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Tip

Actually, if you have a trackpad or mouse, you can save a step. Just point to each photo to see its
checkbox appear—no click necessary.

Sharing selected photos

Once you’ve chosen the photos you want to share, the top toolbar offers
several ways to go. In addition to Print, Copy, and Delete, here’s what you
get:

Create lets you generate one of those musical slideshows, or an

album, from the selection.

Add to puts the selected photos into a new album, a new video, or
an existing video slideshow.

GEM IN THE ROUGH THE LITTLEST SLIDESHOW

Deep in Photos’ Settings screen (choose at top right and

then ), there lies what may be the quirkiest preference setting
in all of Windows Land: “The app tile shows.”

That’s right: Microsoft is asking which one photo you want to

appear on the tile that represents the Photos app, as it appears
on the right side of the Start menu.

Your choices are “A single photo” (and then there’s a “Choose

photo” button) or “Recent photos.” That last option gives you a
rotating slideshow—sized for an audience of gnats—right there
on the Photos tile in the Start menu.

Don’t scoff. The ability to decide exactly what appears on that
one app’s tile might just make somebody’s year.

Share ( ). The Share panel opens, listing all the places you can
send the selected images. The options here vary. They usually