazon Photos?
Use MultCloud to transfer files between cloud stores. 50GB free each month. or look for a 200GB/month for 3 month special.
Hi Steve,
I want the photos that I delete on my phone to also be deleted on Google photos. Is there a way to do that??? Instead of doing it manually?
Thanks!
Hi Steve, I love your videos and always learn something from them. However, I noticed that you have many "sort of duplicate" photos of the same scene in your photo albums. Do you ever just edit them by selecting just the best photo of the bunch and deleting the others? Most people seem to do just that and I think that's one of the big issues in creating these tens of thousands of photos that no one is ever going to go through after we're gone. What are your thoughts on that subject? People no longer print photos and put into a family album. These next generations will miss out seeing their relatives in photos because I believe no one is going to take the time and trouble of going through your photos even if they can gain access to your computer. Your thoughts?
Google makes a nice animation out of the multiple shots of same subject.
Its fun to watch like a GIF especially photos of babies and children.
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Great video as always, I am in the process of importing my photos, mostly old into Google Photos. This video did and will help in that process. BTW, can you move the mike & boom off to the side, kind of distracting! Thanks.
I considered Dropbox to also backup my photos since I'm paying and it's 2TB of storage but decided to go with Shutterfly since I had it since it was Kodak Gallery, then switched hands then to Ofoto. Shutterfly has unlimited photo storage and it'll be easier for me to order prints and items from Shutterfly then Dropbox.
Ever since google stopped synchronizing Google Photos with Google Drive I've ended up with a mess; some are in one place, some in the other. Often I will download a photo from Photos to edit and use in a document, but then the version in Google Photos is not the nicely cropped, adjusted one. How can I keep all this organized and in sync?
Hi Steve, I love your google how to videos and look forward to seeing your next new one. I have a question/suggestion for another google video. How do you get all your photos from google photo to a hard drive attached to your computer. I’ve tried to do it but all the directions I find want me to select them individually or by date. There must be a better way. Thanks for the videos and keep up the great work.
*Why are some of my pictures not in Google Photos?*
*Where can I find them or are they gone forever?*
Google photo is very useful. I combine it with Dropbox. I guess you know you can set Dropbox to automatically upload photos to "Camera Uploads" map.
Thankyou for many interesting videos in your channel.
Hi Steve, Great video. However, when I'm uploading old photos, previously stored in a folder by year, I have to manually change the date on every one individually. This can be up to 1000 photos per folder. Is there a way of changing the date a photos was taken for a whole batch of photos at one time?
You can do this but I think you have to do it on the desktop/web version. There's an option in the menu (three dots maybe) for edit date and time. You can change them in there.
Bradbury Robinson Thanks Bradbury, I’ll give it a try.
Does the photos stay on my phone or do they upload to google, because I don’t have a lot of storage on my phone
Another wonderful review, I enjoyed it.
Few comments if you don’t mind.
All these platforms are one security breach away. We already saw that already happened.
After certain number of photos these run out of space, few of us are not fortunate enough to afford monthly payments, how to circumvent this?
If we start scanning old photos which do not have meta data how we fill this gap.
What do you think.
You used as example a photo in which you knew the date taken.
But most old photos you don't know the dates and all the dates are different.
I've been copying loads of old slides - that's another story - but when I uploaded them from my compie to Google - they land on Google in the date I copied them.
So I had to scroll down to find each batch and somehow put them together.
Thanks for the info on changing the date but you presumably have to do that AFTER you've uploaded them - so you still have to fish around among loads of photos uploaded on different days.
I've also found problems sometimes uploading photos which if a large number, some photos are skipped and I have to go back and upload them a second time.
I just finished scanning 340 slides. They are organized chronologically I would like to include them I in Google photos in a similar way. Unfortunately all the dates and locations disappeared during the scanning process (they look great). I there a way left to organize them ?
Thanks you
Hi Steve. I am wondering if you know of a simple way to transfer Google Photos out of Google and download locally or copy to the cloud somewhere? Takeout is very clunky and includes lots of metadata mixed in with the photos...which is frustrating. There must be a solution out there somewhere...I hope.:). Thank you and keep up the great job with your videos...I consider you one of my mentors and I am grateful for your work. Best Regards...Dane:)
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Hi Steve, I wonder if you can suggest a way to find and delete duplicate photos from my Google Photos account. In the past I used Picasa and Picasa web, but when Google took it over it really messed things up so now I have thousands of duplicates in Google photos. I would like to have a quick and reliable way of finding and deleting them.
Hi! I have two Google accounts with two different email addresses, etc. I have in each a Google Photos (app?)
with a fair amount of pictures in each. Is it possible to move all the photos from one account to the other? Thank you.
I have a question following this presentation please:
If we don't want to use the date, the location or the content, can I use some kind of tag?
I see I can add a caption but that doesn't seem to work like tags do. Do you have any suggestions for sorting via some kind of tagging?
Thanks!
Great video. When you share photos with someone can they edit or even remove a photos from your account that you've shared with them?
Users who added photos to a shared (collaborative) album can only edit or remove their own photos. The owner can delete all photos, change the order, but also not edit photos added by others.
@@dottotech Thank you very much for your reply. Merry Christmas!
I need the folders!
Thanks
Dotto, is there a way to move google drive photos to google photo….without selecting each photo in folders….wish I could just upload the folder.
Hi Steve. Any plans for webinar Wednesday's?
How do I SORT all albums in a given number of options ie: folder name or location? I use a naming convention for folders that if sorted by Album name they would appear in Year order. Orhers would be in Alpha numeric order. I know how to sort the contents of a folder but i dont see an option to sort ALL Folders.
Albums are organized by the dates of the photos within the album. So if one album has pics from 2015 but one photo has a date of 2019 then it will put that folder first because of that 2019 photo. You can change the photo date within the album. The photos are organized, by default, oldest to newest within the folder. Scroll down to the last pic and click on it. The edit date option is in the upper right corner menu. Just correct the year to 2015 and the folder will reorganize based on the year, 2015.
@@Chris-rx5ce Do you know if adding photos to an album takes twice the amount of storage? For example: if a pic is 1 MB and I add it to an album, does the pic take 2MB because it’s in 2 locations or just 1 MB?
@@rituram9180 Hi Ritu - I do not know for sure but I would assume it does NOT double the storage amount. I think it stores the photo in the pictures page then just creates a link to it for the album. I upload the pictures to the photos page then add them to albums (organize them into albums) then archive the picture from the photos page (archive photo). This clears my Photos Page. I am assuming that the pictures are not stored twice in the archive page and the album page. I would think Google would have worked that out but like I said originally, I don't know. Maybe we could test it by adding a large video file and seeing if the storage doubles or not. Hmm...
Hi Steve, Is there a way to tell Google photos who a person is before it asks? It’s really good most of the time but struggles to identify babies.
Thank You Steve 😊.
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can you explain about the google photo on google drive ? that's same ? everything saved on google photo automaticly saved to google drive also? I got the trouble with my drive storage, I got notice storage full on gdrive, gmail & google photo, I try to downloaded all photo/video (maybe 90%) because I want still receive email, can you help me make the process faster? I already use backup and sync by google apps on my laptop