The Google Photos app has began automatically backing up all RAW images, studies 9to5Google. On a Pixel 8 that beforehand captured RAW photos with the Pixel Camera app, the publication noticed Google Photos displaying a banner saying, “New RAW photographs will seem within the Photos view and can now be backed up.” The current RAW images on the system will not be uploaded automatically.
When you click on a RAW picture, a JPEG model can also be captured and uploaded automatically to Google Photos. That’s not supreme if you happen to take a variety of photos in RAW since RAW recordsdata are bigger than JPEG and will fill up your Google One storage rapidly. Not to say, it’s going to additionally devour extra information for add.
The supply additionally studies that the uploaded picture seems in the principle “Photos” tab within the Google Photos app with the “RAW” label in its top-right nook. The JPEG file is taken into account part of the “Burst,” and a switcher seems on the backside whenever you open a RAW file, permitting you to change between JPEG and RAW.
When you’re viewing the RAW file, you get “Set as main photo” and “Keep this photo only” choices, whereas JPEG exhibits “Export this photo” or “Keep this photo only.”
If you’ve got restricted Google One storage accessible, taking pictures solely in JPEG is advisable since there is not any straightforward option to limit computerized RAW picture uploads to Google Photos.
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