Microsoft Fotoğraflar'a yapılan yeni bir güncelleme, Windows'un yerel görüntü uygulamasının görünüm ve hissinde oldukça radikal bir revizyon ve iki özelliğin kaldırılmasıyla birlikte, her zaman daha iyisi için değil.

The new update (2021.21120.8011.0) is rolling out to everyone, and not just the Windows Insiders Microsoft occasionally tests with. While I used a test PC to manually ask for the update via the Microsoft Store app, the new version will likely be pushed to your PC within days on Windows 10 and Windows 11, if it hasn't been already.

Fotoğraflar uygulamasının şimdiki düzenleme bölümünde hem kullanıcı arayüzü hem de işlevsellik değişti. (Bir resme sağ tıklamak, onu Fotoğraflar'da açmanıza izin verir. CTRL + E veya uygun simgeye tıklamak, değişikliklerin bulunduğu düzenleyici işlevini açar.) Tasarım, Editör'deki şu anda dört (üç yerine) sekmede farklıdır ve Microsoft iki özelliği kaldırmıştır: “Kırmızı göz ” ve “Nokta düzeltme” işlevleri.

Any photo you choose to edit will open on the “Crop” page, which has been tweaked in several ways. First, the straightening tool has been moved to the bottom of the screen, where the slider can be shifted either right or left to rotate the photo and align it to how you see fit. To the upper left, there's an indicator about how far the photo is zoomed in or out, tools to do so, and a tool to adjust the ratio of the dimensions of the picture. Overall, the new look of Photos offers a strong first impression.

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Microsoft, daha önce "Filtreler" olarak adlandırılan bir sonraki sekme olan "Ayarlama" üzerinde ince ayar yapmaya başlar.

On the current Filters tab, Photos places the photo in the center of the screen, with the algorithmic “Enhance your photo” button located to the upper right. “Auto enhance” applies Microsoft's own AI to your photo—lightening, darkening, and so on to bring out the best in the photo. Personally, I've found that lightly applying Auto Enhance (using the associated slider) to tweak the photo offers the best results. In the current Photos app, I've then moved to the “Adjustments” tab and fine-tuned the contrast, exposure, and so on using the associated tools.

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Microsoft, biraz garip hissettiren bu işlevleri esasen değiştirmek için Ayar sekmesini yeniden düzenledi. Şimdi, Ayarlama sekmesi, mevcut tüm manuel fotoğraf ince ayarlarını (parlaklık, pozlama, vinyet, sıcaklık, renk tonu vb.) alır ve önce size sunar.

It's on the now-third tab, known as “Filter,” where you'll find the “Auto Enhance” button to the upper right, with the slider bar underneath it. Below that, you'll find the various color filters that have been there all along, though they do away with the artistic names Microsoft used previously. Gone are “Icarus,” “Sahara,” and “Zeke” — in their place are descriptions like “Radiate,” “Warm Contrast,” and “Calm.”

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The fourth tab, “Mark-up,” is where you can annotate a photo. Want to draw on a photo? Here's where you do it.

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To be fair, the Crop tab appears to be well thought out and a step forward. But, otherwise, the workflow still moves opposite to what I'm used to. I tend to let Microsoft work its magic and tweak my photo using the “Enhance your photo / Auto Enhance” tool, then make manual changes. Windows is encouraging me to do the opposite.

I Gerçekten mi don't like the removal of the “spot fix” tool, though, and I'm unreasonably upset that Microsoft would do so. You have no idea how difficult it is to clean a product or a laptop for photographing, even with a microfiber cloth. There are always unnoticeably tiny specks of dust that creep in — unnoticeable, that is, until they're right before you on a 4K screen. Stamping out that dust using the “spot fix” tool (which simply algorithmically looks for spots or anomalies and removes them) is one of the best features of Photos and a critical part of my workflow. (Red-eye removal seems to be fairly standard in many smartphone cameras, so I'm less concerned about that.)

Give credit where credit is due — I've been Fotoğraflar tarafından son derece sinirli, son zamanlarda ve geliştirme çalışmaları, Microsoft mühendislerinin onu geliştirmeye dikkat ettiğinin kanıtıdır. Ancak en azından “Spot düzeltmeyi” ortadan kaldırmak bir geri adımdır ve umarım Microsoft yakında değişir.