Free Microsoft Office Picture Manager Alternatives

All those who love Microsoft Office (MS Office), must be a fan of Microsoft Picture Manager, which is a good and productive free picture editing and picture management program. But it is unfortunate that Microsoft Office Picture Manager is no longer available with Office 2013. Although, there are ways through which you can install Microsoft Office Picture Manager 2010 in Microsoft Office 2013. 

But if you prefer installing some Microsoft Office picture manager alternatives, then this blog lists out such four picture manager alternative photo editing and management software available for free. 

IrfanView

If you are looking for a lightweight and quick picture organizer and viewer program with some good editing process, then IrfanView is a good choice. Compatible with support keyboard, this program offers fast access to the menu. It also supports a wide array of plug-ins and filters that really do wonders on pictures. You can also use the program to capture the screenshot of your desktop and create panorama new blank image. Besides images, this program can be used to open djvu.txt or other multimedia format files. 

The highlighted features of the program are listed below:

•  Rotate, crop, resize, flip picture
• Convert to Greyscale
•   Enhance Color
• Negative
•   Auto Adjust Color
•  Swap Color
• Sharpen Picture
• Support Plug-ins
• Red Eye Reduction
• Wide array of Picture Effects

PhotoScape

Photoscape is both a photo viewer and photo editor. It is an interesting and easy tool to do photo editing in a fun way. Apart from photo editing, the app tool can also be used for combining images, capturing the screen, splitting the images, creating gif. Just on opening the PhotoScape, it shows up the features available for use, making the interface of the tool very pleasant. The program also has some tabs, making it easy for the user to quickly access the features. To jump onto another menu, the user just needs to click on the respective tab. 

Feature:

• Batch process
• Add text, photo, or object to your photo
• Make round, give margin, and frame
• Rotate, resize, crop, flip photo
• Red Eye Reduction, Auto Color, Auto Contras
• Split or combine photo
• Create animated gif

Picasa

Picasa by Google is perhaps one of the most popular photo-editing software among the masses. The tool is useful in organizing, viewing, and editing the pictures. The best thing about this tool is that it can be used to sync a PC photo with the Picasa Website with the aid of Google Account. Thus, you can edit your pictures with Picasa and can straightaway make a library of these pictures in your Picasa website. You can use the tool to create movie from your photos. You can even add audio as background, choose transition style, and add captions.

Feature:

• Sync with Picasaweb using Google Account
• Red Eye Reduction, Auto Color, Auto Contras
• Batch process
• Add text to your photo
• Create screensaver
• Give photo effect
• Create movie

XnView

XnView is a utility that supports comfortable viewing and editing of graphics files. It has more than 400 types of graphics files. XnView has an enhanced version called XnView MP, which supports tabs on view pictures, capture images, use Adobe Photoshop plug-ins, and can even count the number of colors on a picture. The tool can also facilitate emailing of photos.

Feature: 

•  Batch process
• Enhance color, Change color depth, Swap color,
• Rotate, resize, crop, flip photo
• Support Adobe Photoshop plug-ins
• Count color used

The aforementioned photo managers are free programs and are easy to use owing to its simple editing tools. In fact, these have many new features that are not available in Microsoft Office Picture Manager. These programs allow a user to enjoy high level of editing but with simpler techniques.