Windows Live Photo Gallery Panoramas

It has been over a week since I posted anything more than a Google Alert here as my wife and I have been on vacation in Hawaii celebrating our upcoming 25th wedding anniversary.  This is a very scenic place and we have taken a lot of pictures – in fact – there are currently 508 uploaded after 5 days to our flickr account for this trip.

There are also lots of places that need a panoramic shot to really show the breadth of the view.  So using Windows Live Photo Gallery I have been taking a lot of shots to create those panoramas and they have turned out very well IMHO.

To create a panoramic shot it is quite easy.  Take a series of pictures of the scene you want turn into a panorama keeping a little bit of overlap in each successive shot as you move your camera across the scene.  Once you get back to your computer upload them and then open them up in Windows Live Photo Gallery.  Highlight each picture in the sequence by holding down the CTRL key and then once they are all highlighted Right Click and select Create Panoramic Photo and let it do its thing (highly technical term).  You then get a dialog box to save the new picture and as soon as you do that it will open it up in Windows Live Photo Gallery so you can see your masterpiece!

Here are the panoramas I have created over the last week since we arrived in Hawaii using this same method – enjoy!

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Richard Hay  (3358 Posts)

Richard is the Owner of WindowsObserver.com and has been involved in tech for over 25 years. His first website – AnotherWin95.com – came online in 1995. Back then he used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and what you see here today is the result of the work he has continued on the site since 1995. In January 2010 his community contributions were recognized by Microsoft when he was awarded the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for Windows Desktop Experience. In January 2011 he was renewed as a Microsoft MVP but in a new category called Windows Expert - Consumer and in January 2012 he received the award for the third time.