Microsoft Photography Blog has posted about the photo adjustment features in Vista. While the majority of us will not be moving over to Vista any time soon I welcome their idea to place basic photo correction tools right in the operating system. The point and click posse will find it useful to not have to find, download and install additional software, plus in many cyber cafes installing tools is not allowed if you find yourself laptop-less on vacation.
Vista has incorporated a bunch of easy to use, high quality, and extremely fast photo correction tools into the Photo Gallery. I’m going to walk you through what each of them does so that you can make your photos pop.
All of the editing tools in Vista are located in the Gallery Viewer. You can get to this by double clicking on a photo in either the Vista Photo Gallery or from any folder. The various fix tools are all located on a pane which you can open up by clicking the “Fix” button in the command bar.
The Vista Photo Gallery has controls to adjust exposure, color, crop region and red-eye. Each of the individual controls are accessed by clicking on the corresponding button in the fix pane. The Photo Gallery also has an “Auto Adjust” feature, which as the name implies, automatically find the best exposure and color settings for the photo.
You know one of these days I am going to have to crack open that beta and try it out. Some of this stuff looks pretty neat.
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Windows Photo Gallery looks extremely similar in style and functionality to Google’s Picasa. I like Picasa and think it’s great that simple fixing tools will be better integrated with the shell. It’ll be interesting to see if Picasa improves, moves on or just withers when Vista has most of it’s benefits built in.
Yeah will be interesting, I really like picasa but if the OS has just as good features …
Hi guys as mentioned I have Vista running here. Don’t ditch picassa too quickly from what I can see it is extremley basic. One glaring ommision is the straightening of horizons. As Chris mentions these are the options in fix
Auto Adjust
Adjust Exposure
Crop Picture
Fix Red Eye
That’s your lot folks, nothing else – very basic!
I have Vista loaded here at work as we are working on a deployment strategy for it. Lets just say if you like Mac’s, you’re going to love this!
I came close to buying my first ever mac the other day, looks like I will have to relearn some stuff either way
I’m after a dual core 17″ Mac, am just shy by about a grand
Vista has a classic mode!