The virtues of the great Google Photos

If we have always had a great application as an image gallery on Android, this has been QuickPic. An app that was recently renewed to Material Design and that It has helped millions of users to have all their images served from an interface that moved perfectly and that aside from what was the design, it has always had a great set of features. This has allowed it to continue dominating in this category until, at Google I / O, the new app was presented Google Photos for pc.

Yes, possibly we are facing the best image gallery app of the moment, with permission from Quickpic. This is because we are facing an app, which apart from being a gallery of images, is valid to store them in the cloud completely free and unlimited, apply all kinds of filters using powerful tools such as Snapseed, functions such as Auto Awesome to create GIFs and short videos, and that it has a Material Design interface that enriches the way we usually access all our images on a daily basis. So let's get to know the virtues in detail of Google Photos.

All your images and videos in the cloud for free

This was the feature that got the most applause when it was announced in the keynote at Google I/O. If the unlimited storage option is selected, as my colleague Francisco explains in this post, you can upload photos of up to 16 megapixels or 1080 HD video without having to think about paying something per month or if we will have some space left.

All video and image files that have a higher resolution will be reduced to those 16 megapixels. If for whatever reason you want to choose to upload the image in a higher resolution, you have to select the storage you have in the Google Drive cloud, or let another service like Dropbox do this work.

All well organized

Thousands are the number of photographs that we can have, and these have to be properly organized so that in several swipes we can access the photos of the trip we made to Denia or those of our beloved pet. This is another of the virtues of Google Photos from Collections.

Photos is simply sublime when it comes to ordering a good set of photos depending on the time they were taken in order to make a collage with them. Apart from the collections, Photos also allows us to create our own albums to create stories, animations or create a collage. Click on the plus sign in the search bar, select the images and we can add notes, choose music and share it, if we want, with friends or contacts.

The search bar

If Collections order all our photos, the search bar is the perfect tool to find a certain one among the thousands that we have. To give you a more specific idea, the search in Photos is very similar to the search for images that exists in Google's web search, but for your photographs.

It is very simple to use. We type «people» and the photographs with portraits or individuals will appear that are in them. You will only have to be surprised when using different searches so that you realize the power that Google has given the user with this search bar in Photos.

We face one of the best features that we now have in Google Photos and it is thanks to that element detection algorithm that Google has been putting so much effort into.

A custom interface

The image gallery has a great option that can be modified with a quick gesture of our fingers to change from the daily view of the images taken to what is a monthly one with a simple gesture to zoom out.

This facilitates that when we have to find an image and we know that we took it just a fortnight ago, when making a gesture we will have it there well ready to select it from among all of them. A gallery that looks great with those Material Design animations.

Sharing your photos and moments

With Google Photos now you can share direct links to a photo or send it to Facebook and Twitter as well as Google+. These shared images have their section in the navigation sidebar in order to know which ones are visible with other users or contacts.

Ultimately, Google has wanted to launch an independent app that is positioned as the best image gallery application It boasts a great design and has a lot of great features. And if everything was perfect already, that unlimited and free space to store photos and videos that it offers makes it the perfect application.