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Summary: Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002 Anniversary Edition
Review: If you go to the Microsoft news group and look under Pictureit you will find that "Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002 Anniversary Edition" is nothing more than "Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002" renamed & packaged. I have "Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002" and the programs has many bugs in its templates section which put little red squares where graphics are supposed to be on lots of cards. Other than that it's not a bad program and does offer some neat picture editing tools an effects with lots of publishing project templates for many projects including web pages. It also can use almost any clipart graphic format you find on the web pulse Microsoft offers a large clip art library on the web for downloading from. It also has quick links to Microsoft Photo site for posting your pictures on their web site. Printing is a snap because of the many paper manufacture templates it supports. Just a few simple steps like picking print to special or regular paper, set you printer special settings then what brand of paper and pick form there listed templates which then gives you the option to print one project for the page or many different ones. Making animated email with sounds of one or multiple panels could not be easier even if using your own pictures. To have objects move around takes nothing more than picking one of the preset paths or make your own. There are also many enter & exit effects and these can be set to any length of time you chose. You can pick to have a sound play for the page and/or for each object and the duration it plays. It's not Adobe PhotoShop or Elements but not bad for simple picture editing and making animated email cards. If you want a simple to use program to make Cards, Labels of any kind, animated email ..ect and play with your pictures specially if your buying it for the kids it's a very easy program to use but if your really into digital pictures then go for something more powerful like Adobe PhotoShop line of picture software.
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Summary: Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002 Anniversary Edition
Review: If you go to the Microsoft news group and look under Pictureit you will find that "Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002 Anniversary Edition" is nothing more than "Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002" renamed & packaged. I have "Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002" and the programs has many bugs in its templates section which put little red squares where graphics are supposed to be on lots of cards. Other than that it's not a bad program and does offer some neat picture editing tools an effects with lots of publishing project templates for many projects including web pages. It also can use almost any clipart graphic format you find on the web pulse Microsoft offers a large clip art library on the web for downloading from. It also has quick links to Microsoft Photo site for posting your pictures on their web site. Printing is a snap because of the many paper manufacture templates it supports. Just a few simple steps like picking print to special or regular paper, set you printer special settings then what brand of paper and pick form there listed templates which then gives you the option to print one project for the page or many different ones. Making animated email with sounds of one or multiple panels could not be easier even if using your own pictures. To have objects move around takes nothing more than picking one of the preset paths or make your own. There are also many enter & exit effects and these can be set to any length of time you chose. You can pick to have a sound play for the page and/or for each object and the duration it plays. It's not Adobe PhotoShop or Elements but not bad for simple picture editing and making animated email cards. If you want a simple to use program to make Cards, Labels of any kind, animated email ..ect and play with your pictures specially if your buying it for the kids it's a very easy program to use but if your really into digital pictures then go for something more powerful like Adobe PhotoShop line of picture software.
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Summary: Out-of-box experience is thumbs down
Review: Installed OK on XP/Home and have tried every conceivable way to simply open a JPG file on a LAN based server. Twenty minutes later, all I see is the hour-glass cursor -- not even a file dialog box.This product is going back to the store.
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Summary: Satisfied Customer
Review: My daughter wanted to purchase publishing software for a Girl Scout project. I checked in our local stores for the best buy...number of graphics for the money and types of projects it could create...and I decided on this version of Picture It! So far, I'm pleased...we both find it VERY easy to use. Love all the graphics and it's easy to change existing projects...pictures, texts or effects. Especially like the ability to remove "red eye" from photos.
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Summary: Cnet has it right: best photo editiong software
Review: Purchased Picture It after reading about it on Cnet.com, which gives it the highest score as well as an editor's choice for photo editing suites. The program is easy to use yet packed with a seemingly unlimited number of features. Most of the time you won't be lost because the user interface is pretty straightforward for novice and experts alike. It's also well integrated with MSN and as an MSN 8 subscriber, I find the synergy very helpful, but you really don't need MSN to take full advantage of Picture It. The promotional ads come up from time to time, and that's one thing that Microsoft should ditch to make the software even more friendly. If you need more unbiased info, read CNet's review.
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Summary: Cnet has it right: best photo editiong software
Review: Purchased Picture It after reading about it on Cnet.com, which gives it the highest score as well as an editor's choice for photo editing suites. The program is easy to use yet packed with a seemingly unlimited number of features. Most of the time you won't be lost because the user interface is pretty straightforward for novice and experts alike. It's also well integrated with MSN and as an MSN 8 subscriber, I find the synergy very helpful, but you really don't need MSN to take full advantage of Picture It. The promotional ads come up from time to time, and that's one thing that Microsoft should ditch to make the software even more friendly. If you need more unbiased info, read CNet's review.
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Summary: Not worth the money
Review: The packages says there is a 30 day money back guarantee. The thing is, stores won't take it back, so you have to figure out where to send it to. The time involved, cost for packing and posting are not worth the effort. So, don't even think about taking the box off the shelf! I bought this porgram to catch two birds with one stone - I wanted to create flyers and manipulate my digital photos. There are better packages out there for the latter. Even Kodak's standard software that come with EasyShare cameras delivers 10 times better results. As to the flyers, the few provided templates are lousy. If you want to change them, the software starts to act strangely: test cursor disappears, some routine functions take a few seconds, i.e. marking text; glitches in graphic display and all other funny things described earlier by other users. It is ridiculously slow.
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Summary: Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002
Review: This program has been a big disappointment to me. I have Picture It 99, and it is great. But I thought an upgrade would be good. I want to work with my digital pictures, including the ones that are already stored in the Picture It 99 program. But I can't find out how to move those picture over to the new program. And in Picture It 99, I can put in one word for a Search, such as "Mexico" and it will bring up every file with that name in it. I can't find out how to do this with the new program. Every thing I have tried to do has been a failure, and the built-in Help doesn't help, as evidently I can't find the desired capabilities because this program has LESS features than the previous one.
I believe it does have some new features such as Illusions that might do great things with pictures, but I can't bring up my pictures to use the new stuff. So again it is a disappointment.
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Summary: Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002
Review: This program has been a big disappointment to me. I have Picture It 99, and it is great. But I thought an upgrade would be good. I want to work with my digital pictures, including the ones that are already stored in the Picture It 99 program. But I can't find out how to move those picture over to the new program. And in Picture It 99, I can put in one word for a Search, such as "Mexico" and it will bring up every file with that name in it. I can't find out how to do this with the new program. Every thing I have tried to do has been a failure, and the built-in Help doesn't help, as evidently I can't find the desired capabilities because this program has LESS features than the previous one.
I believe it does have some new features such as Illusions that might do great things with pictures, but I can't bring up my pictures to use the new stuff. So again it is a disappointment.
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Summary: Doesn't work and MS doesn't care
Review: Was upset to see all the bad reviews after buying in the store. Anyways, decided to install the program right away and test it out to make sure all was working well. Glad
I looked at the other reviews. Turns out I can not even get the program to run on my computer, something is very wrong with it. Even uninstalled & reinstalled to make sure. As the other reviewers stated, Microsoft is no help and has absolutely no customer support for this product. IT's going back to the store...
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