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Windows Vista is Big on Photo Management

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Windows Vista Packages

While Windows XP enabled us 5 years ago to view our picture files easily, it really didn’t offer us a way to deal with our digital photos well. But now, as digital photography matured, Windows Vista anticipated the massive adoption of digital cameras and incorporated digital photo management right into the operating software.

Windows Photo Gallery

Windows Photo Gallery in Vista offers us a tool to deal with our growing number of digital pictures effectively. It enables us to download our photos from cameras, organize and find these photos, do some basic fixes without using another image editing application, share our photos via email or slideshows and preserve these photos by storing them onto compact discs.

Tagging

The Vista Photo Import wizard, however, is generating some debate about its propensity to import whole batches without giving the user the flexibility to select which pictures to download. Proponents of the idea say this is actually good because it forces the user to completely download a whole batch of pictures into one destination and not duplicate those pictures in several folders. Hey, Charlie, if you really need to skip some pictures and just download the ones you want, don’t use the import wizard; use Vista’s graphical file explorer instead.

Album Names

The ability to tag pictures in Windows Vista is earning praise because it makes photo organization cleaner and searching for these pictures later will be easier. It places keywords into the metadata of the photo which makes it easier to search. The keywords may also be used as basis to name a photo album, which you can make in unlimited numbers.

Windows Vista Photo Gallery also enables some degree of digital image editing. Auto Adjust, Adjust Exposure, Adjust Color, Crop Picture and Fix Red Eye are the options made available by the Vista embedded application. If you don’t like what you have done, you can always hit Undo and your original image will still be there.

[Site: Microsoft.com]

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Posted in General on November 1st, 2006

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One Response to “Windows Vista is Big on Photo Management”

  1. Sajid Iqbal Says:
    November 3rd, 2006 at 7:01 am

    Really nice and in-depth review. This will help me choose the future Operatings System. Thumbs up for you not for microsoft. ;)


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