Page 558 - Windows 10 May 2019 Update The Missing Manual: The Book That Should Have Been in the Box

Windows 7? Gone.

In Windows 10, you get yet another digital photo shoebox, this one just

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 display them all in one place (Figure 8-26).

Tip

These days, Photos can even handle pictures in two relatively fancy new formats. First, there’s the
RAW format, which are very large files preferred by photographers because they can be so
extensively manipulated (the photos, not the photographers). Second, there’s HEIF (high
efficiency image file format): photos that take up half the space of JPEG ones without losing any
quality, which is awesome—but not all desktop photo programs can open HEIF files.

But Photos can’t work with these files until you install special plug-ins from the Microsoft Store.