Google Photos is free and awesome. As we’ve decided before, it’s not going to hurt you to try it out. But trying it out means uploading hundreds or thousands of your pictures to Google Photos. And because Google Photos didn’t exist till now, your photo collection is messed up. Your iPhone photos might be in iCloud Photo Library/Dropbox, DSLR photos might be in the iPhoto/Lightroom library and years old photos might be stashed in a folder somewhere.

Google Photos is a photo gallery from Google that stores your photos and videos to Google Drive. So, if you have Google Drive app installed on your PC, good! If not, download the app to enable you.

Sadly, there’s no 1-click way to automatically upload all photos from Dropbox to Google Photos (there’s no API yet). So we’ll need to do this manually. But once it’s done, you can start to reap the many, many benefits of Google Photos.

Step Zero: Install Google Photos Backup

First thing you need to do, even before we start gathering photos from the 63 different services you’ve signed up for, is to install Google Photos Backup. It’s just an automatic uploader app (no two-way Dropbox-like sync here) that you can assign folders to watch. Whenever new photos will show up in that folder, they’ll be automatically uploaded to Google Photos.

Download the app and sign in to your Google Account. The app will automatically select some default folders like Pictures and Desktop. You can add a new folder using the Add button.

Below, you can switch between the free unlimited storage option that uploads compressed images to 16 MP and the full-res option that’s counted against your Google Drive storage.

1. Upload/Sync Photos from Dropbox

If you’re already using Dropbox and the folder that contains all your images is already synced to your Mac/PC, half your battle is over. If that’s not the case, download and install the Dropbox app, go to Preferences and from Selective Sync, check the folders. This will first download all the images to your local storage.

Now, go to the Photos Backup app’s Preferences, click Add and navigate to that Dropbox folder to add it. Yes, the process of first downloading the images from one cloud storage and then uploading it to another cloud storage sounds counterproductive but currently that’s all we can do. And hey, once it’s done, it’s done.

Another upside is, once you have this set up, Google Photos can be a secondary place to back up images. If you have auto-upload to Dropbox enabled, which uploads all new photos to a particular folder, with Photos Backup watching that folder, you now have another copy of the photos in Google Photos. And this was without running two apps from your phone.

2. Transfer Photos from Facebook/Instagram

Facebook lets you download everything in your profile using one click. Go to Settings ->General and click Download a copy of your Facebook data. Then confirm on the next screen and type in your password. In a while, Facebook will send you a link to the zip file.

Now go to Google Photos website, locate the Facebook zip file on your PC, find all the photos in there and just drop them in the browser window.

To download all your Instagram photos, use Downgram or follow our guide here. Once they’re downloaded, upload them in the same way to the Photos website.

3. Transfer Photos from Flickr

Go to your Flickr profile, from the thumbnail view, click on the photos you want to download and click the Download button. Once they’re downloaded, drop them in the Photos website.

4. Upload/Sync iPhoto/Photos Library from Mac

If you’re a heavy iOS user, all your photos are probably in an iPhoto library (now known as the Photos app). If that’s the case, you don’t really need to do anything. Because when you install Photos Backup app, it checks the iPhoto Library option by default.

I’ve migrated my iPhoto library to the Photos app, but the upload still worked for me. But you should know that this will only work for photos you have locally stored on your Mac. This won’t work for photos that are in the iCloud Photo Library and are just syncing thumbnails to your Mac. If that’s the case, go to the Photos app, turn off Optimized Storage, download the iCloud Photo Library for offline use and then run the Google Photos Backup.

If you have photos in iCloud Drive, just select them and drag them to the Photos website. Or you can go to icloud.com and manually download photos from there as well. But it’s going to take a lot of time. Using the Photos app to do this is a much better idea.

Lightroom or any other photo management app: If you’re using Lightroom or any other pro image editing app, just point the Photos Backup app to the folder where the app saves all the photos. This way, every time you import new photos, they’ll automatically be uploaded to Google Photos. It won’t be full-res, but it’s something.

Are You Excited for Google Photos?

Are you looking forward to using Google Photos and all their intelligent search features? What’s the one killer feature that convinced you to switch? Share with us in the comments below.

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I have uploaded photos to Google Photos. Now I would like to download these pictures from Google photos to my new Android phone. But Google Photos only allow me to download one photo at a time. How to download all photos from Google Photos at once?

Google Photos works great in backing up photos to cloud storage and syncing them over all devices, while it neglects users' need to download photos, especially all photos, from the service. When you need to download photos from Google Photos to PC, Mac, iPhone or transfer pictures from Google Photos to gallery, you can follow these tips.

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How to Download All Photos from Google Photos to PC/Mac

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Step 1 On your PC or Mac, open photos.google.com in the browser.

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Step 2 Select the photos you want to transfer from Google Photos to the computer. Choose Download.

Step 3 Since there is no select all option on Google Photos, to select all photos to download:

• Select the first photo on Google Photos;

• Keep holding Shift key and scroll down to the last photo;

• Click the last photo to select all photos.

• Click three dot icon in the top right corner and choose Download.

Google Takeout to Save All Photos to Computer

Google Takeout allows you to download all files/photos from Google Drive, Google Photos, etc. to PC, Mac or other devices.

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Step 1 Open Google Takeout in Google Chrome.

Step 2 Select the Google service that you download photos from. To download all photos from Google Photos, choose Google Photos. Click Next.

Step 3 You can choose the file type, size to save the Google photos and how you would like to receive the photos.

Step 4 An archive of photos from your Google Photos will be created. Click Download to save all the photos from Google Photos to your computer.

How to Restore Pictures from Google Photos to Phone

Save Picture from Google Photos to Device

Google Photos app has Save to device option for us to move pictures from Google Photos to Gallery, but only one photo at a time.

Step 1 Open Google Photos on your phone. Select the photo you want to download to Gallery.

Step 2 Tap the three dot icon on the top and select Save to the device. The picture will be downloaded to Gallery.

Download All/Multiple Photos From Google Photos with Google Drive

If you want to download all photos from Google Photos to phone, you can make use of Google Drive.

Step 1 Open Google Drive and choose Google Photos.

Step 2 Select the pictures that you want to get from Google Photos. To select all pictures in Google Photos, tap three dots icon > Select All.

Step 3 Tap Download icon to download the picture to your device.

If you don't use Google Drive, you can also restore all your photos backed up to Google Photo to device in these steps.

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• Use Google Takeout to download photos on your PC;

• Transfer the photos from PC to Android/iPhone.

Google Photos is Confusing? Try A Simpler Backup Method

It is important to back up precious photos, videos on the Android phone. However, Google Photos can be very confusing:

• It doesn't provide a straight-forward to restore photos from the Google backup;

• Google Photos sometimes can't upload, sync, backup our photos for unknown reasons;

• Photos disappear from Google Photos from time to time because of software bugs.

Instead of backing up your photos to unstable and complicated Google Photos, why not switch to a more straight-forward method: backing up the photos to PC? And other than coping all photos to PC, which will occupy much storage of your computer, FonePaw Android Data Backup & Restore can save all your Android photos/videos in a small-sized backup file to the computer. It is easy to back up and restore.

Download Android Data Backup & Restore on PC.

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Step 1 Launch the program and connect your Android phone to PC with USB cable.

Step 2 Click Device Data Backup and choose to back up photos, videos only. Tick Encrypted backup to encrypt the backup. Click Start. A backup file will be saved in a chosen folder.

Step 3 When you need to restore the photos to Android device:

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• Choose Device Data Restore;

• Select the backup of your Android photos. Click Start. (If you have encrypted the backup, you'll need to enter the password)

• Preview the backed up photos. And select the photos you want to restore, click Restore.

Backing up photos to PC is much simpler than backing up the photos to Google. What do you think? Leave your comment below.

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