How to backup all your travel photos easily and for free from your phone and camera

You're looking for a quick and easy way to back up your photos because you have thousands of photos on your phone or camera that you need to save and clear space for more! Luckily there is a way to do this all for free.

Google Photos

Did you know Google Photos allows you to upload unlimited HD quality photos to Google's cloud all for free? Yes! It's the best thing since slice bread.

All you need to do is download the google photos app on your phone, link it to your Gmail account and let it back up your entire camera roll. Now there's a catch.

Google allows you to upload unlimited photos at HD Quality, but if you want to save at your original quality you will have to cough up a subscription to GDrive space. What I've found though is HD quality is more than enough for my Instagram/Facebook addiction.

Clearing Space Made Easy

After you've uploaded all your photos to Google Photos, there is an option to allow the app to delete all the successfully backed up photos from your camera roll so you won't have to do it manually! Yes! Imagine trying to delete thousands of photos manually? No way.

Backing up your photos from an SD Card

You can also backup any photos from an external media, like the SD card from you camera. This will require you to have access to a computer.

All you need to do is log into Google Photos from a browser: https://photos.google.com/login 

Drag and drop your photos into it! That's it!