Transcript Photo Editing With Microsoft Office Picture Manager

Photo Editing With
Microsoft Office Picture Manager
Cooperative Conversations
April 11, 2007
Nancy Michael
Photo Editing
Step One: Make a Copy
To find Picture Manager
Start/Microsoft Office/Microsoft Office
Tools/Microsoft Office Picture Manager
Everyone has this program
Basic edits only, nothing fancy!
Editing Photos
Brightness and Contrast
Color
Crop
Rotate and Flip
Red Eye Removal
Resize/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 increments
Use “by degree” for smaller changes
Flip 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