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Download and install Windows Photo Gallery on Windows 10
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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Over the years Microsoft released many amazingtools, but unfortunately, some of thesetoolshad to be discontinued. One of them is Windows Photo Gallery.
Since this was such a populartool, today we decided to show you how to download it and install it onWindows 10.
What is Windows Photo Gallery?
Windows Live Photo Gallery for Windows 10 is an image optimizer and photo editing application. The first version was included with Windows Vista, designed as a Windows Picture and Fax Viewer replacement.
The first version was developed in December 2001 as a Photo Library and it was released under theDigital Image Suite 9 on June 3, 2003. The last Photo Library brandedsoftwarewas released on April 22, 2005.
After that, Windows Photo Gallery took over and it came with all the versions of Windows Vista.
When Windows 7 was released, Windows Photo Gallery was removed and added to theWindows Live Essentialssuite.
At the same time, Microsoft changed the name of thisapplicationto Windows Live Photo Gallery and the first version of thissoftwarewas released in 2007.
Over the years thistoolsaw some big changes and new features such as facial recognition, image stitching, batch people tagging and geotagging.
Windows Photo Gallery allows you to organize photos by adding titles, ratings, captions, and custom metadata tags, and there’s also support for XMP metadata standard for categorizing your photos more efficiently.
Windows Photo Gallery also supports basic photo editing, thus allowing you to quickly resize, crop, adjust shadows, sharpness, or reduce noise. Another feature is its batch resize that allows you to quickly resize multiple photos.
As for supported formats, Windows Photo Gallery supports the most popularimageand video formats.
How to install Windows Photo Gallery on Windows 10?
Installing Windows Photo Gallery is pretty simple, and you can do it by following the steps below.
Once the setup is finished you can start Photo Gallery by double clicking its shortcut.
As soon as we started Photo Gallery we encountered an error message saying that Photo Gallery requiresMicrosoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Editionin order to run.
Fortunately, you can download all the necessary components fromhere. After installing the necessary components you should be able to use Photo Gallery without any problems.
After you start theapplicationyou’ll see list of thumbnails from your Pictures folder, but you can easily add any other folder to Photo Gallery.
You can also double click the thumbnail to view an individualimage. From here you tag people, add geotags, captions and descriptive tags.
In addition, you can choose between several colour and exposure presets, or you can fine tune all of these options manually.
After you’re done with changes, you can save the editedimageas a copy and preserve the originalimage.
You can set your editedimageas a desktop, or share it online on social media websites right from the Photo Gallery.
We have to mention that you can easily apply effects such as colour correction and exposure to multipleimagessimply by selecting them and clicking the desired effect.
Of course, if you aren’t satisfied with changes you can easily revert back to the original version.
In addition to adding effects, you can create panoramas, auto collage and photo fuse right from theapplicationitself.
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As you can see, Photo Gallery works on Windows 10 without any major problems.
The only issue that we had was the lack of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, but after installing the necessarytoolstheapplicationworked without any problems.
Note:Do not forget that Windows Photo Gallery has been discontinued and Microsoft no longer offers support for it. If you have any issues with theapp, you’ll have to solve them on your own.
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This concludes our article today. We hope that we managed to show you all the important information you needed.
Feel free to tell us in the comments below which photo editor you use and if Windows Photo Gallery still has a place on your computer in 2019 or not.
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Milan Stanojevic
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Milan has been enthusiastic about technology ever since his childhood days, and this led him to take interest in all PC-related technologies. He’s a PC enthusiast and he spends most of his time learning about computers and technology.
Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s one of the Troubleshooting experts in our worldwide team, specializing in Windows errors & software issues.
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Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s specialized in Windows errors & software issues.
