Chapter 10

Taking Photos and More

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Shooting photos and video

check Loading photos from a digital camera

check Viewing, editing, and organizing photos with the Photos app

check Scanning documents and photos

Windows 10 makes enjoying digital photos easy. You can pick and choose photos to look at or display a group of photos in a slide show. You set a favorite photo to be your Lock screen background so that you see it every time you start Windows 10.

If you have a printer, you can print photos for yourself or to send to someone. Even black-and-white prints of color photos may be nice. If you have a scanner, you can even scan photos to make digital copies of photographs that as yet exist only in paper form.

Of course, if you want to take your own photos, nothing beats having a digital camera. Copy photos from your camera to your Pictures folder for viewing and sharing. Or use the Camera app with the built-in camera found in many laptops and tablets.

In this chapter, you use the tools that come with Windows 10 for working with, printing, scanning, and editing photos.

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