This tutorial will show you how to add or remove an image file for an album in the Photos app for your account in Windows 11.
The updated Photos app on Windows 11 helps you browse, organize, and edit photos and videos from your PC, OneDrive, and iCloud. You can use Photos with pictures stored on your PC without signing in to OneDrive.
In Photos you can:
- Browse photos and videos from your PC, OneDrive, and iCloud in Gallery.
- Search by what's in your personal OneDrive photos, not only by file name. On a Copilot+ PC, search also covers indexed photos stored locally.
- With a personal Microsoft account, find photos of friends or family in People, filter Gallery by people you name, revisit highlights in Moments, and create Albums.
- Mark Favorites.
- Crop and adjust photos with the updated editor.
- Browse photos available on your device when you're not connected to the internet.
- Add local folders and use Windows actions with a photo: set it as your desktop background or lock screen, print it, or open it in File Explorer.
You can select images you want to add to a new or existing album, or remove from an album. Removing an image from an album will not delete the image from your gallery.
References:
Meet the new Photos app on Windows 11
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Learn how to browse and search photos from your PC and OneDrive in Photos on Windows 11, add local folders, include iCloud photos, and turn off face grouping.
Contents
- Option One: Add Image(s) to Album from Albums in Photos app
- Option Two: Add Image(s) to Album from Gallery in Photos app
- Option Three: Remove Image(s) from Album in Photos app
1 Open the Photos app.
2 Open Albums on the sidebar. (see screenshot below step 3)
3 Click/tap on an album you want to add images to. (see screenshot below)
4 Click/tap on Add to album on the toolbar. (see screenshot below)
5 Select (check) one or more images you want to add to this album, and click/tap on the Add to album button at the bottom. (see screenshot below)
1 Open the Photos app.
2 Open Gallery on the sidebar. (see screenshot below step 3)
3 Perform an available action below you want to use: (see screenshots below)
- Select (check) one or more images, and click/tap on Add to album on the toolbar.
- Right click on a single image, and click/tap on Add to album.
You cannot add an image that is On this PC when you hover on it to an album.
4 Click/tap on the album you want to add the image(s) to. (see screenshot below)
You can click/tap on Create new album to create a new album to add the image(s) to instead.
1 Open the Photos app.
2 Open Albums on the sidebar. (see screenshots below step 3)
3 Click/tap on an album you want to remove images from. (see screenshot below)
4 Perform an available action below you want to use: (see screenshots below)
- Select (check) one or more images, and click/tap on Remove from album on the toolbar.
- Right click on a single image, and click/tap on Remove from album.
5 Click/tap on Remove to confirm. (see screenshot below)
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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