How do you work with the Photo Library in SharePoint 2010?

SharePoint 2010 Photo Libraries are one of the most broken features I have found yet.

It is bad enough that Microsoft Office Picture Manager 2010 MUST be installed, AND specific browser plugins from the DLL's MUST be enabled, AND the browser compatibility mode MUST be set to version 7 when 8 is the default in IE11!

Not only all that, but even afterward, once the "Download" options and "Open with Explorer" become available, they DON'T WORK!

I can't even download existing photos in the library using SharePoint Designer. How on earth am I supposed to get them back out, or expect an end user to make any sense of this?

I would have been happy enough to have a thumbnail column in a standard document library, but even that would require serious overhaul and the recreation of planet Earth.

Please help!

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