How to use Windows Live Photo Gallery – Guide
If you’re using Windows Vista, you can manage and share these memories with others using Vista Photo Gallery and Windows Live Spaces. Photo Gallery lets you fix and edit your photos by adjusting various elements. Other feature is the ability to rate your photos and edit tags, which you can use to organize your photos.
This photo management application is included with Vista, which provides an easy-to-use graphical interface for managing your photos. The toolbar at the top of the application allows you to access various tools such as emailing photos, burning photos, and home videos to disk and quick creation home films. Windows Movie Maker will open if you want to create one home movie clip.
How to use Windows Live Photo Gallery
Editing photos
Windows Live Photo Gallery offers a variety of editing functions that are easy to use. You can rotate, resize, and crop photos to get the perfect image. You can also reduce noise and adjust color temperature to make photos look better.
Windows Live Photo Gallery lets you sharpen your images as well as lighten shadow areas or darken highlight areas. This editing option is very easy to use and often requires just one click on their respective buttons. For more detailed explanations about them, see our guides How to edit photos in Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Photo Gallery: Top photo effects.
tagging photos
A descriptive tag is a tag that you attach to your photo to make it easier for your family and friends to find and organize. There are several different types, but the most common type is the ‘descriptive tag’. This type of tag consists of words like ‘sunset’ or ‘summer’. The button as it is located in the lists at the top of the screen makes it easy for you to add these tags to your photos!
A ‘people tag’ will identify an individual. For example, you can tag ‘Emma’ to a photo taken at your granddaughter’s first birthday party. These tags make it easy to identify all of your Emma photos, and later you can instruct Windows Live Photo Gallery to group them all on one canvas based on that tag.
The ‘batch people tag’ button in Windows Live Photo Gallery is a useful feature that allows you to group photos by similar faces. This is an extremely accurate way to organize photos, as it groups photos according to what it considers to be similar.
If you’re happy with the group, just click Mark As on the new screen that appears and type in the person’s name. Windows Live Photo Gallery lets you tag your digital photos individually, or you can apply a tag to a group of pre-selected photos. A new addition now allows you to add ‘Geotags’, which specify where an image was taken.
sharing photos
Windows Live Photo Gallery is a great way to store and share your photos with friends and family. After downloading the photos of your camera, you can post them online with just one click.
Seeing photos
Windows Live Photo Gallery is an easy way to view and enjoy your photos on your computer. The software has a slideshow function that can be fun to show at parties. To discover in more depth how to make your own slideshow, read our guide How to make a slideshow in Windows Live Photo Gallery.
Final note
Windows Live Photo Gallery is a great way to store and share photos with your friends. You can use it to store photos on your computer, or you can share them with others using the Windows Live Messenger service. You can also use Windows Live Photo Gallery to create albums and share photos in these albums.
