Windows Photo Gallery

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Windows Photo Gallery

Windows Photo Gallery 2012
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Stable release	2012 (v16.4.3528.331) / April 18, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-04-18)
photo sharing
License	Freeware
Website	Archived official website at the Wayback Machine (archive index)

Windows Photo Gallery (formerly known as Windows Live Photo Gallery) is a discontinued

Windows Photo Gallery provides the ability to organize digital photo collection in its Gallery view, by adding titles, rating, captions, and custom metadata tags to photos. There is also limited support for tagging and managing video files, though not editing them.

Windows Photo Gallery uses the concept of hierarchical

Since Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011, geotagging and people tagging^[4] (with facial detection and recognition) is also supported. For some supported image file types, People Tags can be read and saved using the Microsoft People Tag XMP Schema.^[5]

Photo editing

Windows Photo Gallery allows photos to be edited for exposure or color correction. It also provides other basic

Photo editing technologies developed by Microsoft Research,^[7] including Panoramic stitching, Photo Fuse, and AutoCollage are also included in Windows Photo Gallery.

Windows Photo Gallery also supports the ability to batch resize photos, where multiple photos can be resized in one single action,^[8] as well as the ability to rotate videos.

Photo and video import

Windows Photo Gallery's photo/video import tool provides the ability to view, select, and tag photos that are automatically grouped by date-taken.^[9]

Format support

Windows Photo Gallery is based on the PIX engine which uses the

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History

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Digital Image Photo Library 9

The application started development in December 2001 as a new "Photo Library" offering (code named "POD") that was added to the established "Picture It!" product. The combination was released under the name "Digital Image Suite". This was the first photo organization and management tool offered by Microsoft. It was released with Digital Image Suite 9 on June 3, 2003.^[citation needed]

Digital Image Photo Library 10

The second version was released on June 12, 2004.^{[citation needed]}

Digital Image Photo Library 11

The third and final version branded Photo Library was released April 22, 2005. A further "Anniversary edition" that included Windows Vista compatibility fixes was released August 18, 2006.

Windows Photo Gallery

The first version of Windows Photo Gallery was included with all editions of

Windows Live Photo Gallery (Wave 2)

With the release of

New features in Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 include addition of a ribbon to the user interface, batch processing, a clone tool, facial recognition, geotagging with support for Bing Maps, image stitching, and noise reduction. Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 also integrates with Facebook, Flickr, OneDrive, YouTube, and the now defunct Picasa Web Albums and Windows Live Spaces to facilitate file uploads to online services.^[14]

Windows Photo Gallery 2012 (Wave 5)

The Wave 5 version was released on August 7, 2012, as Windows Photo Gallery 2012; Microsoft dropped the Live branding from its title. Windows Photo Gallery 2012 introduced an AutoCollage feature that allow users to automatically create a collage of their images, as well as the ability to publish videos to Vimeo.^[15]

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