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Live Albums take the work out of sharing by letting you create an album that automatically updates based on rules you set, e.g. automatically add photos of certain people as you take them. You can share a Live Album with anyone you want, just like any other album in Google Photos. For example, you can create a live album for your family, and all of your family members can automatically add their own photos of a family to it on an ongoing basis.
A live album is just a regular album but with auto-add rules applied. The only prerequisite for a Live Album to work is to enable Face Tagging.
Auto-Add Rules:
When you create a new album, we will surface an option to auto-add photos to the album instead of manually adding photos. This flow will appear everywhere there is a “Create album” or “create shared album” option.
There are two basic flows to create a live album:
- Create a new album with auto-add rules. All existing and future photos that match the rules will be added.
- Turn on auto-add rules in an existing album. By default, only future photos that match the rules will be added.
What happens if I select multiple people to auto-add photos of?
Any photo containing any of the selected people will be added, including photos with other people. If you want a way to remove others from photos, a way to mitigate this is to Remove a face group, but that will remove all instances of this person/pet.
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Could you pass along a feature request? I'd like to be able to make a rule to add photos with Person A AND Person B. The current way adds photos with Person A OR Person B.
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This thread is being abused by many, which makes it almost impossible to find the meaningful posts. I add a few of the comments here:
- Is it possible to create an album with photos of person A AND B (instead of A or B)?
No, this is currently not possible. Searching with John Doe AND Jane Doe should find photos with both people in the same photo, but there could also be some false hits, for example when one of the terms appears in an album title. You can use the result to create your own album and remove the false hits. You will have to update the album manually though. - What is the maximum number of photos in an album ?
The limit has been raised to 20.000 items. - I want to create a live album of my kids that my wife and I can both add to. Right now it seems when I share an album, she just sees it, none of her pictures are added to it.
I think that one of you can create a "Live album" and the other can add photos manually when "Collaborate" is turned on. Note that anyone having the link can add photos. - More features that are not currently available. Send feedback to request them:
- Set live albums for faces between a date range
- Show photos of me but not with my Ex (or person A but not B)
- Add more filters like for Things, Places (with AND)
The official Help: https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6128849
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Great feature - thanks for sharing kate
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Could you pass along a feature request? I'd like to be able to make a rule to add photos with Person A AND Person B. The current way adds photos with Person A OR Person B.
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This thread is being abused by many, which makes it almost impossible to find the meaningful posts. I add a few of the comments here:
- Is it possible to create an album with photos of person A AND B (instead of A or B)?
No, this is currently not possible. Searching with John Doe AND Jane Doe should find photos with both people in the same photo, but there could also be some false hits, for example when one of the terms appears in an album title. You can use the result to create your own album and remove the false hits. You will have to update the album manually though. - What is the maximum number of photos in an album ?
The limit has been raised to 20.000 items. - I want to create a live album of my kids that my wife and I can both add to. Right now it seems when I share an album, she just sees it, none of her pictures are added to it.
I think that one of you can create a "Live album" and the other can add photos manually when "Collaborate" is turned on. Note that anyone having the link can add photos. - More features that are not currently available. Send feedback to request them:
- Set live albums for faces between a date range
- Show photos of me but not with my Ex (or person A but not B)
- Add more filters like for Things, Places (with AND)
The official Help: https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6128849
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