New Free Live Photo Gallery
When Microsoft released the collection of apps from Windows Live, I rushed to download the the new Windows Movie Maker, which was part of the suite. But my excitement was quickly dimmed down when I found out it is only available for Vista user. And the worse part is it is really an incomplete alpha version compared the the version that came with Vista.
Today I took a look at another app of the suite, the new Windows Live Photo Gallery and its new feature the facial recognition, which allows user to draw a box around the face on the photo and tag it for the easy of locate photos.
From the MSDN blog: the new Live Photo Gallery highlights:
Just the right amount of Info. Try out the new Info pane (hint: click the Info button to turn on or off) for a quick look at the people and descriptive tags you’ve assigned to your photos. Based on popular requests, we’ve also bubbled up more metadata about your photos and videos. Plus, you can dial in how much metadata you want to see by dragging the divider up and down. You control what you want to see.
People tags! Photo Gallery automatically detects faces in your photos to make it easy to tag. And with our people tagging user interface you can quickly choose folks from your Messenger and Mail contact lists. Open up a photo and click “Add people tags” to get started. And to appeal to the narcissist is all of us, there’s a single click “That’s Me” link to identify yourself in photos.
Keep in touch. Browse your photos by person using the People navigation area. When you’re browsing by person, click on someone’s name and look at the new people banner (hint: along the top) to see the latest photos they have shared online at Windows Live, and download the ones you like – right from within Photo Gallery.
The original features such upload to Microsoft Live Space, Upload to Flickr, Photo Editing, etc.. are carried over.
Overall, the new software offers a much-improved update to the older version of Live Photo Gallery and is definitely worth the upgrade. You can get this and all the Windows Live updates from download.live.com.
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