Windows Photo Gallery

The Windows Live Photo Gallery is an entity belonging to the Windows Live Essentials software, which is developed and distributed by Microsoft. The program has features that are used to manage and edit photos. For example, the files can be sorted by recording date. The software can be installed only on Windows operating systems.

Among the most important new features of the 2011 version include the introduction of the ribbon interface, as it is also used in the other Office 2010 products. Using the Photos application can be processed quickly and simply and published on various Internet platforms. There is a range of plug -ins. The program does not destructive. Retained the original photos that are stored by default in the user's profile to the database located behind the program. A storage on other shares is possible. As one of the few non-professional Photo Viewer, the program has a database in which also " marks" ( in Picasa "tags" or with IrfanView IPTC data "Keywords" ) are stored. Already given out once for photos markings can be very well managed or modified. However, there is no way to restore the markers and other metadata such as ratings or geo-tagged in a photo, which is why they are not available for other photo editing programs available. For the allocation of spatial data, there is a plug-in.