Share image and video files using Photos App in Windows 11/10

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Photograph viewing experience in Windows was not that great experience, until at present. The Windows Photo Viewer, the default app for viewing photos when browsing through a folder in file explorer served its purpose well only wasn't quite characteristic-rich by any means. Things changed with the release of Windows 11/10. It introduced a new app – Photos App replete with editing and sharing features.

Share files using Windows Photos App

The Photos app includes a wide range of editing options to heighten your photos/images, from automatic fixes to avant-garde adjustments. Once you lot are done with the editing job, y'all can have them shared with friends and family without leaving the app.

Sharing image files directly from File Explorer can certainly exist handy and Windows 10 makes it dead simple. To share photos, videos and panoramas yous need to keep certain points in listen.

First, all photos and videos in the Photos app can be shared with any apps that are bachelor in the Share charm, like the Postal service app. For files stored in OneDrive, you take the choice to send invitations that give specific people permission to see the files or go a link to share with others.

Tip: The Video Editor app is a characteristic of the Photos app. Learn how to use the Video Editor app in Windows 10.

Share photos and videos in your OneDrive

Assuming you accept access to Photos App, right-click files and folders to select them.

Click Share to open the Share sidebar. 1-click Share button in the File Explorer actually lies hidden inside the Sharing menu. It has the same iii-dot-circumvolve icon as seen in the Windows Charms bar. If you would like to share with an individual person or groups, choose Invite people. To share with an unknown group, choose Get a link.

Read: Windows Photos app is boring to open or not working.

Share photos and videos from your Pictures library

In the Photos app, go to the folder with the photos or videos you would desire to share. Hither, depending on the type of file to be shared, unlike options will be visible in the Sharing bill of fare. For instance, if yous have chosen a binder, and not a file, the Share button will exist grayed out and the Nothing button will exist available.

Pressing Win+H may not bring upwards the Share bar. To bring it up for individual files, right-click the photo or video yous want to share and if yous're using a mouse, hover your mouse cursor in the upper-correct corner of the screen, move the cursor down, and click Share.

Now, click the service you would want to share with and follow the on-screen instructions.

The Share list could include Twitter, Mail, Printer, Messaging, Facebook, OneNote, PicsArt, Dropbox, etc. The list depends on the apps that you have installed on your Windows PC. Then if you exercise non meet Facebook in your Share listing, install the official Facebook app and y'all will meet it added.

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