Tagging, advanced search, and slideshowsįile searches by text can be conducted using a built-in function of Microsoft's tool, which particularly comes in handy when dealing with numerous pics. You can also set captions, descriptive tags and geotags, rate or flag pictures, change the time when the photo was taken. Windows Photo Gallery intelligently detects people faces and offers to tag them.

Additional media can be imported from various devices like CDs, DVDs and USB flash drives.īefore getting a closer look at images, you can rotate, resize and rename them if necessary, especially if you plan on putting together a thoughtful media collection of family and friends. The gallery of the program takes cue from Windows Explorer in terms of look and functionality, making it easy to explore media from the Pictures and Videos folder.

Organize, edit and share photos of friends and family Also, although Microsoft says that Photo Gallery is not compatible, it turns out that it works just fine on Windows 10 (in our case, at least). Unless you want to set up everything, you can choose which apps to install. In addition to Photo Gallery, the package contains Messenger, Movie Maker, Mail, Writer, OneDrive, and Outlook Connector Pack. Windows Essentials 2012 is no longer available for download from Microsoft but you can still get it from Softpedia. Developed by Microsoft, the tool was part of Windows Essentials 2012 which, sadly, reached end of support on January 10, 2017. Now discontinued, Windows Photo Gallery used to be a feature-rich and intuitive application designed to organize, edit and share images with other PC users.

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