

Like Google Photos, the Windows 10 Photos app also creates Albums for you for example if you import a bunch of photos of a friend at the beach it may create one, but it won't include all images. Albums are automatically created for images from certain sources, such as your camera roll, saved pictures you've edited, and screenshots. What you can do now is organize your photos into Albums. I'm pretty certain that, since Microsoft has the technology (even technology for automatically categorizing photos by their contents similar to Flickr's Magic View), these capabilities will show up in the Windows Photos app at some point. OneDrive's photo view has all of this, as does Mac OS X's Photos app. The interface is pretty well suited to touch interactions: You can tap on a photo's large thumbnail to open it, unpinch to zoom, and navigate back and forth through all photos with a swipe.īut as for more granular types of photo organization-by keyword, geolocation, or contents such as faces-the Photos app is sorely wanting. If you have a Windows Phone set to automatically save photos to OneDrive, your photos will be in the Windows 10 app automatically, as will any folders you add to the app's watched list. You can also tap on a date to show all past months to quickly zoom to past photos. This lets you use Cortana to call up photos from certain date ranges, so you can say, "Hey Cortana, show me photos from last summer!" It also organizes newly imported photos by date and creates a Collection for the new import. The importer does, however, apply auto-correct (which you can turn off in settings) and hides exact duplicates. I'm somewhat disappointed with this importer, since it doesn't have the Windows 7 "Import pictures and videos" feature's ability to let you apply keyword tags, choose a save location, and erase the card after import. Next, you see a screen confirming the import, like this: Choosing Import using Photos makes sense. When you pop a memory card (such as an SD card) into a USB slot in your PC, Windows 10 asks you how it should handle that action, using what app. Let's take a closer look at this capable new part of Windows 10's toolkit. It's much closer to something like Mac OS X's Photos app than to Paint.

The new Photos app includes image correction and enhancement, as well as organization capabilities. Windows 10 rights a lot of Windows 8's wrongs, and the Photos app is one noteworthy example. The only problem: It could hardly do anything with them. When Windows 8 launched, it included a Photos app that opened your images by default. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages.
