Windows Live Photo Gallery icon
Windows Live Photo Gallery icon

Windows Live Photo Gallery

Photo management and sharing: It is an upgraded version of Windows Photo Gallery, which was a part of Windows Vista with Windows Live. The application is available for download bundled with Windows Movie Maker via the Windows Essentials 2012 suite.

Main UI

Cost / License

  • Free
  • Proprietary

Application type

Alerts

  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Windows  Windows 7, Windows 8
Windows Live Photo Gallery screenshot 1
Windows Essentials 2012 installer screen (do not install all component)
Alternatives  
Discontinued

No longer supported and downloadable, together with Windows Essentials icon Windows Essentials . It has been succeeded by the built-in Microsoft Photos icon Microsoft Photos , which does not currently contain all of Photo Gallery's functionality.

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Features

  1.  Facial Recognition
  2.  Batch Rename Files
  3.  Sorting by folder
  4.  Retouch photos
  5.  Photo Import
  6.  Image Annotations
  7.  Photo Gallery
  8.  Slideshow Maker
  9.  Compatible people tagging
  10.  Batch processing
  11.  File Organizer
  12.  Tag based

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Comments and Reviews

   
richardturnock
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I still use this on Windows 10. After investing the time to identify people in photos ~20,000 I am not about to change without a migration path.

You can still install and the install software is on the Wayback Machine.

Face data is in the files as metadata but getting it into other software seems impossible without writing code.

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Zathu
0

This is kind of nice because it'll use native file structure for organization, and it keeps just about everything in the metadata of the image which makes it sync-able to my laptop.

vinnyl
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Ughh.. I did really like Window Live Photo Gallery until the new Beta came out.. I can't stand it now and may actually switch back to Picasa. Fundamentally, two items make the tool completely unusable to me:

  • In the left navigation area, you could choose between folders, dates, etc. Now, your only option in the left navigation are is folders - irregardless if you sort by date or some other mechanism.
  • This one is harder to describe but focusing in to one picture to edit/zoom/etc is somehow just not right. It's not usable -- it's hard to get back to the album view.
lafleurh

For dates, you have to turn the option on. It took me a while to figure that out. There is now a close button in the upper right on the ribbon to get back to the album view.

vitalyb
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I've tried so far: Picasa, ACDSee, Lightroom and for my needs it takes them all. It is easy to use, integrates with all kinds of online services (using flickr with Picasa was really annoying) and supports tagging.

I like.

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What is Windows Live Photo Gallery?

Windows Live Photo Gallery is a photo management and sharing application released as a part of Microsoft's Windows Live initiative. It is an upgraded version of Windows Photo Gallery, which is a part of Windows Vista. The application is available for download bundled with Windows Movie Maker via the Windows Live Essentials suite (you can't separate install from Movie Maker).

Windows Live Photo Gallery information

Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about Windows Live Photo Gallery, and it has gotten 72 likes

Windows Live Photo Gallery was added to AlternativeTo by jmed on and this page was last updated . Windows Live Photo Gallery is sometimes referred to as Windows Photo Gallery, Photo Gallery.