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date taken, shutter and ISO speeds, etc.), these will be copied to PG’s database and displayed in PG’s information pane.

If the photo contains technical data in Exif (e.g.

If the photo contains Keywords in its metadata, these are added to PG’s list of Descriptive Tags, which it holds in its database and displayed alongside the photo in PG’s information pane.

Photo Gallery looks to see if the image contains metadata, and if so, the following operations occur:

But I’ve found that this does not apply to geotags in all cases. That means that metadata you apply to your photos is part of the photo, and available to any application that knows how to read it. For a long time now, Microsoft has said that it holds to the principle that “ the truth is in the file”.

However, I have discovered another issue related to geotags in Photo Gallery. Microsoft got this fixed in December 2010.Īnd there the matter rested, or so I thought. It was writing out GPS coordinate data into photos that was often completely wrong. Some of you may recall that, when it was first released in 2010, Windows Live Photo Gallery had a major problem with geotags. However, while playing around with it, I discovered there was an issue with the way in which Photo Gallery was handling geotags. Yes, Microsoft has added in the possibility to publish videos to the Vimeo service and Photo Gallery now includes an Auto-Collage feature by default (this was a downloadable plug-in for the previous version), but that’s about it. 513), I thought I’d take another look at it.Īpart from the name change, not much seems to have been done with the product. 728, while the last version of Windows Live Photo Gallery was. Since this is a step change in the software (it’s now at version. In keeping with Microsoft’s plan to kill off the “Live” branding, it is now simply known as “ Photo Gallery”, and the suite of software utilities is now known as Windows Essentials, rather than the old name of Windows Live Essentials. Microsoft has recently released a new version of Windows Live Photo Gallery.