Looking for a quick and like shooting fish in a barrel fashion to download all your pictures and videos from Google Photos? Maybe yous desire to create a backup locally or want to create a personal moving-picture show and need all the content locally stored for editing purposes?

Whatever the case, in that location's a simple way to get all your content downloaded from Google Photos. Note that I previously talked about how y'all can download photos and videos from Facebook besides.

Information technology's worth noting that if you simply need to download a couple of albums, it's easier to only do that manually. Click on an anthology and so click on the three vertical dots at the top right. Yous'll see an option called Download All.

download album google

This will download all the photos and videos in that album in Null format. The only problem with this method is that you can't use it to download whatever photos and videos y'all upload from the Google Photos app on your phone or tablet.

To download all of those pictures and videos, you have to use the method I'm going to talk well-nigh below, which is Google Takeout. Also, exist sure to cheque out the short video we made on our YouTube channel that goes through the procedure so you tin can follow along.

Export Google Photos Information

There are ii ways you tin go about getting to Google Takeout. The easiest style is to follow the link beneath:

https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

The more long-winded method is to go to Google.com and then click on your profile picture at the top right.

google my account

Click on My Business relationship and this will bring you to a kind of dashboard for all settings related to your Google account.

control your content

Under the Personal info & privacy heading, click on Command your content.

create archive

Yous'll see a Download your information box and a Create Archive link.

select data to include

The next screen is going to be the same every bit if you had followed the link mentioned above. Here you can choose what data to include in your archive. By default, everything is selected. Go ahead and click on the Select none push button and and then click on the toggle button next to Google Photos.

You tin can click on the down arrow and choose Select photo albums if you want to select private albums. Note that if yous have uploaded a lot of pictures and videos from your phone, Google Photos automatically creates albums that are named by the engagement.

photo albums by day

In my example, I had only created most 450 albums myself, but I accept well over 2500 albums in Google Photos because of the camera upload feature on my smartphone. Leave it at Include all photos albums if yous want to download everything. Coil down to the lesser and click Adjacent.

download archive format

On the next screen, yous have to choose the format y'all want to use for the archive. If you use ZIP, anything over two GB volition be separate into multiple ZIP files. This is kind of abrasive if you lot have hundreds of GBs of data stored in the cloud. In my instance, I have 550 GB of photos and videos, so I certainly don't want to have to click on 225 download links. I've tried it in one case and information technology'due south a pain.

Luckily, you can choose other formats like TGZ and TBZ. You won't be able to open this using Windows, but you can download a free program similar 7-Zip to open the archives. It should be noted that using the ZIP method will be a lot faster considering it only has to create two GB files, which it can do quickly.

If you choose whatsoever of the other formats, the limit for a unmarried files goes up to 50 GB. In my case, that'south but 11 links rather than 225, which is mode more than convenient. It does take a while longer for a TGZ or TBZ archive to consummate, but yous're only talking about a few hours here and there.

By default, y'all'll become an electronic mail with a link to download the files once the archive has been created. If you desire, y'all can also direct salvage the archive to Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive, which is kind of nice.

creating archive

Click the Create archive button and the process will begin. Y'all tin shut the spider web browser and the process will keep in the groundwork. You lot can always go dorsum to Google Takeout and so click on Manage Archives to view the progress.

Overall, Google has made information technology really easy to download any data that you accept stored in any of their services, a feature which is not bachelor with a lot of other companies. If you have any questions, post a comment. Enjoy!