editing pictures

Editing pictures

- using the "build-in" photo editor from Windows

Playing with images - editing pictures - is one of the really fun parts of using a computer. Maybe you want to use your own photos in a birthday email, or you just want to resize your photos to be able to share them with friends and family. There are a lot of photo editors to choose from: If you are willing to spend some money on a good photo editor...

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photo Elements
Painshop Pro
Pixbuilder Studio

- are just a few of them.

However, there are quite a few FREE downloadable editors as well, and some of them are actually excellent, but they are not neccesarily easy to use, if you don't have experience with editing pictures.

For simple editing like resizing, cropping, adjusting brightness and contrast, Windows users have a great tool already: The Microsoft Office Picture Manager

If you want to learn how to use it to edit your images, you can download this little manual. It is a PDF file and you download it by clicking the link below. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it and if you don't have that, you can downlad it HERE

When you are sure you have the Reader, you can download this little manual: Editing Images

When you click the link above, it will open a new window with the PDF file. If you want to save it on your hard disk...

Click Files
then "Save as..
- define where on your computer you want to save it Name the file (or leave it as is)
Click OK

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