{"id":3180,"date":"2015-11-18T21:11:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T05:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2015-11-18T21:12:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T05:12:44","slug":"free-up-your-cloud-storage-with-a-new-google-photos-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/18\/free-up-your-cloud-storage-with-a-new-google-photos-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Free up your cloud storage with a new Google Photos option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I talked about how you can now\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/17\/free-up-space-with-the-latest-google-photos-update\/\">free up space on your phone<\/a>\u00a0via the latest Google Photos update. But what if you want to free up space in the cloud?<\/p>\n<p>Now you can visit <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.google.com\/settings\">photos.google.com\/settings<\/a>\u00a0and click \u201cRecover Storage\u201d (screenshot below) in order to convert images &amp; videos that you uploaded at original resolution to High Quality. This means that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Images will be stored at 16 megapixels (or at original dimensions if those are smaller)<\/li>\n<li>Videos will be stored at 1080p (or at original dimensions if those are smaller)<\/li>\n<li>The compression applied is <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.google.com\/share\/AF1QipPH3EGGVuVF3sETbym6re70r4vdJSYzO0EDYTSDBVeEuSlJ_8gUiY67t8KxnItfCg?key=eXFweVUxcnI4NzhLdEliUEgyaVNKSXNTMDZzTjF3\">visually negligible<\/a>\u00a0(as <a href=\"http:\/\/petapixel.com\/2015\/05\/30\/jpeg-compression-test-google-photos-vs-jpegmini\/\">tested by PetaPixel<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>These photos &amp; videos won\u2019t count at all towards your cloud storage quota<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy shooting (and storing)!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IRecoverSpace.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RecoverSpace.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IRecoverSpace.jpg\" alt=\"RecoverSpace\" width=\"600\" height=\"441\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I talked about how you can now\u00a0free up space on your phone\u00a0via the latest Google Photos update. But what if you want to free up space in the cloud? Now you can visit photos.google.com\/settings\u00a0and click \u201cRecover Storage\u201d (screenshot below) in order to convert images &amp; videos that you uploaded at original resolution to High [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3182,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions\/3182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}