What replaces office picture manager in office 2013?

What a bad decision.  Picture manager was such a simple program.  I too used it all the time.  Now to use Word or PowerPoint?  What a clunky decision.  Great Job!  You know what, at least picture manager was in my right click.  I don't see Word or Power Point there when I right click on a picture.  You want us to use something else and make it more difficult to do it.  Way to go.  Maybe my next care will have the drivers seat facing backwards too.  You can still drive your car but let's make it more difficult.

There used to be a cute story about "if Microsoft made cars...'  Perhaps you can recall it.

I  agree.  I contacted Geek Squad support (great!) and they installed Photo Gallery to serve as my default software for JPEG file  printing.

Almost any image application will work adequately for viewing and printing photos.  But MS Photo Manager went way beyond that.  You could export almost any image type to almost any other image type (PDF types being the notable exception).  You could also re-size (change the resolution) or change the compression of file types like JPEG.  You do relatively good photo editing very easily - things like cropping and altering the brightness, contrast, color saturation or hue, and many other tasks.  And, you could use it to email photos, either as attachments or as in-line images of varying size/resolution.

Before standardizing on MS Photo Manager, I went through several other photo/image manipulation programs.  They all worked well, but any such application takes some time to get used to, so you can learn to take maximum advantage of it.  The problem was that every time I tried to do something for someone else, I was lost; I didn't have a tool that could do what a wanted or, if there was a tool, I wasn't proficient with it.

I do agree with the OP that Picture Manager was the ultimate tool. But I just installed Photo Gallery and my first impression is "Waao!!!". It has so many options, its only a matter of getting used to now.

-Abhi

My company is upgrading to W7 and Office 2013.  The Office 2013 part is not going well.  We've had too many incompatibilities with both Word and with Outlook so they were forced to roll back most people to Office 2010.  I've had horrible problems with rolling back MS software so I asked to remain on 2013 if possible.  This requires me to do many tasks manually because macros and existing APIs no longer work with Word or Outlook for 2013.

Today, I needed to manipulate some image files, so I looked for Photo Manager.  I was shocked that I couldn't find it.  Like the original poster, I had standardized on this for all my photo and other image related tasks, not because it was the best tool available, but because it did a "good enough" job at everything I needed to do and it was available on almost any computer, whether mine or someone else's.

I know it is possible to find better 3rd party tools, but then the software is only available on the one computer where you install it.  That is not acceptable.  

This is the final straw.  I'm going to have my computer rolled back to Office 2010 and we can stay on that until we no longer need to rely on Microsoft for word processors and spreadsheet programs.