Edits to the second photo were made by IDG’s Mark Hachman using Magic Select, including cropping and moving the woman over to a separate part of the scene.) Cara Neil (The original photo is credited to Cara Neil, on Flickr, in the public domain. What Photos could be: the Magic Select tool, in action. As it is, that’s a hoop I’m not willing to jump through.
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The only time I’ve found thumbnails work with any consistency is when I’ve left the Photos window open overnight, so that the app has a prolonged period of time to download them from OneDrive. Not only do thumbnails rarely appear, but if they do, switching between them is just another opportunity for Photos to crash.
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Maybe it’s the fact that photos need to load in from OneDrive, but thumbnails barely works on Windows 11.
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I’ll then typically save them to my local PC for eventual upload into our content-management system, or CMS. After I return to my desk, I’ll review each photo, select the best representative images, and then edit them using Photos’ built-in tools. I’ve set up Photos to connect to OneDrive, where I can view thumbnails of the photos I’ve just taken. I typically use Photos as part of a specific workflow: I’ll shoot several photos of an event or a product for a news story or review with my phone, which are automatically uploaded into the Microsoft OneDrive cloud, and the “camera roll” folder. A related feature allows you to highlight and compare multiple photos. Thumbnails is supposed to apply a small line of thumbnail images below the image you have open and are editing, allowing you to scrub back and forth like a video stream. The new “thumbnails” feature, however, is still broken, at least with my workflow. It will even occasionally apply it to other “spots” that you’re trying to fix.
In the remaining 10 percent or so, Photos thinks that the dust speck is supposed to be there, and will refuse to remove it. It’s a quick, handy edit that cleans up a photo-when it works, about 90 percent of the time. Spot fix allows you to encircle a speck with the tool, click, and then Photos “removes” it from the image. I can dust down a review laptop, snap a photo with my phone, edit it-and discover multiple specks of dust I never noticed before. “Spot fix” is another underrated feature. What Photos was: an opportunity to add creative effects to photos, as well as edit them.
And then there’s Photos, curled up like a cat next to a very expensive vase. Have I just spent five minutes painstakingly stamping out dust spots on a product photo using Photos’ “spot fix” tool? Of course I have. In any event, something goes wrong frequently enough that I’ve almost come to expect it as a consequence of using Photos. It all adds a bit of mystery! Why can’t I just automatically save the edited photo as a new file? Why do I have to “save a copy” and then hunt down the duplicate? Why can a multi-megabyte Excel spreadsheet save automatically to the cloud, but Photos can’t? Why can I connect my smartphone to OneDrive, automatically upload the photos in the background…then wait minutes for Photos to connect to the cloud and find them? It’s all part of the fun. Somewhere between opening a file, editing it, and then saving the edited photo, Photos will simply hang or crash, forcing you to restart the editing process all over again. Within Windows 11, the app crashes even more frequently, for a variety of reasons. Like any app, Photos crashed occasionally within Windows 10-in Photos’ case, after editing a photo and then trying to save it. The new thumbnails feature seems to be working as expected, too, even when pulling down thumbnails from the OneDrive cloud.)
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10, 2022): Though I’m not absolutely impressed with the update to Photos that rolled out in January 2022 (why would you get rid of the “spot fix” tool?!) I think I can say that the app is significantly more stable.