 At Google I.O. today they announced Google Photos, which is a new version of what was Google Plus Photos, but now it's its own app. It's devoid of your Google Plus account, so don't worry about that. It's not something you have to sign up for to get into Photos. You can just go straight into the app. It's actually really nice. I've really enjoyed using it so far. And if you can look at it, it looks on the surface pretty much like the old Google Photos, which was buried inside of Google Plus. Google's offering free unlimited storage for a compressed version of the photos you upload. And for the most part they actually do look pretty great on the phone, but if you are someone who is interested in keeping your photos at full resolution, you can store them at the original file size using Google Drive. So beyond just being able to scroll through all the photos you've ever taken in a timeline view, you're actually able to search through your photos in a pretty simplistic way. They've organized it into people, places, and things. And I've done no tagging for any of these photos. It went through and realized that this face is my niece. And what's really great is I can take a photo I took for her last weekend, and I can actually go all the way back to when she was just born and we were taking photos of her. It's pretty amazing. It's probably my favorite feature of it, but it's definitely not perfect. This is my wife in two different versions. Beyond faces, it has places that are pulled from both geo-tagging and site recognition. If I search for images of Big Ben from my trip to London, it'll actually pull up all the photos I took of that monument while I was there, which is pretty crazy since this is stuff I shot with my 5D and has no metadata saying where or what it is. It's purely looking at the photo and knowing that that is Big Ben. So it's organized all the people in my life into these squares that I can go back and find, and it's pretty amazing actually how detailed it can get. This is one of our beloved co-workers here, Jimmy. Even in this photo, it can tell that that is him, which is, again, really crazy and really fun. I don't have to tag. I don't have to do any of this thing to this photo. So beyond the photos, there's two other panels. One is your assistant. This is where you can track if you are uploading photos and when they're going to be done. But it also does a cool thing of bringing up little notifications that it's added new things to your library. One such thing is animation where it takes a series of images that I shot and stitches them together into an animated GIF, which then I can save and add to my library. And sharing this out is actually really easy too. There's a share button down here. I can send it to messages or my email, save it to my photos even. But also I can just hit down here and hit a link, and this will generate a link to my clipboard, and I can just copy that link and send it to anyone. And then I can just take that link and give it to anyone whether they have Google Photos or not. And the other panel is the collection. This is where things that it will make get stored. So any videos that it's created, which is a thing it can do, will live here and you can play them. So you actually create your own collections. Say I want to create a collage of different photos. Actually a really nice feature is that I can tap once, but then I can tap and hold and then drag for a couple photos, add a photo in there and create. And it will actually generate a simple collage of photos from my wife and I going go-kart racing last weekend. So that's Google Photos. I got to say as someone who takes a lot of photos with their phone and with a DSLR, it's really great to know that there's now kind of a solution that is free and really simple to get into.
 At Google I.O. today they announced Google Photos, which is a new version of what was
 Google Plus Photos, but now it's its own app.
 It's devoid of your Google Plus account, so don't worry about that.
 It's not something you have to sign up for to get into Photos.
 You can just go straight into the app.
 It's actually really nice.
 I've really enjoyed using it so far.
 And if you can look at it, it looks on the surface pretty much like the old Google Photos,
 which was buried inside of Google Plus.
 Google's offering free unlimited storage for a compressed version of the photos you upload.
 And for the most part they actually do look pretty great on the phone, but if you are
 someone who is interested in keeping your photos at full resolution, you can store them
 at the original file size using Google Drive.
 So beyond just being able to scroll through all the photos you've ever taken in a timeline
 view, you're actually able to search through your photos in a pretty simplistic way.
 They've organized it into people, places, and things.
 And I've done no tagging for any of these photos.
 It went through and realized that this face is my niece.
 And what's really great is I can take a photo I took for her last weekend, and I can actually
 go all the way back to when she was just born and we were taking photos of her.
 It's pretty amazing.
 It's probably my favorite feature of it, but it's definitely not perfect.
 This is my wife in two different versions.
 Beyond faces, it has places that are pulled from both geo-tagging and site recognition.
 If I search for images of Big Ben from my trip to London, it'll actually pull up all
 the photos I took of that monument while I was there, which is pretty crazy since this
 is stuff I shot with my 5D and has no metadata saying where or what it is.
 It's purely looking at the photo and knowing that that is Big Ben.
 So it's organized all the people in my life into these squares that I can go back and
 find, and it's pretty amazing actually how detailed it can get.
 This is one of our beloved co-workers here, Jimmy.
 Even in this photo, it can tell that that is him, which is, again, really crazy and
 really fun.
 I don't have to tag.
 I don't have to do any of this thing to this photo.
 So beyond the photos, there's two other panels.
 One is your assistant.
 This is where you can track if you are uploading photos and when they're going to be done.
 But it also does a cool thing of bringing up little notifications that it's added new
 things to your library.
 One such thing is animation where it takes a series of images that I shot and stitches
 them together into an animated GIF, which then I can save and add to my library.
 And sharing this out is actually really easy too.
 There's a share button down here.
 I can send it to messages or my email, save it to my photos even.
 But also I can just hit down here and hit a link, and this will generate a link to my
 clipboard, and I can just copy that link and send it to anyone.
 And then I can just take that link and give it to anyone whether they have Google Photos
 or not.
 And the other panel is the collection.
 This is where things that it will make get stored.
 So any videos that it's created, which is a thing it can do, will live here and you
 can play them.
 So you actually create your own collections.
 Say I want to create a collage of different photos.
 Actually a really nice feature is that I can tap once, but then I can tap and hold and
 then drag for a couple photos, add a photo in there and create.
 And it will actually generate a simple collage of photos from my wife and I going go-kart
 racing last weekend.
 So that's Google Photos.
 I got to say as someone who takes a lot of photos with their phone and with a DSLR, it's
 really great to know that there's now kind of a solution that is free and really simple
 to get into.