Wednesday, June 11, 2014

61. Microsoft Office Picture Manager


Microsoft Office Picture manager is an editing tool used to manipulate and compress  photos. There are a number of  similar programs applications such as Picasso  that can be used. I choose to use Microsoft Office Picture manager as this application comes with the Microsoft suite, so is readily at hand and is not dependent on  having online access.

Microsoft Office Picture manager can:
1. Compress photos to a suitable size for posting on blogs and web pages.
2. Resize photos. Squeezing a photo to a smaller size only makes the photo smaller in area, not smaller in resolution, or pixel sixe
3. Rotate photos
4. Crop
5. Remove red eye
6. Add / lessen colour contract and brightness
7. Auto correct
8. And of course saving, exporting, printing etc.

Click once on any photo and then right mouse click on the photo. Scroll down to Open with and scroll onto Microsoft Office Picture manager.

How can I use this in my classroom?


Manipulating photos
Compressing photos for email, blogs and presentations, Probably the biggest use
Cropping and manipulating images. Teach your students to be discerning about an image.
Montages
Student work

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