jannylynn
07-31-2010, 11:38 AM
I posted this at DST, too. But I didn't want you to miss it. I know a number of you use this program.
I don't think you have to upgrade. Right now it is in Beta so it won't be asking you to upgrade any time soon.
A couple days ago I upgraded my Windows Live programs with the Windows Live Essentials Pack (http://explore.live.com/windows-live-photo-gallery). This includes a new version of Gallery.
I haven't had much time to play with it. But it seems that my tags did transfer. However the descriptive tags are no longer on the left side. They put them in a pull-down menu on the tool bar. :( It's going to take some getting used to.
The pros I have noticed from my limited use are that the entire Windows Live can be connected to Facebook. So when I upload into my online Live Gallery, it shows up in my FB feed. It stills has the feature to upload to other galleries as well.
And the face recognition function actually does just that! It's bizzare how it figures it out. I selected my DS and it pulled up about 100 pictures of him so that were the back of his head and even some from when he was 4 months old! :clap So this feature is going to make tagging photos go faster. It didn't pull up every photo of him though. So I'm not sure what the secret is to make it grab certain photos.
Here's some screen shots:
http://xlgqjq.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pmbAAWt72XpXO-ZvtelhMADdCHQ4XiCxrgxcWvzESuiFkUbsBEHjA6p4Zzc4QbTo VPXdi4tc6UcwQb_vVQHuszqCGZ7H7FQJk/shot1.jpg?psid=1
above you can see that the tags list is now in a drop down menu from one of the tool bars. You have to go to the "find" tab to look at your tags now. You can select "Show Tag Hierarchy" and it will pull up a nice menu that looks like this:
http://xlgqjq.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pmbAAWt72XpXVRFa6HlQ5wZdqFCsRVEWde28DG87lLEbHeQb Fd6MZjnemcWdI0UHV-hNr1zWjykMQZMnr6HWhK-GrksHxRF2p/shot2.jpg?psid=1
I don't like it. :( You can see the file structure off to the side, but the tags are no longer below that. I know mine was getting really long, so maybe that's why it was changed? They haven't changed the way you add tags to an image.
The little pictures at the top are people tags. So getting to your pics of your peeps is really quick and easy which is probably what most people use the program for anyway.
Anyway, just thought I would post this for the WLPG users of what's coming up. If you like and adventure, you can download it too. The Beta is available to anyone!
I don't think you have to upgrade. Right now it is in Beta so it won't be asking you to upgrade any time soon.
A couple days ago I upgraded my Windows Live programs with the Windows Live Essentials Pack (http://explore.live.com/windows-live-photo-gallery). This includes a new version of Gallery.
I haven't had much time to play with it. But it seems that my tags did transfer. However the descriptive tags are no longer on the left side. They put them in a pull-down menu on the tool bar. :( It's going to take some getting used to.
The pros I have noticed from my limited use are that the entire Windows Live can be connected to Facebook. So when I upload into my online Live Gallery, it shows up in my FB feed. It stills has the feature to upload to other galleries as well.
And the face recognition function actually does just that! It's bizzare how it figures it out. I selected my DS and it pulled up about 100 pictures of him so that were the back of his head and even some from when he was 4 months old! :clap So this feature is going to make tagging photos go faster. It didn't pull up every photo of him though. So I'm not sure what the secret is to make it grab certain photos.
Here's some screen shots:
http://xlgqjq.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pmbAAWt72XpXO-ZvtelhMADdCHQ4XiCxrgxcWvzESuiFkUbsBEHjA6p4Zzc4QbTo VPXdi4tc6UcwQb_vVQHuszqCGZ7H7FQJk/shot1.jpg?psid=1
above you can see that the tags list is now in a drop down menu from one of the tool bars. You have to go to the "find" tab to look at your tags now. You can select "Show Tag Hierarchy" and it will pull up a nice menu that looks like this:
http://xlgqjq.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pmbAAWt72XpXVRFa6HlQ5wZdqFCsRVEWde28DG87lLEbHeQb Fd6MZjnemcWdI0UHV-hNr1zWjykMQZMnr6HWhK-GrksHxRF2p/shot2.jpg?psid=1
I don't like it. :( You can see the file structure off to the side, but the tags are no longer below that. I know mine was getting really long, so maybe that's why it was changed? They haven't changed the way you add tags to an image.
The little pictures at the top are people tags. So getting to your pics of your peeps is really quick and easy which is probably what most people use the program for anyway.
Anyway, just thought I would post this for the WLPG users of what's coming up. If you like and adventure, you can download it too. The Beta is available to anyone!