Google Photos now automatically turns your photos into smart albums

One more reason to start using Google's photo organizer.
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Stan Schroeder
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Google Photos does a lot of things automatically -- for example, it turns similar photos into collages and animations -- but now it can also take a batch of photos, choose the best shots and create an album with several nifty features. 

Once you produce a new batch of photos, Google will suggest a new album, automatically adding maps and pins of the locations where you took the photos.


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You can also add captions to an album and have other users include photos to the album you've created.

Of course, those same features -- maps, pins and captions -- are available if you make a photo album yourself as well. 

Launched mid-2015, Google Photos has quickly become the photo organizer of choice for more than 100 million users. It's free, offers unlimited storage and it's great for storing and organizing the photos you own. 

The new albums in Google Photos are available now on Android, iOS and the web. 

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Stan Schroeder
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Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything.

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