Google's Backup and Sync app for Windows or Mac will back up photos from your computer, camera or SD card to Google Drive and Photos, and the app will upload a copy to both Google services for you. If you accidentally backed up your photos on the wrong Google account, you can move them to a different account. To change the account that you backed up your photos to, share your photo library with that account. Learn to share your Google Photos library with another account. Automatically back up photos from your Mac or PC, connected cameras and SD cards. Windows 7 + Mac. MacOS 10.9 + Thanks for downloading Backup and Sync. Get the Google Photos app to back up and view photos on your Android and iOS devices.
Google Photos is photo and videos sharing service provided by Google Inc. If you want to edit and organize photos and videos you can move them to iPhoto. It is a digital photograph manipulation software application by Apple Inc. To move photos and videos from Google Photos to iPhoto, sign in to your Google Photos account and download them to your Mac. Once you downloaded to Mac, import those photos and videos into iPhoto.
Here are the steps to Move Photos and Videos from Google Photos to iPhoto on Mac:
- Go to https://photos.google.com/ & sign in to your account.
- You will see all your photos and videos.
- If you want to migrate photo, then place your cursor over a photo and click the check mark. Select the photos which you want to share. Click 'Download' icon located at the top left corner of the screen.
- If you want to migrate videos, then place your cursor over a video and click the check mark. Click 'More' tab located at the top of the window.
- Select 'Download' option.
- Your browser prompts you to save .zip file, click 'Save' and specify a location to download. The downloaded zip file will contain the photos from the Google Photos.
- All your photos and videos will now be downloaded to Mac. You can also create a new folder and move those downloaded photos and videos to this folder.
- Open 'iPhoto' on Mac.
- Click 'File' tab.
- Select 'Import to Library...' option.
- A 'Finder Window' opens up.
- Locate the folder containing the photos and videos which you want to import.
- You can drag a folder from your hard drive into iPhoto viewing area or its icon in the Dock.
- This is how you can move photos and videos from Google Photos to iPhoto on Mac.
Quick Tip Before You Move Photos and Videos from Google Photos to iPhone on Mac
Photos & videos are precious memories and all of us never want to ever lose them to hard disk crashes or missing drives. PicBackMan is the easiest and simplest way to keep your photos/videos safely backed up in one or more online accounts. Simply download PicBackMan (it's free!), register your account, connect to your online store and tell PicBackMan where your photos/videos are - PicBackMan does the rest, automatically. It bulk uploads all photos and keeps looking for new ones and uploads those too. You don't have to ever touch it.