Windows Photo Gallery (formerly known as Windows Live Photo Gallery ) is a photo manager, photo editor, and photo sharing app. This is part of Microsoft Windows Essentials software. Microsoft announced that the product is no longer supported or available for download after January 10, 2017.
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Features
Windows Photo Gallery provides management, tagging, and search 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 get photos from a camera or other external media. Windows Photo Gallery also allows sharing photos by uploading them to OneDrive, Flickr and Facebook.
Photos management
Windows Photo Gallery provides the ability to organize collections of digital photos in a Gallery view, by adding title, rating, description, and custom metadata tags to photos. There is also limited support for tagging and managing video files, even if they do not edit them.
Windows Photo Gallery uses hierarchical tagging concepts (eg People/Jim, Places/Paris) to organize photos. Removing tags from Windows Photo Gallery will also remove them from all photos in the utility. Metadata Standard Extended Metadata Platform Adobe Systems (XMP), which is a common Exif standard that almost all digital cameras currently support, is also supported. This allows data such as tags to be stored and edited much more efficiently than EXIF ​​â € <â € Since Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011, geotagging and flagging people (with face detection and recognition) are also supported. For some types of supported image files, Tag People can be read and saved using Microsoft People Tag XMP Schema. Photo editing
Windows Photo Gallery allows photos to be edited for lighting or color correction. It also provides other basic photo editing functions, such as resizing, cutting, and reducing red-eye. Users can view photo color histograms, which allow them to customize the shadows, highlights, and sharpness of the photos. Furthermore, Windows Photo Gallery also includes editing tools like deforming and noise reduction.
Photo editing technologies developed by Microsoft Research, including Panoramic sutures, Photo Fuse, and AutoCollage are also included in Windows Photo Gallery.
Windows Photo Gallery also supports the ability to resize photos, where multiple photos can be resized in a single action, as well as the ability to play videos.
Import photos and videos
The photo/video import tool of Windows Photo Gallery provides the ability to view, select and tag photos that are automatically grouped by date retrieved.
Format support
Windows Photo Gallery is based on a PIX machine that uses the Windows Imaging Component (WIC) library. This app has native metadata handling and tagging support and since the Windows Imaging Component can be developed, it can organize and view any image formats used by third-party WIC codecs. Therefore, supported formats depend on Windows versions, additional WIC codecs for QuickTime/raw image format/Webp, and platform updates, for example, JPEG (.jpg , .jpeg ), BMP (.bmp ), PNG (.png ), TIFF (.tif and .tiff ), HD Photos .wdp (later replaced by JPEG XR .jxr image), and GIF (.gif ), as well as the most common video format. Windows Photo Gallery uses Windows Color System. Older image formats like PCX and WMF without WIC codecs can not be viewed. For GIF animations, only individual frames are displayed.
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History
Photo Library Digital Image 9
This app began development in December 2001 as a new "Photo Library" offer (code named "POD") added to "Picture It!" product. This combination was released under the name "Digital Image Suite". This is the first photo organization and management tool offered by Microsoft. The album was released with Digital Image Suite 9 on June 3, 2003.
Photo Library Digital Image 10
The second version was released on June 12, 2004
Digital Photo Library 11
The third and final version of the branded Photo Library was released April 22, 2005. The next "Anniversary edition" which includes Windows Vista compatibility fixes was released August 18, 2006.
Windows Photo Gallery
The first version of Windows Photo Gallery is included with all editions of Windows Vista and replaces the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Photo-themed impressions with smooth transitions are available only in Home Premium and Ultimate editions.
Windows Live Photo Gallery (Wave 2)
With the release of Windows 7, Microsoft decided not to bundle Photo Gallery in the operating system. Instead, Windows 7 comes bundled with software called Windows Photo Viewer, which has Windows Photo Gallery editing capabilities removed. The full suite of Photo Gallery was released as part of the Windows Live Essentials software suite instead, and as such, the app was renamed "Windows Live Photo Gallery". The first version of Windows Live Photo Gallery beta was released on June 27, 2007, and the final version was released on November 6, 2007.
Windows Live Photo Gallery 2009 (Wave 3)
Windows Live Photo Gallery 2009 came out in beta with the rest of Windows Live Essentials 2009 beta in September 2008, with a new interface. On December 15, 2008, the "beta refresh" version of the Windows Live Essentials 2009 application was released including Photo Gallery. This release includes many changes since the previous beta release based on user feedback. A significant visual change in this release is the introduction of new app icons that add common design themes to all Windows Live Essentials apps. The word "beta" has been removed from the build number. On January 7, 2009, the "beta refresh" version was released as the final version, with the exception of Windows Live Movie Maker.
Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 (Wave 4)
Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 beta was released by Microsoft, along with the rest of Windows Live Essentials 2011 beta, on June 24, 2010. The 2011 version has additional new features such as batch person tagging, eraser erase and noise reduction. The beta refreshment was released on August 18, 2010, and the final version of Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 was released with the final version of Windows Live Essentials 2011 on September 30th, 2010. It has been updated with the latest improvements (along with the rest Essential except for Mesh and Family Safety) on December 1 2010.
New features in Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 include adding ribbons to the user interface, batch processing, cloning tools, face recognition, geotagging with support for Bing Maps, image splicing, and noise reduction. Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 is also integrated with Facebook, Flickr, OneDrive, YouTube, and now Picasa Web Albums and Windows Live Spaces to facilitate file uploads to online services.
Windows Photo Gallery 2012 (Wave 5)
The Wave 5 version was released on August 7, 2012 as Windows Photo Gallery 2012; Microsoft dropped the Live branding from its title. Windows Photo Gallery 2012 introduces the AutoCollage feature that allows users to automatically create collages from their images, as well as the ability to publish videos to Vimeo.
References
External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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