Microsoft Office Picture Manager (formerly Microsoft Picture Library) is a raster graphics editor introduced in

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and included up to

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. It is the replacement to Microsoft Photo Editor introduced in

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and included up to

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. Basic image editing features include color correct,

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, flip, resize, and rotate. To facilitate image organization, Picture Manager includes a shortcut pane to which users can manually—or automatically through a ''Locate Pictures'' command—add shortcuts to folders in a hierarchical file system layout, which eliminates the need to create new categories for images or to import them to a specific folder. Picture Manager allows users to share images in

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, to an intranet location, or to a

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. It also allows images to be shared directly with

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, and

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. Microsoft terminated support for Picture Manager with the release of

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and recommended Photos and Word as replacements because of their

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capabilities.

History

Picture Manager (known at the time as Picture Library) was first released in 2002 alongside

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(then known as Office 11) Beta 1 and included crop, red-eye removal, resize, and rotate features. In Office 2003 Beta 2, released in March 2003, it retained its preliminary Picture Library name and integrated with SharePoint by automatically opening when users added multiple images to a library; users could access these images from within other Office 2003 applications with the Shared Workspace task pane. Picture Manager is included in Office 2003 through Office 2010; it was no longer included with versions of

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starting with Office 2013. However, it is available as an optional component in SharePoint Designer 2007 and can be installed as a standalone application; SharePoint Designer 2007 was made available in 2009 as

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. Picture Manager is also available as an optional component of SharePoint Designer 2010. With the release of Microsoft Office 2010 SP2 in 2013, Microsoft updated Picture Manager to resolve an issue that caused it to crash when

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was active.

Features

The

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of Picture Manager consists of menus, toolbars, a shortcut pane, and task panes; it supports editing and navigation

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s. Users can manually add folder shortcuts to the shortcut pane or automatically populate the pane with folders that include images through a ''Locate Pictures'' command, which eliminates the need for users to create new image categories or to import images from another location. The shortcut pane by default does not list any folders. Images displayed in Picture Manager can be viewed individually or in

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arrangements, and users can

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in or out of images. Picture Manager does not display GIF image animation and, like the version of Photo Editor included with Office XP, does not support the

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image format. Basic image editing features include color correct, crop, flip, resize, and rotate. Advanced features include

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, contrast,

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, and

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adjustment;

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;

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; and red-eye removal. An ''AutoCorrect'' command can automatically adjust brightness, contrast, and color. All editing capabilities are listed on an ''Edit Pictures'' task pane. Images can be compressed with options for insertion into

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s, email, or web pages. After editing, users can view or discard unsaved changes, overwrite the original image, rename and save the new image, or export it to another location. Users can also share images in email, to an intranet location, or to a SharePoint library. Picture Manager users running

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cannot print images from the application, as this feature requires a wizard distributed with

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Comparison with Photo Editor

Picture Manager lacks several

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features of its predecessor, Photo Editor, including

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, noise reduction,

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options, smudge, and unsharp mask features. The following effects of Photo Editor are not included in Picture Manager: ''Chalk and Charcoal'', ''Edge'', ''Graphic Pen'', '' Negative'', ''Notepaper'', '' Posterize'', '' Sharpen'', ''Soften'', '' Stained Glass'', ''Stamp'', ''Texturizer'', and ''

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''. Picture Manager also cannot create new images from a

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or from a scanner. Microsoft stated that this feature is native to

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in Windows XP and that users are not required to import images to manage them. Microsoft has published instructions on how to reinstall Photo Editor. Historically, a similar reduction in features occurred when Photo Editor of Office 97 replaced Microsoft Imager of

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References

{{Microsoft Office 2003 software Discontinued Microsoft software Image viewers Picture Manager Raster graphics editors Windows-only software

History

Features

Comparison with Photo Editor

See also

References