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The Zune desktop application has a great photo-viewing application built right in. This photo-viewing feature lets you look at pictures, create playlists, and play slideshows from right within the Zune software itself. Of course, this functionality complements the picture-viewing features of your Zune player.
To view photos in the Zune desktop application, follow these steps:
1. Fire up the Zune software and click the View Pictures icon (the cute little camera) in the Media selector bar in the upper-left part of the screen.
Now, under the Library heading in the Zune software's Navigation pane, you'll see different ways to view your pictures (All, Keywords, Date Taken, and so on).
2. Click the option under the Library heading you want to use to view your pictures.
 | Note the different column headings (Title, Date Taken, Size, Keywords, Rating) at the top of the View window. You can use these column headings to sort the photos according to different criteria. Say you want to see the latest pictures first, all you have to do is click on the Date Taken column heading until the triangle in that heading points down. These quick sorts can make it much easier to find the pictures you're looking for. |
3. To view the pictures as a slideshow, press the Play button at the base of the screen.
The Zune desktop application lets you look at photos in three different ways:
- Icon view shows a thumbnail of the photo with the name of the photo beneath.
- Tile view shows the photo thumbnail with the name to the right of the photo. This view also shows the date and the rating that have been added to the photo.
- Details view adds more information to the list, but doesn't show a thumbnail of the photos in the list; so you get more information, but you don't get to see the images while you work with them.
| You can see a thumbnail of your currently selected picture in the Now Playing list in the bottom left of the Zune window. |
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