What is MS Photo Editor?

Microsoft Photo Editor comes FREE with Microsoft Office and allows the
user to quickly and easily manipulate digital images. The type of file
formats that MS Photo Editor can open and save to are: gif, bmp, jpg, jpeg,
tif, png, and pcd.

As an alternative to Adobe Photoshop, MS Photo Editor is easy to use and
has a much smaller set of tools and options to work with. Photo Editor
is handy for basic photo and image manipulation tasks such as cropping,
resizing, and stylizing. For advanced tasks we recommend Adobe
Photoshop (see Photoshop QuickStart Guide). See also Photoshop Elements
as an intermediate alternative.

Starting out . . .

1. Start MS Photo Editor by clicking the following:
   Start > All Programs > Microsoft > Microsoft Office Tools > MS Photo Editor

2. Choose File > Open
  to open the image you want to work with.

MS Photo Editor's Workspace

The workspace consists mainly of a menu bar, a tool bar, and the space to display the image.

Tool Bar - Quick Reference

The tool bar provides a quick way to manipulate your images.

Resizing and Cropping . . .

Crop an image

1 Click Select on the Standard toolbar, and then drag over the area of your image you want to keep.

2 On the Image menu, click Crop.

3 Select the options you want.

Note You can combine cropping and matting to create attractive framing effects.

4. Click Ok

Resizing an image

1 On the Image menu, click Resize.

2 Enter the new width or height, or the percentage of the original.

3 Click Ok

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