Chapter 3
Working with Photos
IN THIS CHAPTER
Viewing pictures with the Photos app
Adding photos in several ways
Editing pictures with the Photos app
Using albums
The Photos app in Windows 11 has been redesigned to match with the new visual design of the operating system, with rounded corners, updated typography styling, new theme specific color palettes, and more. It also has a few new features, but it isn’t a whole lot different than its predecessor.
Overall, the Photos app is meant to give you a pleasing, straightforward way to look at your picture collection, coupled with some easy-to-use photo-editing capabilities. If your expectations go a bit beyond that, you’ll be disappointed because only a few advanced options are available.
In this chapter, I introduce what Photos can do, starting with how to view pictures in the app and navigate around its user interface. Then, I explain how to add pictures from different sources, how to edit with the simple but surprisingly powerful Photos tools, and how to optimize some of its settings. Lastly, I show you how to organize pictures in ...
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