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36 days ago
Some customers acquiring new computers with Windows 7 will have a welcome surprise: they will receive a pre-installed and pre-registered copy of Microsoft Research AutoCollage Touch 2009, an advanced computer vision and image processing program which automatically creates collages of your pictures. This application showcases the same AutoCollage technology previously available through Microsoft Research AutoCollage 2008. However, the user experience has been modified to also showcase the touch and multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7. AutoCollage Touch 2009 is not an upgrade to the previously released AutoCollage 2008 versions. While the user license for AutoCollage 2008 allowed customers to use their acquired product key to register the application on up to 5 machines, the license for AutoCollage Touch 2009 cannot be transferred from the machine in which it came pre-installed. At this time, AutoCollage Touch 2009 is only available pre-installed by OEMs (Original Equipment ...
57 days ago
The Microsoft online store just opened in Australia, and it has AutoCollage listed: http://www.microsoftstore.com.au/shop/Microsoft/AutoCollage-2008
196 days ago
You used Microsoft Research AutoCollage 2008 to create a beautiful set of collages, and now want those to shuffle in your desktop background every 30 minutes? That is made easy by the Windows 7 Slide Show desktop background. By default, AutoCollage will save collages to a single folder under the standard “My Pictures” folder. The instructions below assume you want to use the collages saved to this default location for your desktop background: 1. Open the properties menu for the Windows 7 desktop and select the menu item Personalize. This will bring up the page “Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Personalization”. 2. Down on the page, click on the Desktop Background link. This will bring up the page “Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Personalization\Desktop Background”. 3. Click the Browse… button and on the “Browse For Folder” dialog expand the folder with your account name, and under it expand the ...
240 days ago
Customers using version 1.1 of AutoCollage will notice that this update will no longer lock files corresponding to the input images being shown by the application. As a consequence of this, before creating a new AutoCollage, the application will verify if the “Date modified” for each of the input images is more recent than the date/time when the file was last loaded. If that is the case, the input image is “refreshed”. A possible side-effect of this approach is that application may keep trying to refresh an input image that has the “Date modified” mistakenly set in the future. While uncommon, files with “Date modified” set in the future are at times created by the process to import a photo from a digital camera, mainly if the import process finishes with errors. If you face a scenario in which AutoCollage is not finishing the process to create a collage, verify if any of the input files has a “Date modified” set in the future, by looking at the file properties (right-click the file ...
283 days ago
All current users of the earlier version of Microsoft Research AutoCollage 2008 can obtain the new version through Microsoft Update. To obtain the full installer for the latest version of Microsoft Research AutoCollage 2008, visit the official download page.. This update includes several changes in response to customer feedback, as well as stability and performance improvements: - Ability to influence the selection of images for the AutoCollage . Users can influence which images are included in the collage, indicating which image should be the top-ranked and which one should be the second-ranked. Users can also indicate if an image should be preferred or avoided in the selection process. The image rating is automatically used to influence ranking, so an image with just 1 star will have less chance on being selected than an image with 5 stars. There is also visual feedback on which images will be included in the next AutoCollage. - Richer integration with Windows Live ...
