If you have a google account on your phone, photos are also stored on the cloud which is also accessible by your home computer. Once you access them from the cloud then it's a simple matter to download them to your computer. The colored pinwheel symbol in the google apps is the cloud stored photos which are automatically uploaded from phone to cloud. To access the photos pinwheel, once you are at the google home page or gmail, the apps are in the upper right hand corner; click on the 9 dots which are stacked 3x3x3. Find the photo in the colored pinwheel and download it to your computer.