68 Windows 8 launches the Photos app. 2 Click Pictures library. A If you connected your Facebook account to your Microsoft account, as described in the previous section, you can click Facebook to see your photos. B If you have uploaded photos to your SkyDrive, as described later in this chapter, click SkyDrive photos to see them. 1 On the Start screen, click the Photos tile. View Your Photos I f you want to look at several photos on your computer, you can use Windows 8 to navigate backward and forward through the photos in your Pictures library. You can navigate the photos manually, or you can start a slide show that displays each photo for a few seconds and then automatically switches to the next photo. Windows 8 comes with two programs that you can use to view your photos: Windows Photo Viewer, a desktop program discussed in Chapter 7, and Photos, a Windows 8 app covered in this section. View Your Photos

View Your Photos I · The Photos app opens the album. 4 Click the first photo you want to view. C If you want to run a slide show, instead, right-click the screen and then click Slide

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Page 1: View Your Photos I · The Photos app opens the album. 4 Click the first photo you want to view. C If you want to run a slide show, instead, right-click the screen and then click Slide

Windows 8 launches the Photos app.

2 Click Pictures library.

A If you connected your Facebook account to your Microsoft account, as described in the previous section, you can click Facebook to see your photos.

B If you have uploaded photos to your SkyDrive, as described later in this chapter, click SkyDrive photos to see them.

1 On the Start screen, click the Photos tile.

View Your Photos

If you want to look at several photos on your computer, you can use Windows 8 to navigate backward and forward through the photos in your Pictures library. You can navigate the photos

manually, or you can start a slide show that displays each photo for a few seconds and then automatically switches to the next photo.

Windows 8 comes with two programs that you can use to view your photos: Windows Photo Viewer, a desktop program discussed in Chapter 7, and Photos, a Windows 8 app covered in this section.

View Your Photos

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4Using the Windows 8 Apps

The Photos app opens the album.

4 Click the first photo you want to view.

C If you want to run a slide show, instead, right-click the screen and then click Slide show.

5 Navigate the photos by pressing to view the next photo and to view the previous photo.

The Photos app displays the albums and images in your Pictures library.

3 To view the photos in an album, click the album.

TIPSWhen I return to the Start screen, the Photos tile shows random images from my Pictures library. Can I turn this off?Yes. If you find that the constantly changing images that Windows 8 displays on the Photos tile to be a distraction, you can disable this feature. Right-click the Photos tile to open the application bar, and then click Turn live tile off.

Can I use Photos to remove an image from my Pictures library?Yes. If you have photos you no longer want to view, removing them is a good idea because this makes it easier and faster to view the rest of your photos. To remove a photo, use the Photos app to display the image, right-click the screen, and then click Delete. When Photos asks you to confirm, click Delete.