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Add images from your Google Drive (Web App)

How to connect Photoroom to your Google Drive so that you can use Google Drive images in Photoroom. Web App.

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Written by Craig Wright

On the Web App, you can connect your Google Drive to the Add images dialog. Once the connection is in place, you can pick images from your Google Drive to use in Photoroom.

Availability

  • Web App only

  • All subscription plans.
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Where can you access the Add images dialog?

To connect Photoroom to your Google Drive, use an Add images dialog.

The Add images dialog is available from many places, including:

  • Home page > Start from a photo

  • Home page > Remove a background

  • Home page > Generate AI backgrounds

  • Home page > Retouch an image

  • Any AI tool's photo upload step

  • Batch > Add images

  • Batch > main editor > Insert > Graphics

  • Batch > main editor > Insert > Brand kit

  • Shopify Products editor > Add product

  • Shopify Products editor > Add images.

Connect Google Drive to Photoroom

To connect a Google Drive to Photoroom:

  1. Access the Add images dialog.
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    Add images dialog with Google Drive tab


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  2. Select the Google Drive tab.
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    Access your Google Drive dialog


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  3. Select Connect to Google Drive.

  4. Follow the on-screen instructions to log in to your account and connect your Google Drive.
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    When the connection is made, a Select a file dialog is displayed. It contains tiles for each of the images discovered on your Google Drive. The thumbnails may be transparent, with no images shown. This is a known technical problem with the Google interface.
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    Add images dialog with many images uploaded from a Google Drive.


    If you prefer, you can elect the horizontal bars icon to switch to a list view.
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    ​Note: If you have connected the Google Drive before, Photoroom remembers which images you shared and they are shown. Select Add from Drive to view a list of images on your Google Drive.
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  5. Select the images from your Google Drive that you want to upload to Photoroom.

  6. Click Select.
    Photoroom uploads the selected images. From now on, whenever you access the Add images dialog, you can selected the images on the Google Drive tab.
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  7. Select Add images.
    Photoroom opens the image(s) in the appropriate editor, ready for you to work with them.

Add more images from a Google Drive

To add more images from your Google Drive:

  1. Access the Add images dialog.

  2. Select the Google Drive tab.

  3. Select Add from Drive.

  4. Pick the files you want to add.

  5. Click Select.

  6. Select Add images.
    Photoroom opens the image(s) in the appropriate editor, ready for you to work with them.

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