Amazon Photos to Google Photos

Raza Ali Kazmi Data Management, Duplicate Photos, Similar Images, Solutions

Amazon Photos is a popular cloud photo storage service offered by the e-commerce giant, Amazon. It is a cost-effective cloud photo storage platform for uploading photos and videos, particularly for Amazon Prime users who can avail it for free to store unlimited full-storage photos and up to 5 GB of videos.

Transfering photos can help you organize files. However, with deduplication of Cloud Drives you can clear a lot of storage space and organize your photos in Google Drive. You can use the Sorcim’s Cloud Duplicate Finder web-app.

 

It offers an automated backup functionality so that you don’t have to worry about losing your precious memories. As an Amazon product, it offers easy integration with Amazon Drive, Amazon Prints and other Amazon-flagship products.

 

Why Switch to Google Photos?

  • Google Photos is a freemium service. Although Google Photos has discontinued its unlimited free plan, it still offers a gorgeous 15 GB of free storage that counts against your Google One quota.
  • Google Photos is a cross-platform product. You can access it from the Web, or using your mobile. You can search through your collection, download, share or manage your photos with ease.
  • You can create links to your albums and share them with your friends to view or download your photos.
  • One of the best-selling features of Google Photos is Artificial Intelligence. You don’t have to tag the faces of your pets, friends, and colleagues. Google Photos does it automatically for you.
  • Thanks to AI, you can search through photos using descriptive keywords. Search by people, things and places, and get instant & accurate results.

 

Transferring Amazon Photos to Google Photos

Step 1: Download your Photos

  1. Open the Amazon Photos website and head toward the Albums section.
  2. Double-click a photo album you want to download.
  3. Select all the photos and click on the Download icon.
  4. Your download will be prepared as an archive.

Note: Unfortunately, there is no direct way to download all photos from all albums at once.

 

Step 2: Unzip your Photos & Scan them for Duplication

A lot of people start uploading photos as soon as they download and extract them. Unfortunately, this also means they gather the same set of duplicates that they accumulated over years of using their previous cloud service.

By scanning and removing duplicate photos, you will free up a handsome amount of storage and make the upload process fast and smooth. Furthermore, you will spend less time finding & managing your photos, and they will be available at a click away.

  1. Unzip your photo archive using a free tool such as 7-Zip File Manager. Store them in a single folder. For example C:\Users\<Your User Name>\Downloads\My Amazon Photos.
  2. Download PictureEcho, an incredible tool that can find fully matching and similar photos.
  3. Add the My Amazon Photos folder to your scan list, and choose a scan method.
    1. Exact match: Select this option to find 100% matching images. You can find fewer duplicates, but the results are 100% accurate and don’t require manual reviewing.
    2. Similar match: Select this option to find visually-matching images. There are also several criteria by which PictureEcho defines similar matching images. Some matching levels take the photo-taking timespan into account, while Level 4 doesn’t takes the timespan into consideration. I suggest that you don’t change these levels unless you’re an advanced user.
  4. Hit on Start Search.
  5. Once the scan is concluded, PictureEcho will display duplicate photo thumbnails. You’ll get basic information about each duplicate such as file name, path, size, etc.
  6. Click on Select Duplicates and choose one of the automated file selection criteria. You can mark the newest, oldest, most modified, least modified, highest resolution, lowest resolution, and image location.
  7. Click on Select Action and choose whether to move them to a folder or permanently delete them.

 

Other PictureEcho Features

  • Adobe Lightroom Scan: If you’re using Adobe Lightroom, there’s good news. You can scan through and compact your huge Lightroom database by deleting unwanted duplicates.
  • Scan by Image: This is an interesting feature. If you wish to scan for copies of a single image, Scan by Image can come to your aid. Much like the duplicate photo-finding feature, you will be able to select the Similarity Threshold and other scan settings.
  • Image Organizer: Do you often find your photos scattered throughout your entire hard disk? Does it become difficult to find the right photos that are not neatly stored in structured folders? If so, Image Organizer is a handy feature. You can re-organize your photos by their creation/ modification, or photo taken date. You can select a date format (year month date), and choose how to organize your photos (year/ month/ date), etc.
  • Cloud Scan: Every subscription of PictureEcho links to Cloud Duplicate Finder, a web app that helps delete duplicates from OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3, and Box Cloud. It can also be used to delete similar photos from OneDrive and Google Drive.
  • Clean Empty Folders: Do you have a lot of empty folders? If so, the Clean Empty Folders feature can help you eliminate unwanted empty folders.

 

Step 3: Upload photos on Google Photos

  1. Open the Google Photos website in your browser.
  2. Click on the Albums tab on the left.
  3. Open your desired album where you want to upload the photos. You can also create a new album using the Create Album option on the upper right.
  4. Select all the photos you want to upload, and then click on the Open button.