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About dorsum upwards and sync

Back up 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 whatsoever device where you lot are logged into your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a memory: Whatever photos you lot take from a device with fill-in enabled will be saved to your Google Business relationship.
  • Automated sync: Any edits y'all brand or photos yous take will be attainable beyond any device that you sign in to. If you edit and save a photo on your phone, the photograph volition look the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: You tin search your photos by the people (when you've enabled confront grouping), places, and things in them. No tagging is required.
  • Automated creations: Bring photos to life with automatically created movies, collages, animations, and panoramas.

Before yous get started

What you need to back upwards photos & videos

  • Good internet connection.
  • File sizes that tin exist backed up.  Your files won't be backed up if they are:
    • Photos larger than 200 MB or 150 MP
    • Videos larger than 10 GB.
    • Items smaller than 256 ten 256.
  • File types that can be backed up.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Alive photos tin can be backed up if you use the Google Photos app on your iPhone or iPad.
    • Videos: .mpg, .mod, .mmv, .tod, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .divx, .mov, .m4v, .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .m2t, .m2ts, .mts, and .mkv files.

If yous try to support a file blazon non listed here, information technology may not piece of work with Google Photos.

Important: Your Google Account storage is shared across multiple products like Google Photos, Google Drive, and Gmail. If you have used all of your storage, you won't be able to support new files.

Types of RAW files you tin back upward

Canon
EOS-1D X Marking III, EOS-1D 10 Marking 2, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Mark Three, EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-1D Marker Four, EOS-1D Mark Three, EOS-1D Marker II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark Two Northward, EOS 5D Marking 4, EOS 5D Marking III, EOS 5D Mark 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 Osculation X10i (EOS Insubordinate T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Kiss X9i (EOS Rebel T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Osculation X8i (EOS Insubordinate T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Buss X7i (EOS Insubordinate T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Kiss X6i (EOS Rebel T4i/EOS 650D), EOS Kiss X10 (EOS REBEL SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D 2), EOS Kiss X9 (EOS Rebel SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Kiss X7 (EOS REBEL SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Buss X5 (EOS Insubordinate T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Kiss X4 (EOS Insubordinate T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Kiss 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 Buss X80 (EOS Rebel T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Buss X70 (EOS REBEL T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Osculation X50 (EOS Rebel T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Osculation F (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Kiss Digital 10 (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital Northward (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss M (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS K, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 Ten Mark 2, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 X Mark III, PowerShot G7 X Mark Ii, PowerShot G7 X, PowerShot G5 X Mark II, PowerShot G5 X, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 X Mark III, PowerShot G1 10 Mark Ii, PowerShot G1 10, 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, Due east-M5, East-M10, E-P1, Due east-P2, E-P3, Due east-P5, E-PL3, Eastward-PL5, E-PL7, OM-D Eastward-M5 Mark Ii

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

Sony
A7, A7R, A7S, A7 Mark II, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Mark II, A99, A700, A3000, A5000, A5100, A6000, QX1, NEX-5, NEX-5N, NEX-5R, NEX-6, NEX-vii, NEX-C3, NEX-F3, RX1, RX1R, RX10, RX10 Marking II, RX100, RX100 Mark Ii, RX100 Marker 3, RX100 Mark IV

DNG files
All .dng files

At that place are 2 ways to support your phone, camera, or storage carte from your computer:

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

Gear up Google Bulldoze for desktop

  1. On your computer, download and install Google Drive for Desktop.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account.
  3. Select the folders or pictures yous want to back up and thenBack up to Google Photos.
  4. Select Washed and thenSalve.

Of import:

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

If yous already have Fill-in and Sync for Drive

Backup and Sync is now Google Drive for desktop.

If y'all already accept Backup and Sync installed, you'll be migrated to Google Drive for desktop.

To upgrade sooner, uninstall Fill-in and Sync and and then follow the steps in a higher place to set upwardly Google Drive for desktop.

Select a unlike upload size

You can change the upload size for photos and videos backed upward to Google Photos from your computer.

Important: You lot can't change the upload size for files synced with Google Bulldoze.

Back upwards your Apple Photo Library (Mac merely)

If your calculator runs macOS, you tin can dorsum up your System Photo Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If you accept more than one Apple Photos Library, simply the Arrangement Photo Library will be backed upwardly. Yous tin use Apple Photos to change the Arrangement Photo Library.
  • If your Apple tree Photo Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and cloud will be backed up to Google Photos on macOS ten.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 thenEstimator.
  3. Find and select your photos.
  4. Click Open.

Yous can also elevate photos from your figurer to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If you elevate a photo to a specific album, the photo volition be uploaded to that album.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

In Google Photos, you can view how you uploaded your photos and videos.

Related resources

  • Download photos or videos to your device
  • End syncing Google Bulldoze files with Backup and Sync
  • How your Google storage works

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