Ed Bott - Windows 10 Support Secrets

63 CHAPTER 4 | Having fun It’s worth clicking the gear icon and taking a trip to the Settings page to set some extremely important options. First, the Photos app automatically enhances all photos in your library. These enhancements don’t affect the saved photo but are only visible in the Photos app. That can result in confusion if you share a photo and the recipient sees the unenhanced version. Second, the Photos app by default combines multiple versions of a single image. So if you shoot a photo in both RAW and JPEG formats, the Photos app will combine them for viewing. Photo enthusiasts might prefer to turn this option off. Finally, you can choose whether you want to see all offline photos from OneDrive (potentially a very large number) or only those you’ve synced to a local folder. Movies, TV, and Videos The Movies and TV app handles moving pictures of all types. The app’s name, of course, focuses on the content you can rent or buy from the Store, but it’s also perfectly capable of playing back your personal videos. Just as with the Groove Music app, Movies & TV supports a broad range of unprotected formats, including mp4, .m4v, .mov, .avi, and .wmv. The list includes all popular formats produced by smartphone cameras. Note that DRM-protected video files from sources other than the Store won’t play in this app. The navigation pane, shown in Figure 4-12 with the Movies category selected, displays poster-style images similar to those you would see on a DVD case. Click to open an item in this list to reveal Play and Download options. Figure 4-12: The Movies and TV categories emphasize content you own or have rented from the Store. In the Videos category, you can include personal videos from local or network folders.