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2:15 Beginning and Quick Tip
If you need help with any of Google’s free products, here’s where to go:
If you have a paid product, like the Pixel phone or a Google One membership, you can get a phone call.
The phone support you get here can apply to any product, but as with any kind of support, the quality will depend on the particular person on the other end of the line.
9:00 Hello and Geek’s update
We just got back from a week in Colorado where Chris was attending the Google Product Experts conference. We also went on to Denver and presented a couple seminars at Senior Planet.
Product Experts volunteer to answer questions in the support forums for Google Products. Google flies us all out to a conference location where we party and attend product information sessions. Here’s my photo album of the event.
12:27 Google Photos – What’s New?
Google is improving Google Photos all the time. Since the 2d edition of the book, Chris has been keeping a list of all the changes. You’ll find that at geeksontour.com/google-photos If you go there and scroll down a bit, you’ll see a heading for Google Photos Updates. Click on that to expand it.
If your app is not up to date, then you may not have the latest features!
One of Chris’ favorite new features is the ability to capture a frame of a motion photo. In iPhones, it’s called Live Photo. On Samsung and many androids, it’s called Motion Photo. If you take a photo with that feature turned on, then you get 2-3 seconds of video along with your still photo. If the still photo is not good – e.g. eyes closed or not a good smile – you can view all frames of the video portion and grab a frame.
Open the photo in Google Photos – Android only – swipe up on the photo and tap on the filmstrip you see. Drag your finger over the filmstrip till you can select one frame that looks how you want. Then tap Save Copy.
Here’s the standalone video: 591 Capture frame of Motion Photo
Google Drive<->Google Photos issue: Google Photos used to automatically sync with Google Drive. That ended in July of this year.
Michael Daniels show with Chris as a guest.
The 3-dot menu now pulls up the photo to reveal a horizontal menu.
Edit in Snapseed is found on that horizontal menu on iPhones. On Android you need to first tap the Edit button. Once you’re in Edit mode, you’ll see a 9-dot grid to the right, tap that and you’ll see edit in Snapseed (if you have snapseed installed.)
Open an album and then tap the 3-dot menu and Options. One of the options is to add automatically selected people or pets. You can choose to add all photos or just from this time forward. Any photos you take now of the specified people will show up in the album.
28:02 Interface changes
You used to be able to pinch the screen and it would condense all the way down to “year-at-a-glance”. Now it stops at month view. You can pinch or reverse-pinch (spread your fingers on the screen) to see different views. Each pinch shows you a more condensed view, each reverse-pinch shows you a more expanded view. When you’re looking at day view, you’ll see the location of the day’s photos shown above.
Assistant has changed to “For you” That means the message that Google has for you, the stylized photos it makes for you, the collages, movies and remember this day that Google creates for you. The other things that used to be in Assistant, like ‘clear the clutter’ are now found under the 3-line menu and “Manage Library.”
Shared library – the one “Partner” that you can share all your pictures with – used to be under the menu. Now it’s on the Sharing tab.
32:04 Photo Frames
The Google Home Hub (now Nest Hub) is a device that is a speaker, assistant, and photo viewer. It used to be that you needed to use the Home app to set up “ambient view” and specify what Google Photo albums you wanted played with the photo viewer function. Now, it’s built right into Google Photos. Tap the 3-line menu and you’ll see “Photo Frames”, tap that and you can select which device you are addressing. Tap the device you want and then you’ll see a list of all your albums. Every album you select will be used to randomly display the photos on the device. If you choose an album where you have specified auto-added certain people, they will show up on this device. What a cool thing for grandparents to automatically see photos of the grandkids whenever they’re added. No work on anyone’s part.
There are lots of places in the world that don’t have good data service. For them, Google has another app called Gallery Go. It only works with photos on device, no cloud access at all. This app is not for us. Express Backup is another option that is for low bandwidth situations – it is a third option for picture size: Original, High Quality, Express Backup. You probably won’t see it on your device.
Search for text in photos: as google’s servers keep getting better and better at search, one thing they can now see is the text in the photo. Like in billboards and other signs. Search for “welcome” and you’ll get lots of signs.
Sorting by date added as opposed to date taken. Normally when you look at your photo library the most recently taken photos will be at the top and as you scroll down you’re viewing photos taken in the past. They are sorted by date taken. If you just added some photos given to you by someone else, they will get put in your library and shown in your library by the date they were taken. That may be all over the place. If you want to see all the photos that you just added to your library, regardless of when they were taken, you can now search for “recently added”
Here’s the standalone video 592; sort by date added
42:24 New functionality
Captions on Photos books can now be entered on each page of your book as you build it.
Ordering 4X6 prints from Walmart or CVS: just open the photo(s) you want and tap the 3-dot menu and “Order prints” – choose which Walmart you’ll use and click ok. You pay when you pick them up at .25 each.
Canvas prints are enlargements at 8X10, 11X14, or 16X20. The canvas is mounted on a wooden frame and you can choose to have the photo wrap around the frame.
Depth Editor and Color Pop – iOS only Here’s a video: 542.GP-How to use the Depth Editor and Color Pop in Google Photos
Memories: At the top of your photo library, Google now shows you memories from years past. These are temporary albums and they’re automatic. Click on them and enjoy. You can also specify some people or dates that you don’t want to see. Here’s an article with all the details.
Editing movies on web. Movies have been mobile-only things. You still need to create them on a mobile device, but you can edit them on the web. Open a movie, then click the edit menu and you’ll see the filmstrip that you can rearrange, add new clips, delete clips, and change music.
Save as PDF – on iOS when you tap the 3-dot menu. You’ll see it as an option below the photo.
Document crop: take a photo of a receipt, tap on the edit menu then the 9-dot grid and “crop document” – when you choose Auto, it crops close to the receipt and flattens it out.
Album sort: when you view albums, they are normally sorted by date of most recent photo in the album. Now you can also sort alphabetically by title. Tap on the double arrow just at the top of the album section.
Draw on photos: Android only. When you edit a photo, you should see a new button now. It’s a little squiggle. You can draw on the photo, highlight, or add text.
55:33App of the week: Tunity
Tunity – This is a great way to go to a sports bar and watch your favorite team. You’ll be able to hear the audio from your phone even though the TV is muted. You can also use it at home as long as you’re watching network broadcast television.
It’s free, it’s for Android or iOS. Once the app is installed, all you do is point your phone at the screen and it will determine what network it is and, based on your GPS, it can find the audio stream from the internet.
59:10 Review
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Episode 172 was Live on Sunday 8/4/19 at 2pm Eastern.
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