Slideshow feature joins a slew of new Google Photos ablities - CNET

The Google Photos team, steadily improving its service for saving and sharing pictures and videos, has added a new ability to show slideshows.

"It's now possible to play a slideshow from any album. Just open the album, click on a photo, and select Slideshow from the dropdown menu," the Google Photos team said on Google+ Thursday. It'll automatically advance through the photos, though tapping the photo stops the show. The service is available on the Android app and the website, but not the iOS app for Google Photos.

Google Photos has 200 million users. In an effort to compete better with services like Flickr and Apple's Photos app, Google has been cramming new features into Google Photos. New ones include the ability to change the date on multiple photos at once, keyboard shortcuts, support for Apple Live Photos and nondestructive editing on Android.

Google Photos can store an unlimited number of photos and videos -- as long as you're willing to with resolution limits of 16 megapixels for photos and 1080p for video. It also identifies faces and other subjects in photos so you can find them even if you haven't carefully labeled your shots. And it move photos from phones to Google's storage so you can free up storage space without losing your shots.