Google Photos: one photo app to rule them all

Devin Ashby
Jul 30, 2019
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About this webinar

What if there was a photo app that could manage all your photos and give you unlimited backup space? There is one. It’s called Google Photos. Google’s facial recognition technology lets you create shared albums, collages, animations, movies, stories, and much more. It’s totally free and unlike any other photo app out there.

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About the speaker

Devin Ashby is a Global Outreach Manager for FamilySearch, the largest genealogical organization in the world. Devin has taught family history for years and has over 300,000 online views. In 2004 he r...
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  1. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    6 years ago

    it was my first webinar and I liked it.\n\nLearned a lot\n\nLearned a lot about Google Photos today...and I have used it before!\n\nLearned so much!\n\nLearned some new content.\n\nLearning Devin's backup process was just what I needed! I may finally move my thousands of photos from Picasa to Google Photos!! Great webinar!! Thanks\n\nLots and lots of tidbits. thanks.\n\nLots of good information about a product that I knew very little about. Thanks for this one. \n\nLove Google photos! Thanks for the tips and tricks!\n\nLoved it. Easy to follow.\n\nMost helpful webinar ever - Devin (and the handout made it easy for an old lady to comprehend). THANK YOU.\n\nPassionate and knowledgeable about using google photo\n\nreally really a great speaker....want more1!!\n\nSuper stuff!\n\nsuper useful! thank you!\n\nThank you Devin, I have to teach Google photos to our Genealogy class here in The Villages of Florida next month and I learned so many more things to add to the presentation. I loved the multiple search and the minus option.\n\nThat was fun!!! Another app to explore. Thank you! P.S. The best part was watching you both try new things out at the end. Very interesting...and amazing.\n\nThe webinar was great. It will take some time to learn all of what Devin went over. I will have to go back and watch it over and over to get all of the information. I did like the end when Geoff and Devin were going over different items.\n\nThere is a whole lot to learn about Google Photos! Thanks for the start!\n\nThis was great. I will be going online and checking it out. I love learning new things\n\nThis webinar provided some great info. My only suggestion is to have some "how to" reference charts for the key Google Photo functions.\n\nVery exciting for portion I saw. Can't wait to watch again and try this.\n\nVery good! Devin Ashby talked and did Live examples on Google Photos One Photo App the Rule them All.\n\nVery informative and find I will now add Google photos to a must do application.\n\nVery informative Webinar! Thank you!\n\nVery informative! I use google photos, because I am one of those people who have lost photos on multiple occasions, however, I did not know how to use most of the features, so this webinar was very helpful. I particularly like the ability and ease of making a slide show/ video of family through the years. Thank you!\n\nVery informative. Learned lots of features I didn't know existed. \n\nVery interesting and appropriate for someone like me who takes many photos. I can't wait to get started with Google Photo!\n\nVery Timely for me personally.\n\nWhat a fun subject -- I can see many hours playing in Google Photos\n\nWhile interesting it was a lot of information for beginners to Google Photos. Will have to watch again or use the help google provides.\n\nWonderful webinar ... so much to learn about Google Photos!\n\nWonderful, thank goodness I'm retired. Now to find the time to get photo's identified and uploaded.\n\nWow\n\nWow , great class learned lots will watch again! Thanks\n\nWow! This will be great to try to organize my photos. Thank you, Devin!\n\nWow! Awesome and a bit overwhelming, mostly because I've never used it and I have LOTS of old family photos. I can't wait to upload them and use the facial recognition feature!

  2. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    6 years ago

    A GREAT LEARNING WEBINAR - GOING TO WATCH IT OVER AGAIN AND AGAIN.\n\nAbsolutely awesome!\n\nAmazing strategies I never heard before. Let's have Part 2 soon!!\n\nAs always, excellent\n\nAs many have said, there's a lot to play with and learn. Sounds like it's great for finding photos and for organizing them.\n\nBecause I am not technology savvy, this both scares and excites me. I was playing around with it during the webinar, but I still have lots to learn and decisions to make on whether or not to use it.\n\nBRILLIANT :)\n\nBrilliant webinar with lots of great ideas to follow up.\n\nCan't wait to try out Google Photos! \n\nDevin Ashby always had interesting webinard.\n\nDevin is the best!\n\nDidn't know so much was possible with Google Photos. \n\nEven though I already use Google photos, I learnt a lot today! I especially loved the teachings about searching people and places with the + or - signs :)\n\nExcellent beginner webinar. I would like to see one that is more advanced - such as: Can you merge albums? If you transfer a scanned video - how can you get it to be in the correct order by date?\n\nexcellent learnt so much\n\nExcellent presentation about a product I've not been using enough. Thank you!\n\nExcellent program, so much information to learn I will have to watch again.\n\nExcellent webinar!! I can’t wait to try it!!\n\nEXCELLENT! Now, where do I find the time?\n\nExcellent. Now I have to find out if my Picasso photos are in google photos\n\nExcellent. One of the best on the topic of technology so far.\n\nExcellent. Very easy to understand and a great springboard to an app that I will definitely download and use.\n\nExcellent.......I needed the help to get organized!!\n\nExcited to get into Google Photo and try out all I have learned today. Thank you so much!\n\nFascinating! Thank you for the excellent webinar.\n\nFor me this got me back to using Google Photos! \n\nGreat\n\ngreat information -- now need to try applying it.\n\nGreat information, and now to try it all. I would never have attempted making good use of Google Photos if not for this webinar.\n\nGreat information, now to find the time to learn to use it effectively.\n\nGreat presentation! So useful! Excite to try it out! Thank you! : )\n\nGreat presentation. I have never used Google Photos, but will begin to use it. It is great getting information on how to use it!\n\nGreat presentation. I look forward to using Google Photos.\n\nGreat reason to go with Google Photos. Thanks also to Geoff for impromptu searching hints. Devin and Geoff go well together!\n\nGreat step by step instructions.\n\nGreat webinar!!!\n\nGreat! Learned a lot, fairly new to google photos so this was greatly appreciated! Thanks :)\n\nHave to start using it again\n\nI already use Google Photos, but I found our much that I didn't know. Thank you.\n\nI am already using Google Photos.\n\nI can't tell you how much I loved this webinar! I can't wait to play!!! My actual researching just might suffer but I want to practice with all this before our trip to Alaska in August. Thanks so much for the wonderful learning opportunities you offer through your webinars.\n\nI downloaded Google Photo during the webinar and I am set to go. Thanks.\n\nI hope I can remember enough to try this.\n\nI learned a lot about something I have never thought about using before today! Already sent messages to people who I know that missed this webinar to watch the recorded version.\n\nI love how to webinars. This man was a easy speaker to understand . Thank you for this great talk.!!\n\nI use google photos but I still learned a lot. \n\nI'm convinced! Amazing capability with ease of use. Especially will be useful for organizing assorted historic family photos. Thanks. \n\nInteresting\n\nIt was an excellent explanation of Google photo's. It did not discuss why it was a superior ap as compared to Apple Photo.

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