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Live Photo Gallery hints and tips - using tags

This post - with lots of screenshots - accompanies webDotWiz's Oct 4 article on webDotWiz Online (www.webdotwiz.com), Live Photo Gallery hints and tips which is also posted here on webDotWiz Online has a Space.

In the above article, webDotWiz used a folder called Holidays to illustrate how you might tag photos. Well, webDotWiz doesn't have such a folder but he does have a folder called Screenshots and none of the images in that folder had tags when he started the screenshots in this post. Now they all have tags .

webDotWiz began by loading Windows Live Photo Gallery and opening up his Screenshots folder - it contains about 150 images, and is a real mixture:

Even though all these images are in one folder, because they relate to all sorts of different contexts, using tags will enable webDotWiz to more easily find a certain image or a group of images that relates to a particular topic. For example, those Paint.NET images above should all be tagged accordingly.

So webDotWiz's first job was to select all the photos in the Screenshots folder and give them a tag called Screenshots. You can see he was trying to be organised before he started using Live Photo Gallery. So he went to File and chose Select all:

Now it's time to give all these images a tag called Screenshots (if the right-hand information pane is not visible in Live Photo Gallery, click on Info on the top menu to open it):

So click on Add Tags and type in your tag - webDotWiz entered Screenshots and pressed the ENTER key (or you can click the mouse):

Note how Live Photo Gallery picks up that webDotWiz has been a good lad and already tagged a few images in the 150 or so screenshots he's stored and which include all sorts of subjects. There'll be a later post on how you can use this feature to help you more quickly assign the same tag to groups of photos so you save time but get organised.

Now let's take a small group of these screenshot images and add another tag to organise ourselves a further step:

webDotWiz has picked a group of screenshots he used in a tutorial on how to add your own background image to your Live Space:

This group all deal with using Live Writer so webDotWiz will tag each one in the group accordingly:

And the group fits in with tutorials (like this one) that webDotWiz has written up so Tutorials is another handy tag:

At this stage webDotWiz can ask Live Photo Gallery to show all images tagged as Screenshots then narrow down the selection by getting images tagged as Tutorials on Live Writer (the third tag). But he wants to go one step further because he's got lots of tututorial screenshots about Live Writer so to be more specific he decides to use another tag Background image:

So now in the future webDotWiz can ask Live Photo Gallery to show all images that are tutorials about using a background image in Live Writer.

Once you've entered different tags and your list increases, you can save some typing by selecting a group of photos and dragging them onto the tag you want to apply to the group;

So webDotWiz selects all the screenshots he's made thus far for this tutorial - here's one:

The whole group is dragged onto Tutorials in the tag list to apply it to each image in the group:

While the group is still selected, webDotWiz applied a couple of more tags:

So now webDotWiz has a group of screenshot images that he can use (and add to) whenever he wants to write up a tutorial about tagging photos and images in Live Photo Gallery. He doesn't have to remember which folder these images are stored in under My Pictures - all he need do is click the appropriate tag from the list in Live Photo Gallery

Posted with Live Writer. Irfanview and OneNote were used to capture the screenshots.

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