10 Things - Finding photos in Photo Gallery

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burghthing — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:24:05 GMT

I enjoy Windows Photo Gallery...so much so I've undertaken tagging my 28k pictures using it!

I want to search for pics that must include both tags (like when you want to find all pics with you and a friend). However, it appears you can only search for mutiple tags where EITHER tag is found.

Any plans to include this in the next version?

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Dana — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:17:45 GMT

I'm having the exact problem as steve-0101 and aaah666...my photos are corrupted and it's driving me crazy! And it's not all of them, just the ones I like the most! (as always) Ugh! Please..if anyone knows how to fix this problem, please help!

I'm using Vista on a HP w1907 and taking pics with a canon EOS Rebel XT

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oytu — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:24:51 GMT

Vista is corrupting photos if you have more than one hard drive. So this includes any USP attachments used to upload photos. I have lost wedding and family photos that cannot be replaced and trying to contact Microsoft will cost you money. Does anyone know a fix for the corruption?

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steve-0101 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:12:27 GMT

After re-reading all of the posts I am pretty sure my problem is the same as what aaatt666 has described.

Steve

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steve-0101 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:14:58 GMT

Hi guys. First post so apologies if this is the wrong area. Ever since going to Vista I've had the strangest problem. Photos imported from any digital camera (I have 3) show up in photo gallery as "chopped up". Kind of hard to describe but like one of those puzzles where there is a piece missing and you can slide pieces around (like an eye will be under the nose, etc). Always in big rectangular chunks.

If it helps I am transferring photos via a card reader and the problem is occurring on both an HP laptop and HP desktop running Windows Vista Premium. The photos look fine when viewed via other software.

If this is an unknown problem and you would like to see an example of one of the photos (I can screen print one) then let me know.

Thanks in advance for any ideas or suggestions,

Steve

re: 10 Things - Finding photos in Photo Gallery

Nick White — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:43:21 GMT

Hey Blitch / Ken: the first thing that comes to mind is to login to the OS under your own account and store your photos in a personal folder that is inaccessible to anyone else. If others login via a different account, they should not be able to access those photos. You might read this Help entry and following for further advice: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/200604ec-fced-412c-8d92-5ba50ed45c691033.mspx.

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Blitch — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:16:49 GMT

I have some pictures in Photo Gallery that I don't want to be easily accessible to anyone using my computer. Is there some way to hide some of the pics? Is there anything built in?

Thanks, Ken

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aaatt666 — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:10:31 GMT

I took about 200 pictures with Nikon D80 in both NEF and JPEG formats, and used three Sandisk 1GB SD cards. When I copied those pictures from the Camera to the Desktop (Windows Vista Home Premium) through the USB cord, the following problem came out: About 20% of pictures (from all three SD cards) could not be opened in ‘Window Photo Gallery’, and ‘Window Photo Gallery’ shows that those files are corrupt. However, I could see those ‘corrupt’ pictures in thumbnail in both Window Explorer and Window Photo Gallery. I then did following tests:

Firstly, I re-copied all the pictures from Camera to Desktop (using same USB cord and USB port), and a number of ‘corrupt’ pictures are self-heeled, while most of the corrupt pictures are still bad. I then used a different USB cord and port to do the copy, and the result is the same.

Secondly, I shot a couple of pictures in NEF and JPEG formats, and copied them to another computer running Windows XP Premium. All pictures came out fine. I then copied all the pictures to the Windows Vista, the ‘corrupt’ problem came out for a number of pictures.

Thirdly, I used a flash driver to copy the pictures (I just shot) from Windows XP to Windows Vista, one of the good pictures became corrupt.

There are two types of corruptions. First, the picture can’t be viewed at all. Second, the picture can be opened, but the color and frame are distorted.

By the way, all the pictures can be viewed and edited in Camera, and no problems were identified by the Camera. I used the D80 for about 6 months and have about 2000 pictures in Windows Photo Gallery, and problem just came out.

