
Now that it’s installed, you have a fabulous little piece of software to organize, view, and even touch up your collection of photos and other images. You can also install other parts of Windows Essentials 2012 if you’d like. If you do not see it, head on over to the following site and download the installer. If you see Windows Live Photo Gallery (also called Windows Photo Gallery), click it to launch the program.

To see if you have this free Microsoft software, click the Start button and type “photo”. Second, I’m assuming you have Windows Live Photo Gallery installed. Okay, first of all, I’m assuming your using Windows. That’s nice, but if you’re one of those people who don’t have fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) or some other uber-high-bandwidth net connection, it’s really handy to be able to create smaller versions of your 20 megapixel photos before you upload them.įortunately, it turns out that there is a really easy and completely free way to do it! Of course, most online services and social networking sites will automagically resize and compress your images for you. There is one little problem I see a lot: How does one resize a bunch of images in order to post them online somewhere, or to send in an e-mail, or whatever?
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The Photos app comes with the Resize option which allows changing the image dimensions and reduce the file size. Also, the app is associated with most image file formats out of the box. Photos offers very basic functionality to view images from the user's local drive or from the OneDrive cloud storage.

The built-in Photos app allows viewing images and performing basic editing.
