Google Photos now official, will help catalog and organize all your photos

BY Evan Selleck

Published 28 May 2015

Google Photos announced

The Google I/O conference is still going strong, and now, while on stage, the company has unveiled Google Photos, a brand new way to organize and catalog all of your photos from your devices.

While on stage, Google unveiled Photos, which, as previously rumored, will function as a way to better catalog and, even better, organize all of your photos from all of your devices. That even includes videos. With a simple gesture of pinching on the display, Photos will let users navigate to a certain period of time, from years, to months to days.

Photos also includes Collections, which will put photos taken at the same location, and time, or area in one easy-to-reach area.

Photos will also put photos within certain sections that matter most, including places, people, and more, all without having to manually tag anything. Photos will do it automatically.

Google Photos editing

Photos has features tucked inside of it, too, including editing tools, as well as the ability to select multiple images to create collages or even animations.

Google Photos collage

To select a wide range of photos, Google has implemented a “hold-and-drag” feature, so that by long-pressing on one image, and then sliding a finger across all of the other images in that folder, to select all of them. This will make selecting multiple images even easier.

Sharing images is easy, too, with Google removing the need to download an extra app or log into anything, just by opening the images in a browser window. If a person is logged into Google, though, they’ll be able to save those images to their own Photos account with just a tap of a button.

And, probably the best bit of news: Google Photos will be free, across the board, for unlimited 1080p HD videos and up to 16MP photos. This is unlimited storage, for free.

Google Photos is available beginning today, and so is its free storage. (It’s available for iOS, too.)

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