Use Windows XP's photo collection management function

Because of the work needs to collect a lot of beautiful pictures in the computer, face more and more pictures, how to organize and manage? In the Windows 98 era, of course, please ask some professional tools to manage. Now with Windows XP, the situation is very different. You don't need to install other tools. Just use the "Picture Collection" folder and the above problems will be solved.

★Storing Pictures

By default, pictures from a digital camera or scanner are stored in the “Pictures” folder under “My Documents”. It can be done when the picture is small. If there are many types of pictures, it will be very messy. It takes a lot of effort to find a picture. At this time, it is necessary to build sub-folders such as "landscape" and "person" in the "picture collection" folder. In the future storage, it will be OK to put different categories of pictures into the corresponding subfolders.

★View pictures

Pictures stored in the “Pictures” folder can be automatically displayed as thumbnails or slideshows by clicking the various commands on the “View” menu. You can use different viewing methods.

Thumbnail View When you open the "Favorites" folder, you will find that the image is automatically displayed as a thumbnail. The top left of the window is the details of the image, including size, size, and creation time. Using thumbnails can help you quickly determine which images are included in your album. With this view, the last four images modified in each folder are displayed as thumbnails on the folder icon (see Figure 1).

Figure 1 Thumbnail View View Picture

Slide View View Click the Slide Show command on the View menu to go to the slide view mode. You can use the Slide Show toolbar button to select the previous and next image in the slide, or you can rotate the image clockwise or counterclockwise (Figure 2).

Figure 2 Slide View View Picture

Viewing through Windows Picture and Fax Viewer The Windows Picture and Fax Viewer allows you to edit images directly without having to open the image editing application. Images stored in the Picture Collection folder will automatically generate a preview window. Double-click on the image to view the image in the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Here, you can scroll through the preview image, zoom in or out on the image preview size, view and manage the image in full screen size or best fit, and print, save, delete or change the file details, rotate the image to the right or left Turn 90° and so on. In addition, you can use the Annotation toolbar to preview and annotate fax files or TIFF files. You can even use your personal picture as a screen saver (Figure 3).

Figure 3 Windows Picture and Fax View

These are some of the ways to use the "Picture Collection" folder. After you have seen it, do you have a feeling of seeing it late?