Working with Microsoft Office Picture Manager

Have you found Microsoft Office Picture Manager on your computer? This is a very helpful tool to resize images for the web. It is part of the Office 2003 software that is in stalled on all Extension computers. Here is how to find and use it:

Click Start Microsoft Office,find Microsoft Office Tools and click on Microsoft Picture Manager.
This application will do some quick editing to your digital pictures and will allow you to resize those images for the web.

The new digital cameras that are available now do 2 to 6 mega pixel images. This images while extremely clear are also very large. Their size makes them slow to download. Using MS Picture Manager you can adjust the size for email, the web or storing as a smaller image.

Before you upload images to FrontPage, open the folder where your pictures are stored; right mouse on the file name and a menu will appear. Click on open with.. Click again and choose Picture Manager. The image will appear in the Picture manager application.

If you have images in FrontPage Documents and they are loading slowly. Check in your folders in FrontPage. Look at the size of the jpg files. If the images are more than 150 KB, right mouse on an image go to Open With and click on Office Picture Manager. The image will appear. Now you are ready to compress the image for the web.

Looking at the menu bars across the top of the application, you will notice some familiar icons and menu's. The menu bar to the right allows for Auto Correct this will quickly adjust your image, BUT NOT CHANGE THE SIZE OF THE FILE.....

To Change Picture Size - Two option

Compress pictures will change the actual size of the file, not the image size. This is what we want to do to make the image load more quickly. Click on Compress Pictures, you will see several options, for the web is the one we want. Click on the web radio button. At the bottom of the page the old size and new size of the file will appear. Click OK then save the file by clicking on the button at the lower right corner. This will save the file back in FrontPage.