

You can opt to click the Auto Brightness button and Microsoft Picture Manager will adjust the brightness automatically. Click on Brightness and Contrast in the Picture menu and the Brightness and Contrast task pane will open. The first item in the Picture menu is Auto Correct, which will adjust brightness, sharpness and colors automatically. To make changes to a picture, though, you will want to go to the Picture menu. You will notice that the Picture Manager toolbar is similar to other Microsoft Office applications, with the familiar File, Edit and View menus. Once you have a photo opened in Microsoft Picture Manager, you can begin editing it. Edit a Photo in Microsoft Picture Manager If you have several types of picture files (such as gifs, jpgs, and so on), you will need to perform these steps on a picture of each file type. Make sure Always Use the Selected Program to Open This Kind of File is selected and click OK. Select Microsoft Office Picture Manager in the Open With window. Instead of selecting Microsoft Office Picture Manager, though, click on Choose Default Program. Again, right click a picture and select Open With. If you want to set Microsoft Picture Manager as the default program used to open picture files, you can set this from the right-click menu as well.

Click on Microsoft Office Picture Manager from the right-click menu, and Microsoft Picture Manager will open along with the picture.

Right click the picture and point to Open With. Or, if you are using Windows Vista (or Windows 7), click the Start button and type Picture Manager into the “Start Search” field and Microsoft Picture Manager will appear at the top of the Programs list in the left pane of the Start menu.Īnother way to open Microsoft Picture Manager is from a picture you want to open. Microsoft Picture Manager will likely be at the bottom of the Office Tools list. From the Start menu, point to All Programs, open the Microsoft Office folder and then open Microsoft Office Tools. The first is probably the most common way to open any program: via the Start Menu. There are a couple different ways to open Microsoft Picture Manager.
