Google photo QA: How can I make a watermark on my photos

Question: How can I make a watermark on my photos

I haven't tried anything yet

Hi, Leticia Elizabeth Barron

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

Regretfully, there is no provision in the Google Photos editor to add some watermark.

You will have to look for some proprietary photo editing app to do so.

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Hi, Leticia Elizabeth Barron

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

Regretfully, there is no provision in the Google Photos editor to add some watermark.

You will have to look for some proprietary photo editing app to do so.

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Question: How do i delete places album that i didn't create to begin with?

I want to delete my places album that i didn't create to begin with

Hi Neale,

I'm assuming you mean the locations sort that show up when you open Google Photos and select the search field, which shows locations?

The locations view are auto created by Google Photos as part of the search function to help people easily find images by people, places or things without having to manually tag or sort images. It cannot be turned off, although you can choose to not record location information in your camera, or turn off location information when sharing images. Go to Google Photos > left menu > Settings location sharing.

Cheers

Joe

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Question: My son ds not receive photo l try sending. Idk why?

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Question: Archived stories

How can you see who viewed your story after it's been archived

Hi, Julia Chambless 4717

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

You can access archive through Library -> Archive & view the story.

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Question: Hi sir I received my backup

I want backup my data

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Question: Pictures are very blurry. UMX camera. I do not know what can cause this? Please help me.

Nothing. I k ow nothing about settings

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Question: I've never viewed nor send any child porn of anykind for that manner. I've got a warning, WHY!

I'm trying to find out why I received a warning that I may be blocked or shut down for sending somet…

I'm trying to find out why I received a warning that I may be blocked or shut down for sending something concerning child porn. I Neverending viewed nor sent anything of that manner. You can go through all my resent photos and or activities. I would like to get this resolved because i'm far from a person that low or sick...

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Question: Adding new to People section of Photos

Attempting to add face photos to People section so I can place name on face and be able to search at…

Hi, Gordon Allmark

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

You can add a person through the following steps.

Tap to open the photo which contains unidentified faces & then slide up or tap the three dots

.
If the app had failed to include some faces in that picture, then you will see a prompt "XX faces available to add".

Tap the edit icon at the extreme right edge. (An icon of a pencil

That will show identified faces in square boxes & their thumbnails at the bottom.
Tap on the + sign on each thumbnail.
Then the app will show you all the identified faces till that time.
You can select the right one.

If not, tap the + sign at the top right corner of the screen.
That would create a new grouping altogether.

Once created, the app may take some time to bring all the related pictures to this new grouping.
Otherwise, you can go through the collection & add the photos to the newly created group, manually, through the same steps as described above.

PS. The edit feature may not be available in some regions. If you happen to be from that, then regretfully nothing can be done.

Also, if the app has not recognised a face, you can't do anything.

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Question: Photos in albums

I like to sort my photos into albums, but when looking through my photo stream I can't see a way of …

I like to sort my photos into albums, but when looking through my photo stream I can't see a way of telling which photos I've already added to an album, and which ones I've missed and still need adding. It's there a quick way of telling if a photo is in an album or not?

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You can see in the info field of each photo to which album(s) it is added.
Many asked for it but there is still no way to search for all photos that are NOT in an album.
The following can help:

Add new photos systematically to albums, for example after an event or weekly/monthly
Add the backlog from top to bottom. Difficult cases can be added to a buffer or year album
In case of doubt: just add to the album. The same photo will not be added twice.
When you upload from folders on a computer, you can upload the same batch again directly to the album, for example by drag & drop. Already uploaded photos will NOT be uploaded again (if not edited after 1st upload), but still added to the album.

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You can see in the info field of each photo to which album(s) it is added.
Many asked for it but there is still no way to search for all photos that are NOT in an album.
The following can help:

Add new photos systematically to albums, for example after an event or weekly/monthly
Add the backlog from top to bottom. Difficult cases can be added to a buffer or year album
In case of doubt: just add to the album. The same photo will not be added twice.
When you upload from folders on a computer, you can upload the same batch again directly to the album, for example by drag & drop. Already uploaded photos will NOT be uploaded again (if not edited after 1st upload), but still added to the album.

