Developer(s) | Microsoft |
---|---|
Stable release | 2012 (v16.4.3528.331) / April 18, 2014; 5 years ago |
Operating system | Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8,[1]Windows 10[2] |
Platform | x86-compatible with SSE2[2] |
Type | Image organizer, image viewer, raster graphics editor and photo sharing |
License | Freeware |
Website | Archived official website at the Wayback Machine (archive index) |
Windows Photo Gallery (formerly known as Windows Live Photo Gallery) was an image organizer, photo editor and photo sharing app. It is a part of Microsoft's Windows Essentials software suite. The product has been unavailable for download since January 10, 2017, as the Windows Essentials line of products have been discontinued.[3]
Step 7: When the software has finished installing, you’ll get a final pop-up window announcing that your Windows Live Photo Gallery download is ‘Done!’ However, for Windows Live Photo Gallery installation to be complete, you’ll need to restart your computer. Download Windows Photo Gallery. Organize your photos and videos, edit them or apply special effects by turning to this comprehensive application that comes with an intuitive layout.
- 1Features
- 2History
Features[edit]
Windows Photo Gallery provides management, tagging, and searching capabilities for digital photos. It provides an image viewer that can replace the default OS image viewer, and a photo import tool that can be used to acquire photos from a camera or other removable media. Windows Photo Gallery also allows sharing of photos by uploading them to OneDrive, Flickr and Facebook.
Photo management[edit]
Windows Photo Gallery provides the ability to organize digital photo collection in its Gallery view, by adding titles, rating, captions, and custom metadata tags to photos. There is also limited support for tagging and managing video files, though not editing them.
Windows Photo Gallery uses the concept of hierarchical tagging (e.g. People/Jim, Places/Paris) to organise photos. Deleting a tag from Windows Photo Gallery will also remove it from all photos in the utility. Adobe Systems's Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) metadata standard, a descendent of the ubiquitous Exif standard which almost all digital cameras currently support, is also supported. This allows for data such as the tags to be stored and edited much more efficiently than EXIF or IPTC.
Since Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011, geotagging and people tagging[4] (with facial detection and recognition) is also supported. For some supported image file types, People Tags can be read and saved using the Microsoft People Tag XMP Schema.[5]
Photo editing[edit]
Windows Photo Gallery allows photos to be edited for exposure or color correction. It also provides other basic photo editing functions, such as resizing, cropping, and red-eye reduction. Users can view a photo's color histogram, which allows them to adjust the photo's shadows, highlights and sharpness.[6] Further, Windows Photo Gallery also includes editing tools such as blemish remover and noise reduction.
Photo editing technologies developed by Microsoft Research,[7] including Panoramic stitching, Photo Fuse, and AutoCollage are also included in Windows Photo Gallery.
Windows Photo Gallery also supports the ability to batch resize photos, where multiple photos can be resized in one single action,[8] as well as the ability to rotate videos.
Photo and video import[edit]
Windows Photo Gallery's photo/video import tool provides the ability to view, select, and tag photos that are automatically grouped by date-taken.[9]
Format support[edit]
Windows Photo Gallery is based on the PIX engine which uses the Windows Imaging Component (WIC) library. The application has native metadata handling and tagging support and since the Windows Imaging Component is extensible, it can organize and view any image format for which a third party WIC codec is installed. Therefore, the supported formats depend on the Windows version, additional WIC codecs for QuickTime/raw image formats/Webp, and platform updates,[10] e.g., JPEG (
.jpg
, .jpeg
), BMP (.bmp
), PNG (.png
), TIFF (.tif
and .tiff
), HD Photo .wdp
(later replaced by JPEG XR.jxr
), and GIF(.gif
) images,[11] as well as most common video formats. Windows Photo Gallery uses the Windows Color System. Legacy image formats such as PCX and WMF without WIC codec cannot be viewed. For animated GIFs only individual frames are shown.[citation needed]History[edit]
Digital Image Photo Library 9[edit]
The application started development in December 2001 as a new 'Photo Library' offering (code named 'POD') that was added to the established 'Picture It!' product. The combination was released under the name 'Digital Image Suite'. This was the first photo organization and management tool offered by Microsoft. It was released with Digital Image Suite 9 on June 3, 2003.
