Windows Live Photo Gallery

Liveside reports on a collaboration between the Windows Live Photo Gallery team and location-based social network Foursquare to guide you to some of the world’s great photo locations. Piloting in Seattle, San Francisco and New York, when you check-in at selected locations you’ll receive tips from…

Thanks to the recent refresh of the Windows Live Essentials beta, Windows Live Photo Gallery now supports geo-tagged photos via Bing Maps. Geo-tagging (adding location information to a photo) helps you see, on a map, where a particular photo was taken. By supporting geo-tags within Photo Gallery,…

The LiveUpload for YouTube plugin (which we first discovered last year along with LiveUpload for Facebook) is a piece of add-on software designed specifically for Windows Live software. With this plugin installed, you can upload your videos from the Windows Live Photo Gallery software (yes, it…

The Windows Live Team just informed us of a new update to the online Windows Live Photos. service for better support of panoramic photographs. Using the complementary Windows Live Photo Gallery software, you can easily stitch images together to create panoramic photos that give professional…

I was just checking out a collection of online images available for download (yep, those Windows 7 logon screen backgrounds) and decided I wanted to download the complete set. Up until now, I hadn’t downloaded anything other than a file or two from someone’s SkyDrive – never an entire image…

The Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) is a tool created by Microsoft Research which can be used to create panoramic images. It’s essentially the same technology that Windows Live Photo Gallery uses “under the hood” when you create panoramic photos in the software (just like Alexa does in the…

One of the most challenging aspects of photo sharing for many people is figuring out how to inform their family and friends that there are new photos available online. This is one aspect of the Windows Live Photos service which I think nicely addresses that issue. After you’ve uploaded photos to…

LiveUpload for Facebook (which we’ve mentioned before here) is a plugin for the new Windows Live Photo Gallery software that uploads photos from your PC directly into Facebook. It was already one of our favorite plugins before, but now, thanks to the new version called LiveUpload for Facebook 2.0,…

If you’re already using Windows Live Mesh to keep your files and photos between PCs in sync, then you don’t really need to worry with using Windows Live Sync (formerly called FolderShare). However, if you never installed the beta Mesh software and you’re just looking for a simple solution to keep…

Remember when we were telling you about how to use the online tool at photos.live.com because the Windows Live Photo Gallery software did not have an option to choose the size? Well, in case you didn’t already notice – it does now! I guess someone was listening. Last month, a refresh of the…