Back up photos & videos

About back up and sync

Support 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 whatever device where y'all are logged into your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a retentiveness: Whatsoever photos you have from a device with backup enabled will be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automatic sync: Any edits you make or photos you take volition be accessible beyond any device that you sign in to. If you edit and salve a photograph on your phone, the photo volition look the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: Y'all can search your photos by the people (when yous've enabled face grouping), places, and things in them. No tagging is required.
  • Automatic creations: Bring photos to life with automatically created movies, collages, animations, and panoramas.

Before y'all get started

What you lot need to back up photos & videos

  • Skillful internet connection.
  • File sizes that can be backed upwardly.  Your files won't exist backed upward if they are:
    • Photos larger than 200 MB or 150 MP
    • Videos larger than 10 GB.
    • Items smaller than 256 10 256.
  • File types that can be backed up.
    • 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, .modernistic, .mmv, .tod, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .divx, .mov, .m4v, .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .m2t, .m2ts, .mts, and .mkv files.

If yous try to dorsum up a file type not listed hither, information technology may not piece of work with Google Photos.

Important: Your Google Account storage is shared beyond 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 y'all can back up

Canon
EOS-1D 10 Mark Three, EOS-1D X Marking II, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Marking 3, EOS-1Ds Mark Two, EOS-1D Mark IV, EOS-1D Mark 3, EOS-1D Marker 2, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Marker II Due north, EOS 5D Marking IV, EOS 5D Mark Iii, EOS 5D Marking II, EOS 5D, EOS 5Ds, EOS 5Ds R, EOS R5, EOS 6D Mark 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 REBEL T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Kiss X9i (EOS Insubordinate T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Buss X8i (EOS REBEL T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Kiss X7i (EOS Insubordinate T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Kiss X6i (EOS REBEL T4i/EOS 650D), EOS Osculation X10 (EOS Rebel SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D 2), EOS Kiss X9 (EOS REBEL SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Osculation X7 (EOS Insubordinate SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Kiss X5 (EOS REBEL T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Buss X4 (EOS REBEL T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Osculation X3 (EOS REBEL T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Kiss X2 (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Kiss X90 (EOS REBEL T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Kiss X80 (EOS Rebel T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Kiss X70 (EOS REBEL T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Kiss 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 Buss Digital Northward (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Osculation M (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark Ii, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS Yard, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 X Marker 2, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 X Marker III, PowerShot G7 X Mark Ii, PowerShot G7 10, PowerShot G5 X Marker II, PowerShot G5 10, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 X Mark Three, PowerShot G1 10 Mark II, PowerShot G1 X, 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
E-M1, E-M5, East-M10, Eastward-P1, E-P2, E-P3, Due east-P5, Due east-PL3, E-PL5, E-PL7, OM-D Due east-M5 Marking Ii

Panasonic
CM1, FZ300, G70, GF1, GF3, GF5, GF7, GH3, GH4, GM1, GM5, GX1, GX8, LX5, LX7, LX100

Sony
A7, A7R, A7S, A7 Mark 2, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Mark II, A99, A700, A3000, A5000, A5100, A6000, QX1, NEX-5, NEX-5N, NEX-5R, NEX-6, NEX-seven, NEX-C3, NEX-F3, RX1, RX1R, RX10, RX10 Marker II, RX100, RX100 Mark Ii, RX100 Mark Iii, RX100 Mark IV

DNG files
All .dng files

In that location are 2 ways to dorsum up your phone, camera, or storage card from your estimator:

  1. Install Backup and Sync.
  2. Upload photos from your browser.

Set up up Google Drive for desktop

  1. On your figurer, download and install Google Bulldoze for Desktop.
  2. Sign in to your Google Business relationship.
  3. Select the folders or pictures you want to dorsum up and thenDorsum upwardly to Google Photos.
  4. Select Washed and thenSave.

Important:

  • If you remove a photo or video from your estimator that y'all previously backed up to Google Photos, it stays in Google Photos.
  • If yous remove a photo or video from Google Photos, it isn't removed from Google Drive or your calculator.
  • Uploads can exist slower and use more storage if y'all dorsum upward to both Google Photos and Google Drive. Unless y'all need a second copy in Drive, nosotros recommend you dorsum up photos and videos to Google Photos.

If you already take Fill-in and Sync for Drive

Backup and Sync is now Google Drive for desktop.

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

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

Select a different upload size

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

Of import: Y'all tin can't change the upload size for files synced with Google Drive.

Back up your Apple tree Photo Library (Mac but)

If your figurer runs macOS, you tin can dorsum upward your System Photograph Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If you take more than 1 Apple Photos Library, only the System Photo Library volition be backed upwards. You can use Apple Photos to change the System Photo Library.
  • If your Apple Photo Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and deject will be backed up to Google Photos on macOS 10.15 and above.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

  1. On your computer, open photos.google.com.
  2. At the top right, click Upload and thenReckoner.
  3. Notice and select your photos.
  4. Click Open.

You 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 photograph volition exist uploaded to that album.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

In Google Photos, y'all tin can view how you uploaded your photos and videos.

Related resource

  • 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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