I of the best ways to view photos in Windows 7 is by using the Windows Live Photo Gallery. Windows Live Photo Gallery brings a handful of sophisticated tools to the thorny bug of gathering, fixing, and, most of all, finding pictures on your computer.

Windows Alive Photo Gallery allows you to index and organize your photos using tagging tools. You tin can as well use WLPG to edit and repair photos and to publish them in a variety of formats, including sending your pix straight to Flickr.

  1. Choose Start→All Programs→Windows Live→Windows Live Photo Gallery.

    The showtime time you start WLPG, it asks for your Windows Live ID and password.

  2. Go alee and blazon your Windows Alive ID and countersign and then click Next.

    WLPG asks whether y'all desire to employ Windows Live Photo Gallery to open BMP, ICO, JPG, PNG, TIF, and WDP files. Note that Windows Alive Photo Gallery doesn't piece of work with GIF, PCX, RAW, or WMF files.

    If you want WLPG to show y'all a GIF file, only right-click the file and rename it to JPG and information technology magically appears in the Photograph Gallery. WLPG won't permit you edit the file, but yous tin see it in the gallery.

  3. Chances are good that you will desire to open each of those files types with WLPG, so click Yes.

    WLPG scans the contents of your Pictures, Videos, PublicPictures, and PublicVideos folders and shows them on the screen. The Windows Live Photo Gallery shows all pictures and videos that sit down in the folders you added to the collection.

    WLPG doesn't automatically integrate customizations made to the Windows 7 Pictures library or Videos library. You have to add whatsoever other folders that contain photos to WLPG by hand.

  4. Click Public Pictures in the navigation pane to the left.

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    WLPG shows you only the pictures in the PublicPictures folder. You tin can click any item in the navigation pane to limit the gallery. For instance, choose Date Taken→2008→Jan and you see only pictures taken in January 2008.

  5. Double-click a flick.

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    Windows Live Photo Gallery flips into a single-moving picture view. In this view, you can edit the metadata (information most the epitome) or fix the photograph itself.

  6. Click Dorsum to Gallery to return to the main Photograph Gallery window. Click close when you're finished working with WLPG.

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