Google Photos is most definitely the better pick out of the two — there’s simply no way that OneDrive can beat its High Quality offering with unlimited image and video backups. And my results were, surprisingly, decidedly mixed. The other, a distant view of the Temple, is harder to explain away.

Original image (4912 × 3264 pixels and 4.4MB): Image after being uploaded to Google Photos (4912 × 3264 pixels and 1.2 MB): Just as we saw with the beach shot, there is barely any difference that naked eye can make out. {.intro} Updated on 5/29 10AM ET to add information from Steven Levy's excellent interview with Google Vice President of Streams, Photos, and Sharing Bradley Horowitz, and to add information about Google's high-quality photo pricing tiers. Integrate the magic of Photos into third-party apps, so it’s easier than ever to access, edit, print, back-up photos and more. Google Photos storage won't cost money, but you should know what you're signing up for. 'Freeloader-In-Chief': Twitter Afire Over Explosive Trump Tax Return Report, Prashant Kanojia's Partner Appeals For Twitter Trend To Demand Journalist's Release, The Disgusting Truth About Birthday Candles In A Covid-19 World, 6 Questions On Sex And Fetishization Of Indian Erotica With A Kamasutra Expert, It's Been Three Months And Apple's 3D Touch Is Still A Drag To Use, How I Turned My Dumb TV Into A Smart One For Just ₹7,500, 5 Points That HTC Must Score To Stay In The Smartphone Game, Why I Switched From My iPad to a Windows 10 Two-in-One Tablet. We have added each image, in their native resolution and size as well as the same image downloaded after it was backed up by Google Photos. When your library is packed with thousands of images shot on the same day, or cluster of days, this visual approach is not the most efficient way of finding images, but at least it gives you a starting point. Managing Digital Marketing initiatives at Pricebaba.com, Forced To Falsely Implicate Karan Johar, Producer Kshitij Prasad Tells Bombay High Court, EIA 2020: Modi Govt Gave Itself More Time For Internal Consultation On Draft Law Than It Gave Citizens, Documents Show, 'I'll Proudly Go To Jail': Bhagyalakshmi After Being Booked For Attacking Malayali YouTuber, 10 Netflix Films From 2020 That Actually Got Good Reviews, Trump Paid $750 In Income Taxes In 2016, 2017: NY Times Report. Finding those images again remains a challenge, given the arduous drudgery of manual tagging. If your image is larger than 16 megapixels, it will be downsized to meet the filter; likewise, even 16 megapixel images will go through some optimization for storage on Google's servers (which means it will be a smaller file size when you export it from the cloud). It's worth noting that while the initial thumbnail draws can be painfully slow, this redraw process did get faster the more often I rapidly scrolled through eight years of images over a Wi-Fi connection. While there was clearly no resolution drop since the Nexus 6P takes images at 12.3MP, which falls within the 16MP mark, there definitely was some downsizing. So let us take one example each of image in three different resolutions: one below 16MP, the next just decimals over 16MO, and the last set above 20MP. NY 10036.

Sign up to get breaking news, reviews, opinion, analysis and more, plus the hottest tech deals! New York, For my tests, I used a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Note 4 phone, a Google Nexus 9 tablet, and a Toshiba touchscreen Ultrabook. In demos, Google Photos looks streamlined and convenient. This effectively means that you can upload unlimited pictures to your Google Drive account as long as you are willing to accept slightly shrunken images in resolution.