I am approaching my Google Drive limit, and Gmail uses 8GB. I found some photos with large attachments via filtering by size.
If I add these photos to Google Drive > Google Photos, will they stop counting against my quota?
Gmail – If I add Gmail photo attachments to Google Drive > Google Photos folder, will they still count against the Drive quota
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According to a Google rep I talked to, the answer to this question is, "you can't". Any images in Google+ that don't count against your storage limit will as soon as Google Drive can see them.
You can go to https://drive.google.com/drive/#quota and click on "quota used" to sort by size. I believe it includes all of your Drive contents.
Download Picasa and import Google+ Photos (File -> Import From Google+ Photos). This will take a while as it has to download the photos but then they will be on your local computer and you can search/sort/filter them as you please.
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Best Answer
Your storage space is shared between Drive, Gmail and Photos anyway, so in general it doesn't matter which of them contains those pictures.
But if you upload via Google Photos' webpage and/or use Google Photos/Drive's sync app (it's now the same app for both of them), and choose (only) High Quality, that reduced quality will entitle you to unlimited image storage.