Microsoft Office Picture Manager
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| Microsoft Office Picture Manager | |
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 Microsoft Office Picture Manager on Windows XP. |
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| Developer: | Microsoft |
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| Latest release: | 11.0.6550.8036 / March 17, 2005 |
| OS: | Microsoft Windows |
| Use: | Raster graphics editor |
| License: | Proprietary EULA |
| Website: | Picture Manager page on office.microsoft.com |
Microsoft Office Picture Manager is a software program included with Microsoft Office suite for Windows 2003 and later. It is a basic image-editing and image-management program, designed to be similar to iPhoto and other such apps. It replaced Microsoft Photo Editor, which was included in Microsoft Office 97, 2000, and XP.
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[edit] Features
The Picture Manager has a few capabilities not present in the Paint program included with Windows, but not too many. It has the ability to crop, resize, and convert images between various formats, like Paint, but with comparably better picture quality and better photo compression.
It also sports more advanced capabilities, such as batch editing/saving/renaming, fine-tuning of midtones, highlights, shadows and red-eye removal. On the other hand, it sports easy-to-use features such as one-click image compression and resizing of a user's own choice.
One of its unique features is the ability to link and upload pictures to a Microsoft SharePoint picture library. Therefore, a user can easily share photos among teamworkers on the Internet. It is also possible to easily export photos from the program to other Office programs, and allowing a user to specify custom image dimensions before the export.
For more than just very basic tasks, users would probably wish to use a more powerful program such as Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks, or The GIMP. Also, users running Windows 2000 cannot print images using Picture Manager, whose printing function requires a wizard distributed with Windows XP.
[edit] Disadvantages
While Office Picture Manager replaced Photo Editor, it lacks several Photo Editor features which many felt were useful.[1][2] Microsoft has published instructions on how to reinstall the Photo Editor.[3] Historically, a similar situation occurred when Microsoft Imager was replaced with Photo Editor when upgrading to Office 97 from Office 95.
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[edit] References
- ^ Tyson, Herb. MS Photo Editor, Wherefore Art Thou?. TechTrax. Retrieved on 2006-10-23.
- ^ List of Photo Editor features which are not available in Picture Manager 2003. Microsoft Knowledge Base (August 16, 2006). Retrieved on 2006-10-23.
- ^ Photo Editor is removed when you install Office 2003. Microsoft Knowledge Base (January 10, 2006). Retrieved on 2006-10-23.
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