One package for editing image files is Microsoft Photo Editor. First you start Photo Editor. You may find it directly under Start/Programs. Or it may be in the Microsoft Office Folder. Then you open the image file you wish to edit (File/Open).

Photo Editor has certain basic features, for instance

• Cropping
• Resizing
• Rotating

You can brighten or darken an image by clicking on the button that looks like a sun.

You can turn a certain color or range of colors transparent by using the button to the right of the one with the sun. You click on that button and then on a region of your image that is the color you want to make transparent. When we made designs in PowerPoint, they often had white backgrounds. You can use this feature to get rid of the background. Then if the .gif file is placed on a webpage, the transparent color becomes the color (or texture) of the webpage.

Photo Editor also has a number of Effects. For example, it can interpret your image with stained-glass effect.

We are going to mimick Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych shown below:

• First obtain an image, you can make one in PowerPoint or take one from the web (right clicking on an image should give you the option to save it).
• Open it in Photo Editor and apply some effect. If you like the result, go to File/Save As and save the file under another name.
• Repeat the last step until you have at least nine images including the original.
• Begin a new Word document using the webpage wizard. On that page make a table having at least nine cells.
• Click in a cell in your table and then insert one of your images (Insert/Picture/From File).
• To resize an image, highlight it, place the cursor near an edge to get a double-headed arrow, and drag.
• You can center horizontally (on the Formatting toolbar) and vertically (on the Tables and Borders toolbar).
• Repeat this process, filling the table with your images.