Want to see 5-star photos of your daughter taken only in 2010? Click each of those items in the ribbon, and you'll see them appear in a status bar atop the photos. Click the Find tab, for example, and you can filter your photos by date, zero in on pictures of certain people, or see photos you've given certain star ratings or tags. I like the ribbon because it arranges Photo Gallery's various tools in logical groupings, making everything easier to find. Getting Around the RibbonĪ key improvement in this newest version of Photo Gallery is the ribbon, similar to the one in Office and certain Windows 7 programs. In my experience, Photo Gallery is right most of the time. When you open a photo, Photo Gallery will let you identify the people in it, or you can use the Batch people tag button to accept Photo Gallery's guesses on multiple photos at once. Just "seed" Photo Gallery by identifying a few people, and then the program will figure out where they are in your other photos. The previous version of Photo Gallery could recognize the existence of faces, but the hard work was up to you-you'd have to manually identify each and every person in all of your photos if you wanted to be able to search our photos by who was in them. Any tags you've already created will appear, making it easy to re-use tags without memorizing them all. Just select a photo (or a group of photos) and then, on the right side of the screen, type a tag in the Descriptive Tags field. I'm a huge fan of tagging to keep track of your photos, and Photo Gallery makes this task easy to do. Photo Gallery gives you a few powerful ways to find specific photos quickly. To get back to all of your photos, just click All photos and videos. The program displays thumbnails of all of your photos in a single view, and you can drill into specific folders using the Navigation pane on the left side of the screen. If you're not familiar with Windows Live Photo Gallery, you can think of it as a photo organizer with integrated photo editing tools. (You can also read PCWorld's complete review of Windows Live Essentials Wave 4). It's free, and the public beta of the latest version just hit the streets.
For projects that require compositing-such as combining multiple images in layers, replacing a sky, or moving a person from one photo to another-I'll use a more traditional photo editor like Adobe Photoshop or Corel Paint Shop Pro.īut for panoramic stitching, quick and simple touch-up work, and photo sharing, nothing beats Windows Live Photo Gallery. When I'm editing a photo I plan to print or publish, for example, I use Adobe Lightroom. I use a variety of programs on my own photos, for example. Whether you're repairing a leaky faucet or editing your photos, everything is easier if you use the right tools for the task.
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