{"id":328,"date":"2014-03-17T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2014-03-17T14:50:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T22:50:53","slug":"how-did-i-miss-out-on-google-photos-until-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/17\/how-did-i-miss-out-on-google-photos-until-now\/","title":{"rendered":"How did I miss out on Google Photos until now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if I told you that you could&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Automatically back up all your photos &amp; videos from your iPhone, iPad, and\/or Android devices, in the background &amp; for free<\/li>\n<li>Automatically back up all your images from your Mac and\/or PC hard drive<\/li>\n<li>View, manage, edit, and share all these images via the Web and native mobile apps<\/li>\n<li>Have automatic &amp; ever-improving enhancements like automatic panorama stitching, collage, &amp; animation creation applied<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And you could do it all for free, right now? That would be kinda great, no?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know quite how I overlooked all this before joining Google. I love having my iPhone shots seamlessly mixed in with my SLR images (including galleries I export from Lightroom right into Drive folders), and I&#8217;m finding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2014\/02\/12\/dia-de-bigotes-locos\/\">the little animations<\/a> fun to share.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a couple of details for my fellow nerds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From your hard drive you can back up an <em>unlimited<\/em> number of images at 2048&#215;2048 (i.e. 4 megapixel0 resolution. These <em>do not count<\/em> against your storage quota. You can also back up a full 15GB for free at full res. After that pricing is as low as <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/13\/fantastic-new-cloud-storage-for-photographers\/\">a penny per gigabyte per month<\/a> ($10\/mo. for 1TB).<\/li>\n<li>You can back up your raw files by installing Google Drive, then view, share, and edit them via Google+.<\/li>\n<li>You can download Picasa, then let the separate <a href=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2013\/12\/29\/google-launches-new-google-auto-backup-utility-for-mac-with-latest-picasa-update\/\">new Auto Backup utility<\/a> automatically find &#038; upload JPEGs (not raw files at the moment) from your hard drive &#038; memory cards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think? What else do you need for this to be the most mind-bendingly awesome photo storage &#038; sharing system in the world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if I told you that you could&#8230; Automatically back up all your photos &amp; videos from your iPhone, iPad, and\/or Android devices, in the background &amp; for free Automatically back up all your images from your Mac and\/or PC hard drive View, manage, edit, and share all these images via the Web and native [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}