Windows Live Photo Gallery manages more than just photo editing. With an extensive set of tools from creating panoramic photos to adding tags I want to highlight a feature I started using not too long ago. This feature is the email feature in Windows Live Photo Gallery that you may have seen in the Digital 
Workshop Show and Tell session during your cruise with Holland America. I like using Windows Live Mail because my pictures will show in the body of the email and when my family and friends receive my email they can see the picture(s) before they choose to download them. Windows Live Mail makes it really easy to sync your current email address into one central location and work off line to compose all your emails. Windows Live Mail also gives you the option to change the file size of the pictures from 5MB, 1MB or 215 KB. The file size determines the resolution of the picture and the amount of time it takes to upload/download the picture. There are other options like black and white or auto correct and certainly don’t forget to check out the different photo frames and layout choices!
When you’re inside Windows Live Photo Gallery (WLPG), the email tool is located at the top. You can select 1 or more pictures ( hold down Ctrl) and send them to Windows Live Mail by clicking email. If you do not have Windows Live Mail on your computer you will need to download this free program from www.download.live.com before it will work. If you downloaded Windows Live Mail to your computer and the pictures you’re trying to email from WLPG do not open in the body of the email go to Windows Live Mail>Options>Make Default Mail Provider. Making Windows Live Mail the default mail provider insures that your email tool will work in WLPG.
By Jeff Tiefenthaler, WEDM Techspert