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Question: Why my photos are added to the favorites automatically

My photos are placed in to favorites automatically

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Question: I am unable to buy storage

My payment options failed

Hello Priya,

Unfortunately we don't have access to user accounts as it is all controlled by a dedicated team.

Please contact the Google Pay team @https://support.google.com/pay/gethelp

If you step through the options at you will see help articles.

If you do not see any helpful suggestions keep clicking Next and you will eventually reach a contact page <see screenshot online> where you have a choice of contacts who should be able to help.

Regards,

Peter

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Question: Place,my family visit to the kadavali near rivar is their,kindly can I get the photos all

Place, near kadavali my family visit their at river,so please get my all photos back up

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Question: I have not given any comend but some my google photoes dilited. How can i recover them.

In google photos people's photos deleted any comend. I want recover them.

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Question: I just cleared my cache

I just cleared my cache after a year and a half and when I went to google photos one of my accounts,…

I just cleared my cache after a year and a half and when I went to google photos one of my accounts, my main account linked to a different email address is gone. How do I get it back?

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Question: How to recover deleted photos

Hello I want restore deleted photos

Hello,

For Google Photos, see this about recovering photos & videos. Note that photos/videos permanently deleted from Google Photos Trash are not recoverable. Since on Android, could try a Photo Recovery App just be sure to find one that does not need to use rooting.

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Question: Location information lost after editing a photo.

After editing a photo using Google photos I am noticing it's location information is lost. I using "…

After editing a photo using Google photos I am noticing it's location information is lost. I using "save a copy" option after editing and for that new photo location info is missing. It is asking me to Add a location. Why the location info from original photo is not copied ?

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Question: How to move a picture to clipboard

How to share a screenshot with a game to show what happened, I can't seem to move it there

Hi, Jill kenny

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

The clipboard on Android doesn't work effectively for pasting pics in non Google app.

You will have to look for some other option to do so.

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Question: How can I apps that allow access to to be spied on with third party

Afraid I haven' made phone completely safe

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Question: How can I get my photos the backup? I pay for the service but it no longer works.

I have tried using the help page and checking my settings. Also deleted and re-downloaded the app bu…

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Question: I don't want to use Google Photos anymore

I have all my photos saved elsewhere and I do not want any photos synced on Google Photos anymore. A…

I have all my photos saved elsewhere and I do not want any photos synced on Google Photos anymore. Anytime I try to delete all the content it's states it's gonna delete off my iCloud & phone. My storage is full on Google now and I can't get emails now.

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Hi Eliana,

>>> I have all my photos saved elsewhere and I do not want any photos synced on Google Photos anymore. Anytime I try to delete all the content it’s states it’s gonna delete off my iCloud & phone

Yes. Be VERY careful and proceed slowly.

Please see this post:

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/124123358?msgid=124135597

In your case, this warning seems to apply:

"~iCloud Photo Library~ and Google Photos have different approaches to data management and should not be used simultaneously. When you use the trash can (or even "Free up space" or "Delete device copy") in Google Photos ~iCloud Photos~ is deleting the image also."

After you turn off "Back up & sync" confirm that when you delete a low priority (or test image) in https://photos.google.com/u/0/ that it is not deleted from your phone or iCloud.

As I say in the post, personally I would probably delete the Google Photos app from the phone after turning off "Back up & sync".

If you are syncing Google Photos from any other devices or computers besides your phone, it could be even more complex and risky.

Good luck, Dougsap (volunteer Google Photos user)

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Question: photos vanished

i did a backup before google photos was not free(before june 1st) all my photos where there, I cooul…

i did a backup before google photos was not free(before june 1st) all my photos where there, I coould see them on my pc. Now i've lost them all and google can't find a solution

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Question: Can I get my permanently deleted photos

I mistakenly deleted some photos permanently and want to recover it

Hi, Ericson Allan

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

However, once a user deletes something permanently despite a warning message or allows the content to time out in the bin, Google doesn't maintain any backup.

