How to publish photographs to Windows Live Spaces using Windows Live Photo Gallery

Windows Live Photo Gallery has a number of cool features such as panoramic views and tagging.  Another of these great features is the ability to publish photographs to your Windows Live Space directly from Windows Live Photo Gallery.

We're going to assume you already have a Windows Live Space.  If not, you can set one up at http://spaces.live.com.

Open up the Photo Gallery application (Click on Start -> Programs -> Windows Live -> Photo Gallery).

Open up the album you wish to upload, or import photos into Windows Live Photo Gallery,

Once you have done this, go through and 'tick' the photos you wish to upload by clicking on the selected photos (the selected ones will get tinted blue).

After you have done this, click on Publish on the menu bar, and select Publish on Windows Live Spaces.

You will then be asked to sign in with a username and password if you haven't used the service before - simply use your Windows Live ID (the universal passport system used by Windows Live applications and services such as Spaces, Hotmail and Messenger).

You can then chose whether to create an album (very useful if you're uploading a group of photographs, such as a party, trip or holiday) or posting to an existing album (more useful for 'profile pictures' or to add images to an existing set).

And then it's simply a case of pressing publish and waiting as the photographs are uploaded.

Tip: For the best quality photographs, tick "Optimise photos for Printing" which will upload photographs in high definition.

Tip: You can also set permissions as to who can view your album in case you wanted to make the album only visible to friends.

Once the upload process is done, your photos will be available on your space.