Customer Reviews

Picture Publisher 8.0

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Actually, I'm Diane's husband. I own and operate all of the "easy format" programs such as Photo Suite II, Picture It, Adobe Photoshop Deluxe 3.0 etc. After often being frustrated by the inability to manipulate something in a personal way, I decided upon returning to a package that I had sampled years ago. Apparently, MicroGrafix has decided to compete with the low end products but has offered a high end product for the same price. It doesn't take you by the hand, but the basics are easily accessable. You won't find greeting card projects or collages but you will find an incredible amount of flexibility and special effects not found in the other $50 packages. If you really want to be creative, this package deserves a look. It has it all and for the price, it's a steal.

I have and use both Adobe Photoshop (stupidly expensive and very difficult to use) and Mircrografx Picture Publisher 8. Picture Publisher does 99.99% of what Photoshop does at less than 10% of the cost. In addition, PP8 is Microsoft Office compatible and almost (not entirely, but close) seamless with Office. The toolbars look the same and the icons perform the same functions as Office. PP8 is easier to use than Photoshop and more intuitive. There is still a learning curve but it is shorter and not nearly as steep. I find myself turning to PP8 more often than all of my other photo editing programs combined (Arcsoft Photo Studio, Microsoft Photo Editor, Adobe Photo Deluxe and Microsoft Picture It!).

I have several image-editing programs including Adobe, but this one is the one I use the most! It is easy to use, fast, and does it all for unbelievably little money. Makes great web pictures and backgrounds. Does everything from 3-channel brightness and contrast control to saturation and color separation. Resizing is a breeze which makes E-mailing pictures fast and easy! Mask, cut, paste are excellent too.

I have used many image editing programs and Micrografix Picture Publisher is easily the best. You do need to spend some time to learn how to use it but it is well worth it. You have at your fingertips a lot of power to manipulate your images by using special effects and masks. You also can create objects out of images and put several objects together to make complex multi layered images. Picture Publisher also has a great and easy to use interface for resizing and color enhancing your pictures. It has a detailed history of recent manipulations so you can easily undo your last several steps. One of the best things about the program is it is very fast. It performs very high powered enhacements faster than any other imaging editing program I have used. With this program you get almost all the power of Photoshop at a fraction of the price. It is one of my favorite pieces of software that I own.

This is THE software to have if you are an beginning or intermediate designer without the time or patience to scale the steep learning curve of Adobe or Corel. I have used this software to create custom graphics..it has amazing effects, and the more you play with it, the more you can do. It's also an excellent medium for digital retouching. I have gotten so good with PP8 that I now have my own online retouching business. I would recommend this for anyone who likes to play with color, texture, and learn on their own.

I started with Picture Publisher when a condensed version came with a hand held scanner I purchased several years ago. (I believe it was version 2) Since then I have had version 4, 8, 9, and now 10. Every time I knew of an upgrade, I ordered the newer version. I have used Print Shop Pro, ulead: Picture It, Irfan View, and several other well known products, but have always came back to Picture Publisher. I am so very sorry that they have sold to another company. Now, to get the same comparable product will cost quite a bit more then PicPub did. And I'm sure they won't work a bit better. It's the best I've ever used for fixing photos, and also the best for optimizing for the internet. Best all around product you can buy. Money no object.

~~Janice Maye

I've had PP 8 for four years now. Time and again I've tried software from other vendors (yes, even Photoshop!!!), but this baby is still one of the most versatile applications I own. Its dependable, like an old tool in the garage. No workshop should be without it. Its user interface is still so easy and quick, yet so professional. Though it lacks the extreme high-end things in Adobe and some of the others, it is my old standby for digital editing and correction. Sure, you can shell out hundreds for the big name ...but this product stands its own ground and will never let you down. I paid much more for it when it was first available, and it is a STEAL at its current price. I have used this product for business and personal use and it is timeless. Get it while you still can!

This is really nice for editing pictures for websites and such, but the web page wizards refuse to work for me saying that I need to insert CD 2 and when I do it still won't work. The button maker creates buttons that are way to large for use on any webpage, but all in all I am very happy with it. I have turned out some very nice edited JPG's and I am glad I spent the money for it.

I used this program successfully for years. But then Windows and Micrografx went their separate ways and Picture Publisher is no longer compatible with Windows, either Vista (but then who wants to be compatible with that turkey?) or Windows 7. It's nice that you can still buy it online from various sources, but if you've kept up with Bill Gates and his annual upgrades (so-called), it's useless. God, I wish someone would come out with a similarly easy-to-use photo program that the greedy boys in Seattle will allow us to use!

This is a great program. I have been using it since '92 when I stripped it out of Micrografx technical drawing package. It's a great general-purpose bit map editor that is easy right from the start. As you become familiar with how it operates the interface becomes very intuitive. Programs like Adobe require continual use in order to remember how to perform even basic operations, but I can come back to PP after six months of not using it and pick it right up again. Many of the wizards, effects and light studio options are particularly nice. Take a nice picture, apply a lighting effect and then use the "impressionist" paint wizard to produce a genuine work of art. Gota love this program.

Misplaced my CD so I was thrilled to find the replacement for such a reasonable price. WTG Amazon.