▶️ How to save photos from Google Photos on your computer

Perhaps you've already seen that warning from Google that you're reaching the 15Gb storage limit, so if you don't want to pay, we'll tell you how to save the photos from Google Photos on your computer to free up some space. And it is that, once you have exceeded that limit, the storage of your account will no longer be free, and you will either have to pay these prices, or delete files to have more free space.

How to save photos from Google Photos on your computer

To find out how to save photos from Google Photos on your computer The best thing, of course, is to access Google Photos from your computer , instead of doing it from the app. To do this, you can either go directly to the web, or access from your Gmail account.

Once in the Gmail account, you have to access the menu of Google applications.

It is the little square that appears in the image; when you click, a drop-down will open with Drive, Calendar and Photos among others. Click on Photos.

Once inside, all your photos saved in Google Photos will appear, you can select one by one, or by days, all the ones you want to download.
Once selected, click on the menu with the three dots that will appear at the top right, and in the drop-down menu that opens, click on "Download".

If you press it, the images you have selected will be downloaded, and you can locate them in the “Downloads” folder of your computer.

How to transfer photos from Google Photos to an external hard drive

Once you have those photos in the downloads on your computer, you can choose where to save them, or also how to transfer the photos from Google Photos to an external hard drive.If you want to save them on your computer, create a folder and just drag the download images into it.

If you want them to be on an external hard drive, instead of cutting and pasting or dragging them to a folder on your computer, paste them to a folder on an external hard drive, like you would with any other document. Thus, you will not only save storage space in your Google account, but also on your PC.

How to download all photos from Google Photos

If you don't want to look at which photos to download one by one, we'll tell you how to download all the photos from Google Photos and thus have one copy with all To do this, you will have to go to an external Google website, you will not be able to do it directly from the photos application.

The website in question is https://takeout.google.com/ and you will see that there are several tabs to download your content from different Google services. To download your photos from Google Photos you will have to uncheck the rest of the tabs, or click on the “Uncheck all” option, and check only the Google Photos tab. All you have to do is click on “All photo albums included”, click “OK” and choose a location for your files. And ready!

Once downloaded to your computer, decide whether to leave them there or move them to an external hard drive,just as you we have explained above.

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