Publish your photos to Flickr with Windows Live Photo Gallery

Today the DMX Team is announcing a beta refresh for Windows Live Photo Gallery that includes the ability to publish your photos directly to Flickr. Based from direct customer feedback, the DMX Team worked with Flickr in enabling support to upload photos to your Flickr account in Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Uploading photos to Flickr through Windows Live Photo Gallery is just as easy as it is uploading to Windows Live Spaces. To upload to Flickr, all I needed to do was choose the photos I wanted to upload and hit "Publish" in the toolbar. A drop-down list will appear that allows me to either choose Windows Live Spaces or Flickr as destinations I want to publish my photos to. I of course for the sake of this post chose Flickr.  A new window appeared letting me enter options for which set I want the photo to belong to, what size I want the photo to be uploaded at, and permissions of that photo.

Windows Live Photo Gallery will notify you once your photo (or photos) have been uploaded and ask if you would like to view those uploaded photos. In choosing to view the uploaded photos, I was able to add a description and change the name of the photo.

I'd like to share one of my most favorite photos I've taken to-date which I've uploaded to Flickr using Windows Live Photo Gallery:

Mt. Hood from Timothy Lake

This is a photo I took with my Nikon D40 (which is a Certified for Windows Vista device) while camping at Timothy Lake with some friends this last summer. This is a shot of Mt. Hood here in Oregon. You can also take a look at my Windows Vista Coach Tour set. I took a bunch of photos while traveling around the East Coast last year on the Windows Vista Coach.

Program Manager Michael Palermiti has posted on the PIX Blog about today's Windows Live Photo Gallery release which they are calling the Beta 2.2 Refresh. If you already have a version of Windows Live Photo Gallery installed, you can grab the Beta 2.2 Refresh by running Microsoft Update (the Windows Update client in Windows Vista will detect a new update is available if you have it configured to use Microsoft Update). If you don't have Windows Live Photo Gallery installed and you want to give it a try, just head over to the Windows Live Betas page and choose Windows Live Photo Gallery.  

You can also check out the Flickr Blog where they talk about partnering up with Microsoft for Windows Live Photo Gallery.

For me, I am going to leverage both Windows Live Spaces and Flickr in publishing my digital photos to the web with Windows Live Photo Gallery. For personal photos such as family events and things I've gone and done with friends - I will upload those to Windows Live Spaces. For all my digital photography and traveling to events - I plan to upload to Flickr. Quite a few amateur photographers use Flickr to show off their work. I'd like to do the same. I'd also like to share memories from traveling around as well. You can follow what I upload to Flickr by going to my Flickr page.

Make sure you keep your eye on the Windows Live Wire Blog too for information on Windows Live releases.

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Comments

  1. newscientist2000
    Posted on: October 20, 2007 at 7:15PM  

    Thanks for the link to the Windows Live Photo Gallery installer.

    I downloaded it:

    WLinstaller.exe

    Application 1.72 MB

    Version: 12.0.1320.823

    Installed easily PhotoGallery worked great on my XP machine.  Going to the in program help/about confirm that I was running Windows Live Photo Gallery Version 2008 (Build 12.0.1193.815).  However it also installed is the Windows Search Deskbar + Windows Desktop Search Program, and from the Add Remove Programs menu there was an entry for Windows Desktop Search 3.0.1.

    Then I did Windows Update that you suggested and downloaded Critical Update for Windows Live Photo Gallery (KB943550) "Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta 2.2 is a refresh of the Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta 2.0."

    After the update I was running the updated version of Windows Live Photo Gallery Version 2008 (Build 12.0.1299.1010) I could then uninstall Windows Desktop Search 3.0.1 and you were right with this new build PhotoGallery is no longer dependent on Windows Desktop Search 3.0.1.

    Thanks for your help. :-)

    Great software.

  2. newscientist2000
    Posted on: October 21, 2007 at 10:22AM  

    Windows Live Photo Gallery is great, the only thing I wish it had was a way to rebuild the tag list on the left side of the window.  As when I imported my picture a few pictures had multiple tags (Like 30 plus each).  The tags from these pictures of course then fills up the tag list, if I remove the tags from the pictures they still remain on this list, so a rebuild option would be nice.  Alternatively if there was a way to have an option to say not add these photos with to many tags to the tag list that would be great.

    Imagine one photo with 1000+ tags, it would effectively make this list useless!

    Another alternative would be to allow me to delete more than one tag at a time from this list.

  3. newscientist2000
    Posted on: October 21, 2007 at 10:44AM  

    Oh the same comment applies to the Date taken menu, there should be a way to rebuild/refresh it.

  4. chakkaradeep
    Posted on: October 22, 2007 at 3:33PM  

    In the future, can we get to install live products in our custom location than the current one which installs ic Windows drive ?

    That would be really great addon !

  5. Daboodah
    Posted on: November 25, 2007 at 4:34PM  

    I found that the easiest way to delete multiple unused tags is to make them subtags of some other unused/stale tag and then delete that top-level tag (you can use Control key to grab and move several at a time).  This doesn't work for the "Date taken" data, though.  I imagine a near future release will have to have some sort of rebuild option, as things could get ugly for those with large libraries.

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  1. Posted by: Techy News Blog » Blog Archive » Publish your photos to Flickr with Windows Live Photo Gallery on October 18, 2007 at 3:01PM
  2. Posted by: on October 18, 2007 at 4:31PM

    What a great day for photo enthusiasts :-) Michael Palermiti announced today on the Microsoft PhotoBlog

  3. Posted by: Reggie's Ramblings on October 19, 2007 at 10:57AM

    So what kryptonite is deadly in bizarro world?

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