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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| Developed by | Microsoft |
| Latest release | 12.0.4518.1014 / April 17, 2007 |
| OS | Microsoft Windows |
| Genre | 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 starting with version 2003. It is a basic image editing and image management program. It replaced Microsoft Photo Editor, which had been included up to Office XP since Office 97.
The program went through several name revisions while in beta, notably starting out as Microsoft Office Picture Library 2003, then losing the 2003 designation (more reserved for the actual Office applications) in beta 2, and finally settling on the current name.
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[edit] Features
Microsoft Office Picture Manager has the ability to crop, resize, and convert images between various formats like Paint, but with comparably better picture quality, due to being able to select compression level.
It also sports several more advanced capabilities, such as batch editing/saving/renaming, fine-tuning of midtones, highlights, and shadows, and red-eye removal. It also has easy-to-use features such as one-click image compression, and resizing to a user's own choice. It does not however, offer any sort of actual drawing or text-editing tools.
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 team members over the Internet. It is also possible to easily export photos from the program to other Office programs, while allowing a user to specify custom image dimensions.
[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.
Another limitation is that users running Windows 2000 cannot print images using Picture Manager, whose printing function requires a wizard distributed with Windows XP.[4]
[edit] See also
[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.
- ^ Print command is not available in Picture Manager 2003
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