Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Movie Maker (Beta) make it simple to add publishing support for 3rd party sharing services. Simply download and install a plug-in and start publishing. Please note: plug-ins only work with the new versions of Photo Gallery and Movie Maker (Beta) available here.

LiveUpload to Facebook v2.0 - Created by Will Duff.  LiveUpload to Facebook is a plug-in for Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta that makes it easy for anyone to upload their photos to Facebook. The plug-in takes advantage of the new people tagging feature in Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta to persist your people tags onto Facebook.

LiveUpload to YouTube - Created by Will Duff.  LiveUpload to YouTube is a plug-in for Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta and Windows Live Movie Maker Beta that makes it easy for anyone to upload their videos straight to YouTube.

Publish on SmugMug - Created by Omar Shahine. Publish on SmugMug is a plug-in for Photo Gallery & Movie Maker that supports publishing photos and video to the photo sharing site SmugMug.

Publish on Flickr - Created by Windows Live.  Did you know Flickr is already supported in Windows Live Photo Gallery? Look on the Publish menu!

Picasa Web Publisher - Created by Mark Steeves. Picasa Web Publisher is a publishing plugin for Photo Gallery. Picasa Web Publisher enables you to publish your photos to your Picasa Web account.

Drupal Publisher - Created by Chris Charabaruk. Drupal Publisher for Photo Gallery provides a quick and easy way to post your photos on a Drupal web site. Some experience with setting up Drupal modules may be required.

Pixelpipe - Created by Pixelpipe. Pixelpipe is a service that allows users to publish text, photo, video and audio files once through Pixelpipe and have their content distributed across over 75 social networks, photo/video sites and blogs, and online storage. Pixelpipe created a plug-in for Photo Gallery and Movie Maker for your photo and video publishing needs.

Publish on ipernity - Created by Galad. Publish photos and videos from the Photo Gallery to ipernity (http://www.ipernity.com).

... We will be updating this page with links to more great plug-ins as they come available. Keep checking back!

 

Are you a developer? 

Start building your own publish plug-in today using our SDK. Take a look at the resources we've provided at http://dev.live.com/photogallery.  

Have you already built a cool plug-in? Please tell us about it! 

 

(This page was last updated on March 11, 2009)

 

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