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I believe Google Photos visibly downgrades the quality of your images, so it is not a viable option if you care about preserving the originals.

• tim333 3y ago
  You have the option to turn that on or off.
  • anon373839 3y ago
    Oh, good to know. Does it preserve the original file exactly?
    • tim333 3y ago
      I think so. The site says >Original quality - Store photos & videos with no change to their quality >Storage saver - Store more at a slightly reduced quality but I haven't really checked. It did seem to not preserve some of the special iphone format stuff like if you edit a photo on an iphone it keeps the original and the edit wheras on google photos I just got the edited image.
    • piyush_soni 3y ago
      Yes, but of course, that takes more data without their compression and one eventually has to pay more for storage as expected, but at least that option is there.