There is no way to get back the content through Google Photos.

Nevertheless, you may install to your Android device a deleted photo recovery app (be sure to not pick one that requires rooting) https://play.google.com/store/search?q=recover%20deleted%20photos&c=apps;

and run a scan for anything to recover.

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Question: I am unable to Change or remove a label in google photos.

The feature to edit name tags or remove them is unavailable. Clicking more does not give me these op…

Hi Danielle,

Sorry you are having issues. You should be able to rename grouped faces.

Please make sure you are navigating to the Albums

section and then selecting the People & Pets album.

On the Web

When you select a face from this view, it will show you all photos of that person and at the top of the page when you hover over their name with your mouse and an Edit Pen

will appear. Clicking this will allow you to change the name of the grouped face.

If it does not appear, please sign into Google Photos in a different browser or an Incognito Window in Chrome and try these same steps.

In the App

When you select a face from this view, it will show you all photos of that person. Click on the 3-dot menu

in the top right and select Edit Name Label.

You can then type in a new name and that grouped face will be renamed.

Please let me know if this fixes your issue!

Thanks,

Kyle

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Question: Is Google Photos adopting Apple's Terrible Photo Management Approach?

I am struggling to get my head round what Google is trying to do with its separation of Google Photo…

I am struggling to get my head round what Google is trying to do with its separation of Google Photos and Google Drive. Like many others in this community, I am old school and like to arrange my photos & videos manually on my hard drive because I like the fact that I can place photos that have incorrect timestamps in the right folder and group photos in the way that seems logical to me. Importantly I also, and perhaps this is the crux, don't want to be bound to any one photo service - this is the main reason that I have NEVER used Apple's iPhoto service as it has a horrible method of storage that I cannot see or understand and exporting to another service is a nightmare.

Before this bizarre separate, I loveD the fact that I could do this on Google Drive in a way that makes sense to me (and is easily backed up) and yet all the files were fully accessible with all the excellent Google Photos features (face recognition primarily) since Google Photos was able to access all content in my Google Drive. This is the main reason that I continued to use Google Drive over Dropbox. Dropbox is way slicker than Google Drive overall, but their photo service is nothing special as far as I can see hence I have split my files between both systems with my media (photos / videos, etc.) primarily on Google Drive. If I can no longer use Google Photos with Google Drive, then it no longer makes sense for me to continue using Google Drive...

Does anyone know a way in which I can leverage all the great Google Photo features without moving my files outside of Google Drive?

Grateful for any ideas...

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@Mark, you can switch over to the Backup side of Backup and Sync with the option to upload photos to Google Photos using preferences as per the screenshot <visible online>

This gives you a mirror hierarchy in Drive as per:

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Sorry Mark, I have deleted my initial reply because I was thinking the other way around.

But Peter's advice may be problematic also, because I assume that you have copied your local folders to Google Drive and contents of these folders was shown in Google Photos.

Is this still the case or are they all gone after July 10?

If so, normal use of backup & sync may result in a large amount of duplicates on Google Photos because all gets uploaded again. And your folders duplicate on Google Drive, but in a special section that takes no additional storage above your current usage.

There-after your original folders can be deleted from Drive, but we can't predict what will happen on Google Photos. I do think it is the best to set-up new folders outside your current mainfolder and restrict the syncing and uploading to these new folders selected.

I will leave further contacts to Peter now.

Best / Rinus

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Dear Peter and Rinus,

Thank you both for your quick responses. I think my problem precedes the point at which Peter's suggested solution kicks in. Like most people, most of my photos come from my phone - either I take photos with my phone or I receive photos from friends and family via my phone (Whatsapp, email etc.). Therefore, my first challenge is how to get my photos from my phone to my computer.

