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Windows Photo Gallery (formerly known as Windows Live Photo Gallery for Windows 7 users) is a photo editing software that is a part of Microsoft‘s Windows Essentials software suite.

Features

Windows Photo Gallery provides management, tagging, and searching capabilities for digital photos. It provides an image viewer that can replace the default OS image viewer, and a photo import tool that can be used to acquire photos from a camera or other removable media. Windows Photo Gallery also allows sharing of photos by uploading them to SkyDrive,Flickr and Facebook.

Photo management

Windows Photo Gallery provides the ability to organize digital photo collection in its Gallery view, by adding titles, rating, captions, and custom metadata tags to photos. There is also limited support for tagging and managing video files, though not editing them.

Windows Photo Gallery uses the concept of hierarchical tagging (e.g. People/Jim, Places/Paris) to organise photos. Deleting a tag from Windows Photo Gallery will also remove it from all photos in the utility. Adobe Systems‘s Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) metadata standard, a descendent of the ubiquitous Exif standard which almost all digital cameras currently support, is also supported. This allows for data such as the tags to be stored and edited much more efficiently than EXIF or IPTC.

Since Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011, geotagging and people tagging (with facial detection and recognition) is also supported.

Photo editing

Windows Photo Gallery allows photos to be edited for exposure or color correction. It also provides other basic photo editing functions, such as resizing, cropping, and red-eye reduction. Users can view a photo’s color histogram, which allows them to adjust the photo’s shadows, highlights and sharpness.^[1] Further, Windows Photo Gallery also includes editing tools such as blemish remover and noise reduction.

Photo editing technologies developed by Microsoft Research,^[2] including Panoramic stitching, Photo Fuse, and AutoCollage are also included in Windows Photo Gallery.

Windows Photo Gallery also supports the ability to batch resize photos, where multiple photos can be resized in one single action, as well as the ability to rotate videos.

Photo and video import

Windows Photo Gallery’s photo/video import tool provides the ability to view, select, and tag photos that are automatically grouped by date-taken.

Format support

Windows Photo Gallery is based on the PIX engine which uses the Windows Imaging Component (WIC) library. The application has native metadata handling and tagging support and since the Windows Imaging Component is extensible, it can organize and view any image format for which a third party WIC codec is installed. By default, it can view JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF and HD Photo images, as well as most common video formats. QuickTime videos are also supported when QuickTime  is installed. RAW image formats used by high-end professional cameras are also supported by installing their respective WIC codecs. Windows Photo Gallery also supports ICC V4 embedded color profiles and hasWindows Color System support. However, legacy image formats such as WMF and EMF do not have their respective codecs available in WIC, and therefore cannot be viewed by default. Windows Photo Gallery can also view  GIF images, but it shows animated  GIFs as individual frames instead of a continuous animation.