Photos and videos are uploaded to Google Photos and stored at their full, original quality. There’s no further compression beyond the initial JPEG compression that occurs when the photo is taken and stored on the phone. Original Quality does what it says on the tin. But DSLRs can take much larger photos, and modern phones and cameras can record video in 4K, so you’ll lose a noticeable amount of pixels if you stick to High Quality. That’s not a huge problem with the original Pixel, as it only has a 12 MP camera. However, photos above 16 MP (4920 x 3264 pixels), and videos above 1080p (1920 x 1080 pixels) will be scaled down to those sizes, as well as being compressed. It does a fantastic job of saving space whilst preserving image quality as outlined by PhoneArena and PetaPixel. High Quality uses advanced compression algorithms to dramatically reduce the size of photos and videos without causing much visible degradation. Google Photos offers two backup quality options – High Quality and Original Quality. You won’t be able to upload in High quality”. On this Google Support page it states for the Pixel (2016) “You get unlimited free storage at Original quality. All Original Quality backups will consume your Google Drive space. The latest Pixels only offer free backups in High Quality. This got me thinking about uploading photos from my DSLR, and I found it was indeed possible.īy the time the Pixel 2 was released in 2017, this had been quietly reworded and an end date was ultimately put in place: “You get unlimited free storage at Original quality for all photos and videos uploaded to Google Photos from Pixel 2 through January 16, 2021”. Some people noticed that there was no mention of photos needing to be taken on the Pixel, just uploaded from it.

When the first Google Pixel phone (which I’ll call the Pixel 1) was announced back in October 2016, Google offered “free unlimited storage for life, for full-resolution images and videos uploaded from the Pixel”. You’ll need an original Pixel or Pixel XL for this to work. Find out how to use the full potential of Google Photos on the original Google Pixel (2016) phone in order to automatically provide full quality backups from any other Android phone.

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