This isn't to say it would be impossible for really gargantuan photo libraries to bring the app to its knees, but we doubt the app will struggle with any typical library.Īs far as what you can do with a photo or set of photos, your options are very slim at the moment-so slim that it would trouble us a little if this wasn't a preview. Not all of the photos are ready in real time, but it's very, very close. While you see pictures as gray boxes if you do a long jump with the scroll bar, the app catches up as soon as you hesitate. We tried to bog the program down with a few hundred megabytes of pictures, but to no avail. Scrolling is super-smooth, even with a ton of photos to go through. The app comes up instantly, with hundreds of photos ready to browse. Even after it all loads, scrolling through can be choppy and slow to catch up.īut in Photos, we get none of this lag. But on a PC, programs are often bloated, taking a long time to open, reindex everything they're supposed to know about, and then display. The fluidity would be expected by tablet and smartphone app users, where content always seems to shift around without hesitation or regard to its size. What's most impressive about this app is how quickly it all happens. This is a bit subtle at first, but once you get it, it's a great way to deal with batches of files without having to look at Explorer or filenames. Clicking on the photo opens the folder and expands its contents as a left-to-right scrollable set. If your Pictures folder or SkyDrive have subfolders with a set of pictures in a folder, that folder will be represented by one photo once inside the bin, with the name of the folder and the number of pictures printed underneath. The Photos app itself doesn't let you do any photo organizing, but instead inherits the organization from its sources. The first picture displayed actually represents a whole folder of pictures, per the file name and number along the bottom. For users with only a few photos or photosets, this could be fine, but for those with large, unorganized photo libraries, it could be a tedious setup for navigating. Photos display in a large-format single row, and you can scroll through them from left to right with a scroll bar along the bottom, or click on a photo to enter full-screen and then page through them. This happened immediately without needing any further setup or setting changes from then on, if we added a photo to our SkyDrive, it appeared in the SkyDrive bin instantly. When we set up the app with our SkyDrive account, the relevant box was immediately populated with pictures, and not just from the Pictures folder any image that existed in our SkyDrive came down into the Photos app. We couldn't get either the Flickr or the Facebook boxes to work, but the SkyDrive bin was fully functional (Microsoft editor Peter Bright notes his Flickr and Facebook accounts work perfectly). The Photos Settings menu lets you set which services you want to display. We found the spartan Settings menu let us turn each of the accepted types of accounts off to keep them from showing up on the main Photos screen if we didn't want to use or display them. Unfortunately, there's no way to add photos from any other services. Clicking on each of these boxes takes your through a short login process, and after you've given the program your credentials, the home Photos screen will populate each box with photos pulled from that account. When you pull up Photos from the Metro interface, you are shown four discrete boxes: one for your locally stored pictures, and one each for your SkyDrive, Facebook, and Flickr accounts.
The Photos app gives users fluid, near-instantaneous access to your pictures, for which the app is to be credited, but certain common features are missing at this point, and others that are included don't work evenly across the app.
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview's handling of photographs is a slick, centralized, and very much a tablet-like experience.
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