windows live photo gallery

Copying Pictures

I have been having a problem with my camera it is fine but once I put the chip in the computer and open the program where I want to save them it will crash .... I can still view all the pictuers I...

Windows Live Photo Gallery gets new OEM partners, Sync integration, and more

Windows Live Photo Gallery from the Windows Live Essentials suite is getting some upgrades in the upcoming “Release Candidate” release too. Besides the many bug fixes (including the wlcomm.exe crash...

Give your photos the Black and White treatment!

One of the top feature requests after last year’s release of Windows Live Photo Gallery was for the ability to convert photographs to black and white. We listened, and are happy to introduce this...

Windows Live Essentials strikes back – completing the Windows 7 experience

Remember Windows Live Essentials, the service that went through its early beta stages back in 2006 and never made it out of beta, that’s meant to “offer integrated and bundled e-mail, instant...

Authoring a Publish Plug-in for SmugMug

This is a guest post from Omar Shahine. When we announced an internal beta of our new Publish API a few months ago he jumped right on it and within a few days built his Smugmug plug-in. If you’re a...

Straighten up! in Windows Live Photo Gallery

Have you ever found yourself fumbling for your camera to capture one of those beautiful, yet fleeting moments? Your child’s first steps, your pet’s picture-perfect pose, or the run-in with your...

You’ve tagged them, now here’s how to find them fast

If you read John’s recent post, an introduction to “people tags”,  you now know that you can quickly  tag  the faces in your photos-- using either the  contacts in your contacts...

Why “people tags”?

We've always had keyword (descriptive) tagging in Photo Gallery. Heck, we've had it in Microsoft photo products since Windows XP. So why add a whole new type of tag to Windows Live Photo Gallery?...

Photo Gallery beta cheat sheet

We’ve packed a lot into the new beta version of Windows Live Photo Gallery.  At the same time we’ve heard users ask, “What’s new in Photo Gallery?”. Here’s a quick clip-and-save list of the top...

Windows Live to replace Mail, Photo Gallery, and Movie Maker in Windows 7

Windows Live is set to take a much more prominent role with Windows 7, as Microsoft made it official today that Mail, Photo Gallery, and Movie Maker are being removed from the operating system, to be...

More Wave 3 News: Facial Recognition not on photo gallery, Windows Live Foldershare to be renamed W

Wow lots of attention about Wave 3, funny how that happens when there’s no news for a year.  In this post we just want to clean up some odds and ends before we get to deeper dives into Wave 3. ...