Tag pictures so they're easier to findFinding a picture on your computer can be very difficult, especially if you have hundreds of pictures. Using Windows Photo Gallery, you can make it easier to find your pictures by applying tags and ratings to the pictures. Later, you can use the Navigation pane or the Search box to filter the pictures by tags or ratings. | To add tags to pictures | | | 1.
| Open Windows Photo Gallery by clicking the Start button  , clicking All Programs, and then clicking Windows Photo Gallery. | | 2.
| Click the picture that you want to tag. | | 3.
| If the Info pane is not displayed, click Info on the toolbar. | | 4.
| In the Info pane, click Add Tags, type a tag name, and then press ENTER.  | | The Info pane in Photo Gallery displaying tags for the selected picture |
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 | Organize your tags by nesting them in groups | | If you add a lot of tags, you might discover that it is difficult to keep track of a long list of tags in the Navigation pane. If you have groups of related tags, you might want to nest them instead. Consider, for example, this set of tags, which you might use to organize pictures of your family: | • | Family | | • | Children | | • | Grandparents | | • | Relatives |
Because three of these tags belong to a larger set ("Family"), you can nest them in the Navigation pane. This has several advantages: | • | You can expand and collapse the top-level tag as if it were a folder with subfolders. This lets you hide the tags that are nested under the top-level tag and simplify the view when you don't want to see all the tags. | | • | You can click the top-level tag to see all of the pictures that are tagged with both the top-level tag and any of the nested tags. If you want to see only pictures with a tag that's nested under the top-level tag, click that tag instead. |
A set of nested tags looks like this:  | | The top-level Family tag (left) and the top-level Family tag expanded to show the tags that are nested beneath it (right) |
| To nest tags | | | 1.
| Create the tags that you want to use. | | 2.
| In the Navigation pane, drag a tag that you want to be nested to the tag that you want to make the top-level tag. | | 3.
| Continue to drag any additional tags to the top-level tag. | |
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Tag
A custom file property that you create to help find and organize your files.
Filter
To display files that meet certain criteria. For example, you might filter files by a particular author so that you only see the files written by that person. Filtering does not delete files, it simply changes the view so that you only see the files that meet your criteria.
Drag
To move an item on the screen by selecting the item and then pressing and holding down the mouse button while moving the mouse. For example, you can move a window to another location on the screen by dragging its title bar.
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