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In the following scenario:
Will images that were uploaded directly to Google Photos' website count as part of Google Drive's quota?
In order to use the High Quality setting, the photos should be uploaded by using the new Google Photos apps:
Other apps like Google Drive or Picasa or plugins, will not have a way to choose and apply the High Quality option in order to save storage quota.
References
TL;DR:
Just go to this link, you can see that it summarizes all the information that you want to see as long as it is related to your account storage.
Explanation:
Google has a habit of combining all of our account in different services that they offer and because of that most of the time we are confuse. So here's the explanation regarding this link
General View:
If you hover your mouse at the graph you can see specifically the total free and consumed space in your storage.
Since I am using the High quality (free unlimited storage) settings in my photos and videos I can safely assume that there are 0.06 GB storage that consumes my storage.
Because of that we can assume that:
Best Answer
No, they won't take up additional storage. You can check this by selecting the photo in Google Drive, clicking the "i" on the top right, and showing the details of the file. There, it will show the "storage used", which should be "0 bytes" if you uploaded them under the compressed quality setting in Google Photos. Here is an example screenshot: