Photo Gallery beta cheat sheet

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dan.carter — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:27:08 GMT

Gallery Team,

I was most impressed with the original Live Gallery, and I'd love to try the new Gallery, but after upgrading to the new beta, I can't open images, not even JPG. I receive "an error is preventing the photo or video from being displayed". Videos seem to play fine.

I've reinstalled, but still no joy. Is there a way to reinstall the original Live Gallery so I can use a working version?

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someone — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:05:26 GMT

Dear Digital Memories Experience team,

1. Please see http://rapidshare.com/files/147947728/WLPG_Bug.JPG.html for a bug I want to report but I fear I am not able to convey in words. The red box marked is the area where clicking with the mouse does nothing in WLPG whereas in all other Vista apps, it correctly closes the app. Sounds like a Fitt's law problem. Please please fix it.

2. Please put back the icons. Using WLPG is now more confusing, with icons it was much easier. I don't like the streamlined/cleaned up/oversimplified look.

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Swiiney — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:02:22 GMT

Hi,

I really like your new photo Gallery. But there is still (at least) one thing that prevents me from using it: the name given to files when you resize a picture.

I use the gallery to organize pictures and chose the ones I publish on my web sites. Before publishing I resize the pictures. After that I use an interface to upload the resized pictures to the site.

My problem is that I want to keed the same filenames on the website and on the hard drive. Currently it's impossible to do, except by renaming by hand (or using an extra tool) the files created by the resize function of photogallery.

I understand it is needed when resizing in the same folder as originals, but an option to keep original filenames would be great whan saving in a different folder.

Stephane

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someone — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:29:54 GMT

Microsoft keeps the themed transition slideshow features exclusive to Vista Premium editions under one pretext or the other while Google's Picasa 3 which uses the awesome OpenGL-powered Skia graphics library easily manages to give XP users all sorts of beautiful transitioning slideshows.

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someone — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:37:06 GMT

Btw the bug I reported above is only applicable to WLPG on XP. On Vista, the close button (Red X) appears correctly in the extreme right corner. Only on XP, it appears to a little left breaking Fitt's law.

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Sondre — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:42:20 GMT

If you want to give us more space, please add a feature that allows users to specify the margin (space) between photos. There is an awful lot of whitespace that is lost, I wish I could go from 0 to x amount of whitespace. Don't like the clean toolbar, would be much nicer if it was a ribbon-style menu, or at least some visual indication on what the commands does. "File" and "Fix" is very similar and I've already hit the wrong option many times.

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Brothernod — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:41:58 GMT

I was very excited about the facial recognition and had hoped it would auto tag and due to the new tie-ins with facebook would use that as a source for people's faces.

But I was dreaming :)

Either way it's cool to see a step towards that, but I don't like the fact that "That's Me!!1" tags it with your live handle rather than your full name, and there is no where to change it.

Are the Live beta's on connect, or is there a feedback site? I'd really like to report this in some official manner and any bugs I stumble upon as I'd like to use the finished wave 3 Live Photo Gallery as my main photo organizational tool.

Thank you.

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nickknyc — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:08:49 GMT

Please tell us where to report bugs - I have an issue that is crashing the beta - seems to be caused by the Nikon RAW formats (I have the latest version of the NEF support)

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Mike Williams — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:10:31 GMT

I'm loving the ICE tool, and I'm redoing many of my holiday panoramas with it.

My main gripes are that

1. WLPG is not integrated with Explorer. It takes far too long to get to a folder view

2. I wish the ICE tool's naming algorithm included the names of all the files I used to make up a composite. It might also help to list them within the ICE UI somewhere, especially as there are times ICE ignores a subset of selected files as it believes they don't form a contiguous set.

3. I wish that WLPG's "Select without subfolders" was a sticky setting. It took me a little while to discover it as it doesn't appear to have any regular file menu or keyboard activation.

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cr8tv — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:51:31 GMT

Downloaded yesterday and installed very smoothly. I'm really impressed. Very clean, quick interface. Much smother to use than Picassa. Three things I can think of would be very useful:

1. When selecting (check boxing) photos from the galler, it would be really useful to see which photos you had selected. A window/pane/popup - anything that showed the selection fo photos together so that it's easier to select photos from different folders so that you can print them in a batch. Something that worked a little like the "drop box" in Picasa - either that or a window that resembled the gallery view that only displayed selected photos and would allow you to remove them from the selection without having to navigate back to the photo's folder of origin.

2. Batch processing ina basic form to selections - so you could select 20 photos, make them sepia (a much needed feature now thanfully included) and print them in a single process. Oh and being being able to revert such a selection to original would be good. Either that or such a batch selection process would allow temporary publishing effects (like b/w/sepia) to be applied and treat local printing as an act of publication.

3. Modify the way changes are made - I know that at the moment, changes are applied to a copy and the original is moved to a store within the user's profile directory. This is "ok" for a single user accessing a single library. However, for multiple users accessing a single library, changing a photo to (for instance) cropped and sepia will only allow that user to revert to original. To all other uses this will appear to be the original file. Why not include a hidden "originals" folder within the manipulated image folder that is stored there. That way all users could "revert to original" when viewing a file. It would also make backing up files automatically slightly cleaner. I think this must be how picassa does it.

Thanks for a great evolving app.

Sem

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cr8tv — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:51:46 GMT

Downloaded yesterday and installed very smoothly. I'm really impressed. Very clean, quick interface. Much smother to use than Picassa. Three things I can think of would be very useful:

Thanks for a great evolving app.

Sem

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cr8tv — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:42:35 GMT

Sorry about double post - the page froze and stuck for a few minutes on submission.

As a post script - I just found out (after playing with the app right now) that you still can't select photos across folders - this is incredible??!! Will this be fixed for the release because I can't fathom why not - unless Photogallery is simply a souped up Windows Explorer view.

Sorry guys - crazy omissions like that (and a self contained backup set generator for those who don't use windows backup) means Picasa is still a better bet - despite being slower and having a comparitively poor interface.

sem.

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rmercovich — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:51:40 GMT

"Based on popular requests, we’ve also bubbled up more metadata about your photos and videos. Plus, you can dial in how much metadata you want to see by dragging the divider up and down. You control what you want to see."

How do you do this exactly? I see no divider to drag. Is there a way to see some of the EXIF meta data?

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Flug — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:31:13 GMT

This seems to be a nice one. I've just expected a better 3d look like those adobe photowalls.

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pquirk — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:58:17 GMT

I have Microsoft Pro Photo Tools installed and it shows up in the Extras menu. However, I get the errror "Use Pro Photo Tools was unable to start properly" when I launch it from WLPG.

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pquirk — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:20:08 GMT

ICE is nicer and smarter than any other stitching tool I have used!