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hi I'm Lexi savedoff from steena taking a first look at the brand new Google Photos app now this app from Google kind of takes a lot of the functionality that you might be familiar with from Google pluses photo integration but it pulls it out separately into a nice standalone way you can access on either Mac or PC on the web Android or iOS which is actually available now if you want to play around with it now what Google Photos tries to do is integrate all of your photos and videos from everywhere in your life with unlimited photo and video storage 1080p video is the maximum can deal with and 16 megapixel images as well on the photo side but it tries to gather everything in one place and then automatically categorize things by people places and things without you needing to do anything via machine learning now this is kind of where it gets a bit fun if you want to use the search bar within Google photos you can go in either tap the blue button on the app or go into the search bar on web and then type in something like beach or food and then automatically once your photos have been put onto the service Google will find all of those images automatically tagged so I'm a big food photographer and it pretty much found everything that I'd ever taken on my mobile and all the cameras that I've used over the years in Google Photos with all the photos there it's found everything kind of creepy I didn't even tagged anything with food it just knows now on mobile you get lots of different gestures to navigate between your photos like pinching in and out to go between all of the years months and days and you can also just tap and hold to select a whole bunch of photos and drag down then you can share them really easily either on Twitter Facebook wherever you want to put them or you can grab a standalone link and with that link you can send it to friends and family they view it on google photos and then if you want to revoke access at a later date you can do that as well so that's a quick first look at all of the features on Google Photos if you want to find out more you can check out our full coverage on cnet.com