Google Drive is gradually becoming the center of our digital lives. A lot of users are already using Google Docs and Sheets as a complete replacement for Word and Excel, and the number continues to grow. Google Drive offers 15GB of free storage, compared to 2GB on Dropbox. All that storage can be used to securely store any type of file on Google’s cloud land.
Do Read: We’ve been tinkering with and playing with Google Drive since it came out. Read our Google Drive posts.
Today we’re going to talk specifically about storing, storing, sharing, and manipulating images, all within the confines of a web browser window running Google Drive. And there’s a lot you can do here.
1. Directly save images from the web to Google Drive
Ballloon Beta (yes, that’s how it’s spelled) is a Chrome extension that allows you to save images (supported formats: .jpeg, .png, .gif, .tiff, .bmp) directly from any web page to your Google Drive or Dropbox Folder.
Sign in with your Google+ Account to get started.
Go to a website, hover over any photo, and if it can be saved to Google Drive, you’ll see an icon in the top right. Click the Drive icon, and when you do it for the first time, the app will ask to create a new folder in your Google Drive. Grant access and the photo will be saved instantly.
You can do this any time you come across an infographic, meme or image that you want to save. Just make sure it’s for your personal storage and you’re not sharing copyrighted images.
2. Image storage and sharing
Go drive.google.com and create a new folder named Image. go Share menu and make the folder public.
Now upload any image to the folder by dragging it in or using the red upload icon.
After uploading, pull out work menu from the left and from there you will see a link below storage select.
This is not a link to an individual image but to an entire directory. When you open the link, the contents of the entire Image folder will be displayed. You can now click on a specific image to open it, or simply add the exact name of the image at the end of the server link.
3. Edit and crop photos
Google Drive will let you edit and crop images, but you need to import them into Google Docs first. If you’ve ever used MS Word, you know how difficult it is to wrap text around an image. And moving an image a few pixels can mess up the entire document. The good news is that Google Drive does this very well.
After dragging the image in, you can choose to have it inline or text bag where the text will flow around the image. text break will break the text no matter how much space the image takes up.
Go Format -> Crop Image to crop images right in the document. You can see how the text will move around the image even before finishing editing.
Pictures in presentations and drawings
When you’re working with images in a Presentation or Drawing, you have more options. From the drop-down next to Season icon, you can choose different shapes and objects to modify your image to. The selection is not too large but for a simple presentation you will have enough.
4. OCR image and search
If you scan a lot of documents and store them on Google Drive as images or PDFs, you can ask Google Drive to automatically scan text from images and then make them searchable using OCR technology ( Optical character recognition).
Click Setting icon, select Upload settings and check option Convert text from uploaded PDF and image files.
Now, searching for text inside an image or PDF will immediately bring up the relevant file.
That’s it. Do you have any similar tips? Let us know.
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