The application Google Photos arrived last May to revolutionize digital photography on cell phones and computers. And it is that its unlimited and free options put an end to the storage capacity problem on mobiles with less memory. Of course, reducing its size, although with a loss of minimal quality and practically imperceptible. Now, Google launches an update with an important and long-awaited novelty for this service: create shared albums , or what is the same, collaborate with other users to complete a photo gallery without having to exchange images with each other.A complete convenience to get hold of the snapshots of an event collected from several mobile phones.
The process for creating shared or collaborative albums is really simple. Thus, Google has integrated the process within the option to share images in order to make it as intuitive and practical as possible. With this, you just have to follow these simple steps to collaborate on an album and complete it from different mobiles:
First of all, share an album To do this, just access Google Photos and select a previously created folder or, if preferred, a selection of images from the gallery. For the latter it is possible to select several images one by one, or make a long press and slide your finger to select a group quickly.After that, just press the share button at the top of the screen
This is when the new Google Photos options appear, among which New shared album stands out (new shared album). When you click on it, the application takes care of creating a link to share with those people you want to collaborate with. Of course, it is very important to keep the option “let others add their photos” active, or what is the same, allow others to add their photos, as it is key to what you want to accomplish.
After that it is possible to send the link with the shared album through applications such as WhatsApp, social networks such as Facebook, messages like SMS or even email Once the user or users who receive it accept it and press the option to unirse (join ), they now have access to the photos and videos in the shared album.
Now all that remains is to add new items to the album with the + button at the top of the screen. Thus, the user who has just joined the shared or collaborative album can select photos and videos from your own gallery and add them for others to see. Of course, only those with whom the link has been shared can view the album and add new photos and videos.
With this, photos of a wedding, birthday, or event attended by multiple people can be shared among multiple people to create a full album.All this without a person having to order the images and videos person by person, or manage the entire process. Just share an album and let everyone contribute.
This feature is available in the latest version of Google Photos available for both mobile Android as iOS Can be downloaded free via Google Play Store and App Store
