Windows Photo Gallery
This feature is included in the following editions of Windows Vista:
Windows Photo Gallery offers an easier, more intuitive way to view, manage, and refine your photos and home movies. A streamlined process simplifies acquiring and importing images and videos, and new organizational options make it easier to find and enjoy your memories. And you have the flexibility to launch any of your other photo- and video-related applications from directly within Windows Photo Gallery.
A toolbar across the top of Windows Photo Gallery offers shortcuts to tasks and information, while the familiar left-hand navigation bar provides easy access to organizational elements. You can use the control bar at the bottom of the screen to launch a slide show with a single click, and use the slider to quickly resize your thumbnails for comfortable viewing.
Organize, find, and enjoy your photos.
Windows Photo Gallery offers basic photo editing, such as the ability to easily remove red eye. If you decide you don't want to keep the changes, you can revert to the original version of the photo with one click.
You can easily print your photos via a local printer using the Photo Print Wizard, or use Online Printing to send them to a retail photo finisher for printing. With the integration between Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker in Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, and Windows Vista Ultimate, you can use your digital photos and videos to express yourself in a home movie using cool effects and transitions.
If you have Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate, you can then create a professional-looking video DVD to preserve and share your movies using Windows DVD Maker.
Acquiring and importing photos and videos
In Windows Vista, one click is all it takes to copy your pictures onto your PC. More advanced users can customize the process to simplify common acquisition tasks, such as changing the import destination or renaming and replicating photo and video files.
Finding, organizing, viewing, and editing photos and videos
Windows Vista indexes the pictures and videos on your PC for fast, efficient retrieval. You can even customize this function and choose which folders to index.
To find a picture quickly, enter a word or two in the search field. Instant Search searches across tags, folder names, file names, and captions and gives you fast results.
Organizing your photos and videos using tags
You can apply tags in a variety of ways to help you organize and find your photos and videos. You can add tags when you first add a photo or video to your collection, or you can select a photo, or multiple photos, to tag at any time.
Alternatively, you can tag images using the new Info Pane. You can open the Info Pane to view basic information about a photo or a video, including the file name, date taken, rating, and other information. You can change most of this information just by clicking and typing.
Viewing and fixing photos and videos
The Windows Photo Gallery Viewer provides a large view of individual photos or clips with options to zoom, pan, and rotate photos, pause or play vide