October 2015
Beginner
888 pages
21h 17m
English
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Chapter 17Working with Pictures
In the computer world, the terms picture, photo, image, graphic image, and digital image all refer to the same thing — a still picture. Windows 10 offers lots of great tools for organizing, editing, printing, and e-mailing pictures.
Today's hard disks have room to store many thousands of photos. The Photo Gallery, an optional add-on for Windows, provides an easy way to organize and find photos based on keywords called tags. The Edit tab in Photo Gallery makes common tasks such as cropping and red-eye removal a breeze.
Much of this chapter focuses on Photo Gallery as the primary tool for managing photos. You can download Photo Gallery from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/photo-gallery and click the Learn More button under Edit Your Photos Like a Pro. Next, click United States (or your country name) under the Worldwide Downloads section to run the wlsetup-web.exe program to download Photo Gallery as part of the Windows Essentials programs.
Getting Pictures into Your Computer
You can acquire pictures to use in your computer in several ways. You can store pictures in any folder you like. If you don't have a preference, use the Pictures folder for your user account. You can always move or copy the pictures to another location later, should the need arise.
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