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MS Office Picture Manager

Robert Mayben: rmayben@bama.ua.edu

www.bama.ua.edu/~rmayben/tim/picmanager.htm

Editing Photos: Microsoft Office Picture Manager

Microsoft Office Picture Manager is a tool in Microsoft Office 2003.

MS Picture Manager enables you to do basic photo editing such as cropping, adjusting color, red-eye reduction, compression, resizing, and rotation.

To access Microsoft Office Picture Manager (2 Methods):

Method 1

1) Click Start then All Programs.

2) Locate Microsoft Office and then Microsoft Office Tools.

3) Microsoft Office Picture Manager will be in the Tools list.

Method 2

1) Locate the photo you wish to edit.

2) Right click on the photo.

3) Select Open With then Microsoft Office Picture Manager.

The following sites contain tutorials for using Microsoft Office Picture Manager:

1) Indiana State CTA:
http://web.indstate.edu/cta/Tutorials/faculty/common/picmanage/picmanager.htm

2) London School of Economics IT Guide:
http://ittraining.lse.ac.uk/Documentation/OnlineGuides/Picture-Manager.htm

3) UMass Office of Information Technology Printable Tutorial:
http://www.oit.umass.edu/workshops/tutorials/images_publishing/mspicmanage.pdf

4) Editing Photographs with MS Picture Manager Printable Tutorial:
http://www.nvcc.edu/alexandria/fstemplate/picturemanager.pdf

Using Microsoft Picture Manager

1) Locating Pictures & Picture Shortcuts (2 Methods)

2) Views

3) Editing Pictures

a. Editing Tools

b. Change Picture Size

i. Resize (Size of the Picture)

ii. Compress (Size of the File-Does Influence Photo Quality)

4) Saving Pictures

Æ It is good practice to save the edited image with a different file name so that your original will be preserved.

5) Saving As/Exporting to Different File Formats

Other Topics related to MS Picture Manager

1) Importing from Different Media Types (Camera, USB Drive, Flash Card, Card Reader)

2) Inserting photos into Word, PowerPoint, etc.

3) Attaching photos to an e-mail

4) Adding photos to your teacher web site