You are stuck on a fiddly step in PowerPoint or trying to make OpenOffice Calc behave, and reading a wall of text only makes it worse. That is the gap In Pictures set out to fill. The whole premise, going back to the site's origins, was to teach software skills through pictures instead of paragraphs: each step gets a screenshot, you match what is on your screen to what is on theirs, and you click. For a certain kind of learner, the one who freezes when a manual says "navigate to the ribbon and select the dialog launcher," that approach lands better than any amount of prose. In Pictures is not trying to be exhaustive. It is trying to be followable, and for screenshot-driven instruction that is the right goal.
Office and OpenOffice tutorial library
The tutorial content covers Microsoft Office programs, with guides built around versions like Word 2003 and PowerPoint 2007, and gives the same treatment to the OpenOffice.org suite: Writer for documents, Calc for spreadsheets, Impress for slides. There is general computer-skills material alongside the application-specific walkthroughs. The version numbers tell you something on their own. Word 2003 and PowerPoint 2007 are old releases, and a tutorial pinned to them will still help someone running those exact builds, but it dates the library and makes clear that the screenshot-driven lessons were largely written years ago and have not all been refreshed. In Pictures built something genuinely useful for a specific learner profile. Whether that audience is still large enough to justify the upkeep is a different question.
Shift toward gadget reviews
What complicates the picture is that In Pictures did not stay a tutorial site. It has branched into consumer tech and gadget content: product roundups such as best subwoofers and best gadgets, buying guides, and tech news. That is a familiar pivot for an older how-to domain, since roundups and buying guides pull search traffic and can carry affiliate links in a way that step-by-step Word lessons never will. The two halves do not sit together naturally. Someone arriving for a clear Impress walkthrough is not obviously the same person hunting for a subwoofer recommendation, and a site trying to serve both can end up doing neither with full focus. In Pictures has enough original identity in its tutorial work that the gadget pivot reads as a revenue experiment bolted on rather than a genuine editorial evolution.
Repair services and parts sales
On top of the editorial content, In Pictures promotes repair services and the sale of parts and accessories, and it invites visitors to subscribe for news and discounts. That is a third lane: teaching, reviewing products, and selling services and hardware are three different businesses, and the listing covers all of them under one roof. None of this is disqualifying. Plenty of small operations wear several hats. But it does make it harder to say in one sentence what In Pictures is for, and a visitor has to do some sorting to find the part that matches what brought them there. A resource that began as a business directory of picture-based tutorials for common software has become something harder to categorise, and the lack of a clear focus costs the site some trust that the original format had earned.
Is the editorial process rigorous?
The About page does claim a real editorial process. It describes a workflow where authors self-review their work and run grammar and style checks before publishing. That is more than many content sites bother to state, and for the tutorial material it is the right instinct, because a how-to guide with a wrong step or a mislabelled button is worse than no guide at all. How rigorously that process holds up across the gadget roundups, which tend to be lower-effort territory for this kind of site, is not something the available information can confirm. In Pictures is either applying that same care to the newer content or it is not, and the roundup pages themselves do not make it obvious either way.
Behind the expired security certificate
The site's SSL certificate expired, and as a result the HTTPS connection fails. The domain still resolves, but the server drops the connection, so a modern browser arriving over https either throws a security warning or simply will not load the page. For a site whose entire value is people landing on a specific tutorial and following it step by step, a lapsed certificate is a practical wall between In Pictures and its readers, not a cosmetic detail. Renewing a certificate is routine maintenance. Letting one expire is the kind of thing an actively run site catches quickly. Finding it expired is not proof that In Pictures has been abandoned, but it is a clear sign that someone stopped paying close attention.
Outside reviews and ratings
Outside reputation is limited. A Web of Trust scorecard exists for the domain, though the actual rating was not readable. A Justdial entry lists In Pictures as a Mumbai presence with a single rating attached, again with no visible score. No Google, Trustpilot, Yelp, or BBB reviews turned up. So there is no body of independent feedback to draw on, positive or negative, which leaves In Pictures to be judged almost entirely on what the site itself says, at a moment when the site is awkward to reach in the first place.
Contact information gaps
Contact transparency is in similarly uncertain shape. An About page lives at the expected address and ties In Pictures to a Mumbai-area entity, but no phone number, no email, and no street address could be pulled from the live site, partly because the live site is so hard to reach. Contact details are not surfaced where a visitor would readily find them. On its own that would be a mild caveat. Set against a broken certificate and no third-party review trail, it leaves very little outside confirmation of who is behind In Pictures or whether anyone is answering queries right now.
The historical footprint is more encouraging. An old global Alexa rank in the neighbourhood of 197,000 is not a household name, but it is the profile of a resource people were finding and using consistently, and Similarweb files the domain under programming and developer software, which fits the tutorial roots.
In Pictures built real traffic on a real method. The screenshot approach is a genuine strength and the OpenOffice and Office coverage answers a need that persists, particularly for anyone on older versions of those programs where current guides have long since moved on to newer interfaces. In Pictures clearly had a working formula. Right now, though, the expired certificate and the absence of any recent editorial signal make it impossible to confirm that In Pictures is still actively maintained, and that gap in the evidence is worth noting before relying on it as a primary resource. Check whether the certificate has since been renewed; if it has, the underlying tutorial content is worth the visit.
