Geotagging is available in both programs so if your digital camera or mobile phone doesn’t add geographic location to captured photos, you can add it manually.
Picasa lets you associate people tags with only pictures while in Photo Gallery, people tags can be applied to images as well as videos. The Photo Gallery approach is more useful because if you email or even copy a photo to another computer, the people tags are preserved.
People tags are now available in both Picasa and Photo Gallery so you can quickly tag photos with names.īoth programs are equally efficient at detecting and recognizing faces in photographs but there’s one difference – Photo Gallery stores the people tags with the photo itself while tags created in Picasa stay inside the program. The new Photo Gallery remains a solid alternative to Google’s Picasa software but is it good enough for you to switch from Picasa? Read this comparison. A new version of Windows Live Photo Gallery, a free program that lets you manage your collection of photos and videos, will be available for download later today on.
