Photo Editing WithMicrosoft Office Picture Manager

Cooperative Conversations

April 11, 2007

Nancy Michael

Photo Editing

Step One: Make a CopyTo find Picture Manager

Start/Microsoft Office/Microsoft Office Tools/Microsoft Office Picture Manager

Everyone has this programBasic edits only, nothing fancy!

Editing Photos

Brightness and ContrastColorCropRotate and FlipRed Eye RemovalResize/Compress Pictures

Brightness and Contrast

Can help lighten when you’re too far away for the flash to reach your subject

Can help darken when you’re too close and the flash overexposes your subject

Start with AutoBrightness Brightness – the lightness of the colors Contrast – the difference between the lightest and

darkest colors Midtones – the colors in between (what contrast doesn’t

fix)

Brightness and Contrast

Color

Enhance Color button – fixes colors using white as a benchmark

Amount and Hue – work together to affect the base color

Saturation – move to the left to make image black/white, move to right to intensify colors

Color

Crop

Aspect Ratio – If you’re going to print the picture, this is very important, it keeps your image square

Crop handles – use for fine adjustments

Crop

Rotate and Flip

Rotate Left/Right – click for 90º incrementsUse “by degree” for smaller changesFlip Horizontal/Vertical – make a mirror

image

Rotate and Flip

Red Eye Removal

Doesn’t work on animals!Save other changes before attempting to

make red-eye changes

Red Eye Removal

Resize/Compress

A must for sending pictures over e-mail or for uploading to websites

3 MB is great for printing, but overkill for looking at images on a computer screen

Make a copy first, you can’t zoom in after you’ve resized Document – 1024 x 768 or 800 x 600 Web – 640 x 480 or 448 x 336 E-mail – 314 x 235 or 160 x 160

Original: 3.14 MB 3000 x 1996 Resized: 309 KB (0.3 MB) 1024 x 681

Resize/Compress

Resize/Compress

Resize/Compress

Editing for Web Banner

Reduce file size first then crop to use large portion of the image

Crop first, then reduce file size to use smaller portion of the image

Editing for Web Banner

Other Products

Picasa http://picasa.google.com/index-new.html “Effects” tab “I’m Feeling Lucky” button

Photoshop Express Online http://www.photoshop.com/express “Effects” options Samples to preview for each mode

Picasa “Effects”

Photoshop Express

Other Products

GIMP http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html Very Advanced High Learning Curve