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Windows 10 For Dummies, 3rd Edition
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Windows 10 For Dummies, 3rd Edition

by Andy Rathbone
May 2018
Beginner
464 pages
11h 44m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 17

Fiddling with Photos (And Videos)

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Copying your photos and videos from your camera or phone into your computer

check Taking photos with your computer’s camera

check Viewing photos in your Pictures folder

check Saving digital photos to a CD

For years, Windows graciously offered to import your photos as soon as you plugged in your camera. When Windows 10 arrived, though, that feature fell by the wayside. Now, with a few years of updates under its belt, Windows 10 welcomes your camera once again and offers five ways to process your photos.

This chapter walks you through copying your digital photos from your phone or camera into your computer. From there, you can show them off to friends and family, email them to distant relatives, and save them in places where you can easily relocate them.

One final note: After you’ve begun creating a digital family album on your computer, please take steps to back it up properly by turning on File History, the automatic backup feature in Windows that I describe in Chapter 13. (This chapter explains how to copy your photos to a CD or DVD, as ...

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