Most other (Android) apps allow "sharing" of photos with the Drive app. This end up as a file in "My Files" and then there is then no way to move them to the "Photos" part of Drive.

I have upvoted this post to encourage the team to develop functionality to view all media uploaded to Drive Photos within Drive Files as folders.

The use case to support this is where images captured on mobile devices need to be disclosable as evidence in investigations.

PC apps extract file metadata from cloud sync local storage for chain of custody records, but without a local or even cloud sync of the media files themselves, and without Drive Photos filters (e.g. hides duplicates), correctly timestamped files cannot be included in LOAD structures or reorganised with metadata preservation using apps like TeraCopy.

Please provide a feature to expose the Drive Photos cloud storage volumes as a folder tree, share, or other group visible within Drive Files on Web and via Drive sync apps on devices.

How is this not core feature already? I just opened the photos tab to see what the hype is about and to organize my photos into albums, but the photos in my Drive are not there? So what exactly is the point of the having the “Proton Photos” as a feature of Proton Drive if it cannot access the photos in the Drive? Is it meant to be a stand-alone service? Very counterintuitive and frustrating.

... and vice versa to allow to manipulate the picture files (e.g. download, organise, rename, delete) from within the drive. Otherwise, pictures are just locked in the Photos space and I cannot download them for backup and simply organising on my Synology for instance.

this is very basic functionality please develop

I switched from Google Apps for Business and exported my Photos there, but now i have those from my phone, which reach some 5 years back, and folder with the same contents plus 15 years, so there's duplicates, two locations with two different featuresets, and no idea how to get data in ONE SINGLE LOCATION to manage it there. Please get this one going.

I agree, this is so frustrating!
We should be able to set any folder to be visible in the photo view.
Also be able to download all pictures easily, like any other folder

Now please!

I really don't understand the approach taken here. Why doesn't it work like nextcloud, where one can auto-upload whatever folder and file types one wants from the app? How on earth are photos not files?

I would rather like to see an implementation where the files can be stored in the drive and it can be set (example for each directory) whether the images contained should also be displayed under the photos view.
There is currently no way to export the images again. This is an indispensable function for every photo lover. With the Proton Drive app, only files in the drive can be uploaded and downloaded efficiently. This functionality is not available for images.

The current version also does not have a function for albums. So we need a way to organize the photos. Which would be possible using folders in the Drive.

This is critical feature which seems to be missed in implementation, can we have this please.

It is amazing to me that this photo section is not just a view showing only photo files for easy access. Never in a 1000 years I would have thought that Photos and My files somehow are different types of storage.
We need a way to see photos in the photos section as files.

Since there is no option to bulk upload images from my desktop to the Photos area I thought I could sync a local folder to files and then "move" the images to the Photos area - not possible.

It seems like the only way to bulk upload files to the Photos area is currently through iOS or Android device.