Back up photos & videos

Almost support and sync

Dorsum up and sync is a storage service that automatically saves your photos and videos to your Google Business relationship. These photos and videos will be accessible from any device where you are logged into your business relationship.

Benefits

  • Never lose a memory: Any photos you accept from a device with fill-in enabled volition be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automatic sync: Any edits you make or photos you have will exist attainable across whatsoever device that you sign in to. If you edit and salvage a photograph on your phone, the photo will look the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: You can search your photos by the people (when yous've enabled face 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 support photos & videos

  • Good internet connection.
  • File sizes that can be backed up.  Your files won't be backed upward 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 exist backed up.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Live photos tin exist backed upwardly 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 you try to support a file type non listed here, it may not work with Google Photos.

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

Types of RAW files y'all can back up

Canon
EOS-1D X Mark III, EOS-1D X Marking Two, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Mark Iii, EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-1D Mark Iv, EOS-1D Mark III, EOS-1D Mark 2, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark Two N, EOS 5D Mark Four, EOS 5D Mark III, EOS 5D Mark Two, 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 Two, 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 Kiss X10i (EOS Rebel T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Buss X9i (EOS Rebel T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Buss X8i (EOS REBEL T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Osculation X7i (EOS REBEL T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Kiss X6i (EOS REBEL T4i/EOS 650D), EOS Osculation X10 (EOS Rebel SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D Ii), EOS Kiss X9 (EOS REBEL SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Kiss X7 (EOS REBEL SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Kiss X5 (EOS Insubordinate T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Buss X4 (EOS REBEL T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Kiss X3 (EOS Rebel T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Kiss X2 (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Osculation X90 (EOS Rebel T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Kiss X80 (EOS REBEL T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Kiss X70 (EOS Rebel T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Kiss X50 (EOS Insubordinate T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Buss F (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Kiss Digital X (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital N (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss M (EOS M50), EOS M6 Marking II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS M, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 X Mark II, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 Ten Mark III, PowerShot G7 X Mark 2, PowerShot G7 X, PowerShot G5 X Marking 2, PowerShot G5 X, PowerShot G3 Ten, PowerShot G1 Ten Mark III, PowerShot G1 X Marking Two, 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, Eastward-P1, E-P2, Eastward-P3, E-P5, E-PL3, E-PL5, E-PL7, OM-D E-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 Marker 2, A99, A700, A3000, A5000, A5100, A6000, QX1, NEX-5, NEX-5N, NEX-5R, NEX-6, NEX-7, NEX-C3, NEX-F3, RX1, RX1R, RX10, RX10 Marker Ii, RX100, RX100 Mark II, RX100 Mark 3, RX100 Mark IV

DNG files
All .dng files

At that place are 2 ways to back up your telephone, camera, or storage card from your computer:

  1. Install Fill-in and Sync.
  2. Upload photos from your browser.

Prepare Google Bulldoze for desktop

  1. On your figurer, download and install Google Drive for Desktop.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account.
  3. Select the folders or pictures you lot want to back upwards and thenBack up to Google Photos.
  4. Select Done and thenRelieve.

Important:

  • If you remove a photo or video from your figurer that y'all previously backed upwardly to Google Photos, it stays in Google Photos.
  • If y'all remove a photo or video from Google Photos, information technology isn't removed from Google Drive or your figurer.
  • Uploads can be slower and use more storage if you support to both Google Photos and Google Drive. Unless you need a 2d re-create in Drive, nosotros recommend you back upwardly photos and videos to Google Photos.

If you already have Backup and Sync for Drive

Backup and Sync is at present Google Bulldoze for desktop.

If yous already have Backup and Sync installed, you'll be migrated to Google Bulldoze for desktop.

To upgrade sooner, uninstall Backup and Sync and so follow the steps above to ready Google Drive for desktop.

Select a dissimilar upload size

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

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

Back up your Apple Photo Library (Mac only)

If your computer runs macOS, y'all tin can back up your System Photograph Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If you accept more than ane Apple tree Photos Library, only the System Photo Library volition be backed upwards. Yous tin use Apple Photos to modify the System Photo Library.
  • If your Apple tree Photograph Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and cloud will be backed upwards to Google Photos on macOS ten.xv and in a higher place.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

  1. On your computer, open photos.google.com.
  2. At the height right, click Upload and thenCalculator.
  3. Notice and select your photos.
  4. Click Open.

You tin also drag photos from your calculator to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If y'all drag a photograph to a specific album, the photo will exist uploaded to that anthology.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

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

Related resources

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

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