Your Windows PC is great. Your Windows Phone is great. Windows Live is great. But did you know that if you put all of them together you’ve got a pretty incredible way of creating and sharing amazing photos anywhere and anytime?
It’s true. And it’s super easy.
What I’m talking about is snapping a photo on a Windows Phone, auto-uploading those photos to SkyDrive (free online storage that comes with every Windows Live account) so you can access them anywhere you’ve got the internet, downloading them on to a Windows 7 PC through Internet Explorer 9, making them perfect and tagging your friends in Windows Live Photo Gallery, then one-touch publishing the finished product to Facebook so your friends all over the world can see them online or on their phones.
Check out the video for the step-by-step how-to:
See? Easy! I use this combination all the time to take, edit and share pictures of my kids.
A few things you’ll need to do to get this scenario ready to rock on your gear:
On your Windows Phone:
- Tap Settings, swipe to Applications then touch Pictures + Camera.
- Make sure that you’ve set your phone to automatically share to SkyDrive.
In Windows Live:
- Go to www.hotmail.com and get a Live ID. This will get a Hotmail (or Live) account and access to your personal SkyDrive.
- Log in to Hotmail, then drag the Hotmail (or SkyDrive) tab to your taskbar to create a favicon so you can easily access your Live services with one click.
On your PC:
- Download Windows Live Essentials from download.live.com. This is the way to get Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Live Mesh and the rest of the Live Essentials Suite. And forget…it’s completely free!
- Connect Windows Live Photo Gallery to your Facebook account. Just click the Facebook icon to get started.
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Thanks Ben. I never realised there was a fuse function in Windows Live Photo Gallery.
This should be shorten and made into in ad for tv...
Does SkyDrive still automatically downsize photos when uploaded from a Windows Phone? If so, will this be fixed?
support.microsoft.com/.../2413565
Thanks.
When I go into my photos, I don't see anything like a "Skydrive photos" option like you had. I just have All, Date, and Favorites. Suggestions?
agreed jandler! this SHOULD be made into a TV ad. I think it would really entice the photo heavy users to pick WP7
I think bweaver777 makes an excellent point. This is actually the reason I decided to stop syncing photos to SkyDrive; the pictures are all downsized once up on SkyDrive. That kind of defeats the point of having a 5MP camera on the phone.
Has anyone else noticed that picture he pulls off Facebook on his phone is NOT the photo he uploaded? He changed Alex's head to the picture of him smiling, even put his hand back in the picture, but when he shows the photo on his phone, Alex's right arm that was holding up his head is now draped across his lap, and his LEFT arm is up. Also, the woman is smiling. (Let's just say he already edited her head on account of time)
I would love it if the Photo Metadata handling was fixed too. For example Author used to say "Hello from Seattle" now it just shows garbage (in Mango). Can we please set the default metadata like Author??
@DPMStudent You first have to tap on All to see all your albums. SkyDrive Camera Roll should appear there if you have turned on the option to autoupload to SkyDrive and already took some photos.
@bweaver77 and Dehron: They are downsized to save the data used to upload as well as to conserve data on SkyDrive. Some people take A LOT of pictures and if their not on WiFi every pic is being uploaded using their network data connection. I think it's important to know that SkyDrive is not really a backup service. It's more of a companion to Microsoft's products like Windows Phone, Hotmail, Photo Gallery, Mesh, and soon Xbox 360 and Windows 8. I'm sure it will be eventually used for Windows Phone backups, but I don't see it become a full-fledged backup service. Considering the size of Microsoft's user base, that could be quite a big inititive for Microsoft. Even with the 25 GB available now, if just 50 million users filled up their SkyDrives it would equal to over 1 exabyte (or 2.4 million terabytes). That is a tremendously amount of storage and that wouldn't even be including their enterprise cloud solutions.
FYI - Download and Twitter links are incorrect.
This is interesting post and advice,but I am not sure that this is going to work to me...
I must try it because I like good photos!
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