View and Manage Pictures and Videos with Photo Gallery

[admin]

Check out the new Photo Gallery in Windows Vista. You can sort pictures and videos by keywords, tags, the date the pictures or video were taken, ratings, and other metadata. You can even create Search Folders that contain up-to-date and "live" data, which changes each time you open the folder. You can create your own metadata to totally organize your photos and videos using any type of organizational set you'd like.

I prefer to sort my photos by their folder names. Selecting any folder on the left produces its contents on the right. Using the mouse to hover over any picture offers information about that picture as well.

If you choose to sort folders by name, organize your images by subject such as Home, Weddings, Vacations, Friends, Family, Special Events, and Pets, and create subfolders for each. You can then browse images by their subject category. Because images from digital cameras automatically register the date taken in the metatag, it's just as easy to then organize the images by date taken. You can do this with a simple click of the mouse.

[angelblossom]

it took me a while to figure that out as well as direction path my camera card imports to,, still I get confused sometimes,, it seems to be in several places and at best I put tags on "kept" pictures and organizes*somewhat that way" I do like the fact when we hover over a thumbnail it will enlarge the picture with all info,, I hate the editing for Pics, NO detailed enough and when I crop it just simply crops and doesn't pull forward what I cropped. unless I'm missing something somewhere as that is what came with the computer program, would love to know of a free software with awesome editing programs for pics ,,