What replaces office picture manager in office 2013?

I too lament the loss of Office Picture Manager.  In this imperfect world though... it wasn't perfect either.  Versions 2007 and 2010 both served fast resize and crop purposes very well however both versions had a major sorrowful glitch in that when you used AutoCorrect or did any changes to Brightness/Contrast the image in the app would show your changes (wonderfully and perfectly) but saving the file even with an export to a new file would revert these particular settings.

This is a featue I wanted to use a LOT as a document archivist.  Loads of pages of color and greyscale scans of text and pictures and mixes of the two all looked amazingly sharpened and corrected in the viewer of Picture Manager after just pressing AutoCorrect. 

NO other software made things look so good with just a single click... but the results can not be saved.  Crops, rotations, etc. all save fine but Brightness, Contrast and sharpenings all revert. Scan a page to Tiff or Jpeg and try it... MS support people wouldn't do that, but you should before you say the app was really all you ever needed. 

Over the years there were many reports of this behaviour, and if MS techs responded it was always just to copy and paste the instructions on how to press the AutoCorrect or Br/Cn buttons... never any hint that they tried the buttons themselves and saw the issue.  Not even any (that I could ever find) to say that it "worked in my machine."  They just ignored it.  Looks like they got points for number of questions they responded to over how many they helped get resolved for the users.

Yet another fruitless search for a fix to that issue is what lead me to this page.  Too bad, it looks so pretty in the app when you press that button or change those settings... but the feature didn't work at all from 2007 or 2010.

So it seems that instead of fixing it.. they dumped the whole thing.

I have tried the Live Essentials picture applet ... gave it a real good testing.  But the autocorrect and B/C features quite plainly are not good in relation to what the old apps *showed in the viewer* before saving the files.  The results in the new and improved app are grainy, and add obvious and not good amounts of noise to **all** images.  If you now use Live Essentials and still have 2010 Picture Manager, try both for AutoCorrect and look at the results in the viewers side by side. 

I uninstalled the Live Essentials.  Seems some folks love it but it is not a good replacement for my needs.  I have to process with scripts in Corel X3/X5.. tedious because of having to first separate the image pages from the textual ones because contrast settings have to be done manually for each type to be good enough.

Live Essentials is not a good replacement for Picture Manager... but Picture Manager was only a freebie tease in the end anyway.  We paid for the Office programs but this one was never marketted as a full fledged program, giving Microsoft a way out by technicality.  Stinks that there is no MS product to fill the hole.  But they really didn't fill the hole either if you wanted to save your changes.

Shoulda Woulda Coulda.  If only they'd just fixed it back in 2008, before releasing the 2010 version with the same known problem... I mean this issue was on the biggest darned button on the main screen.  SOMEONE in Redmond had to have tested it at least once when they got the program from the contractors. 

I guess fixing is not as fun and clever as putting out something "new" with fewer abilities... and "Free" instead of packed with a professionally-priced suite. With the Live Essentials applet-let, Redmond can rightly respond to anyone with any issue that "You got more than what you paid for" since users can no longer argue that they thought they paid for software that would be supported  ;-(.

I really like picture manager. i use this software from a long time. Now, I am very much upset after buying office 2013.

The Office Picture Manager has been a very quick and easy tool to use, built into Office and readily available no matter what machine I have to use.  I would rather not have to install 3rd party software to do what MS has made easy to do in the past.

Any word on what this app is called now and where it's hidden in the Office 2013 install?

Thanks!

After much testing and tinkering, I have gone back to my Office 2010 Install disk and installed the Office Picture Manager in order to have access to it in Office 2013.  It is too easy and useful to move away from.

Microsoft has made a critical error in the Office suite by removing it.