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I Google i/o today they announced Google photos which is a new version of what was Google+ photos but now it's its own app it's devoid of your Google+ 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 looks on the surface pretty much like the old Google photos which was buried inside at Google Plus Google is 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 into people places and things and I've done no tagging for Enya's photos it's went through and realized that this faces my niece and what's really great is I can take a photo I took forever like last weekend and I can actually go all the way back to when she was like 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 like this is my wife and two different versions beyond faces it has places that are pulled from both geo-tagging and site recognition like 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 I don't have any these are 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 I can find and it's pretty amazing actually how detailed it can get this is one of our blow of code workers here Jimmy and like even in this photo they can tell that that is him which is like again really crazy and like really fun that like and that's a tagging I 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 gonna 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 as an animation where it takes a series of images that I shot and stitches them together into an animated gif which 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 and 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 gets stored so any videos that it's created which is a thing it can do will live here and you can play them to 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 then I can tap and hold and then drag for a couple photos add a photo in there and create and it'll actually generate a simple collage of photos from my wife and I going go-kart racing last weekend so that's cool of photos I gotta 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