If you balk at storing your pictures and videos with Google
because of storage limits, you may want to give it a second look. The
search engine giant has announced that its all new Google Photos service
will now store unlimited high-quality photos and HD video.
Google Photos used to be part of Google+. But it's now
being spun off from the unsuccessful social network and launched as a
standalone product. The service rolls out today on iOS, Android, and the web and was launched at the firm’s Google I/O conference in San Francisco.
Previously,
only photos up to 2,048x2,048 pixdidn’t count against Google’s storage
limits, but now images up to 16 megapixels and 1080p videos can be
stored ad infinitum. Which is good going in our books, although if you
do want to store those mega, mega high quality images, Google still has
paid plans.
Google Photos will take all your images and arrange
them by time and context. So that means it can arrange them by person,
place and other things.
The new app also create videos and
collages with a new feature dubbed Assistant. It can sort out such
things as photos of landscapes or beaches. It can put these together to
form a story complete with music. This was in the Google+ app but has
now been broadened out and given more control.
