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LESSON 5 – Windows (Live) Photo Gallery Objective How to get it Uploading Organize Photo Basic Editing Advanced Features Slide Show Burn CD/DVD . Table of Contents LESSON 5 – Windows (Live) Photo Gallery ............................................................. 1 Windows Live Photo Gallery .................................................................................. 1 What is “Windows Live Photo Gallery” .............................................................. 1 How to get it ...................................................................................................... 1 Let’s Speak Computer Graphics ........................................................................... 32 Start Photo Gallery ................................................................................................. 4 Photo Gallery Menu ........................................................................................... 4 Import from Digital Camera ............................................................................... 6 Using the Find tab ............................................................................................ 11 Using face recognition ..................................................................................... 11 Basic Editing ......................................................................................................... 13 Follow the workflow in Photo Gallery .............................................................. 13 Adjust the exposure and colors ........................................................................ 14 Make a black-and-white picture....................................................................... 14 Get creative—but preserve your original ......................................................... 15 Editing tools ..................................................................................................... 16 Adjustments ..................................................................................................... 20 Fine Tune ......................................................................................................... 22 Revert to Original ............................................................................................. 24 Advance Editing ................................................................................................... 26 What you can do: ............................................................................................. 26 Automatically straighten photos ...................................................................... 27 Retouching photos ........................................................................................... 27 Using noise reduction ...................................................................................... 28 Create a panorama with Photo Gallery ............................................................ 29 Using slide show themes .................................................................................. 30 Sharing photos and videos online .................................................................... 30 Order Prints ..................................................................................................... 31 Best Free Online Photo Sharing Services ............... Error! Bookmark not defined. Windows Live Photo Gallery What is “Windows Live Photo Gallery” Windows Live Photo Gallery is part of Microsoft Windows Live Essentials which lets you to manage and organize your photos, and then post them online or send them to friends. Now you can easily edit and manage your photos, upload them securely to your online albums and share with friends or family with just few clicks. How to get it First you need to access to the Internet. If you are already a Windows Live Essentials account. If you already have hotmail account, it can also be used as your Windows Live account. To register for Windows Live account, go to http://home.live.com Installing Windows Live Essentials: http://explore.live.com/ Select Run. On the next screen select Choose the program you want to Install. Other Windows Live Setup will automatically install everything. Lesson 5- Photo Gallery.docx 5.1 6/10/2011 Install Only the Live Essentials services you need. For this tutorial, I’ll install Photo Gallery and Movie Maker. Uncheck the other services from the list and click Install. Once program installation is complete, Live Photo Gallery will automatically scan your entire hard drive for Pictures and Videos folders and list all images here. Lesson 5- Photo Gallery.docx 5.2 6/10/2011 Picture and Video folder are divided into private and public folder. Next, select and existing online album or create a new one. Then you can either make the album public for everyone to see or make it just for you to see or those in your home network. This will make your media available to everyone in your network. Don’t confuse this with sharing media online. When you’re done, click Publish. Lesson 5- Photo Gallery.docx 5.3 6/10/2011 Start Photo Gallery Photo Gallery Menu Locate Photo Gallery Icon on destop Go to Start Menu>All Programs Right-Click on Photo>Open with… Double-click on Photo and select the Edit, organize, or share button Home Ribbon The menu system follows Microsoft’s new convention known as the Ribbon menu. The Home ribbon is the first page of the menu. To navigate to another menu group just click on the tab. In Live Photo Gallery, there are 5 tabs, Home, Edit, Find, Create and View. The first tab is the File menu, where you do all of your basic filing such as saving a file, but since this is not typical word processing type application, this menu is reserve for burning a CD or printing your photos. Adding Folders to the Gallery or Removing Folders From the Gallery In Vista or Windows 7, Live Photo Gallery automatically adds everything you uploaded from your digital camera or anything that is in you’re My Pictures folder. However, if you have photos that are not is the Picture folder and want to include them, you must tell Windows Photo Gallery what folders to include From the File menu, select Include Folder in the Gallery. Browse to the location of the folder you'd like to add and click ok. Windows Live Photo Gallery will now include that folder. It will appear in the Navigation Pane under the All Photos and Video node. If you have included a folder that you do not wish to be in the gallery, you can easily remove it. Go to the folder in the navigation pane that you wish to remove, and right click on it. Then select Remove From Gallery. This is the safe and preferred method of removing a folder from the Gallery. Do not delete the folder with the intention of "deleting from the Photo Gallery" -- it will delete it on disk. Instead right click and Remove it. Lesson 5- Photo Gallery.docx 5.4 6/10/2011 Lesson 5- Photo Gallery.docx 5.5 6/10/2011 Import from Digital Camera Options: USB Cable provide with your Camera. On most newer cameras, all you have to do is to connect the cable and turn on the camera. Some camera may require that you put it in the transfer mode. Please consult your owner manual for specific instructions. Card Reader (built-in or external) Wireless Memory Card Importing photos from a digital camera, memory card, CD, or DVD is easy with Windows Live Photo Gallery. Lesson 5- Photo Gallery.docx 5.6 6/10/2011 Make sure that your digital camera or memory card reader is turned on and attached to your computer or that the disc is inserted into your computer's CD or DVD drive. 1. On the File menu, click Import from a camera or scanner. 2. In the Import Pictures and Videos window, click the device that you want to use, and then click Import. If you're importing from a CD or DVD, select the CD or DVD drive. 3. Click File menu then select options. Lesson 5- Photo Gallery.docx 5.7 6/10/2011 4. Select the options that you want to use, such as where to save the files and what format to use for the folder and file names.f your camera can detect whether you take photos vertically or horizontally, your computer can automatically rotate JPEG photos to the correct orientation when they're imported. To turn off automatic rotation, clear the Rotate photos during import check box. Click OK, and then do one of the following: Define, select, and name the groups that you want to import: By default, the photos are grouped according to when they were taken. To change the time interval used to define the groups, at the bottom of the window, move the Adjust groups slider. To choose which groups of photos to import, next to each group, select the check box. To see all of the photos in a group, next to the group, click View all items. If you don't want to import all of the photos in the group, clear the check boxes for the photos that you don't want to import. For each group of photos that you want to import, click Enter a name, and then type a name for the group. To assign tags to a group, next to the group, click Add tags, type one or more tags separated by semi-colons, and then press ENTER. Click Import. Each group of photos is saved to a different folder. Lesson 5- Photo Gallery.docx 5.8 6/10/2011 Click Import all new items now, and then type a name for the photos or videos. To assign tags to the group of photos that you're importing, click Add tags, type one or more tags separated by semi-colons, and then press ENTER. Click Import. Windows Live Photo Gallery excels at handling and presenting your photos. To see your photos in a slideshow, follow