Vista - Questions about Photo Gallery

Hi!
I use Adobe Photohop Album today to handle my digital images. But Photo
Gallery seems to have all the functionality I need.
In Photoshop Album all metadata about the pictures are stored in a file
(.psa), how is this handled in Photo Gallery? Nice to know because this file
is very important to backup. I have spent serveral hours or days to tag my
pictures i Photoshop Album, is there a way to convert the tags to Photo
Gallery? (please say yes).

I've been investigating this and it seems the metadata is stored inside the
files themselves, using an XML-like format called RDF.
Here's more info:
http://www.w3.org/TR/photo-rdf/

There are some programs out there that can help you manipulate the data.

I've been trying to figure out a programmatic way to read and write this
data from inside the files but I've had little luck so far. Please let me
know if you run across anything.

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I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr,
MCSD, MVP, CSM, ASPInsider
http://SteveOrr.net


"Mattias" <Mattias@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7B910DD8-A7AB-43FA-A22A-A38A7CD0B712@microsoft.com...
> Hi!
> I use Adobe Photohop Album today to handle my digital images. But Photo
> Gallery seems to have all the functionality I need.
> In Photoshop Album all metadata about the pictures are stored in a file
> (.psa), how is this handled in Photo Gallery? Nice to know because this
> file
> is very important to backup. I have spent serveral hours or days to tag my
> pictures i Photoshop Album, is there a way to convert the tags to Photo
> Gallery? (please say yes).
>

I was wondering about this and video tagging in Photogallery (xvid, divx,
avi, etc...) . I have tagged a few videos with some info (working on a
family project, wanted to keep the tags straight) and when I logged in as
another user, the tags were not there for the videos, they were all marked as
untagged. It seems like if it were stored in the video itself, I would be
able to see it via another user. I don't want to spend hours organizing only
to have to do it all over again if I have to re-install or restore. Any
information would be very helpful.

"Steve C. Orr [MCSD, MVP, CSM, ASP Inside" wrote:

> I've been investigating this and it seems the metadata is stored inside the
> files themselves, using an XML-like format called RDF.
> Here's more info:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/photo-rdf/
>
> There are some programs out there that can help you manipulate the data.
>
> I've been trying to figure out a programmatic way to read and write this
> data from inside the files but I've had little luck so far. Please let me
> know if you run across anything.
>
> --
> I hope this helps,
> Steve C. Orr,
> MCSD, MVP, CSM, ASPInsider
> http://SteveOrr.net
>
>
> "Mattias" <Mattias@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7B910DD8-A7AB-43FA-A22A-A38A7CD0B712@microsoft.com...
> > Hi!
> > I use Adobe Photohop Album today to handle my digital images. But Photo
> > Gallery seems to have all the functionality I need.
> > In Photoshop Album all metadata about the pictures are stored in a file
> > (.psa), how is this handled in Photo Gallery? Nice to know because this
> > file
> > is very important to backup. I have spent serveral hours or days to tag my
> > pictures i Photoshop Album, is there a way to convert the tags to Photo
> > Gallery? (please say yes).
> >
>

It would be great if we could simply Photoshop Albums .tly file.


"Steve C. Orr [MCSD, MVP, CSM, ASP Inside" wrote:

> I've been investigating this and it seems the metadata is stored inside the
> files themselves, using an XML-like format called RDF.
> Here's more info:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/photo-rdf/
>
> There are some programs out there that can help you manipulate the data.
>
> I've been trying to figure out a programmatic way to read and write this
> data from inside the files but I've had little luck so far. Please let me
> know if you run across anything.
>
> --
> I hope this helps,
> Steve C. Orr,
> MCSD, MVP, CSM, ASPInsider
> http://SteveOrr.net
>
>
> "Mattias" <Mattias@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7B910DD8-A7AB-43FA-A22A-A38A7CD0B712@microsoft.com...
> > Hi!
> > I use Adobe Photohop Album today to handle my digital images. But Photo
> > Gallery seems to have all the functionality I need.
> > In Photoshop Album all metadata about the pictures are stored in a file
> > (.psa), how is this handled in Photo Gallery? Nice to know because this
> > file
> > is very important to backup. I have spent serveral hours or days to tag my
> > pictures i Photoshop Album, is there a way to convert the tags to Photo
> > Gallery? (please say yes).
> >
>