While Windows 8.1 adds a lot of features and improvements across the OS, the built-in apps include some of the biggest changes. Microsoft is detailing a few of the more creative ones ahead of the Windows 8.1 release tomorrow. The photos app in Windows 8 included Facebook and Flickr integration, but the Windows 8.1 version drops that in lieu of some improvements to editing. You can now select auto fix for a selection of different corrections, and there’s also manual cropping, red-eye removal, retouch, and other basic contrast and brightness settings. One of the more interesting features is color enhance that lets you pick an area of a photo to brighten up or darken areas of photos.
Alongside the photos improvements, Windows 8.1 also includes some camera changes. The new built-in camera app is accessible through a swipe on the lockscreen and it now includes the ability to take photos during video capture. There’s also a panorama feature that works by using Microsoft’s Photosynth technology to stitch together multiple images. Once the panorama is complete it will sync to SkyDrive and is viewable on the web. The Windows 8.1 Camera app also supports a new Photo Loop feature. Essentially, it’s identical to BlackBerry 10's photo rewind feature. It requires new hardware, and Surface 2 is the only tablet we know that includes the feature, but it will start to instantly take pictures from the moment the Camera app is loaded. While you won't see it taking pictures, it acts as a temporary buffer so you can use a radial menu to rewind a photo where someone may have blinked or looked away.
Released before, it's actual release. Windows 8.1 has vastly improved it's photo editing corrections such as a much need red-eye removal, contrast and brightness settings. So it seems that they have given us a better manual setting agenda.
Even the bulit in camera app has been given it's must deserved improvements, now we just have to wait for some reviews.