Windows Live Photos

The upcoming version of Windows Live Photo Gallery, a key component in the Windows Live Essentials suite of applications, is going to offer a ton of new features which will make the application even better than it was before. Ever since its initial release, I’ve used Live Photo Gallery exclusively…

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…

If you already use the Windows Live Mail application, a free desktop email program, you may be familiar with one of its better features – the ability to email photos without worrying about attachment sizes. When you use the program’s photo email feature (like Kylie does here), the software…

The Windows Live SkyDrive team is putting Microsoft Silverlight to work on the cloud-based photo and file hosting service. Now using Silverlight, you can arrange your photos within your photo albums the way you want them just by dragging and dropping them into place. To access this new feature,…

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…

If you take a lot of photos with your mobile phone while out and about, then you’re probably always on the lookout for a good way to get them off the phone so you can share them with others. One way, of course, is to return home and sync your phone with your PC. But who has time for that? I prefer…

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…

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…

Today, for a change, I decided to use the Windows Live Photos upload tool instead of Windows Live Photo Gallery desktop software to add photos into my Windows Live online gallery. If you’ve never added photos this way, you may want to give it a shot, because there are a few advantages to going this…