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Summary: Crashes Too Often
Review: Although this package comes with several disks of print templates and a large, searchable list of clip art, it is not worth the money (even with rebates). It does not work reliably on the two machines I've tried it on. Both machines had all of the prerequisite software installed and working (Internet Explorer 6 and Outlook Express 6) before installing PIP Platinum AE.It still crashes and freezes way too often. I've learned to save every time I make even a minor edit knowing that I WILL have to restart the program and/or the computer. In addtion, all of the graphics included in the many greeting card templates (birthday, Mother's Day, etc) are blurry and look amateurish when printed. Do yourself a favor and look elsewhere for a print package.
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Summary: Slow, buggy, and on screen advtertising
Review: Bought this program because I had home publishing 99 and liked it a lot. Program takes up almost 3 gigs(!) with full install. If you want, you can do the minimum install (700 megs) and spend your day swapping the 5 cd's. Program is very slow to respond; 5-10 second delays after every click (Pentium 4 3 gig, 250 meg harddrive, gforce4 ti4600 ). Program also crashes quit frequently. But, the most annoying thing is the advertisements for scanners, digital cameras, books, etc that take up the left third of the screen. In addition, there is no way to turn them off. Called Microsoft tech support and was informed that the advertisements are hard-coded into the program. The tech suggested I purchase a bigger monitor (LCD -expensive) or that I disconnect my broadband internet connection (not!). That's when I asked for an RMA number. Sent it back yesterday after 6 hours of frustration.
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Summary: The worst program for pictures I've seen so far
Review: Don't buy it. It doesn't even crop well. This program is impossible to use. It takes me forever to fix a simple thing from a picture, even croping out parts of a picture is nearly impossible. THe program has features such as edge finder and color edge finder but it's just impossible to use. Buy Adobe Photoshop instead. For nearly the same price, it's so much better.
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Summary: The worst program for pictures I've seen so far
Review: Don't buy it. It doesn't even crop well. This program is impossible to use. It takes me forever to fix a simple thing from a picture, even croping out parts of a picture is nearly impossible. THe program has features such as edge finder and color edge finder but it's just impossible to use. Buy Adobe Photoshop instead. For nearly the same price, it's so much better.
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Summary: Very irritating software!
Review: First used on Win 98 . . . locked up constantly, then tried XP, runs agonizingly slow. The "Help" is not so helpful, basically it is a terrible package. Wish I had checked the reviews first.
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Summary: A lot of power for a little $
Review: I am very impressed by this product. Althou not very obvious, you may do a lot of picture editing like with other much more expensive packages. It takes a bit of getting used to, like with other packages. Tons of quick and fun projects at hand - very impressive!!!!
Basic install in from 2 CDs, but if you get into it very seriusly, you may want to opt to install all 5 CDs with the projects so that you don't need to serch for them when needed.
It comes with Black/White book with pictures of projects/graphics on CDs for easy reference - wish it was in color.
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Summary: Grrrrrrr!
Review: I bought this program to make a website and it has been a big disappointment!!! After I click on something (to move, or edit, or whatever) I ususally have to wait about 10-15 seconds for whatever I clicked to highlight so I can work with it--It's terribly slow and makes working a drag. What's even more horrible is that it repeatedly freezes up and crashes my computer... I'm lucky if I can work in 5 minute incriments before having the program freeze up. Unfortunately, the book that comes with the software is nothing but a book of clip art images... It has no troubleshooting. If you want to call Microsoft for help, it gives you a Toll charge number. It also gives an 800 number in which you are charged "a fee". What awful service!!
And beware too--stores won't take back opened software packages due to copyright laws and such. So I'm stuck with this awful dud!! A total waste of money.
PS--The web templates they include in the package are very amateurish and a real disappointment too. If you're looking to get a good web-building program, I have used Microsoft's professional publishing program, Publisher 2000, before and was really impressed. I wish I would have bought that, even though it is...more expensive than Picture It!Publishing Platinum. The only good thing I can say about Picture It! Publishing Platinum is that the clip art collection is amazingly good. Other than that.... thumbs down!
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Summary: Buggy and Frustrating
Review: I feel lucky if I can run the program for 15 minutes without it locking up on my XP machine. I bought it for the feature of being able to do things like a newsletter, and save it as a webpage, which works slick. But, the program hangs a lot, runs slow, and behaves strangely. One example, I added a 2nd page to my newsletter project, but it would not allow me to add anything (not even a text box) to the 2nd page. Not worth the money at all.
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Summary: Cannot print!
Review: I found this program easy to use to create my documents, especially to incorporate digital pictures, but have difficulty printing. The file sizes are huge and the program itself takes up a lot of memory. I have tried printing at kinkos and several other printshops, all unsuccessfully. I will go back to microsoft publisher.
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Summary: Upgrading? Try something else!!!
Review: I have had this program and used it for a couple months now. It is absolutely awful! I have Picture it 2001 and loved it. Somebody broke one of my discs and I am unable to use it so I figured I'll just upgrade. This program does crash way to much. Try every project I have ever worked on. Picture quality is not there. Very little templates compared to 2001 version. It is a very sad product.
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