how to download windows 10 photos app Microsoft Photos App Download/Reinstall on Windows 10 [MiniTool News] An introduction of Microsoft Photos app. Learn how to access Microsoft Windows Photos app, how to download and install, or reinstall Microsoft Photos app on your computer. FYI, MiniTool Software offers you free movie maker, free video editor, free video converter, free screen recorder, free video downloader, free photo and video recovery software, and more. To manage & edit photos and videos on Windows 10, you can use Windows built-in free Microsoft Photos app. This post teaches you how to open Microsoft Photos app, how to download and install Microsoft Photos app, how to uninstall and reinstall Microsoft app on your Windows 10 computer. What Is Microsoft Photos. Microsoft Photos is a photo and video editor designed by Microsoft. It was firstly introduced in Windows 8 and is also included in Windows 10. You can use this app to view, organize, edit, share your images and photos, play and edit video clips, create albums, etc. Microsoft Photos video editor lets you trim videos, change filters, text, motion, music, add 3D effects, and more. App Type: Image viewer, image organizer, video editor, video player, raster graphics editor. License: Is Microsoft Photos free? It is free to use for all users but with in-app purchase for more advanced features. Availability: Windows 10/8/8.1, Windows 10 Mobile, Xbox One. Support 64 languages. Predecessor: Windows Photo Viewer, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Movie Maker. Here’s the walkthrough for how to download Microsoft Store app for Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC. Also learn how to download apps from Microsoft Store. How to Access Microsoft Photos. Microsoft Photos is a Windows 10 built-in app. You can easily access the Photos app by following the operation below. You can click Start menu, or the search box on the taskbar, or the Cortana icon. Type Photos or Microsoft Photos in the search box, and then select Photos app from the search results to quickly open it. A review of Microsoft new Windows 11 OS. Check Windows 11 minimum system requirements, how to download, install or update Windows 11, and more. Microsoft Photos Download for Windows 10. If you can’t find Microsoft Photos app on your Windows 10 computer, you can also manually download and install it by following the steps below. Open Microsoft Store app or website. Click the Search box, type Microsoft Photos, click Microsoft Photos app to open its download page. Click Get button to download Microsoft Photos app on your Windows computer. After downloading, you can click its installation exe file to quickly install it on your computer. What’s the Windows 11 release date? Microsoft revealed the first Insider Preview of Windows 11 on June 24, 2021. The official release date may be October 2021. How to Reinstall Microsoft Photos App on Windows 10. If the Microsoft Photos app is not working properly on your computer, you can try to reinstall it. Check how to do it below. Press Windows + X and select Windows PowerShell (Admin) to open PowerShell in Windows 10. Type the command: get-appxpackage *Microsoft.Windows.Photos* | remove-appxpackage , and press Enter to uninstall Microsoft Photos app. Then you can go to Microsoft Store to download and install Microsoft Photos app on your Windows 10 computer again. Microsoft Photos App Main Functions. Photo Management: You can use this app to organize your photos. You can view photos by date, album, or folder. Photo Editing: Microsoft Photos app is professional photo editing software. It allows you to edit photos, e.g. crop and rotate, correct exposure or colors, fix red eye, remove spots and blemishes, reduce image noise, etc. Video Editing: It also includes a video editor intending to replace the older Windows Movie Maker. Microsoft Photos Video Editor lets you create videos from pictures and songs. It also lets you add 3D effects, soundtracks, 3D animations, and styles to your videos. This post teaches you how to use the built-in Windows 10 Photos app to edit photos and videos in Windows 10 for free. Sum Up. Now you should know how to access, download and install, uninstall and reinstall Microsoft Photos app on Windows 10. For more computer tutorials, you can go to MiniTool Software official website. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Reddit. ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Position: Columnist. Alisa is a professional English editor with 4-year experience. She loves writing and focuses on sharing detailed solutions and thoughts for computer problems, data recovery & backup, digital gadgets, tech news, etc. Through her articles, users can always easily get related problems solved and find what they want. In spare time, she likes basketball, badminton, tennis, cycling, running, and singing. She is very funny and energetic in life, and always brings friends lots of laughs. How to Use Windows 10’s Built-In Photos App. Michael Crider is a veteran technology journalist with a decade of experience. He spent five years writing for Android Police and his work has appeared on Digital Trends and Lifehacker. He’s covered industry events like the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and Mobile World Congress in person. Read more. As a fairly versatile operating system, Windows has always had ways of browsing and viewing photos. But with Windows 10, Microsoft decided to try and mash browsing, organizing, and viewing all together in one application, with some basic editing to boot. The result, the innocuously-titles “Photos” app, can be less than intuitive. Here are all the different things you can do with the Photos app… assuming you want to. Starting Photos and Setting Defaults. Starting up the Photos app is pretty simple: for most new machines and fresh installations of Windows 10, it’s already in the Start menu as a big tile. Even if it’s not, just press “Start” and then begin typing “photos” to bring it up quickly via search. The Photos app is already set up as the default image viewer in Windows 10. If something else has taken over those duties, it’s easy to reset the status quo: press the “Start” button, type “default,” then click the first search result, “Default app settings.” Under “Photo viewer,” click the “Photos” icon. Browsing Photos. The Photos app offers three different interfaces when looking for photos: Collection, Album, and Folders. You can choose any of the three at any time by clicking the relevant tab, above the main interface and below the “Photos” application label. “Collection” is a view of your most recent photos and screenshots, displayed in reverse order by date. “Albums” is a series of automatically- created photo albums, organized according to the Photo app’s internal logic, though you can add your own and remove or add photos to existing albums. And “Folders” is merely a tab for all of the photos on your machine in specific folders—your OneDrive photo folder and your assigned “Pictures” folder in Windows, by default. To add folders to this view, click “Choose where to look” to go to the Photos Settings page, then click “Add a folder” to manually select one in Windows Explorer. Within the main viewer of “Collection,” and in the nested album or photo viewers of the other tabs, a series of controls appear on the upper-right portion of the interface. These allow you to select multiple items for a specific action like copying, printing, or adding to a specific album, or to start a slideshow, refresh the current file view, or import from a camera or mobile device. Contextual items in the Album view allow you to edit the name of the album or change the cover photo. To navigate backwards through the Photos interface, click the left-pointing arrow in very top upper-left of the window, or press the Esc or Backspace keys at any time. Using the Photo Viewer Interface. When you finally get down to an individual photo, the interface goes completely black and dedicates the maximum length or width of the window. If you’re using mouse navigation, scrolling up or down will advance or retreat in the current collection, album, or folder. Hold down the “Ctrl” button on your keyboard to turn the mouse wheel into zoom or retract controls. On the bottom of the interface, manual arrow controls to go forward or back in the album are on either side of an “add to album” button and a Delete button. You can use the keyboard for both actions: Ctrl+D to add it to a specific album via a pop-up menu, or simply press the Delete button. If you press “Delete” again, the image will be removed both from the album/collection/folder in the Photos app, and the file itself will be deleted in Windows Explorer and sent to the Recycling Bin. Tread carefully. The top controls are labelled, and fairly self-explanatory. The “Share” button will open Windows 10’s share menu, allowing the user to send the file via email, copy it via Windows’ standard copy and paste function, or open and share it directly in any compatible Windows Store app. Zoom opens a manual slider to zoom in and out—remember that you can do this much faster by holding the Ctrl button and using the mouse wheel. “Slideshow” will begin a full-screen slideshow of the current album, collection, or folder. The “Draw” command allows you to write on the image, with a selection of pen and eraser tools that appear contextually. It’s mainly intended for pen-enabled devices like the Microsoft Surface. You can double-click on any of the tools in the upper bar to select color and width.