September 05
New and easy ways to share photos and do more with Windows Live Spaces
This morning we announced the launch of a new suite of products to help you stay connected to the people that you choose and help keep you protected with free online safety and security tools.
There are two new products in this suite that I’d like to focus on because they make sharing and posting photos and ideas to Spaces much easier: Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Writer.
Windows Live Photo Gallery beta
Windows Live Photo Gallery is a software application that helps you organize, sort, edit, and share all of your photos and videos. Photo Gallery used to be called Windows Photo Gallery and was previously only available on Windows Vista OS., but with this release, Photo Gallery works on both Windows XP and Vista and is available in 31 languages and 56 countries.
There are several new photo and video features in Windows Live Photo Gallery – here are some highlights:
Add photos directly to Spaces
Getting photos from your computer to your space is now much easier. Just choose the photos you want to share with your friends and family, and then select Publish on Windows Live Spaces from the Publish button.
You can then add those photos to a new album or add them to an existing album on your space. You also have the option to upload high-resolution photos that are optimized for printing.
Add captions and titles
Now it’s easier to put your photos in context for your friends and family because you can add captions and titles to your photos before you upload them to your space.
Create awe-inspiring panoramas
With just a few clicks you can “stitch” together multiple images to easily create a panorama which shows off your photographic skills to your friends and family. Take a look at how a few images come together into one:
Check out the Windows Live Photo Gallery team blog for more juicy details about these and all of the other new features available in this beta release.
Windows Live Writer beta 3
We’re also releasing the next beta version of Windows Live Writer. With this new version of Writer, it’s easier to insert videos into your blog entries, either from Soapbox by MSN Video or from any other video website.
There are many other new features in this release: justified text alignment, XHTML support, printing, and other features you’ve asked for. You can read all about them on Writer Zone, the official space for Windows Live Writer.
We look forward to hearing your feedback on these two products as well as the other Windows Live products. Install and start using them and let us know what you think.
- Chris
Product Manager, Windows Live Spaces
(Posted using Windows Live Writer)
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