Lesson 10. Work with Images

Goals

Get pictures on your PC

Learn to edit, organize, and share your photos

Vista comes with several tools for working with photos and other graphics. These tools include the new Windows Photo Gallery, the Paint program, and a new Snipping tool that lets you capture screen images and save them as files or paste them into other files.

Vista’s file system also has been updated to help you work with images, as we discuss in Lesson 3. And Vista offers new views, including extra large icons that give you a better view of your pictures before you even click them.

Getting Pictures into Your PC

Once you’ve taken pictures with your digital camera, the next step is to get them onto the PC. This is done by either connecting ...

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