Managing Pictures in Windows Vista
Now you don't have to buy high end photo editing software if you have Windows Vista.
Today, we are in the age of digital technology. The
advancements in the field of photography and computers
saw the raise of digital photography. It is followed
by the ability to interface camera to the computers
and the ability to modify the pictures. It certainly
wrote an entire new era in the computer softwares.
From Windows 3.1 onwards many people got attracted
towards computers because of the ability to display
pictures with different look. There was less quality
in the images with only 16 colors and rarely 256 colors.
It all changed when Microsoft brought Windows 9x series
(95/98/98SE) to the market. The ability to interface
a new device called Scanner brought significant changes
to the photography. This was followed by the technology
for interfacing digital camera to the computer.
With the new operating system the Windows Vista, management
of pictures has gone a step further. The entire Photo
Gallery of Windows Vista has been redesigned. Old features
of Windows XP such as all controls for navigating and
reviewing, has been kept as it is and are not touched.
In addition to it, some advanced features have been
added. The new features include video editing along
with editing of pictures in the viewer itself. The photo
gallery has got the ability to organize, view, edit,
and share photos and also videos. Yes, which I mean
movies. One can preview the contents of movie file directly
along with the pictures. In Windows XP, the movie file
will not get previewed in its photo gallery. It also
got capability to transfer the pictures from the camera
into the computer.
Windows Vista photo gallery
One can easily find the required photo quickly and
easily. One can choose a way to organize them which
suits personal tastes. One can find easily a picture
whenever required, by adding descriptive keywords such
as subject, scene or event, when one transfers the photo
from the camera to the PC or at different time.
Star rating in Windows Photo Gallery
Windows Vista Photo Gallery includes a star rating
system which rates the photos. This enables one to search
photos based on the ratings. One need not create separate
favorite links which opens the pictures during later
time. One can also search the photos by year, month
or day on which the photo was taken.
Vista organizes movies
As said above, Windows Photo Gallery also manages the
movies also. It organizes movies in the same way in
which the photos are organized. One can add the title,
description, keyword, ratings. We can use Windows Movie
Maker to edit the movies. One can convert easily hours
of tape or any digital video into a good, great movie.
One can include only required parts and eliminate the
rest from the original movie and add titles, transitions,
narrations, and also music, along with some special
effects.
Photo Edit Software in Vista
Windows Vista Photo gallery enables one to edit the
photos. The edit tool in Windows Photo Gallery is not
certainly going to be a replacement tool for other image
editing applications. The edit tool is only a corrective
tool set, rather than a creative tool set. The tools
give photo editing capabilities which include some of
the digital photography editing tasks such as cropping,
red-eye removal, adjusting brightness, colour and contrast
etc., rotation of the photo. After editing, one can
undo changes even after saving/recording modifications
to the images, physically. Windows Vista Photo Gallery
make effective and efficient use of the computer’s
graphics card, so, that one can do editing quickly and
smoothly.
Now days, electronic mail (E-Mail) is the most popular
sharing mechanism. It shares a person’s thoughts,
feelings, and everything. Windows Vista Photo Gallery
includes an email wizard which enables one to attach
the photo required to be sent along with the mail. It
also resizes the photo according to specifications set
by the user. Windows Vista also enables easy transfer
of photos from computers to devices such as mobile phones,
PDA’s, with which one can enjoy them, setting
them as wallpapers in these devices, and share them
with others too. Windows Vista allows the creation of
CD’s and DVD’s which can be read by most
CD/DVD ROM drives, directly without any supportive software.
Windows Vista Photo Gallery also facilitates the creation
of great multimedia slide shows. One can insert the
image into slides by selecting them from different themes.
One can give a new twist by adding the video contents
and photos side by side in a slide show. One can enjoy
both motion pictures as well as still pictures. This
enables the creation of good customized movie slide
show.
The Vista Photo Gallery enables one to get high quality
prints from the stored digital photos. The Photo Print
Wizard in Gallery has got different templates to help
one to print on different paper sizes and paper types.
The Vista color management sees that the photo printed
on paper should match their digital copy.
Windows Vista Photo Gallery is programmed to work with
large sized and bit precision images which are produced
by high quality cameras. It is built in such a way that
the program should work with very huge images that the
cameras may produce tomorrow.
Windows Vista Photo Gallery also supports extensible
image codec system. This means whenever a new picture
format is introduced by the camera manufacturers, the
photo gallery will have no problems in displaying the
image.
Windows Vista Photo Gallery has got lot of new amazing
features with it. It will be the default photo editing,
viewing, printing, sharing tool in Windows Vista. This
photo Gallery has been redesigned entirely when compared
with Windows XP’s similar tool. Those who cannot
afford to buy other high editing tools can enjoy editing
with this tool. We have to hope that, the tool will
remain as a favorite tool in the years to come, among
Windows Vista users. |