Google has now removed the phone photo/video backup to Google drive feature, so I think the only way to backup my photos to a hard drive/cloud drive is by using Dropbox if I want to have my photos stored in a file/folder structure. While I understand that Google Drive on my phone will backup my photos now to Google Photos, I can no longer "see" my photos and re-arrange them in my preferred folder structure hence I think my only option is to use Dropbox to get them off my phone - is that correct? Or is there another photo/video backup feature I am not aware of?

Once I get the photos off my phone and onto my cloud or hard drive, then I would like to view them from Google Photos. If I have to store my photos in Dropbox going forward, is there a way to view the photos and videos in Dropbox via Google Photos?

If I have fully understood this change, Google is essentially forcing us to duplicate our photos in 2 places: 1) Google Drive and 2) Google Photos which is highly problematic as, besides using 2x the storage, I will undoubtedly struggle to keep the 2 repositories in sync. I have 20 years of photos and videos neatly organised in folders by date which works really well for me and would be a nightmare if I relied solely on Google Photos given the sometimes inaccurate timestamps when people share photos or if they have been scanned at a later point etc.

One final idea - can Google Drive identify faces in photos? If so, perhaps I can just keep all my photos in Google Drive and ditch Google Photos altogether?

Grateful for any help with this - I have been totally thrown by this change and am desperately looking for a solution.

Best wishes,

Mark.

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Hi Mark, too many questions there, my workflow is to backup photos to both Google Photos at HQ for sharing with a parallel backup via OneDrive syncing down to my PC where I move the originals to a USB drive, thus clearing OneDrive storage. I add everything to an album in Google Photos and have given up PC organising apart from saving vacation photos in a dated folder.

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But I am using Google Photos on a classical and much better way then the rest of the world :-)

I am using my phone-camera like a classical camera which I connect to my computer via its usb-cable to copy the files to a temporary folder (then I always have originals also) and after deleting the bad ones, the good ones are edited to become better and captioned also. Then they are exported to my yearfolder and also uploaded to my yearalbum on Google Photos with High Quality setting in https://photos.google.com.

And on GP I decide which pictures are suitable for adding to a few temporary albums for sharing.

No need for any syncing, no need for drouly Google Drive which has nothing attractive.

And my organisation is on computer with a copy on usb-disc for additional safety.

Not any of the ever returning problems posted here and really high quality on Photos also.

But because GP is unsuitable for old scanned stuff, I use OneDrive which has a more intelligent approach for photos. But that is a restricted collection for our children only.

Dinnertime here.

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Thank you, Rinus. OneDrive is a great tip. Since your message, I have tried this as an option and it is comparable to Dropbox with maybe a slight improvement in terms of intelligent tagging of "places" (e.g. London, Paris, New York) and rather generic "things" (e.g. "sky', "dog\

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Peter's proposal to use the OneDrive-app on phone in parallel to the Google Photos app is just meant for syncing to pc - nothing more. So no storage on OneDrive instead of Google Photos.

And personally I only use OneDrive for the pre-digital part of my collection because on Google Photos you can't have "albums" sorted on names (like 1970-1971-1972 etc.) and no sorting on filenames within album (like 1970-123) and no single sharing link for a group of albums for our children only.

I am not interested in facetechnology because due to better privacy regulations in Europe we don't have these features.

It is up to you now to make a selection how to go on.

Best / Rinus

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Thank you Rinus.

I have also been thinking a little about the Google Backup and Sync idea - there is an option under preferences to "Upload newly added photos and videos to Google Photos". However, there are a couple of potential problems / questions I see here:

I work off a fairly thin client now and so most of my photos and videos are in Google Drive so is there an option to upload directly from Google Drive to Google Photos?
Does this option upload the full uncompressed file (my current option for Google Photos backup) or will this Backup and Sync option compress the photos and videos (it is not clear from the dialogue box)

Thank you again for your guidance on this.

Mark.

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The Google Backup & Sync app is unsuitable for your idea.

