Memories

Live it today. Relive it tomorrow.

Are your favorite pictures stuck on your PC? Are you still struggling to create that perfect home movie? Windows Vista provides simplified tools for importing, editing, and organizing your pictures and videos. And you can also view and share them in entirely new ways—easily.

Windows Photo Gallery makes it much easier to find, enjoy, and share that extra-special shot. Organize your images by date, place, person, star rating—or any tag you choose—and find them at a glance, even if you have thousands. Think of Windows Photo Gallery as your personal treasury of digital memories, a place that centralizes all your pictures and the tools you need to work with them. And take advantage of the themed, animated slideshows to view your photos in full glory.

A new way to find and view your digital memories.

Point. Shoot. Done.

Transfer photos from your camera to your computer in a flash. Windows Vista offers an easy, one-click system for importing pictures to designated folders on your PC. You can even tag your images with one or more keywords so they'll be organized in a way that makes them easier to find. Now you can spend more time snapping and viewing pictures and less time finding them.

Tags help you find exactly the items you want.

Make every picture perfect

Produce high-quality prints using easy, built-in tools like Cropping, Red-Eye Removal, and one-click Auto Adjust. When you enhance images manually or automatically using the Windows Photo Gallery Viewer, you'll have the option undo your changes and return to the original.

Crop and otherwise enhance your pictures.

Bring your memories to life, beyond the PC

Burn your photo slideshows and home movies to a professional looking video DVD with Windows DVD Maker ^U, complete with a variety of themes and animated styles that you can select. Then watch them on a standard DVD player or PC whenever you like, or share them with friends and family. They make great gifts.

Create DVDs from your video and pictures.

Preserve a lifetime of memories

Scheduled and Network Backup^S enables you to automatically back up your photos and videos to another PC or hard drive on your home network so you don't need to worry about losing your priceless memories. Convenience is the name of the game. You can select the kinds of files to be backed up, indicate where the backed-up files should be stored, and initiate the process whenever you choose. If you choose a premium edition of Windows Vista, such as Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate, you'll have the flexibility of automated scheduling and the ability to select additional backup destinations.

Flexible backup options.

Make a masterpiece

Use Windows Movie Maker to smoothly blend your digital photos and home videos into a rich cinematic experience, complete with soundtrack, titles, credits, and creative transitions. Windows Vista provides exciting new ways to create digital slide shows, too—today's photo albums. Choose from multiple themes, each with its own backgrounds, animations, and transitions.

Create stylized movies from your videos and pictures.

Enjoy your memories, larger than life

Use Windows Media Center to share big, beautiful pictures and home videos, right on your TV. Your entire library of digital photos and video is all there. Add your own soundtrack to set a party mood, or pass the remote^M to let friends and family join in the fun. You can enjoy the benefits of Windows Media Center (available in the Home Premium and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista) throughout your house: Keep your computer in the study, for instance, and use a wireless or wired home network^N to connect it to an Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system to display the full experience on your living room TV-complete with remote control convenience.