1. Photo Editing With Microsoft Office Picture Manager Cooperative Conversations April 11, 2007 Nancy Michael

2. 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!

3. Editing Photos Brightness and Contrast Color Crop Rotate and Flip Red Eye Removal Resize/Compress Pictures

4. Brightness and Contrast Can help lighten when youre too far away for the flash to reach your subject Can help darken when youre 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 doesnt fix)

5. Brightness and Contrast

6. 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

7. Color

8. Crop Aspect Ratio – If youre going to print the picture, this is very important, it keeps your image square Crop handles – use for fine adjustments

9. Crop

10. Rotate and Flip Rotate Left/Right – click for 90º increments Use by degree for smaller changes Flip Horizontal/Vertical – make a mirror image

11. Rotate and Flip

12. Red Eye Removal Doesnt work on animals! Save other changes before attempting to make red-eye changes

13. Red Eye Removal

14. 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 cant zoom in after youve 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

15. Resize/Compress

18. 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

19. Editing for Web Banner

20. Other Products Picasa http://picasa.google.com/index-new.html Effects tab Im Feeling Lucky button Photoshop Express Online http://www.photoshop.com/express Effects options Samples to preview for each mode

21. Picasa Effects

22. Photoshop Express

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