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Black and White Effects – Windows Live Photo Gallery
11/9/2009 3:20:30 PM, Ludwig J.
Windows Live Photo Gallery has a selection of tools for “fixing” – enhancing, correcting – photos. Included is a group of six tools for black and white effects. Maybe I should say more correctly “monochrome” effects, because two of them are “Cyan tone” ...
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Get more from Windows 7 – top things to do after you upgrade
11/4/2009 12:26:35 PM, Windows Live Dev Team
The Windows 7 launch is a proud moment for us at Windows Live. Windows Live delivers the software and services that make your new, or upgraded, Windows 7 PC lots of fun. So, we want to remind you to get the latest and greatest of Windows Live for your new ...
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There is a mystery person in my backyard … I found her thanks to “Windows Live Photo Gallery” People Tags…
10/30/2009 12:45:37 PM, X-Evolutionist
I was tagging some photos in Windows Live Photo Gallery just now, and I found a mystery person in my backyard….. Windows Live Photo Gallery is a wonderful program. It is available individually or as part of the Windows Live Essentials Suite of programs. ...
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Find your photos 5 – Windows Live Photo Gallery
10/27/2009 3:48:18 PM, Ludwig J.
Previous posts covered finding photos in Windows Live Photo Gallery by file name, folder, date taken, descriptive tags, people tags, and ratings. This last installment looks at Search. Towards the upper right there is a text entry box with the faint text ...
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Find your photos 4 – Windows Live Photo Gallery
10/13/2009 4:05:57 PM, Ludwig J.
Star ratings! Another way to find your photos using Windows Live Photo Gallery. There are so many options! In previous posts I blogged about how to find the folders, finding by the date the pictures were taken, by descriptive tags, and people tags. Now ...
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Find your photos 3 – Windows Live Photo Gallery
10/8/2009 6:13:33 PM, Ludwig J.
When I show of space photos and come to a picture with an astronaut, it helps to be able to tell who it is. All my life I have been a space fan. So my photo collection contains a number of astronomical and space program photos. A few from NASA, some ...
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Windows Live and You: “Listen to and talk with customers all over the world” (Marcus Schmidt, Microsoft)
10/8/2009 5:34:47 AM, mynetx
Summer is over—but my interview series “Windows Live and You” is not. Today I talked with Marcus Schmidt, who is working for Microsoft and keeping in touch with people like you, to find out what users truly think about Windows and Windows Live. Marcus ...
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Find your photos 2 – Windows Live Photo Gallery
9/21/2009 1:51:45 PM, Ludwig J.
Tags are one of the most useful features of digital images. Tags make finding a photo really easy. With the date being automatically recorded and maybe some additional fixed data, the photographer does not have to worry about that data. Tags are ...
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How-to: Cropping photos with Windows Live Photo Gallery
9/7/2009 3:00:33 AM, mynetx
Sometimes you see waste bins next to the most interesting sightseeing highlights when you look through your vacation photos, or just a certain area within a photo is interesting. Use the Crop feature in Windows Live Photo Gallery to optimize the photo to ...
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Windows Live Events stops accepting new events
9/3/2009 2:45:08 AM, mynetx
As mentioned in an earlier post, Windows Live Events is entering its first retiring phase today. This means that from today on, you will not be able to create new events. Existing events can be exported until 2010. The Windows Live team says: Starting ...