Frequently Asked Photo Questions for April

27.04.2009

If you want to try your hand at some photo editing for free, there's also the . It's quite nice, but you might find it somewhat harder to learn to use than one of the commercial packages.

I've spent days trying to get my pictures posted to a Web site. I was told to go to Microsoft Picture Manager and then select "Web small" and save. Sounds easy, right? Well, I can't find the program. What do I do?--Colleen Hansen, Knox, Pennsylvania

Picture Manager is a utility that comes with Microsoft Office, Colleen, so if you don't have Office, you won't have Picture Manager, either. And I should point out that what you describe won't post the picture online; it'll only make the photo smaller so it's easier to post online.

I think you need to figure out what you really want to do. Do you want to e-mail the photo to someone? Then right-click the photo and choose Send to Mail recipient. Then follow the steps to resize and attach the photo to an e-mail message. (See ".")