On a smartphone or tablet without the automatic backup feature enabled, open the Google Photos app and tap the images you want to share.

(As an alternative, you can click the Upload button at the top of the screen and navigate to the folder on your computer to add them.) If you have a folder of images on your computer that you want to upload to Google Photos through your web browser, log in at and drag pictures onto the browser window to transfer them. You just need to select and sort the photos into the album you want to share before sending out a link to the family.Įven if you are not using the automatic backup feature, you can manually upload selected photos you want to share online.

Google Photos can be set to automatically back up all the pictures you take on your smartphone or copy to your computer, so if you have this setting enabled, the pictures have already been uploaded to the online storage space that comes with your Google Account. A previous column explained how to download specific files from Google Photos, but I need to know how to upload a specific album to share with a family group.

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