Experience Memories: Share with Friends and Family
Once you've gotten the red eye fixed, it's time to share your memories. It's easy to e-mail pictures to your friends and family. But how do you make them the right size to send? You don't want to send the full-size image, which might be difficult for others to download, but it's not always clear how to resize your pictures.
Resize your pictures for e-mail
In Windows Photo Gallery, you don't have to know the proper pixel dimensions or use a separate program to resize your pictures. You can simply use the photo e-mail wizard to automatically adjust your pictures to the right size for e-mailing.
Resize your pictures to share them through e-mail.
Print at home or online
Digital pictures are great, but sometimes there's nothing like a physical print you can put in a frame and hang on your living room wall. Now, it's easier to print your photos, either with your own printer or through an online printing service.
With Windows Vista, there's no more searching through file menus to figure out how to pick your paper size or set other printing options. The Photo Print Wizard makes printing quality photos easier than ever before. You can also use the Online Print Wizard to send your digital pictures to a retail photo-processor.
If you haven't used an online photo processing service before, Windows Vista makes it easy for you to give it a try. These services offer great convenience. You can have the retail photo-processor mail the pictures back to you, or you can pick them up—some even offer one-hour service. You don't have to send the pictures to a photo retailer near you—if you are sending pictures you took of a friend's wedding, pick a retailer near your friend, and she can pick the pictures up herself and get them quickly.
Print your pictures with the Photo Print Wizard.
Show off your favorite pictures and videos in a slide show
We used to create photo albums as a way to both organize and share our pictures. While it was great to be able to hold the album in our hands, there were challenges. You couldn't share the album with someone across the country. And if you forgot to include a photo in the right spot, you might have to rearrange the whole book to add it later. Maybe you never got around to creating the album in the first place. With digital pictures, it's much easier to create the photo albums you've probably dreamed of having.
Digital slide shows are today's photo albums. Slide shows are one of the richest and easiest ways to enjoy and share your photos, and Windows Vista includes many new ways for you to create your own. You can pick different themes, each with different backgrounds, animations, and transitions. And you can include your home movies to create a richer multimedia experience.
Create slide shows and even screen saver slide shows easily with the click of a button.
Digital slide shows are today's photo albums.
Enjoy your digital memories around your home
Windows Media Center is built into Windows Vista, adding a new dimension to viewing and sharing photos. Windows Media Center in Windows Vista lets you connect your computer to your TV and view your photos and videos on the larger screen. You can also enjoy the benefits of Windows Media Center throughout your house. Keep your computer in the study, and connect it to a TV in the living room. You can even use your Microsoft Xbox 360 to connect your Media Center PC to your TV and enjoy your favorite entertainment from the comfort of your couch. At your next party, entertain your friends by showing pictures, and even videos, from your last vacation in a slide show on your TV, with your favorite music playing.
Play a slide show on your TV with Windows Media Center in Windows Vista.
Take your memories with you
Now you can have digital photo albums with you all the time. Windows Vista makes it easy to share pictures by downloading them to a portable device, such as a mobile phone or Pocket PC. Put your favorite photos and videos on a portable media player, and enjoy them while you travel—show them to your friends and family or the person in the seat next to you on your flight. With Windows Vista, you don't have to be at your computer to enjoy and share your photos.
