![]() That little Edit button leads to at least 31 choices, some of which have additional options: The Quick Fixes tab (shown here) contains 6 commands, the Effects tab offers 15 buttons for lightening/darkening and applying visual effects, and the Adjust tab has 10 sliders to help you tweak exposure, contrast, sharpness, tint, and other settings. ![]() Here are the choices on the Edit tab, which appears by default when you open a single photo: Most noticeably, there are only three tabs instead of five. With Windows Live Photo Gallery, the tabs on the ribbon are different in this view compared to those available when browsing the library. (You can also perform many editing tasks from the photo browser view in both programs.) Both programs allow you to double-click a photo so that it occupies the entire program window and can be edited. ![]() They usually require some tweaking before they’re ready to be shared in an online album or viewed in a slide show. The Edit button in the lower right-corner exposes a normally hidden interface, as I illustrate on the next page.ĭigital pictures rarely come out of the camera perfect. In fact, most options on the ribbon are one or two clicks away, whereas most options using iPhoto’s pull-down menus involve a minimum of two and often three or more clicks.īut iPhoto options aren’t limited to those on the pull-down menu. In iPhoto, it takes six clicks-after you sort by keyword (three clicks), you have to reopen the View menu, click Sort Photos again, and then click Descending (three more clicks). With the View tab visible in Windows Live Photo Gallery, it takes two clicks to sort your photos by tag in reverse order. But the practical effect when you use the options here is noticeable. If you view the ribbon as clutter, that’s a minus. With Windows Live Photo Gallery, the options are all on the View tab. The difference between the two approaches? With iPhoto, the choices are only visible when you click View.
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