Dorsum 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 exist accessible from whatever device where you are logged into your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a memory: Any photos you accept from a device with backup enabled will be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automated sync: Whatever edits you lot make or photos you take will be attainable across whatsoever device that you sign in to. If y'all edit and save a photo on your phone, the photo will look the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: You lot 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 you get started

What yous need to dorsum up photos & videos

  • Adept net connection.
  • File sizes that can be backed upward.  Your files won't exist backed upwards 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 tin 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, .modernistic, .mmv, .tod, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .divx, .mov, .m4v, .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .m2t, .m2ts, .mts, and .mkv files.

If you try to back up a file blazon not listed here, it may not work with Google Photos.

Of import: Your Google Account storage is shared beyond multiple products like Google Photos, Google Bulldoze, and Gmail. If y'all have used all of your storage, you won't exist able to support new files.

Types of RAW files y'all can back upwardly

Canon
EOS-1D X Mark Three, EOS-1D X Marker II, EOS-1D Ten, EOS-1Ds Mark Iii, EOS-1Ds Mark Two, EOS-1D Mark IV, EOS-1D Marker 3, EOS-1D Mark II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark II N, EOS 5D Mark Four, EOS 5D Mark 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 Buss X10i (EOS REBEL T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Kiss X9i (EOS REBEL T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Buss X8i (EOS Rebel T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Kiss X7i (EOS REBEL T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Kiss X6i (EOS REBEL T4i/EOS 650D), EOS Buss X10 (EOS Insubordinate SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D II), EOS Kiss X9 (EOS REBEL SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Kiss X7 (EOS REBEL SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Buss X5 (EOS Rebel T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Osculation X4 (EOS Insubordinate T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Kiss X3 (EOS REBEL T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Osculation X2 (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Osculation X90 (EOS Insubordinate T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Buss X80 (EOS Rebel T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Kiss X70 (EOS REBEL T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Kiss X50 (EOS REBEL T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Osculation F (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Kiss Digital Ten (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital N (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Osculation Yard (EOS M50), EOS M6 Marker 2, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS K, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 X Mark II, 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 10 Marker Three, PowerShot G1 X Marker 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, E-M5, E-M10, E-P1, E-P2, East-P3, E-P5, E-PL3, E-PL5, Due east-PL7, OM-D E-M5 Mark 2

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

Sony
A7, A7R, A7S, A7 Marking Two, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Marker Ii, A99, A700, A3000, A5000, A5100, A6000, QX1, NEX-five, NEX-5N, NEX-5R, NEX-half dozen, NEX-7, NEX-C3, NEX-F3, RX1, RX1R, RX10, RX10 Mark II, RX100, RX100 Mark II, RX100 Mark III, RX100 Mark IV

DNG files
All .dng files

There are 2 means to dorsum up your phone, photographic camera, or storage card from your computer:

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

Set upwards Google Drive for desktop

  1. On your computer, download and install Google Drive for Desktop.
  2. Sign in to your Google Business relationship.
  3. Select the folders or pictures you lot desire to dorsum up and thenSupport to Google Photos.
  4. Select Washed and thenSave.

Important:

  • If you remove a photo or video from your computer that you previously backed up to Google Photos, it stays in Google Photos.
  • If you remove a photo or video from Google Photos, it isn't removed from Google Drive or your computer.
  • Uploads tin be slower and use more storage if you back up to both Google Photos and Google Bulldoze. Unless yous need a 2d copy in Drive, we recommend you lot back up photos and videos to Google Photos.

If you already accept Fill-in and Sync for Drive

Backup and Sync is now Google Drive for desktop.

If you already have Fill-in and Sync installed, you'll be migrated to Google Bulldoze for desktop.

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

Select a dissimilar upload size

Y'all can change the upload size for photos and videos backed up to Google Photos from your estimator.

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

Support your Apple Photograph Library (Mac merely)

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

Tips:

  • If you have more than than i Apple tree Photos Library, merely the Arrangement Photo Library will exist backed upwardly. You tin can use Apple Photos to change the Organization Photo Library.
  • If your Apple Photo Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and cloud will be backed upwardly 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 pinnacle right, click Upload and thenComputer.
  3. Find and select your photos.
  4. Click Open.

Yous tin can also drag photos from your computer to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If you drag a photo to a specific album, the photo will exist uploaded to that anthology.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

In Google Photos, you 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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