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Importing Photos

• Type in a name for this group of photos

• Click on the Browse button to find the folder to save the photos to

• Click on a folder in the My Pictures folder or • Make a new folder by clicking on the My Pictures folder first

and then click on Make New Folder • Type in the name for the new folder and click OK • Click Next • Click Next and Finish • Your new folder of photos will open

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Edit Photos

Microsoft Office Picture Manager

• Go to Start – All Programs – Microsoft Office – Microsoft Office tools – Microsoft Office Picture Manager

• Your screen should look something like this

• If you haven’t got all the toolbars or side menus then go to View and make sure all of these are selected

o Thumbnails o Task Pane o Shortcuts o Show File Names o Show Pictures only

• If your Task Pane at the left is not visible then click on the Shortcuts button

WARNING: before resizing or compressing your photos Save another copy of that photo, Click on a photo, press Ctrl C on the keyboard and then press Ctrl V. (this will mean that you have 2 copies of the same photo.) Do this because when you have compressed or resized your photo you will be asked to save at some stage and all changes will be saved, which means the original quality of your photo will be lost.

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• This is your ‘My Pictures Folder’, to see all of it click on the Plus sign • Click on a Folder and all of the pictures inside of it will appear

• Rename a picture by clicking once on it and once again then type in a new name

• Double clicking a picture will bring it into full screen and you can use the Zoom button to zoom in and out

• Clicking on the AutoCorrect button will automatically correct colour, brightness and contrast of your photo

• Click on the Edit Pictures button to make changes to the photos

Edit Photos

To change Brightness

Click on Brightness and Contrast Select Auto brightness or move the controllers to adjust it manually. To go back to other options click on the arrow

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Edit Photos

To change Colour click on Color Select Enhance Color or move the controllers to adjust it manually. To go back to other options click on the arrow

• To crop the photos • Click on Crop . • Click on the Black handles in the middle or corners and drag

to the centre of the photo. • Click OK. • If you have made a mistake click on the Undo

arrow in the Toolbar. • To go back to other options click on the arrow

To Rotate a picture Click on Rotate. Choose the option you want. To go back to other options click on

the arrow

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Edit Photos To fix redeye

• Click on The Redeye removal button. • Place your mouse over the eye and click, continue to click

on all the red eyes in the photo. • Click OK when you have finished. • To go back to other options click on the arrow.

To resize the photo • Click on Resize.

• Click in the

Predefined width x height.

• Select from those choices or click on Percentage of original width…, type in a percentage like 50, click OK.

• To go back to other

options click on the arrow.

To compress the photo Click on Compress Pictures. Choose what you want to compress for (the email option is very tiny). See the difference in size under heading Estimated total size, Click OK. To go back to other options click on

the arrow.

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More on Photos

• Go back to the beginning options by clicking on the Home button .

• Rename pictures in this option by clicking on Rename pictures .

• Click on the picture to be renamed and type in the name of the picture and press OK.

• To go back to other options click on the arrow .

Email pictures • In this option click on Email pictures.

• Click on Attached to the message, or

Displayed as previews. • Choose a preview size and click on Create

Message. Outlook will open and you can type in email address and message and press OK

Find out the size of your photo by clicking on it and looking down at the bottom left of the information bar

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Quick Photo presentation

• Send a whole group of photos to PowerPoint or Word. • Click on one photo or hold down the Ctrl key and click on multiple photos,

click on Send Pictures to Microsoft office • Select PowerPoint and Send and they will all appear in a PowerPoint

presentation.

More on Photos

Send photos to another location on your hardrive, Select photos, click on Browse and select folder you would like to send them to, change name and file type if you wish and finally decided what size you want to export them. Click OK.

View Pictures in different ways by clicking on the three choices available to you

Thumbnail view Filmstrip view Single picture.

Thumbnail Filmstrip

Single Picture