Digital Image Photo Library 10[edit]
The second version was released on June 12, 2004
Digital Image Photo Library 11[edit]
The third and final version branded Photo Library was released April 22, 2005. A further 'Anniversary edition' that included Windows Vista compatibility fixes was released August 18, 2006.
Windows Photo Gallery in Windows Vista
Windows Photo Gallery[edit]
The first version of Windows Photo Gallery was included with all editions of Windows Vista and replaced Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Themed photo slideshows with smooth transitions were only available in the Home Premium and Ultimate editions.
Windows Photo Gallery Download Windows 7 32 Bit
Windows Live Photo Gallery (Wave 2)[edit]
With the release of Windows 7, Microsoft decided not to bundle Photo Gallery within the operating system. Instead, Windows 7 came bundled with a software called Windows Photo Viewer, which has the editing capabilities of Windows Photo Gallery removed. The full suite of Photo Gallery was released as part of the Windows Live Essentials software suite instead, and as such, the application was also renamed as 'Windows Live Photo Gallery'. The first version of Windows Live Photo Gallery beta was released on June 27, 2007,[12] and the final version released on November 6, 2007.[13]
Windows Live Photo Gallery 2009 (Wave 3)[edit]
Windows Live Photo Gallery 2009 came out in beta with the rest of Windows Live Essentials 2009 beta in September 2008, with a new interface. On December 15, 2008, the 'beta refresh' versions of Windows Live Essentials 2009 applications were released including Photo Gallery. This release included many changes since the previous beta release based on user feedback. A significant visual change in this release was the introduction of a new application icon which added a common design theme to all the Windows Live Essentials applications. The words 'beta' was removed from the build number. On January 7, 2009, the 'beta refresh' versions were released as the final versions, with the exception of Windows Live Movie Maker.
Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 (Wave 4)[edit]
Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 beta was released by Microsoft, along with the rest of Windows Live Essentials 2011 beta, on June 24, 2010. The 2011 version features new additions such as batch people tagging, blemish remover and noise reduction. The beta refresh was released on August 18, 2010, and the final version of Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 was released with the final version of Windows Live Essentials 2011 on September 30, 2010. It was updated with a hotfix (along with the rest of Essentials except for Mesh and Family Safety) on December 1, 2010.
New features in Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 include addition of a ribbon to the user interface, batch processing, a clone tool, facial recognition, geotagging with support for Bing Maps, image stitching, and noise reduction. Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 also integrates with Facebook, Flickr, OneDrive, YouTube, and the now defunct Picasa Web Albums and Windows Live Spaces to facilitate file uploads to online services.[14]
Windows Photo Gallery 2012 (Wave 5)[edit]
The Wave 5 version was released on August 7, 2012 as Windows Photo Gallery 2012; Microsoft dropped the Live branding from its title. Windows Photo Gallery 2012 introduced an AutoCollage feature that allow users to automatically create a collage of their images, as well as the ability to publish videos to Vimeo.[15]
References[edit]
- ^'Windows Essentials 2012 system requirements'. windows.microsoft.com. Microsoft. Retrieved July 12, 2013.
- ^ ab'Photo Fuse Windows 10'. windows.microsoft.com. Microsoft. Retrieved January 2, 2016.
- ^'Windows Essentials 2012 Release Notes'. Support (92 ed.). Microsoft. September 10, 2016.
- ^'How to Tag People in Photos with Windows Photo Gallery'. Retrieved June 28, 2016.
- ^'People Tagging Overview'. MSDN. Microsoft. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
- ^LeBlanc, Brandon. 'Announcing Windows Live Photo Gallery'. Retrieved June 27, 2007.
- ^Karthik Anbalagan. 'Windows Live Photo & Video Blog : Creating Panoramic Stitches with the Windows Live Photo Gallery'. Retrieved December 28, 2007.
