In the above screenshot, you can see the image sits well against the Start menu’s color but the app name isn’t easy to read. If it still doesn’t show the image you’ve set, reboot your system and that should take care of things.Ī bit of advice when selecting an image for the tile is to take into account the color of the Start Menu, and the color of the font the app’s name is displayed in. If the tile doesn’t immediately update, unpin the tile and then pin it again. The change doesn’t require a system reboot to take effect but Windows 10 is kind of buggy so it’s possible the tile doesn’t change right away. In fact, at this point, it isn’t even a capable as the contact list in Windows 8.1, which is saying something. From the Start menu, click the Photos tile. You may want to think of it as the Windows 10 Universal People app, but it’s really just Windows 10’s contact list. See screenshots, read the latest customer reviews, and compare ratings for Microsoft Photos. When opened, the Windows 10 Photos app automatically grabs your photos and places them on the screen in.

Next, click the ‘Choose photo’ button and select the photo you want to use as the tile image for the app. Download this app from Microsoft Store for Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows 10 Team (Surface Hub), HoloLens, Xbox One. Scroll down to the ‘Tile’ section and from the ‘Choose what to show on the Photos tile’ drop-down, select ‘A single photo’.

Open the Photos app, click the settings button (the cog wheel) on the left column to go the app’s settings. If the app cycling through images bothers you, you can turn the live tile off but a far more aesthetically pleasing look would be to set a single static image as the tile image. The Photos app will cycle through the photos in the Pictures library and in all folders that you’ve added to the app. Likewise, the music and video apps will feature thumbnails from the playable media. The live tiles for apps like Twitter and Facebook will feature images that come from stories or media shared to your respective feeds.

Photo tiles are custom-printed stick-on picture tiles that make creating.

Windows 10 comes with a nice Start menu and live tiles for all your favorite apps. In Windows 10, there is a built-in Photos app which allows viewing images and.

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