SEE YOUR IMAGES IN WINDOWS’ PHOTOS APP

FIND YOUR IMAGES

Your PC might either be overflowing with image files, or may have just accepted its first JPEGs from a new camera. Either way, you’ll need to tell Photos where to look for pictures. By default, it will look in your Pictures folder, and your OneDrive Pictures folder if that’s in a different place. If your images are elsewhere, go to Settings and add the folder to Photos’ list.

GET YOURSELF ORGANISED

Once Photos has found your images, it will display them in its main window, sorted by date. For most things, this will be enough, but if you want to sort all your photos from a holiday in one place, you need to make an album. Click in the top-right corner of the images you want to add to select them. You can add whole days by clicking the ‘Select all...’ link at the top left.

CREATE AN ALBUM

Once you’ve chosen your images, click ‘Add to Album’. You can either add them to an existing album, or create a new one. If you choose the latter, you’ll be prompted to give your new album a name, and it will appear in the Albums view as a new entry. Albums are sorted by date, so depending on when your photos were taken, your new album may not appear at the top.

IMPORT PHOTOS

You can add images to Photos from a memory card or any external drive. Make sure the card or drive is plugged into your PC, then, in Collection view, choose ‘Import’ from the top right of the Photos interface. You’ll be asked to choose your card, and the images you want to import. Click ‘Import’. Images will be copied to the Pictures folder by default, but you can change this.