Crop in MS Picture Manager - quality loss?

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I am currently using Hugin to stitch a load of panoramas together and then using Microsoft Office's Picture Manager to crop after them after.

I'm sure i'm loosing photo detail after I crop them. Should I be using Lightroom to crop more effectively? Can anyone explain what's happening?
 
I've never used Picture Manager, but if you are getting quality loss then it may be that it's not doing a great job at saving you image. Don't forget it's designed to be used within an office suite so it may not be as good as other applications at doing image adjustments and then saving them.

Just to test things out simply open an image in Picture Manager and then re save it with another name. Is there a quality difference?

Personally I'd use Lightroom, Elements or similar picture editing program in preference to Picture Manager
 
It's deffo not the saving that does it as it visually does it as I crop and I don't save. You have got me thinking *** ... maybe it's just onscreen and fine 'when' I save. Hmmmm...
 
In some software packages it's possible to crop to a specified size or resolution. If you are doing that unintentionally, it could be that you are effectively reducing the resolution of your image when you crop it, giving a loss of quality.

I don't know Picture Manager, so am not sure what settings you can change or select for the crop tool, but it might be worth checking.
 
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