A picture is worth a thousand words: People Tags in Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 3

re: A picture is worth a thousand words: People Tags in Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 3

joeale — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:01:52 GMT

Will this built in two windows live spaces facial recognition as a online service.

re: A picture is worth a thousand words: People Tags in Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 3

CalumJR — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:55:33 GMT

Thank you Chris. I understand it now.

If this is the case for when the betas are finally released I will be very disappointed! If they develop that design for Windows Live Messenger then they could easily develop it for these applications as well! It wouldn't take much time because they already have the core user interface on Windows Live Messenger.

Also if the user interface of the products end up like this, I doubt we will see integration of the coloured display picture borders which show your status - something I think would be good across all Windows Live software & services.

Finally, I love using Windows Live Mail at the moment because of the great user interface. If they change it for this really bland one, it will definately affect my user experience - this design is a step backward!

re: A picture is worth a thousand words: People Tags in Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 3

Chris — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:01:50 GMT

@calum-r: Let me try and clear up some of the UI issues from how I understand it (ie I could be wrong, or it could change!)

Only Messenger is getting the Wave 3 header, including customisation. The other suite applications are getting the glassy Windows Vista look like you see above.

The reason why Mail didn't have this look is because it was an XP shot, not a Vista shot.

Of course this kind of feedback is what you have betas for :)

re: A picture is worth a thousand words: People Tags in Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 3

quikboy — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:51:34 GMT

I hope there's just more than Photo Tags. WLPG could use some instant photo effects (like Picnik), a real fancy slideshow maker, more image editing tools, and the ability to publish to more popular photo-sharing sites (SmugMug, Facebook, MySpace, etc.).

It needs to be more competitive against Google's Picasa.

re: A picture is worth a thousand words: People Tags in Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 3

CalumJR — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:49:06 GMT

Another bland UI on a Wave 3 product! :/

It looks nothing like Windows Live Messenger 2009 M2 & nothing like the Wave 3 previews of Windows Live Mail we have seen.

I really do hope these are not the final UIs of the products, if they are Microsoft have messed up big time! They promised us consistnecy!!! :@

re: A picture is worth a thousand words: People Tags in Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 3

G-Z — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:05:51 GMT

me personally, I like the new interface of the header. They should avoid drop-down menues though. And the left-hand pane should be less "explorer-like".

re: A picture is worth a thousand words: People Tags in Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 3

kmturner — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:19:34 GMT

What would be a killer feature is to be able to upload the photos to facebook and have the "people tags" tag you and your friends automatically. I can dream can't I?

re: A picture is worth a thousand words: People Tags in Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 3

calum-cook — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:49:02 GMT

What have they done to it?! They've got rid of the glassy section and removed loads of icons! Looks like there's *still* no colour customisation either... and the new Wave 3 header isn't there. In all, a complete mess. This had better not be the final UI.