Managing your photos on Vista

Damian Koh | Aug 18, 2006

We had our hands on Windows Vista recently and can't help but feel that Microsoft has either taken a leaf out of Google's Picasa book, or the Redmond software giant is taking a stab at the free photo management software. We've had our fun. Now we show you the pictures.

Archiving pictures in chronological order is probably the easiest way to manage a huge database of photos. Like we mentioned, the Windows Photo Gallery program on our copy of Vista Beta 2 works very much like Google's Picasa. For example, if you have a series of similar snaps taken over a period of time, you can label them with a common tag and pull all of them out at the same time.

You can watch video clips with the program too.

Star ratings are for rating which photos you like best and those you'd rather not show to relatives and friends. You can select from a maximum of five stars or leave your pictures without a rating. For images that turn out less than pleasing, there's a built-in editing function even though the options are somewhat limited.

Though there's still some catching up for the Windows Photo Gallery, we won't want to place our bets, yet, on which program will emerge the winner since what we're seeing is only the beta version.

Editors' note: We ran our copy of Windows Vista on a Vista-ready HP Pavilion desktop computer.

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