Windows Photo Gallery
Microsoft Windows XP doesn’t offer much in the way of built-in tools for organizing your collection of digital and scanned photographs. Sure, you can launch the anemic Windows Picture and Fax Viewer and page through your images—but if you want to edit one of them, you’re dropped unceremoniÂously into Windows Paint. There’s no way to tag or caption your images so you can easily find them later, and watching a slide show in Win XP isn’t much more engaging than turning the pages in a photo album.
Considering the hugely growing popularity of digital imaging, I’d say it’s a good thing that Windows Vista manages to make the experience more appealing from start to finish. When I plugged in a digital camera, Vista seamlessly installed the drivers and asked if I wanted to apply a tag to all the images I was downloading. It also offered to rotate automatically any pictures that it thought were taken in a vertical rather than horizontal orientation. Moments later, Vista launched the Windows Photo Gallery application so that I could view and organize all my photos
The imaging features built into Vista aren’t a substitute for a full photo-editing application. But for the many users who want the instant gratification of being able to plug in a camera, download pictures, correct basic defects, and build up a library of images to share with friends and family, Vista looks poised to provide a much more seamless and enjoyable experience right out of the box.
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August 9th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
How do I move my pictures from one folder to another & why all the duplicate pictures? I am so frustrated with this photo gallery!!!!!!!!!