Technical Tips to View Photos in Windows 7

To view phtos in Windows 7, Follow these steps:

1. Select 'Start'>'Pictures' and this will open the Pictures library. This library contains photos that you copy from a digital camera and the Sample Pictures folder, included with Windows 7.

2. Now, to see the pictures Microsoft includes with Windows 7, double-click the 'Sample Pictures' and click the triangle which next to the 'Views' button on the Command Bar. Now select Extra Large Icons for the largest thumbnails of these photos.

3. Double-click the first photo to preview it and the photo will then open in one of these programs:

• Windows Photo Viewer, which is the standard viewer for Windows 7.

• Windows Live Photo Gallery, which is a free photo program from Microsoft.

• Picasa, which is a free photo program from Google.

• You can also view you photos on any other program installed by the company that sold your computer or by the person who set it up, or by your digital camera. If the photo didn’t open in Windows Photo Viewer, you can close the program that opened. Now to view this photo, you need to click a photo in the Sample Pictures library and then click the triangle to the right of Preview and choose Windows Photo Viewer.

4. In Windows Photo Viewer, these tool appear across the bottom of the window from left to right:

• You can change the display size i.e Zoom the display: To zoom in and out of the photo, you need to click the magnifying glass for a pop-up slider.

• Actual Size and Fit to Window: These two tools are in the second position of the toolbar. Most photos are larger than computer screens. The original size shows the true size of the photo, but you can not see all of it at once. If you want to see the whole photo then, you have to click and drag the photo. This is known as panning the photo. You can also use Original Size of the photo to see details in a photo. Fit to Window lets you to see the entire photo at once.

• Previous: depending on how the photos are sorted, you can click this tool to see the photo before the current one. You can also press the left-arrow key on your keyboard to see the previous photo.

• Play Slide Show: Before moving on to the next photo, this button shows each photo in the folder at full screen for a few seconds.

• Next: Depending on how the photos are sorted, you can click this tool to see the photo after the current one. You can also press the right-arrow key on your keyboard to see the next photo.

• Rotate Counterclockwise: A single click of this button turns the photo 90 degrees to the left. You can use this to fix photos that are turned sideways.

• Rotate Clockwise: A single click of this button turns the photo 90 degrees to the right. You can use this button to fix photos that are turned sideways.

• Delete: You can click this button to delete the current photo. Don’t test this button yet as you don’t have many sample photos to work with.

5. To see each of the sample photos in Windows Photo Viewer, you can click 'Next'. Now close Windows Photo Viewer.