- ^Anbalagan, Karthik. 'Windows Live Photo & Video Blog : Resizing Photos in Windows Live Photo Gallery'. Retrieved December 28, 2007.
- ^Wong, Karen. 'Windows Live Photo & Video Blog : Changes to Photo/Video Import in the Live Photo Gallery Beta'. Retrieved December 28, 2007.
- ^'Platform update for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1'. Microsoft Knowledge Base. February 2, 2013. KB 2670838. Retrieved March 16, 2014.
- ^'Understanding Picture File Types'. Microsoft. Retrieved March 19, 2014.
- ^Announcing Windows Live Photo Gallery
- ^Final Windows Live Wave 2 applications available for download
- ^Thurrott, Paul (October 6, 2010). 'Windows Live Essentials 2011: Windows Live Photo Gallery'. Supersite for Windows. Penton. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
- ^Weed, Brad (August 7, 2012). 'Introducing the New Windows Photo Gallery and Movie Maker'. Windows Blogs. Microsoft. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
External links[edit]
- Official website (Archive)
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Windows_Photo_Gallery&oldid=914429176'
Applies to: iPhone X, iPhone 8/8 Plus, iPhone 7/7 Plus or other iPhones running iOS 8 and later
Now on the market, Apple provides various iPhone models with different memory sizes varying from 16 GB to 256 GB for consumers to choose. For those users whose iPhone memory size is less than 64GB, one of the common problems they may encounter is lack of space. However, until now, there is no effective and safe way to expand the storage space of the iPhone. Thus, you are most likely to transfer some of the photos from iPhone to PC Windows 7 for data backup and iPhone space clear.
So the next question is how to export these photos from iPhone to PC Windows 7? Here, in this article, we will show you 2 top free methods to upload photos from iPhone to PC Windows 7 straightforward. Read on to get more details.
Table of contents:
Part 1. How to transfer all the iPhone photos to Windows 7 in 1-click
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- Notice
- When you use AutoPlay to transfer iPhone photos, you can only upload the images in Camera Roll. And the images exported will be organized disorderly. Besides, most of the time, when you plug in iPhone to the computer, the AutoPlay dialog won't show. So if you want to avoid these inconveniences, go back to Part 1 and use MobiMover to help you easily.
Step 1: Enable AutoPlay on your PC Windows 7: Click the Start Menu > Control Panel > Search for AutoPlay > AutoPlay > Turn on Use AutoPlay for all media and devices.
Step 2: Connect your iPhone to PC Windows 7 using the standard USB cable, at the bottom of the new pop-up window, you'll see that your iPhone is plugged in.
Step 3: When the AutoPlay window pops out, choose Import pictures and videos.
Step 4: In Import Settings, choose or create a folder to store the photos from your iPhone.
Step 5: Confirm your setup and click Import to transfer photos from iPhone to PC Windows 7.
Part 3. How to use Windows Explorer to copy iPhone Camera Roll photos
Windows will recognize your iPhone as a portable device, so you can import photos from iPhone to PC Windows 7 with Windows Explorer. Also, it only supports moving iPhone Camera Roll photos.
To use Windows Explorer to import iPhone photos, you have to install iTunes first and choose Trust This Computer on your iPhone when connecting to the computer. Otherwise, your iPhone won't be recognized by your computer. So if you don't want to use iTunes, MobiMover in Part 1 can provide you an iTunes-free method.
Step 1: Connect your iPhone to PC. Open My Computer, and find your iPhone.
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Words in the end
You can find more than three solutions to help you move iPhone photos to Windows 7 PC, but these are the easiest ones. Above all, it's free! You can choose any of the three based on your own needs. If you only need to copy the photos saved in iPhone Camera Roll, Windows AutoPlay and Windows Explorer will be the most direct way. While, if you want to export the whole photo library or other iPhone content, EaseUS MobiMover will be your best choice. You can make it with a single click.
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