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Comment by anon373839

2 years ago

I believe Google Photos visibly downgrades the quality of your images, so it is not a viable option if you care about preserving the originals.

You have the option to turn that on or off.

  • Oh, good to know. Does it preserve the original file exactly?

    • I think so. The site says

      >Original quality - Store photos & videos with no change to their quality

      >Storage saver - Store more at a slightly reduced quality

      but I haven't really checked.

      It did seem to not preserve some of the special iphone format stuff like if you edit a photo on an iphone it keeps the original and the edit wheras on google photos I just got the edited image.

    • Yes, but of course, that takes more data without their compression and one eventually has to pay more for storage as expected, but at least that option is there.