Because I want all my uploaded photos to end up in at least one album (further explained below), not just in the big shoe box that is the uploaded stream of photos, I can see at a glance which photos I haven’t yet placed in an album.ģ… Add to a public Google Photos albums directly From the “not yet backed up” photos, I select the ones I want to be in a publicly visible album (usually not all of them) and “upload to album” choosing my current, public album. One reason to do so is that opening up Photos will show you a cloud with a line through it symbol for all the new photos that have not yet been uploaded, and this is very helpful for knowing which photos have/haven’t been organized yet. And, the fewer there are, the easier it is to manage them!Ģ… Google Photos manual backup only: I have decided to disable Google Photos’ auto backup, although I do regularly back up all my photos there. I’ve learned that it’s a lot easier to manage photos on my device first, before they get uploaded to cloud services. It’s still a work in progress, and has become a little more involved now that I have Joe contributing some of his photos to my albums, too.ġ… Culling: I first use a Gallery app (built-in Gallery, or Piktures) to go through new photos taken and delete any obviously bad ones, or chose favourites among duplicates and discard the rest. Here’s my step-by-step procedure for creating and maintaining my online photo albums in Google Photos. What happens when I take a photo on my phone? My basic workflow remains similar to the process described in my previous photo organization workflow post, with some notable changes now that Picasa Web Albums no longer exist. (As frequent travellers, we mostly cared about photos at the “Where were we?” level of organization.) Then, within that structure, I could selectively choose which photos per album would be mirrored and available online for public viewing.īut, now that my local laptop folders couldn’t simply be mirrored through Picasa Desktop as Picasa Web Albums, I had to switch to thinking about creating actual online albums separate from thinking about the folders on my machine. Picasa Desktop had allowed me to organize into folders by date and location. Transitioning to a new system required a huge shift in thinking, mostly with respect to my online album sharing. Perhaps a blessing in disguise, we were also preparing to leave for a few months of travel, where photos would certainly be taken and systems would certainly be tested. I’m still trying to recover, but here’s more or less how things go now … The Transition
Whether I was ready to or not, I had to move on. The known tricks for appending URLs were useless. It’s been exactly two months since the day my Desktop Picasa app stopped connecting to my Google account.
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