Your photos and videos are stored using your Google Account's storage space. Items copied from Google Drive to Google Photos are backed up based on your backup quality. If you copy an item from Google Drive to Google Photos, the new copy in Google Photos will also count against your storage. Learn how to change your backup quality. More @Wikipedia
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