How to Edit Your Photos in Windows 8.1

How to Edit Your Photos


 
The Photos app in Windows 8 is fine for viewing your photos, but you can’t do a whole lot more with it than that. In Windows 8.1, Microsoft beefed up the app with a gang of editing controls, so you can tweak your photos all you like.

To give it a whirl, click on the Start screen tile for the Photos app. Open a photo from your Pictures folder or another folder, and right-click on the photo to display the app bar. You can rotate it or crop it by selecting the appropriate buttons.

To do more intensive work, select the Edit button, and up pops a host of options for modifying your shot. You can choose one of the photo thumbnails at the right to apply an autofix to your photo. Alternately, you can select one of the other settings on the left (including Basic fixes, Light, Color, and Effects) to manually fine-tune your photo. When you’re done, right-click on the screen to display the app bar again. You can now save a copy of the tweaked photo, update the original, or cancel your changes