Any experience changing from iCloud Photo to Google Photo

I'm shooting RAW files with my Nikon D7200 camera and all photos are edited in Lightroom. I both have a Mac, iPhone and iPad so therefore I have been using iCloud Photo for storing all my photos (jpg's). I've now been playing around with Google Photo and one of the biggest advantages is that I'm able to share my photo albums with people not having an Apple device.

1. Does any of you have some experience changing library from iCloud Photo to Google Photo? Are there any drawbacks? As Google Photo is just an app and not the build-in photo library in iOS, is seems uploading photos to Facebook/Instagram is not that easy using Google Photo, as photos are not actually in the iOS native photo library, but just inside an app. Therefore I have to go to Google Photo and share the given photo with the app (Facebook/Instagram etc.).
2. I know that I will change my primary Google Account in one or two years. If I upload all my photos from the last 10 year to Google Photo my actual account, would it be easy to move all my photos/albums etc. a

dhrm said:

I'm shooting RAW files with my Nikon D7200 camera and all photos are edited in Lightroom. I both have a Mac, iPhone and iPad so therefore I have been using iCloud Photo for storing all my photos (jpg's). I've now been playing around with Google Photo and one of the biggest advantages is that I'm able to share my photo albums with people not having an Apple device.

1. Does any of you have some experience changing library from iCloud Photo to Google Photo? Are there any drawbacks? As Google Photo is just an app and not the build-in photo library in iOS, is seems uploading photos to Facebook/Instagram is not that easy using Google Photo, as photos are not actually in the iOS native photo library, but just inside an app. Therefore I have to go to Google Photo and share the given photo with the app (Facebook/Instagram etc.).
2. I know that I will change my primary Google Account in one or two years. If I upload all my photos from the last 10 year to Google Photo my actual account, would it be easy to move all my photos/albums etc. a

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I don't know anything about Google Photos but find it very easy to share albums from Photos with my non Apple relatives using Dropbox. A Dropbox account is not needed by the recipient.

dhrm said:

I'm shooting RAW files with my Nikon D7200 camera and all photos are edited in Lightroom. I both have a Mac, iPhone and iPad so therefore I have been using iCloud Photo for storing all my photos (jpg's). I've now been playing around with Google Photo and one of the biggest advantages is that I'm able to share my photo albums with people not having an Apple device.

1. Does any of you have some experience changing library from iCloud Photo to Google Photo? Are there any drawbacks? As Google Photo is just an app and not the build-in photo library in iOS, is seems uploading photos to Facebook/Instagram is not that easy using Google Photo, as photos are not actually in the iOS native photo library, but just inside an app. Therefore I have to go to Google Photo and share the given photo with the app (Facebook/Instagram etc.).

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I'm not sure what you mean. The Google Photos applications is essentially just an uploader. It accesses whatever photo folders you point it to, and then updates those as needed. It basically references photos, as Lr does. The application is designed to get stuff to Google Photos; once there, you can use the online tools to share to FB (not Instagram, unless that's changed).

If you wanna share to FB, I'd suggest doing that direct from Lr. Jeffrey Friedl makes an excellent plugin for publishing to FB; http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/facebook. Instagram is a bit of a pain, since it doesn't have a Lr plugin. You'd probably have to access the photo directly, or save to say the camera roll in iOS where Instagram could find it.

The photos you upload to Google photos are never in an "app"; they are on your computer and in the cloud. If you can't share from the cloud, share from wherever else the photo is stored.

dhrm said:

1. I know that I will change my primary Google Account in one or two years. If I upload all my photos from the last 10 year to Google Photo my actual account, would it be easy to move all my photos/albums etc.

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Why not keep the current account? you can have more than one. Moving might be a ginormous pain.

dhrm said:

I've now been playing around with Google Photo and one of the biggest advantages is that I'm able to share my photo albums with people not having an Apple device.

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Hi, you might have seen this option already - but you can share to non-Apple users via iCloud photo sharing.

Simply create a shared album - you can leave the field for adding people blank. Then tap the shared album and select "People" at the bottom. Now switch "Public Website" to on and it'll create a link you can send to non-Apple users as well.

- Michael

ThatAutGuy said:

dhrm said:

I've now been playing around with Google Photo and one of the biggest advantages is that I'm able to share my photo albums with people not having an Apple device.

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Hi, you might have seen this option already - but you can share to non-Apple users via iCloud photo sharing.

Simply create a shared album - you can leave the field for adding people blank. Then tap the shared album and select "People" at the bottom. Now switch "Public Website" to on and it'll create a link you can send to non-Apple users as well.

- Michael

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Great tip.....Thanks!

There wasn't quite enough info in your post for me to do it but found this Apple article which got me there.