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Bjørn Tore Hoem — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:40:15 GMT

I never thought I would say this, but here goes: Thank you Microsoft!

Windows Live Photo Gallery is exactly what I have been waiting for - for years!

I will now retire Picasa, Adobe Photoshop Elements, ACDSee, iTag and Kodak Easyshare Software - the entire software stack I have been using trying to get the experience you now offer for free in Windows Live Photo Gallary.

With this compliment in mind - and this is an extraordinary one - I have a couple of wishes that I hope you can look at:

1. Respect the orientation tag in photos - displaying them correctly, without having to rotate.

2. Somehow display JPEG Comments stored in the files and/ or IPTC Comments. I have thousands of photos with comments that I can no longer see in WLP.

3. Nested tags are great - however not easy to find. What I would like, is that WLP suggests excisting tags without having to type the whole nested tag. E.g: Looking for tag "Hanne". Now I have to type "Persons/Family/Hanne". I would like WLP to suggest all instances of the tag "Hanne" when I start to type "Ha...".

4. Face recognition - face tagging a la Photoshop Elements 6. Already miss it.

5. GeoTagging - a la Photoshop Elements 6. Already miss it. And please do not fall into the "lock in" trap. Please support all available tools, including your own. Hint taken?

6. Lossless JPEG-operations. Please confirm and ensure that all basic JPEG-operations, like rotate, flip, CROP are lossless and not subject to recompression. Please implement LOSSLESS red-eye removal as well - it's done by removing red pixels. Look to BetterJPEG and Red-E-Rem for implementation tips.

7. Classification (stars) should be on the left sidebar, as in MS Digital Image Suite, in order to be able to drill down.

This from the top of my head - get this implemented, and I'll promise to write a killerstory on my blog and be nice for the rest of my life:-)

Bjørn Tore Hoem

bthoem@gmail.com

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lel — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:06:56 GMT

Can anyone help me out. When i try to email a photo, pictures>click on the picture>email>resize> then email new message opens, body of email says 'message is ready to be sent with the following attachment....'

But picture isnt attached, the attachment box is empty and the value is 0. On Xp it used to attach so easily, just wondered if I needed to change something. Any help would be appreciated. Lel

re: 10 Things - Finding photos in Photo Gallery

Nick White — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:07:04 GMT

Hey Roger saunders: for issues relating to the handling of RAW file formats, the folks over at the MS Photography and Video Blog have asked that we refer users there: http://blogs.msdn.com/pix/.

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Roger saunders — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:32:18 GMT

I am having big problems with my pentax raw files from my Pentax ist ds

They appear with lnes on them. Data is missing from lines of pixels sevral pixels wide when I upload the files to my VISTA home premium computer.

Anyone got any ideas?

Best

Rog

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Sebastian_Foss — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:57:35 GMT

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kev_gordon — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:01:21 GMT

Photo orientation using exif informtion:

Nick, hopefully, as you said, the Windows Live team is still looking at this post, so I would like to suggest they implement something that would make Windows Photo Gallery actually usable.

When pictures are displayed (both in thumbnails and in full screen), they should be shown in the correct portrait/landscape orientation that they were taken with, rather than always showing in landscape mode.

The camera's exif orientation properties are stored with the file, so this should be easy to pick up and implement.

ACDSee Photo Manager does it perfectly, which is the only reason I'm using it instead of Photo Gallery, which I actually like using a lot.

In addition, the windows Pictures screensaver and the Windows Photo Gallery slide-show really should also orient the pictures according to the exif information.

I just CANNOT understand why this wasn't implemented. Who wants to tilt their head sideways when a picture comes up, ESPECIALLY during a slide-show!!

Please please, please, add this feature - either in a patch for Windows Photo Gallery, or in the release of Windows Live Photo Gallery.

re: 10 Things - Finding photos in Photo Gallery

Nick White — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:35:12 GMT

Hey StefanW: the Windows Live team is reading all comments to this post, so I'm sure they'll see yours and take it into consideration. Thanks for taking the time to submit it :)