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Tree in the way? No problem!

One of the cool things about panoramic stitching in Windows Live Photo Gallery is that you can use it to shoot around foreground objects. Here’s an example from the Woodland Park Zoo where branches (and a fence) prevented me from getting a clean shot Read More...
Posted Monday, March 09, 2009 9:24 AM by pixblog | 3 Comments
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Check out AutoCollage

Hi, I’m JP Wollersheim. I’ve posted here before. My family takes tons of photos. One challenge we have is how to display multiple photos on one “canvas” to tell a story.  There are great products in the market that tell a linear story like Windows Read More...
Posted Monday, March 02, 2009 10:16 AM by pixblog | 5 Comments
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Latest version of Windows Live Photo Gallery fixes publishing issues

We’ve been getting comments from users who’ve had issues uploading to existing albums, being confused about upgrading their albums, or not being able to share their original sized photos. Thanks for your feedback - we’ve fixed these problems! Here are Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:16 PM by pixblog | 9 Comments

Synchronize photos on two computers!

You’ve tagged, edited, and organized your photos on your home computer. Your photo collection is perfect - just how you want it. But wait, there’s a problem. Your collection is perfect on your home computer, but you want your photos and videos on your Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:13 AM by pixblog | 14 Comments
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I'm a PC and I'm 4 1/2

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to meet an super sparkly 4 ½ year old girl named Kylie.  She was a fantastic little person who showed the world how to send an email of her sick fish, Dorothy, to her family. It is truly amazing to see how anybody Read More...
Posted Monday, February 09, 2009 9:01 AM by pixblog | 2 Comments
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Windows Live Essentials beta refreshed

Repost from the Windows Live team blog … About three months ago, we released public betas of the Windows Live Essentials – our suite of downloadable programs for your Windows PC, including Messenger , Mail , Photo Gallery , Movie Maker , Writer , Toolbar Read More...
Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 1:29 PM by pixblog | 21 Comments

Extras

Windows Live Photo Gallery includes a lot of fantastic features. We also realize there are some really cool and useful 3rd party programs available that Photo Gallery users could benefit from by having as part of the experience. The new Extras menu in Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:01 AM by pixblog | (Comments Off)
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New publish plug-ins available for Photo Gallery and Movie Maker!

Do you share photos on Facebook? What about sharing sharing videos on YouTube? Well thanks to Will Duff, one of our developer interns this past summer, there are now a couple of brand new publish plug-ins for Facebook and YouTube available for download.  Read More...
Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 1:04 PM by pixblog | 5 Comments

Give your photos the Black and White treatment!

One of the top feature requests after last year’s release of Windows Live Photo Gallery was for the ability to convert photographs to black and white. We listened, and are happy to introduce this feature to you! We realize there are some photos that just Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:37 AM by pixblog | 2 Comments
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Authoring a Publish Plug-in for SmugMug

This is a guest post from Omar Shahine. When we announced an internal beta of our new Publish API a few months ago he jumped right on it and within a few days built his Smugmug plug-in. If you’re a Photo Gallery user that also happens to use Smugmug to Read More...
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 12:32 PM by pixblog | 0 Comments

You’ve tagged them, now here’s how to find them fast

If you read John’s recent post, an introduction to “people tags” ,  you now know that you can quickly  tag  the faces in your photos-- using either the  contacts in your contacts list, or any name you want.  So hopefully by now Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 6:08 PM by pixblog | 16 Comments
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Why “people tags”?

We've always had keyword (descriptive) tagging in Photo Gallery. Heck, we've had it in Microsoft photo products since Windows XP. So why add a whole new type of tag to Windows Live Photo Gallery? Because people take lots of pictures of people. Think about Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 3:28 PM by pixblog | 20 Comments

Photo Gallery beta cheat sheet

We’ve packed a lot into the new beta version of Windows Live Photo Gallery.  At the same time we’ve heard users ask, “What’s new in Photo Gallery?”. Here’s a quick clip-and-save list of the top features to check out.  In the coming weeks we’ll Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:22 PM by pixblog | 16 Comments
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Plug-ins

Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Movie Maker make it simple to add more sharing services. Download a plug-in listed here, install it, and start publishing! Please note: plug-ins only work with the new versions of Photo Gallery and Movie Maker Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:00 AM by pixblog | (Comments Off)

Next version of Windows Live

In just a short while brand new beta versions of Windows Live Photo Gallery and the completely brand new Windows Live Movie Maker will be available for free at http://download.live.com !  In addition to Photo Gallery and Movie Maker, this beta release Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 9:02 AM by pixblog | 22 Comments
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