windows photo gallery

[_CragTheCode]

Concerning windows photo gallery:

1) the graphic after cropped can be undo even it is saved. What is that
means? How it works? What happen if other program open it? Can anyone give
me some technical info on that?

2) animated gif is not supported? Then it is worse the Fax and image viewer
in windows XP?!

 

[Jon]

Concerning windows photo gallery:

1) the graphic after cropped can be undo even it is saved. What is that
means? How it works? What happen if other program open it? Can anyone give
me some technical info on that?

You'll find the original images stored in

"%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows Photo Gallery\Original Images"

so they can be restored via the program.

2) animated gif is not supported? Then it is worse the Fax and image
viewer in windows XP?!

I think the reasoning there was that animated gifs are insecure - security
being the big thing with Vista. It's certainly a loss though, I would agree.

 

[_CragTheCode]

You'll find the original images stored in

"%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows Photo Gallery\Original Images"
so they can be restored via the program.

Jon,
So do u mean the cropped and uncropped (backup) files are 2 separated files
and is only "remembered" by the windows photo gallery?

 

[Jon]

Jon,
So do u mean the cropped and uncropped (backup) files are 2 separated
files and is only "remembered" by the windows photo gallery?

Sort of. When 'Windows Photo Gallery' is running then it does remember your
changes (without saving to disk), so you can click 'undo'.

When you fully exit the program, however, it saves a copy of the original
to the folder previously mentioned so you can later click 'revert' and get
the original back the next time you run Photo Gallery.

So I suppose strictly speaking it remembers the 'undos' and saves the
'reverts'.

 

[_CragTheCode]

Sort of. When 'Windows Photo Gallery' is running then it does remember

your changes (without saving to disk), so you can click 'undo'.

When you fully exit the program, however, it saves a copy of the original
to the folder previously mentioned so you can later click 'revert' and get
the original back the next time you run Photo Gallery.

So I suppose strictly speaking it remembers the 'undos' and saves the
'reverts'.

So that means the information for "revert" is not saved in the graphic file,
and other program such as Photoshop can open and modify the file (which has
been previously modified by photo gallery) as usual.
And Windows Photo gallery can "revert" it to original file by searching for
a file with same file name store in folder previously mentioned and replace
it, i suppose.

Thanks.

 

[Jon]

So that means the information for "revert" is not saved in the graphic
file, and other program such as Photoshop can open and modify the file
(which has been previously modified by photo gallery) as usual.
And Windows Photo gallery can "revert" it to original file by searching
for a file with same file name store in folder previously mentioned and
replace it, i suppose.

Thanks.

Sort of. To get slightly more technical, a 'Unique Image Id" gets stored
within the modified picture file as metadata, and also forms the first part
of the name of the original backup at

"%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows Photo Gallery\Original Images"

when you first modify it with Photo Gallery. This explains why you can
rename, make copies and / or move a picture to a different location and
Windows Photo Gallery still recognizes each of those as a picture for which
it has a backup.

So yes, I suppose as long as you don't mess with that metadata in the file
during your Photoshop modifications, you should be good to go.

 

[_CragTheCode]

So that means the information for "revert" is not saved in the graphic

Sort of. To get slightly more technical, a 'Unique Image Id" gets stored
within the modified picture file as metadata, and also forms the first
part of the name of the original backup at

"%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows Photo Gallery\Original Images"

when you first modify it with Photo Gallery. This explains why you can
rename, make copies and / or move a picture to a different location and
Windows Photo Gallery still recognizes each of those as a picture for
which it has a backup.

So yes, I suppose as long as you don't mess with that metadata in the file
during your Photoshop modifications, you should be good to go.

Yes, even if i rename, copy/move it and modify the new files in photo
gallery, i still can revert it.
Thanks for your helpful technical info.