But you have a new option in https://photos.google.com under its Upload-button. You now can select any single folder on Drive for uploading, but that is a own manual time-action - no syncing.

And the uploadsize is determined by the setting of https://photos.google.com

Syncing via the OneDrive-app straight from phone just uses your ssd-disc temporarily because the file have to be moved to another storage place an that also can be a connected usb-disc.

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Question: I have delete my files by mistake and I want to recover it

Can you tell me how to recover my permanently deleted file from Google photos with android

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Question: Hii

Items deleted from Trash/bin, either manually or auto-deleted, usually can't be recovered but...

1).If you are using a regular personal account

You will have to contact a Google Drive Specialist who *MAY* be able to restore it. Use this link:

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/5032072?hl=en#contact=1

2). If you use a work/student account (G Suite), you should contact your Account Admin as they can restore files up to 25 days after deletion.

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I want this recover delete my pic

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Question: Google photos crashing

Google photos keeps crashing when trying to scroll through photos and videos

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Question: Background noise in videos

Want to take out background noise in videos so can hear the talking more or louder

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Question: So , I received one order that I paid for, thank you. I also paid for same order again. Where is t

I received photo, thank you. I ordered same photo again on different order because I didn't get firs…

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Question: How to recover my permanent delete photos and videos

I want my permanent delete photos and videos is very important

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Question: How to recover my deleted photos?

Hello, I wan't to recover all my deleted photos which was deleted permanently. Those photos are very…

Hello,

I wan't to recover all my deleted photos which was deleted permanently. Those photos are very important and my all the feelings are there too. I deleted all those photo due to my anger essay,so I humbly request you to tell me or help me to recover all the deleted photos.

Thank you

Kiran basnet

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Question: Need help with lost video when I uploaded it to Gmail for safe keeping

I tried back up recover .searched trash tried to resume uploads. I find the time and date but video …

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Question: Whenever I take pictures using my camera, Google photos backs it up immediately. How do I stop that?

I've already backed up all the photos that I want backed up, but whenever I take a picture on my cam…

I've already backed up all the photos that I want backed up, but whenever I take a picture on my camera, Google photos backs it up. I turned off the backing up option, but it still backs up the photos that I do not want backed up. How do I stop this?

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Question: Uninstalled Photos and reinstalled it due to out of order pics. Are Locked Folder pics gone forever?

I uninstalled the app because some photos were out if order and were in the wrong month.. Then I rei…

I uninstalled the app because some photos were out if order and were in the wrong month.. Then I reinstalled the most recent version (per what I read on these forums). I'm trying to recover photos I had moved to my Locked Folder but they appear to be totally gone from the phone. I can't even find them in Files either. Any ideas?

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Hi, Eric p

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

The pics in locked folder remain on the device only. Google Photos provides only an access to those in a convenient manner.

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Hi, Eric p

Thanks for your reply

There is no other way to access the locked folder except through Google Photos.

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Question: Saved draft collage I created a collage and saved as a draft and now I can't find it.

I cannot access my saved collage creation. I have looked in my saved creations and collages.

Hi Cathy,

>>>I cannot access my saved collage creation. I have looked in my saved creations and collages.

Unsaved collages might be here:

It sounds like you already checked some of these.

Ideas from others are welcome!

Good luck, Dougsap (volunteer Google Photos user)

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Question: Accidentally I permanently delete my all photos. How to restore again

I permanently delete my photos. I empty my trash also. How to recover my photos

Items deleted from Trash/bin, either manually or auto-deleted, usually can't be recovered but...

1).If you are using a regular personal account

You will have to contact a Google Drive Specialist who *MAY* be able to restore it. Use this link:

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/5032072?hl=en#contact=1

2). If you use a work/student account (G Suite), you should contact your Account Admin as they can restore files up to 25 days after deletion.

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Question: The date on my pictures are all wrong and some are not being back up?

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Question: Back up and restore

I need my photos upto 1.5 year all old photos this is very important for me plzz help me . I'm waiti…

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