What Microsoft didn't specify is how much, if at all, you can make your own manual adjustments. You can turn these features off, however. Auto enhancing could dumb things downīy default, Windows 10 will automatically enhance photos - removing red eye, and probably adjusting items such as brightness, contrast and color. Windows 10 will also pretty up your album, picking a "hero" or cover image and starting off with a sample of the best or most popular photos. At its press conference, Microsoft also said that its photos app will give you albums a name, "if we can." It's not clear why the app would or wouldn't be able to do it. Microsoft's app will automatically create albums of photos based on the place they were shot, when they were shot and on who is in them - presumably using face recognition. MORE: 10 Best Photo Storage and Sharing Websites
If Window's 10's dupe elimination is as good as Microsoft promises, this could save you a lot of time organizing your collection. If you have thousands of photos from different devices - which isn't hard to do - you likely have a lot of duplicates from shuttling photos between those devices. Windows 10 puts a priority on organizing your photos, starting with an automatic ability to find and consolidate duplicates. Flicker has apps with editing abilities for iOS and Android, but not for desktops Powerful photo organizing
It stores only JPEG, GIF (non-animated), and PNG image files, as well as several video files.
In comparison, online photo site Flickr offers 1TB for free with advertising on your pages or a modest $25 per year for an ad-free version.