Showing posts with label Blogging 101. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging 101. Show all posts

December 7, 2020

Blogging 101: Unlimited Google Storage for Blogger Photos

For us blogger, it's extremely important for us to know where we are uploading our photos into. For me, I've been using Google photos, simply because Google is blogger's official host and all images uploaded from blogger will be stashed in your Google photos and I would stay away from 3rd party image hosting site like Ph*t*buck*t, because I want my images to stay and appear on my blog forever (or as long as Google is alive!), like, we wouldn't know how long site like Ph*t*buck*t or tinyp*c can last. it's not like I'm trying to bring those sites down, just that, in my case, I trust Google more. Also, I don't want my image to look like this:


or worse:

Google Photos

Now let's talk about Google Photos. Google provides free 15 GB limit to each account, all form of files you send/receive on your Gmail and images you upload from blogger will count towards the storage you have from Google. 

it's not unlimited until you set your upload size

This really important for us bloggers, do set your upload size to 'high quality' to get unlimited free storage from Google. Mine was originally set to "original quality" and I had to manually switch it to 'high quality' (which will resize all photos uploaded into Blogger to fit into the 2,048-pixel cap) to be able to upload as many images as I want to blogger (Google) photos without worrying about the 15GB quota. Yes, using blogger 'insert image' feature and 'upload from your computer' will count towards your Google storage quota and all images uploaded from Blogger will be stored in your Google album archive. Though, if you want, you can always buy more storage from Google.

Check Google upload setting HERE.
Change your upload size HERE.
Check your Google Photo storage HERE.




it's not free forever...

Unfortunately, Google will end unlimited uploads service as of June 1st, 2021. But photos uploaded before June 2021 will not count towards users' limits. So make sure you utilize their service at least until June 1st! 
I hope you will find this information useful! 
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