The capabilities of Microsoft Image Composer are similar to those of other graphics editors such as Adobe's Photoshop, Corel's Photopaint, and JASC's Paintshop Pro. Image Composer's logic is slightly different, however, in a way that makes the application very easy to learn and use.

In the other image editors mentioned above all the image's that you work with are bound by a frame. However when you work with Image Composer you have a infinite workspace where you can move your images around. This allows you ease of use you don't get with the other editors. For instance you can store work that is in progress, or back up copies of images that you are working with or even work on more than one image at a time.

Image Composer is also made for web graphics and is specifically designed to edit online images. Pictures are automatically optimized for Web pages. Image Composer takes out all the hard work and images are easily added to your web pages.

Image Composer makes it easy to create images for on-screen delivery to Web sites, CDs, DVDs, videos, and more. Among a few things you can do with ease are:

1. Work with varied sources, including scanned images, clip art, digital camera photographs, OLE objects, original art you create within Image Composer, and much more.
2. Create professional-looking art with hundreds of effects, from high-tech warps to classic impressionism, with just a click of a mouse button.
3. Produce quick results, with tools like the Button Wizard.
4. Save your results in most popular formats.

5. Store your work in progress and come back later right where you left off.

 

Microsoft Image Composer is an application for creating compositions for display on Web sites, CD-ROMs, games, or other on-screen destinations. Use existing images in a wide variety of formats or create new art. Image Composer offers a combination of powerful tools, a huge workspace , and sample images to help anyone produce professional-looking images.

Image Composer was designed for experimentation. You can apply effects easily, view the results, and then modify or undo those effects to achieve the result you need. You can use Image Composer to work with a wide variety of popular file formats, including TIFF (.tif), CompuServe GIF (.gif), Portable Network Graphics (.png), Targa (.tga), JPEG (.jpg), Adobe Photoshop (.psd), and more. For scanned images, Image Composer supports the TWAIN interface. Image Composer also includes Microsoft GIF Animator. The following animated image was created using Microsoft GIF Animator.