Windows Live Photo Gallery

April 15, 2008

Windows Live Photo Gallery is a photo management and sharing application released as a part of Microsoft’s Windows Live initiative. It is an upgraded version of Windows Photo Gallery, which is a part of Windows Vista. Windows Live Photo Gallery also supports Windows XP and facilitates viewing any image format supported by the Windows Imaging Component (including HD Photo) on Windows XP, if the appropriate WIC codecs are installed.

Windows Live Photo Gallery provides management, tagging, and searching capabilities for digital photos. It provides an image viewer that can replace the default OS image viewer, and a photo import tool that can be used to acquire photos from a camera or other removable media.

Windows Live Photo Gallery allows sharing of photos by uploading them to Windows Live Spaces and Flickr.

Windows Live Photo Gallery includes all the features of Windows Photo Gallery in Windows Vista. It adds several new features including:

#  An improved photo/video import tool, providing the ability to view, select, and tag photos that are automatically grouped by date-taken.
#  Ability to view a photo’s color histogram with shadow and highlight adjustment, or to adjust a photo’s sharpness.
#  Panoramic stitching using technology developed by Microsoft Research.
#  Batch resize of photos and rotation of videos
#  Support for displaying QuickTime videos when QuickTime 7 is installed.

Although it is an upgraded version of Windows Photo Gallery, some features (such as themed photo slideshows) which use Windows Vista-specific technologies are not available on Windows XP.

Get it here:

http://get.live.com/photogallery/overview

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Marc Liron – Microsoft MVP

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