Technical Product Manager for Windows Live Platform
Whilst I take lots of photos, I’m far from a pro, perhaps Microsoft Pro Photo Tools will hook me up :)
At only 6.32 MB to download & install its much more welcome than other packages which are 300MB-700MB (granted, the functionality is probably less).
Go to here and download the bits and install.
To set the metadata you just go to thumbnail view, highlight all and then on the left hand side select metadata After you add the metadata to every image you need to save that data back into the image (I guess)
To set the metadata you just go to thumbnail view, highlight all and then on the left hand side select metadata
After you add the metadata to every image you need to save that data back into the image (I guess)
There isn’t any editing or publishing capabilities in Pro Photo Tools, but all you do is double click on an image and it opens Photo Gallery (or WL Photo Gallery). Also, these images are based on your hard drive so you can use WL Photo Gallery to publish them to a service in the sky i.e. Windows Live Spaces Photos or Flickr.
Right now Spaces Photos does not consume metadata based on the images so you won’t get any great mapping capabilities, but hopefully in the future that will change, if you publish to Flickr you should be able to put that metadata to use with Mapping and other searches.
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Hey Angus, actually Spaces does "consume" all of the photo metadata, it just doesn't expose it anywhere on the page. You will notice the metadata when you use the "Download album" feature when Windows Live Photo Gallery is installed. With WLPG installed, go to an album and click "Download album". The WLPG Download wizard will start. When someone downloads the album (or selects individual photos using the Download wizard), they will get all the camera metadata, caption, and tags you gave the images in Windows Live Photo Gallery before publishing them on your space.
Cheers,
Michael
Pro Photo Tools is nice, but how come this functionality couldn't be place in Live Photo Gallery?
If Microsoft could make a nice all-in-one photo editor with some LPG elements, Pro Photo Tools, Photosynth, HD View, Group Shot, and all the other bits and pieces of digital photo technology they've always had, then this might really rival Photoshop and other image editors.
But I'm guessing Microsoft will keep going the same direction it always has.
Why don't you use Windows Live Photo Gallery?
