If you have an Amazon Fire...

[gguerra]

Originally Posted by akrausz

I checked again today on amazon.com/photos and all my photos still shows in low resolution. Doesn't matter if I use a Chromebook or a Windows 11 laptop. I was not able to find a setting to fix the problem on amazon.com/photos. But the correct resolution is there, because when I edit a photo with either laptop it loads the higher resolution. I have to edit each photo just to see if it is in focus. So a significant seam for me. Of course that's just my personal experience so far.

I use it differently and it's a little more complicated.

I take photos with a DSLR camera and my cell phone which has both Google Photos and Amazon Photos on it. I have both automatically backup to the cloud. I don't edit the photos on my phone. I have Amazon Photos for the Desktop, automatically synching the photos I have there to the Amazon cloud. I do not have the same thing with google photos. The free storage on google is not enough for all of my pictures. It's enough for the ones I take with my cell phone but I have way more than that. I backup to external drives anyway for safe keeping. I would never put all of my eggs in one basket or just on the cloud. I need a physical copy of them on my own devices.

Anyway, I only edit photos on my desktop. Since it is automatically synched with Amazon and it is set to use original quality, I never edit them on the cloud, only from hard drive. I also use my photos as a screen saver on my PC and on my firestick which is nice. I also have Amazon photos installed on my firestick so you can manually go in an view photos individually or as a slideshow.

I did say it was complicated didn't I?

[ChessieMom]

Originally Posted by akrausz

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One of the best features of cellphones is if you take a picture with an Android phone, it automatically gets backed up to the cloud. Then you don't have to do anything for it to appear on your industry-standard Android tablet, as Google Photos does this seamlessly in the background. Same with Apple products. If your pictures are from a regular camera, then you have to work a little harder to get them safely stored, backed up and on your tablet.

I have never used the cloud to store my pics. It certainly is NOT automatic.

[akrausz]

Originally Posted by ChessieMom

I have never used the cloud to store my pics. It certainly is NOT automatic.

You log in, download the Google Photos app and take a picture. Couldn't be more automatic for me.