Microsoft Picture It Premium 2002 [Old Version]

by Microsoft

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00005N9AH
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 27, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,363 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Microsoft Picture It! Photo Premium has the tools to retrieve photos from nearly any digital image source, and features advanced editing and special effects tools that let you create great photo projects. Use it with photos from just about anywhere--from a digital camera, CD, scanner, hard drive, or MSN Photos. The step-by-step movies and wizards show how to edit images and create all kinds of photo projects. You can then catalog the photos and projects in the gallery, letting you find them quickly later using the search feature and visual preview.

Use tools to fix photos and turn them into works of art. Correct several photos at once in the Mini Lab with the easy-to-use editing features. Use automatic correction tools to remove red eye, erase wrinkles and blemishes, and restore treasured photos. Cut out and combine objects from separate pictures. Add text or special effects, and choose from a wide variety of frames and borders. When they are finished, print out the photos, order professional prints, publish them to the Web, or use templates to turn them into projects such as calendars, greeting cards, magazine covers, and more.

Show off photos and projects online at MSN Photos for free. Access them virtually any time from anywhere in the world. Friends and family can view them online, print them out using their own printers, and order professional reprints of their favorites. You can even order great personalized gifts such as photo cubes and framed prints.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars PictureIt!=DontBuyIt!, December 8, 2001

By 

Scott Miller (Vienna, Austria) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Picture It Premium 2002 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I bought PictureIt! for two reasons. I wanted the ability to categorize my photos and the ability to do simple photo editing. This software does neither task very well.

Organizing my photographs was a slow and difficult process. Adding a single picture to the gallery takes 5 steps. I would expect a folder "windows-style" approach where I could add pictures to different folders and then add meta-data about the folder. Not only is organizing pictures with this software both counter-intuitive and time consuming, but after I had added pictures to a gallery and saved, when I returned to the same gallery my pictures were no longer there. In other words, the gallery didn't retain what I had put into it.

The photo-editing part of PictureIt!, is simplistic, but so much so that editing is a very imprecise affair. There are easy buttons for reducing snow or scratches, for example, but it is very difficult to navigate precisely using the zoom feature, so that "real" editing is hard to do. I still have PhotoShop4.0 somewhere so I will go back to it. My guess is that Microsoft intended this to be THE picture tool for the new digital camera enthusiast. Unfortunately in the process of letting human factors make this simple to use, they also made it counter-intuitive and overly complicated for doing simple things. They need a better human factors group to design this product.

I am hoping that PictureIt!=ReturnIt!.
If not my advices is PictureIt!=DontBuyIt!

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Even Close To Adobe Elements, March 21, 2002

By 

Dave Smith (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Picture It Premium 2002 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I used Microsoft Picture It for 2 years, and recently purchased Adobe Photoshop Elements. There's no comparison! I wish I had switched to Elements a long time ago. Picture It downfalls include:

- Poor quality JPG images

- A memory leak that that caused the Picture-It to slow down with each file save, with the delay becoming several minutes after about 5 file saves.

- Painfully slow when displaying thumbnail images when choosing a new file.

I purchased Adobe Elements for about ... a month ago. What a difference! The program loads files faster, performs modifications faster, has many more special effects filters, and doesn't slow down with each file save. Thank you, Adobe! Good bye, Microsoft!

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Pass this one up!, February 9, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Picture It Premium 2002 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

This software prevents the downloading of your digital pictures to your desk top. I found this extremely annoying. Apprently, this program only lets you download intial photos into the program which locks you into " Picture It ". If you need to keep your photos into a seperate desktop file, you would be in a distinct disadvantage. On the positive side, it is extremely easy to format 8X10's in this program.