Microsoft Picture It! Publishing 2002

Rating:
Summary: Troublesome But Handy
Review: My platinum edition is a trifle tarnished from all times it has stalled and I have had to restart or reload the application when I was working on a large project. I scan my pictures into Adobe Photoshop first, cropping--touching up or whatever, and then do a "save as" in jpeg. (PIP won't read PSD files.) Then when I get ready to do a collage of photos, I can open them in PIP. I have learned to turn off or close all programs when starting PIP except for Explorer and Systray and it does seem to help. However, PIP sometimes still refuses to budge and I have to resort to a System Restore to get back to a working application again. There are a lot of little neat bells and whistles such as "stamping" plus some quick fix operations to touch up photos but if you are a serious photo person, use Adobe for photo grooming and Word Perfect for projects. They can't be beat.