To upload photos to Google Photos for accessing them anywhere and anytime, you can go to the photos.google.com and use the “Upload” button. Or you can choose another Google Photo uploader: MultCloud, which does not only uploads desktop pictures to Google Photos, but also upload pictures saved in other cloud drive directly.
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Developed by Google and announced on May 28, 2015, Google Photos has been a popular photo-sharing and storage service choice for most users. After uploading precious pictures onto Google Photos, you can access them anywhere, from any device. So, learning how to upload your photos to Google Photos, or getting a reliable Google Photo uploader is a pretty good place to start.
To upload pictures from your Windows PC, or Mac, just follow the steps one by one. Easy and quick.
Step 1. Open up one browser and go to photos.google.com. This will take you to the Google Photos website.
Step 2. Click the Upload button in the top right corner, and click Computer in the UPLOAD FROM dropdown to open File Explorer.
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Step 3. Select photos or videos you would like to upload, and then upload them by clicking Open.
See, just 3 steps can finish the pictures uploading to Google Photos.
Notes:
Besides the Google Photos website, you can also enjoy the Google Photos uploader on Windows PCs. Google Drive provides the Google Drive for desktop app for you to upload files to Google Drive and Google Photos as you like. So, you can try to upload photos to Google Photos as follows via the Google Photos uploader - Google Drive for Desktop:
1. Please download and install Google Drive for Desktop app, then log in with your account.
2. Click the Google Drive icon on the system tray, then choose Settings > Preferences.
3. Hit the Add folder button from the My computer tab, and choose the photos and videos to upload, choose Select Folder to upload.
4. Choose Back up to Google Photos only, and hit Done > Save to upload photos to Google Photos.
Tip: In step 4, you will get Google Drive duplicate files if you check both Sync with Google Drive, and Back up to Google Photos, and the Google Drive storage full problem should bother you quickly.
Limitations of the above two Google Photos uploader:
The above method is used by most users who want to upload pictures or videos from a computer or Google Drive to Google Photos. What if you want to upload from other cloud drives such as OneDrive, Mega, Wasabi, etc to Google Photos? Thus, you can try a more versatile Google Photo Uploader named MultCloud.
Next, we will show you how to upload Google Photos from computer local storage or other clouds. Please first sign up for an account (Free).
Step 1. Click "Add Cloud" in the left panel and choose "Google Photos" to add.
Step 2. Double-click a "Folder" in "Google Photos" to open for saving the pictures.
Step 3. Then click on "Upload Files" to upload pictures or videos to Google Photos.
Note: you can also choose "Remote Upload", which enables you to transfer content from Links, Torrents, and Magnets directly to your clouds.
Then you can enter the "Task List" to check the process.
Apart from adding "Google Photos" to the platform, you need to add another cloud as well so that you can upload pictures to Google Photos from other clouds. For example, how to upload photos from iPhone to Google Photos? Add source and target clouds with the same steps, and follow the steps to upload iCloud Photos to Google Photos.
Step 1. Click "Cloud Transfer" on the left side after adding iCloud Photos and Google Photos.
Step 2. Select the source folder under iCloud Photos, and choose Google Photos and folder as the destination. Finally, click on "Transfer Now" to upload photos on Google Photos from mobile.
Notes: Before transferring, you can enjoy the following useful features to manage the task easier:
So, as for the Google Photo uploader, you can choose the common one, or go for an advanced one. If you want to upload pictures to Google Photos from both computer and other cloud drives (not just Google Drive), then MultCloud can meet your requirements quite well.
Apart from the "Cloud Transfer" function, it is able to sync content between two clouds, like syncing Google Photos to Google Drive, syncing OneDrive and Google Photos, and so on. In addition to personal cloud services, it also supports business cloud services (Google Workspace, OneDrive for Business, Dropbox Business, Box for Business, Shared Drive) and develops the “Team Transfer” for moving multiple accounts from one cloud platform to another.