November 2013
Beginner to intermediate
950 pages
34h 26m
English
Content preview from Windows 8.1: The Missing Manual
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Photos
The old Photo Viewer of Windows 7 fame is gone. In its place: the TileWorld app called Photos. Its job is to grab photo albums from everywhere fine photos are stored—your own Pictures folder, other PCs on your network and your OneDrive, and so on—and display them all in one place (Figure 4-33). Especially if you have a touchscreen, you’ll find Photos a graceful, fluid, lovely way to browse your shots.
Figure 4-33. In the Photos app, the button at the top-right corner lets you switch between text-tiles view (top left) and thumbnails view (lower right). Shown here for added excitement: the App bar.
In Windows 8.1, you can even edit your pictures instead of just looking at them. (But you can no longer view your Facebook and Flickr photos in Photos.
Navigating Photos
It’s not hard to get around. The 
next to the title “Pictures library” lets you
choose the source of the photos you’re seeing: either your Pictures
library or your OneDrive. Once you’ve burrowed to your destination,
the 
button takes you back to the start.
Your Pictures Folder
Back at the desktop, behind the scenes of TileWorld, you have a Pictures folder. Any photos in this folder show up in the Photos app automatically.
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