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- 26 January, 2007 -
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Microsoft is courting the professional photography market and is making a concerted effort to reach out to pro photographers. So far they launched the Professional photography with Windows XP website, held the Microsoft Pro Photo summit and released a couple of software tools to add to the Windows XP environment.
The first tool is the Microsoft RAW Image Viewer which lets Windows XP work with RAW images like JPEGs or GIFs. It shows previews of the files when you are in thumbnail view, allows you to double click on a RAW file to see a full-screen view or start a slideshow and allows RAW images to be printed with the built-in XP photo printing function that allows you to print contact sheets or whatever size photo you want.
The other tool that I’ve found useful is the Microsoft Photo Info Tool that allows you to view and edit the metadata stored in the photo file. Metadata is becoming more and more important with photos as web search engines like google scan the metadata and web applications like flickr post information from it.
