Microsoft has also added new upload plug-ins, with support for sharing images on Facebook and videos on YouTube, as well as storing files on its own Windows Live SkyDrive service. Use the 'More Tools' option in the Create tab to download plug-ins, launch installed applications and open the currently selected images in any other image-editing tools you might have installed on your PC. One feature of Live Photo Gallery that often gets overlooked is its ability to launch other image editing tools, like Photosynth and Microsoft Research's advanced image stitching and collage tools. It's a surprisingly useful tool and one that gives you effective results for very little effort. Photo Fuse capably blends the images, leaving you with the photo you wanted to take in the first place. You can then drop the section of image you want into place. Once you've selected the area to edit (typically a head) you'll be shown the alternative content from the other images. Select the images and Live Photo Gallery will align them, giving you one base image to work with. If you've taken several photos of a group of people only to find that someone's blinking in each one, you can use this to collect all the open eyes and bring them into one final version. Photo Fuse is another of the brand-new features in this version. All you need to do is drag a rectangle around the area you want to change, and let Live Photo Gallery do the rest. Unlike other retouch tools, this isn't a healing brush and so it doesn't need you to create an accurate outline around what you want to remove. Once you open an image and move to the Edit tab, you'll find more image-processing tools, including red eye removal and a Retouch tool that helps to remove blemishes. You can auto-correct, tweak colours and exposure and apply basic image effects without opening images, something that speeds up basic image processing workflow. To start with, most of the basic editing features are available in the gallery itself. The image-editing features are the most exciting part of the app.

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