Windows Live Photo Gallery

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 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…

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…

Welcome to ShutterSpeed Episode 02My guests in the studio: Michael Palermiti, Bill Crow & Jeff Greene. Links mentioned and topics covered in this episode:[01:29] Photosynth on CSI: New York (YT Clip)[05:22] Top 100 Iconic Photo Locations of the World -…

Every so often something hits at Microsoft that is so cool you find your inbox filling up about it late into the night as we all start playing with it. It happened this week with the integration of Flickr into Windows Live Photo Gallery. With the latest version, available now on Microsoft…

At Innovation Day in Brussels, I spoke with two very cool guys from MS Research in Redmond, Bryan Ressler and Matt Uyttendaele. They filled me in on HD View and how to create my own HD View images using Windows Live Photo Gallery. HD View is a new technology developed by Microsoft Research's…

Did you know that many cameras can take better photos than the jpeg standard can display? This means that the camera is often trying to figure out which ball to drop in terms of how to save the photo and therefore limits you in the color correction you can make after taking the picture. Raw has…

As Larry mentions in his post, the latest beta of Windows Live Photo Gallery is out. After installing it, the first feature I tried out is the new "upload to Flickr". I am a Flickr Pro user: the ability to see and comment on my friend's photos is like attending slide-show evenings from…

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…