{"id":2442,"date":"2015-05-29T10:25:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T17:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2015-05-31T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T17:36:37","slug":"how-exactly-does-storage-work-on-google-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/29\/how-exactly-does-storage-work-on-google-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"How *exactly* does storage work on Google Photos?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mat Honan gives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mathonan\/googles-new-photos-app-is-like-gmail-for-pictures\">a nice summary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It gives you free unlimited storage for what Google calls \u201chigh-quality\u201d photos and videos. At the free tier, the service compresses images, maintaining resolution up to 16 megapixels. Google claims these maintain near-identical visual quality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s true:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/photos\/CafPbUjDh4MgzCNi9\">check out these comparisons<\/a>. Honestly, if we never said anything about compression, I don\u2019t think a single human (myself included) would ever notice, but it\u2019s important to be transparent so that people can make informed choices.<\/p>\n<p>Mat continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Videos are maintained at 1080p. If you want to keep your original photos, Google offers 15 GB of storage for free and an additional terabyte for $10 per month. [Also, 100GB = $2\/mo.] To keep your photos current, Google Photos has <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.google.com\/apps\">automatic backups for iOS, Android, and the desktop<\/a>. You don\u2019t have to actually do anything to make them happen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you shoot raw images with a DSLR (as I do), you can choose \u201cOriginal\u201d from the desktop app and \u201cHigh Quality\u201d from your phone so that your phone pics don\u2019t count against quota. (Every iPhone image besides panos will fit comfortably under the 16 megapixel cap.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mat Honan gives a nice summary: It gives you free unlimited storage for what Google calls \u201chigh-quality\u201d photos and videos. At the free tier, the service compresses images, maintaining resolution up to 16 megapixels. Google claims these maintain near-identical visual quality. It\u2019s true:\u00a0check out these comparisons. Honestly, if we never said anything about compression, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}