Windows 10 Redstone Update Will Add Important Features To Photos App

The Photos app, in particular, will get few new features such as smart search, marking its transition from a simple photo viewing app to a photo organizer.

Photos app to get smart search and better editing options

The current version of the Photos app is rather simple but it does its job well. In its current state, the Photos app is a just an ordinary photo viewing application lacking any advanced features, but Microsoft plans to change that soon. According to the reports, Photos app will get the type of intelligent search resembling that of OneDrive’s. By using the smart search feature, users will be able to search their photos by different criteria such as the specific people they’d like to find or location where the picture was taken. This is possible because the Photos app will automatically scan photos for faces and check metadata for location and other information. After gathering this data, the Photos app will organize your photos according to location or by people that were in them. If you wish to keep your pictures properly organized yourself, you’ll be able to add tags to your pictures and later search by those tags. Although the smart search feature sounds appealing, it’s not the only improvement planned for the Photos app. There are plans to add basic editing options that will allow you to draw directly onto your pictures. If you want to further edit your pictures, there will be new effects and filters added as well. Microsoft is determined to enhance its simple Photos app and turn it into a complete photo organizer similar to Picasa. Although these new features sound compelling, they will be completely optional, so if you wish to use the Photos app just as a simple photo viewer, you can continue to do so. It’s great to see that Microsoft is working hard to improve its apps, but with reports that Microsoft is pushing second Redstone update to Spring 2017, we might have to wait a while before we see the improved version of the Photos app.

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