List of Photo Editor features which are not available in Picture Manager 2003 (827740)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
  • Microsoft Office Word 2003
  • Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
  • Microsoft Office Excel 2003
  • Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

SUMMARY

Microsoft Photo Editor has been discontinued as a Microsoft Office component in Office 2003. A new component in Office 2003 is Microsoft Picture Manager 2003. While Picture Manager 2003 is not primarily an image editor as was Photo Editor, it does have some image correction and editing features.

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The following image editing features that were in Photo Editor do not have a corresponding equivalent feature in Picture Manager 2003:

  1. Effects

    The following features that were available on the Effects menu in Photo Editor are not available in Picture Manager 2003:
    • Sharpen
    • Soften
    • Negative
    • Despeckle
    • Posterize
    • Edge
    • Chalk and Charcoal
    • Emboss
    • Graphic Pen
    • Notepaper
    • Watercolor
    • Stained Glass
    • Stamp
    • Texturizer

  2. Tools

    The following features that were available on the Tools menu in Photo Editor are not available in Picture Manager 2003:
    • Smudge
    • Sharpen
    • Set Transparent Color

  3. Image Acquisition

    You cannot create a new image from a scanner or a camera.

    Note In Microsoft Windows XP, the capability to create a new image from a scanner and a camera is built in Microsoft Windows Explorer.

  4. Image

    There are fewer color correction options that are available in Picture Manager 2003 than there were available in Photo Editor. Specifically, there is not a Gamma adjustment or the ability to apply corrections to only one of the three color components red-green-blue (RGB).

  5. Properties

    You cannot explicitly specify the image resolution dots per inch (dpi) or the color depth of images in Picture Manager 2003.
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:8/16/2006
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