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Mesa Regal TUG – What’s so great about Google Photos and why some people won’t like it

As we take more and more and more photos, we need something that will manage them without work on our part. Google Photos is the most popular photo management tool available today because automatically collects the photos you take with your phone. For all those lazy people, like me, who want the benefits of a lifetime of organized photos without the work. But, it’s not for everyone. It is a new way of doing things and some people like the old way!

YouTube Playlist of Geeks on Tour Google Photos tips

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Tinkering with Tech: Google Photos with different devices

There’s not just one Google Photos, not even 2, but 3! Web interface, Android app, iOS app. There are a few places where these different versions work differently. That’s what we’re talking about with Michael Daniels and Heather Kraafter of Tinkering with Tech.

Chris’ Private link for editing

YouTube recording of the class

YouTube Playlist of Geeks on Tour Google Photos tips

APCUG – A Potpourri of Google Photos Tips and Tricks

1/25/23 – A Potpourri of Google Photos Tips & Tricks with Chris & Jim. Including Recent Improvements for faster and easier searching with Google Photos; Advanced photo searching techniques, including smarter naming of photo albums; How to share your album or a single photo with relatives and friends; Using motion photos (Android) and Live photos (iPhone): These are handy tools to ensure everyone in a group photo has their eyes open; Using motion photos (Android) and Live photos (iPhone)—handy tools to ensure everyone in a group photo has their eyes open; Background blurring; Face unblurring after the picture is taken, Color focus and the Smart Object Eraser.

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Tech for Seniors – Smartphone Photography Tips

Dec 5 2022 @12 noon ET. Tech for Seniors Chris and Jim Guld, also known as Geeks on Tour, will be returning for a presentation to cover taking pictures with your smartphone. Chris Guld is an award-winning Google Photos Product expert. New camera features in recent smart phones using artificial intelligence can – with just a click of a button – do some amazing things. Topics to be covered include:

  • Compare “big” cameras to smartphones
  • Changing lenses
  • Using Panorama
  • Using Motion/Live photos
  • Computational Photography

Using the Slides:

  • SlidesArrows will move forward and back thru the slides,
  • 3-dot menu “Enter Full Screen” to see slides larger.
  • Clickable links will open videos.

Chris private link to Tech4Senior slides

YouTube playlist of Google Photos tips

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Golden Gate Computer Society – Photo Skills for iPhone and Android

Nov 28 2022 @10pm ET. Golden Gate Computer Society Chris and Jim Guld, also known as Geeks on Tour, will be returning for a presentation to cover taking pictures, editing pictures in your phone and organizing them – for both iPhone and Android users. Chris Guld is an award-winning Google Photos Product expert. New camera features in recent smart phones using artificial intelligence can – with just a click of a button – do some amazing things. Topics to be covered include:

  • Google Photos – recent improvements: photo grid and “best of month” features.
  • Background blurring after the picture is taken, especially useful for portraits
  • Face unblurring, also after the picture is taken
  • Smart object eraser
  • Color focus
  • Advanced photo searching techniques, including smarter naming of photo albums
  • Using motion photos (Android) and Live photos (iPhone): Very useful tools whether you want to show a diver at the exact moment of hitting the water or making sure everyone in a group photo has their eyes open

Using the Slides:

  • SlidesArrows will move forward and back thru the slides,
  • 3-dot menu “Enter Full Screen” to see slides larger.
  • Clickable links will open videos.

Chris private link to Golden Gate slides

YouTube playlist of Google Photos tips

Recording of Zoom meeting

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Oct 11, 2022 Laguna Woods Computer Club: Hodgepodge of Tech tips

We’ll get thru as many of these tips as we can in an hour, and still leave time for questions.

  1. DIY Emergency info on Home screen – iPhone or Android
  2. Find a lost iphone
  3. Find a lost Android phone
  4. Using the Map view in Google Photos
  5. Sharing your Google Storage
  6. Google Voice, same number w/2 phones
  7. Samsung camera options
  8. Add website icon to phone’s home screen
  9. HEIC files

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This presentation is patterned after Episode 237 of our YouTube “What Does this Button Do?” show. Here is a .pdf document of the notes for that episode. Below is the 55 minute recording of the Zoom meeting.

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Oct 6, 2022 Wisconsin All Computer Users club: Roadtrippers to find fun road-trip stops

Half the fun of taking a trip is to plan where you’re going to go. Here are some ideas on how to find fun stops.

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See also:

Episode 151 – Trip Planning

Article: Places we would have missed without Roadtrippers

Article: Do you plan road trips? I think you’ll like Roadtrippers and RVParky.

Article: Roadtrippers helps you find fun stops

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Oct 4, 2022 Kentucky-Indiana PC User Group: Don’t backup, use Sync instead.

Smartphones, and the cloud, have changed our processes for “backing up” our data, Once you establish accounts in the cloud – Google, OneDrive, Dropbox etc. – then you can set all your data to “sync” and never have to worry about backing up again. In this seminar we focus on the Google apps because they work the same on Apple and Android, Mac and PC. The goal is device independence. In this presentation, we’ll show you how.

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Hilton Head Island Computer Club – Google Photos favorite features

Hilton Head Island Computer Club has invited us back for another Zoom-based seminar on Google Photos. We will share the stage with Jolyn Bowler and trade our favorite tips. The materials below are our full list of 7 favorite tips.

Using the handout and Slides:

  • Click on the handout image at right, it is stored on Dropbox, but you don’t need a dropbox account. Just click the “Download” button in upper left.
  • SlidesArrows will move forward and back thru the slides,
  • 3-dot menu “Enter Full Screen” to see slides larger.
  • Clickable links will open videos.

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YouTube playlist of Google Photos tips

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Senior Planet Colorado – Bitcoin and Blockchain

Description

Senior Planet of Colorado welcomes us back to present to their group via Zoom: Guest speakers Chris and Jim Guld will present this Wednesday workshop, on Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin and Blockchain. They will cover

  • What is Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin
  • What is Blockchain
  • How do you get, and spend, Bitcoin

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Here is the Link to the recording of the Zoom meeting:

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