There could be nothing better than Google Photos for those who are looking to create an out of this world photo library. The product is again incomparable when it comes to backing up your valuable photos. Before Google Photos came into the market, I had been using Picasa since 2012 to share pics with my near and dear ones and back up the collection of photos, but this software developed by Google was not up to the mark thoroughly for the purposes. Shortly after getting disappointed with the product, I started using my iPhone mightily. Google+ too appeared in the market with the aim to bring down Picasa, but that also could not live up to the mark. Incidentally thankfully, with the release of the Google Photos product in the mid of 2015, things started to become much simpler and more effective than ever before!

Google Photos is compatible with all trendy platforms such as iOS, Android and the Web browser. Similar to G Drive or G+ app, you can tweak setting in your Google Photos app to take a backup of the digital data you store on your mobile device. Again similar to these predecessors, Google Photos offers unlimited storage space when you select to have storage of High-Quality digital data. This directs to the fact that you will get High Definition photos with 16 MP as the ultimate limit value and High Definition videos with resolutions featuring 1080p. If you cannot afford your data to be available in a compressed form, then select Original, which means you can ensure to get complete HD files, although the action will challenge your storage program developed by Google.

While Web browser and Google Photos for iOS app have been in my great use although I am not very good at organizing photos and thankfully Google Photos turns up to carry out the terrible job for me. Thanks to Google, when I logged into my account, to my great happiness and wonder, I found my albums loaded through Picasa were already there including the photos I had taken from my iOS device. This happened, I guess, as a result of using auto backup tool found on the G Drive. Luckily, I can put off this feature in G Drive today and instead use the Backup & sync feature in this storage service developed by Google.

Whether you use iOS app or web browser, Google Photos typically features three key views viz. Assistant, Photos, and Collections. To navigate from one view to another, the recommendation is to consider using the menu key located at the top left side or simply start swiping to one side for the said purpose.

For those using iOS apps, they can pinch on Photos view. Pinching inwards will zoom in the number of images displayed on your screen straight away and you can get to a day/month/year view. Pinching outward, on the other hand, will zoom in to display simply a handful of photos at one time much larger.

Considering the Assistant view, as per Google, “suggests new things made with your photos and videos, such as a college or a story based on a recent trip you took. After previewing the creation, you can choose to keep, edit, or discard it.” This feature can aid me to a great extent exclusively informing me that I can take some pics. I am confident that the more I utilize the app; the Assistant feature will turn up every time to help me.

Collections view stores your personal albums, stories, and movies. Incidentally, Stories pertain to albums that include both videos and images and Google can come into play to concoct a handful of good anecdotes for you.

The highlights of Google Photos, what I personally like most, are that aside from having its personal app, it is not integrated into Google+ or Drive unnecessarily. Also, the search functionality it features is absolutely one of a kind. What is more, Google Photos features flawless face recognition tool, which displays items more generic than they look actually!

Apart from People, the Google service comes into play for you by enabling you to search your images by Places and Things. Places entails using data of the target places to group photos; this way you will be able to view the photos you have taken on a trip without going through the need to create an album primarily. Another extraordinary feature of Google Photos includes the Things group, which enables you to search for photos of museums, minarets, skyscrapers, forests, and other wonderful things.

When it comes to sharing your photos with your near and dear ones via Google Photos, it is again a piece of cake! To achieve this purpose, you need not to create a private library first. All you need to do is select the target portfolio of images and request a shareable link.

If you consider using the Web browser, hit the Share key after you have selected group photos and hit Get sharable link. Alternatively, if iOS app is the app you want to use, select the portfolio of your photos, click the share key and finally click Copy Link to Clipboard. The step will enable you to include the shareable link into your email, and this way your receiver can easily take a look at your photos without having any need to login or use any specific app.