Microsoft Photo Editor and Microsoft Office Picture Maker

[mcurtiss57]

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]

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 here:
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/
Very good program and will do what you need.

Chris Schatte

 

[mcurtiss57]

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]

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

 

[Opinicus]

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?

 

[Chris Schatte]

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