New Delhi: At the ongoing Google I/O developers conference, Google announced a new photo service - Google Photos - which is an element segregated from the search giant’s own Google+ social network but with added features.
Google Photos is a new standalone product that helps you better organise your photos and videos, and lets you share and save what matters to you the most, all for free. The online photo service is the latest example of Google's desire to wrap its tentacles around virtually every part of people's lives.
The new service automatically backs up and syncs unlimited photos or videos and lets you access them from any device. By offering unlimited storage, Google Photos doesn’t compromise on the picture quality and maintains the original resolution up to 16 MP for photos and 1080p high-definition for videos, and store compressed versions of the content in print-quality resolution.
Google Photos is available as an app on Android and Apple devices, and on the web. It's a variation of the photo-management tool on Google Plus, a social networking service that has struggled to compete against Facebook since its 2011 debut.
The new Google Photos service auto-organises the photos in categories like People, Places, and Things, without you having to specially label or tag them. If you want to look for a special photo, you can simply search for it-whether it is your dog, or your daughter’s birthday party. All this auto-organising is private.
The new app includes quick photo-enhancing and collage making tool. If you swipe to the left, Assistant view will be enabled that suggests new things made with your photos and videos, such as a collage or a story based on a recent trip you took.
One of the most important and much-needed feature is the ability to share the photos or videos to any service you want. With Google Photos you can now share your memories to Hangouts, Twitter, Facebook, or WhatsApp, without ever having to leave the app.
The new app also lets you share multiple photos or videos with a single link without any need for the recipient to log in separately to special app.
Apple has a photo service that offers up to 5GB of storage for free. Yahoo's Flickr service offers 1TB of storage for free.
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