Need space for archive your photographs best, from memories of a lifetime to the best selfies you've ever taken? Nothing better than the cloud, especially when it is already included in another subscription. Amazon Photos in fact it is one of the services included in the Prime subscription and offers unlimited storage for all your photographs, plus expandable 5GB for video. Here's everything you need to know about Amazon Photos.
What is Amazon Photos
Photos is the storage service for your photos from Amazon. You can access it dto the PC as from smartphones and tablets. Once logged in, you can automatically upload all your photos to the cloud on Amazon servers, protected by your login credentials. It's a quick and convenient way to archive your photos and more.
It is also particularly interesting because it offers a free version with space limits and one included in the Prime subscription with no limit for photographs. A great alternative if you run out of storage for services like Apple Cloud or Google Photos.
How much coast Amazon Photos
All Amazon customers are entitled to 5GB of storage by registering for an account. If you have ever made a purchase on Amazon, you are probably already registered: just access this site or download the smartphone app to take advantage of the online space. Amazon will automatically archive the photographs to Photos, while the other files to Drive (where you can still save images).
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With the Amazon Prime subscription, the one that allows you to have no shipping costs, to have deliveries within one day and special discounts on e-commerce, but you have much more. In fact, you can take advantage of a space of unlimited storage for photographs and 5GB expandable for video.
The offer is particularly advantageous because in addition to storage and the Prime service for purchases, you also have access to: Prime Video, Amazon Music, Prime Reading, Prime Now, Twich Prime, Amazon Family, offered on Prime Day.
If you want to expand the space available for videos, you can choose:
- 100 GB to 1,99 euro per month (approximately 14 hours of 1080p HD video)
- 1 TB for € 9,99 per month (approximately 140 hours of 1080p HD video)
- 2 TB for € 19,99 per month (about 280 hours of 1080P HD video)
How Amazon Photos Works
Whichever payment option you have chosen (although most users may be satisfied with the version included in the Prime subscription), you canaccess the cloud via the web, via the smartphone or tablet app and also with applications for Windows and Mac.
What formats are supported
You can save images in all common formats. Starting with the classics JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF up to higher quality photo formats such as TIFF, HEIF, HEVC, HEIC. As for videos, you can save files MP4, QuickTime, AVI, MTS, MPG, ASF, WMV, Flash, HEIF, HEVC e OGG.
Amazon Photos also supports numerous RAW formats, those of the main camera manufacturers. In fact, you can load NEF (Nikon), CR2 (Canon), ARW (Sony), CRW (Canon RAW CIFF), ORF (Olympus) and DNG. The weight of each uploaded image can be al maximum of 2GB.
However, some dynamic formats are not supported. The Motion Photo from Google and Samsung will only show a still image, as you will only see the first iOS Burst image. It also does not support 3D photos, equirectangular panoramas, lenticulars and Leica photos. Instead the Live Photos taken with the iPhone are fully supported.
The features of Amazon Photos
In addition to uploading images and saving to the cloud, you can make one slide show to view all the photographs you want. However, the images are not at maximum resolution: for this you have to download them to your device.
Sharing is also very well done: you can share a link directed to a preview page of the photograph, where you can download it at full resolution. This function is very convenient for downloading images to your PC in high definition. Alternatively you can share with third-party apps such as WhatsApp or Telegram. In this case, however, the image will be downloaded in compressed form to the device before being shared.
You can also create album, edit the photos with a quite complete graphic tool. Also Amazon can automatically recognize subjects, places and objects in photographs, tagging them. In this way you can search by topics: "Colosseum" to find the images taken in Rome or "selfie" to relate your best shots.
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How to activate automatic synchronization on the smartphone
If you want to automatically save all the photos you take with your smartphone to Amazon Photos, nothing could be simpler. It is enough for you:
- apri Amazon Photos
- Touch the item Other
- Scegliere Settings
- To touch Automatic saving
You can also decide, under this heading, to enable saving only via WiFi or even with mobile data, at your discretion.
How the Family feature works on Amazon Photos
Photos also has a feature designed for families. The Family Archive can have a maximum of six members, including necessarily the Prime account holder. Each member receives an Amazon Photos account personal at no additional cost, including unlimited space for photos and up to 5GB for videos and other files. You can also share photos directly and collect together the shots of a particular event, like a trip together, a wedding or just a family moment.
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Some cool features are only available for the Android version of the app, such as the ability to submit to the automatic backup of only some of the folders, while on iOS all the photos will be loaded on the Camera Roll. Also on Android you can download images in high quality, which are also accessible outside the app.
On iOS you can hide some folders behind a password or biometric data, which is not currently possible on the Android app.
On PC and Mac instead you can only upload the photos, the ability to edit photographs is completely missing. But on PC you have access to programs like Photoshop or the free Gimp, so you should be covered. However, you can choose which folders to upload, manage a personal proxy and manage the upload and download bandwidth
All the functions of the smartphone versions are available from the site.
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In the terms and conditions of use of this service it is stated that it is not intended for professionals but only for personal use. For your photographs and selfies, it should be more than enough. You may only need more space if you are used to recording a lot of high definition videos. Otherwise Photos should be enough for all the needs of an average user.
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