Microsoft Photo Editor and Microsoft Office Picture Maker

I installed Office 2003 only because I could not get MS Photo Editor to open any photos that I have. My question for MS Office Picture Maker is, how do you make blurry pictures sharper? It will lighten a picture, get rid of red eye but I cannot find anything about focusing a picture that may need to be sharpened. Please help.

mcurtiss57,
If you are referring to Picture Manager which is included in Office 2003, it is not equal to Photo Editor in previous versions. It is basically what it says "Manager" and not much else...
You may want to look into a photo editing application such as Digital Image Suite or Adobe Photoshop Elements. Also there is a beta version of Creature House Expression 3 (recently aquired by Microsoft). It's a free download and available he
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/
Very good program and will do what you need.

Chris Schatte
--
use the Office Online web based newsreader he
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx
In Office System 2003 applications:
Help/Assistance Pane/open Communities


"mcurtiss57" wrote:

I installed Office 2003 only because I could not get MS Photo Editor to open any photos that I have. My question for MS Office Picture Maker is, how do you make blurry pictures sharper? It will lighten a picture, get rid of red eye but I cannot find anything about focusing a picture that may need to be sharpened. Please help.

Thanks for the info. After reading some of the postings I did re-install MS Photo Editor but could not get it to sharpen my pictures to quality that would be worth printing. Thanks also for the download info and I'll try it and see if it helps.

"Chris Schatte" wrote:

mcurtiss57,
If you are referring to Picture Manager which is included in Office 2003, it is not equal to Photo Editor in previous versions. It is basically what it says "Manager" and not much else...
You may want to look into a photo editing application such as Digital Image Suite or Adobe Photoshop Elements. Also there is a beta version of Creature House Expression 3 (recently aquired by Microsoft). It's a free download and available he
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/
Very good program and will do what you need.

Chris Schatte
--
use the Office Online web based newsreader he
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx
In Office System 2003 applications:
Help/Assistance Pane/open Communities


"mcurtiss57" wrote:

I installed Office 2003 only because I could not get MS Photo Editor to open any photos that I have. My question for MS Office Picture Maker is, how do you make blurry pictures sharper? It will lighten a picture, get rid of red eye but I cannot find anything about focusing a picture that may need to be sharpened. Please help.

mcurtiss57,
From the same postings, running Photo Editor from previous versions with Office 2003 is... not that great an experience for everyone who tries.

Chris Schatte
--
use the Office Online web based newsreader he
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx
In Office System 2003 applications:
Help/Assistance Pane/open Communities


"mcurtiss57" wrote:

Thanks for the info. After reading some of the postings I did re-install MS Photo Editor but could not get it to sharpen my pictures to quality that would be worth printing. Thanks also for the download info and I'll try it and see if it helps.

"Chris Schatte" wrote:

mcurtiss57,
If you are referring to Picture Manager which is included in Office 2003, it is not equal to Photo Editor in previous versions. It is basically what it says "Manager" and not much else...
You may want to look into a photo editing application such as Digital Image Suite or Adobe Photoshop Elements. Also there is a beta version of Creature House Expression 3 (recently aquired by Microsoft). It's a free download and available he
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/
Very good program and will do what you need.

Chris Schatte
--
use the Office Online web based newsreader he
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx
In Office System 2003 applications:
Help/Assistance Pane/open Communities


"mcurtiss57" wrote:

I installed Office 2003 only because I could not get MS Photo Editor to open any photos that I have. My question for MS Office Picture Maker is, how do you make blurry pictures sharper? It will lighten a picture, get rid of red eye but I cannot find anything about focusing a picture that may need to be sharpened. Please help.

"Chris Schatte" wrote

From the same postings, running Photo Editor from previous
versions with Office 2003 is... not that great an
experience
for everyone who tries.

In what way? I'm using Office XP. On the looks of it, I
won't be moving on to Office 2003 but I'm concerned about
the future. Why was Photo Editor yanked and replaced with
such a crippled substitute?

--
Bob
Kanyak's Doghouse
http://www.kanyak.com

AMEN to that! I am a graphic artist and work with digital photos all of the time,
downloading and editing the ones my bosses take. Photo Editor is a gem of a program as it makes it extremely easy to adjust contrast, gamma, or to enhance red, green, blue. For instance whenever they take an indoor shot that has fluorescent lighting, things look yellow. All I have to do is to add blue in Photo Editor to balance things out. Works like a snap!!!

Photo Editor is my default for opening JPGs and is so quick and easy---saves me from having to use Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro which are more complicated.

I think Microsoft should make Photo Editor available free at www.downloads.com. Yes I have Win2000 and there is a glitch whereby I cannot rotate an image in Photo Editor as the screen turns white. But no matter. Most of my work is in color and brightness editing and I prefer to us Photo Editor. PSP7 is great at rotating.

SHAME ON MICROSOFT for tossing out this great piece of software and replacing it with a pathetic wannabe.

Michelle in Kansas City

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"Opinicus" wrote:

"Chris Schatte" wrote

From the same postings, running Photo Editor from previous
versions with Office 2003 is... not that great an
experience
for everyone who tries.

In what way? I'm using Office XP. On the looks of it, I
won't be moving on to Office 2003 but I'm concerned about
the future. Why was Photo Editor yanked and replaced with
such a crippled substitute?

--
Bob
Kanyak's Doghouse
http://www.kanyak.com

Opinicus,
Ask Microsoft about Photo Editor, and PhotoDraw from Office 2000 era which was (still is) a better Program than PE or PM.
The future is newer versions of Office or its morph, and left behind parts that we all use, have used... because times change.

Chris Schatte
--
use the Office Online web based newsreader he
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx
In Office System 2003 applications:
Help/Assistance Pane/open Communities


"Opinicus" wrote:

"Chris Schatte" wrote

From the same postings, running Photo Editor from previous
versions with Office 2003 is... not that great an
experience
for everyone who tries.

In what way? I'm using Office XP. On the looks of it, I
won't be moving on to Office 2003 but I'm concerned about
the future. Why was Photo Editor yanked and replaced with
such a crippled substitute?

--
Bob
Kanyak's Doghouse
http://www.kanyak.com