My previous meeting on the subject of using Google Photos to get photos from your smartphone to the cloud and then to your computer, there were some remaining questions that made it necessary to address in better detail and clarity.

How does one save that “cute” photo to my computer.

Heck, how to I get the “cute” photo from my email to my computer.

And, how do I add photos to Facebook and email.

And a new piece, Google has introduced a new app that makes it easy to scan old photos into good quality digital photos to save and share.

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Saving photos from email programs are typically done in the same manner.

Tap and hold on the photo within the email, until a menu appears. Tap Ave Image from this menu. It might say Save to Camera Roll or Save to Photos.

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Tap the picture within the email. NOTE, this must be an attachment and not simply a picture within an email advertisement.Notice the gray options. Choose the option called Save image. You may have to slide these to the left to see additional options.

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Using Gmail Like a Pro article is quite good. Take a peak. https://medium.com/@nlrprieto/how-to-use-gmail-like-a-pro-8c805672461e#.a1uzntddj

I can't download the photoPhotos that are inside the message can’t be saved to your Photo Gallery. The photo has to be an attachment for you to save it.

My photo won't saveYour photos may not save to your Photo Gallery if you haven’t allowed Gmail to access your photos. To fix this:Open your device's Settings app.Tap Privacy Photos.Switch on Gmail.

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Tap the photo in the email.Choose the download icon (arrow pointing down).If you haven’t already done so once, allow Gmail to access your photos-again, this is only done once)This photo will be in your Photos, sometimes called Cameral Roll

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Tap the photo within the emailTouch the 3 dot menu in the upper right

If the 3 dot menu isn’t there or there is black surrounding the photo, simply tapanywhere in the black.

Choose Save (or Save all if multiple photos)The photo will appear in the Gallery

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One question from the recent survey was how to had more than one photo at a time to Facebook. We’ll answer that here.

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Touch the photo. The photo will fill the screenTouch the 3 dot menu icon in the upper right.Choose Save Photo.Photos are save to your Camera Roll

In the above example, the first screen shows photos in a collage. Tap the photo you want to save. (see the next screen shot).Then follow the above directions to save this photo to your smart phone.

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Add a photoAdd a second photo by clicking on the large + sign

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Browser settings might be considered technical but let’s give it a try.Chrome: There is a 3 dot icon in the upper right. If you hover the mouse over this icon, a small window opens that describes this icon as “Customize and control Google Chrome”. Let’s go there. Choose Settings. At the bottom of this list is a link to Show Advanced settings. Click this to see more settings and scroll down to Downloads. There is an option for Download Location.

Firefox:

Internet Explorer: Gear icon in the upper right of the window. In some cases, there are two of these icons. Please click the uppermost one. Choose View downloads. In the lower left corner of the window is an Options link. This is the downloads option where one can change the download folder.

Edge: The menu icon is horizontal rather than vertical. Settings at the bottom. View Advanced settings. The downloads folder option is here.

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Do you recognize these?

Before digital photos, this is how we kept them.

Sometimes we went through them but, for the most part, these gathered dust.

However, with modern technology, we can digitize them with some hardware.

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3 in 1 printer/scanner as well as a flatbed scanner are methods to scan photos that will make them digital photos.

Many of us already have a 3 in 1 printer/scanner. I do and have had a flatbed scanner at one point.

I’ve even scanned photos like my wedding photos from 1992 and it worked great.

But now, we can use our smart phone to do the same thing, although maybe not at the same quality.

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These photos are 33 years old!

I used PhotoScan by Google to scan them to a digital photo.

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This is a brand new app from Google.

It is on iOS and Android.

Although using a flatbed scanner will produce excellent results, using your smartphone is easy, quick and FREE. And the results aren’t bad at all.

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