With all the cloud services available out in that location, you don't have to store your photos locally on your Mac. That memory infinite can be used for other items. Services similar Google Photos lets you upload and store an unlimited number of photos and videos on the deject provided y'all come across their quality requirements.

Google Photos offers multiple ways to sync photos from your Mac to the service. You tin can either allow information technology upload all your Mac photos or yous tin can cull the ones that you lot desire to upload. Also, you lot accept a web version available to use in case you aren't willing to install one more app on your Mac.

Upload All Mac Photos To Google Photos With The "Backup and Sync" App

Google offers an app called Backup and Sync that allows you to upload files from your computers to your Google account. You can use it to upload all the photos that are in the iPhoto and Photos app on your Mac. It lets yous select custom folders as well to upload photos from.

To have advantage of the unlimited free storage on Google Photos, yous need to permit Google to:

  • Shrink your photos so they're 16MP.
  • Resize your videos to take a maximum of 1080p resolution.

You don't demand to manually resize or compress your content as Google will exercise it for you.

  1. Download and launch the Fill-in and Sync app on your Mac.
  1. Enter your Google username and click on Side by side.
  1. Enter your Google account password and hit Sign in.
  1. If you take two-factor hallmark enabled, enter the lawmaking on your screen and click on Washed.
  1. The app will now permit you select what you want to upload to Google Photos. Tick-mark the option for the Pictures binder so tick-marking both Photos Library every bit well equally iPhoto Library.
  1. Select the Loftier quality (costless unlimited storage) option.
  2. Tick-mark the box that says Upload photos and videos to Google Photos.
  3. Finally, click on Adjacent at the bottom.

Upload Mac Photos Using The Google Photos Web Version

If you but take a few photos to upload to Google Photos and yous don't want to install an app to do it, you can use the Google Photos spider web version to do this. It'll let you create albums and upload your photos in them — all from your web browser.

  1. Open a new tab in your browser and head over to the Google Photos site. Log-in with your Google business relationship if you aren't already logged in.
  2. Click on the pick that says Create at the top and select Album. This is where your uploaded photos are going to be stored.
  1. Enter a name for your new anthology and click on Add photos to add photos to it.
  1. This will have you to the screen where y'all tin add existing Google Photos photos to your anthology. Since you desire to upload photos locally from your Mac, click on Select from computer at the height-right corner of your screen.
  1. Choose the photos that you want to upload from your Mac to Google Photos.
  2. If you want to add photos at a later time, you can come back to the newly created album someday and click on the Add photos option to upload new photos to your business relationship.

Upload Chosen Photos From iPhoto To Google Photos

If you lot use the Backup and Sync app to upload your photos, you'll find that it only lets you lot upload full iPhoto libraries to your business relationship. There's no option to manually select photos from your library for uploading.

Luckily, there's a workaround to become this done.

  1. Right-click on your Mac's desktop and select New Folder. Use iPhoto Photos equally the proper noun for your binder.
  1. Launch the iPhoto app using your preferred method on your Mac.
  1. Select the photos that you'd like to upload to Google Photos. Yous can select multiple photos from whatsoever albums y'all want.
  2. When y'all've selected the photos to be uploaded, click on the File carte at the top and click on Export.
  1. If y'all want to suit whatever quality-related settings, do so on the screen that follows. Then click on Export to bring your photos out of iPhoto.
  1. Choose the iPhoto Photos folder on your desktop and click on OK.
  1. Quit the iPhoto app on your Mac by clicking on iPhoto followed past Quit iPhoto at the tiptop.
  1. Launch the Backup and Sync app and log-in to your Google account.
  2. On the screen where it asks what content you want to upload, untick all the boxes and click on Choose Folder.
  1. Select the iPhoto Photos folder on your desktop.
  2. Striking Next and your chosen iPhoto photos volition be uploaded to your Google Photos account.

Upload Chosen Photos From The Photos App To Google Photos

If the Photos app happens to be your primary photo management app, you can selectively upload your photos from this app to Google Photos. You'll need to use a workaround to practice this as the Backup and Sync app doesn't allow you to do it by default.

  1. Create a new folder on your desktop by right-clicking and selecting New Binder. Use My Photos as the proper name for your folder.
  1. Open the Photos app on your Mac.
  1. Select the photos that you want to upload by clicking on them. You tin choose as many photos as you desire in your albums.
  2. Once y'all've made a selection, click on the File menu at the top and choose Consign followed by Export Unmodified Original For 10 Photos where Ten is the number of photos y'all've selected.
  1. Unless you want to change the naming for your photos, click on Export to save them with their default names to the folder on your desktop.
  1. Choose the My Photos binder located on your desktop and click on Export Originals.
  1. Close the Photos app on your Mac.
  1. Access the Backup and Sync app and log-in to your business relationship.
  2. Click on the Choose Folder option and choose the My Photos folder on your desktop.
  1. Keep with the uploading process and your chosen photos will exist uploaded to your account.

Practice you keep your photos locally on your Mac? If so, what is it that's holding y'all dorsum from uploading them to services similar Google Photos? We'd be curious to know in the comments beneath.