Microsoft Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002 [Old Version]

by Microsoft

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• 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: B00005N9AJ
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 27, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,040 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Create exciting print and Web publishing projects with Picture It! Publishing Platinum. The Web-based interface, helpful movies, and step-by-step instructions all along the way make it easy to create like a professional. Impress everyone by making such diverse items as personalized greeting cards, invitations, newsletters, calendars, collages, kid's ID cards, funny money, stickers, business cards, e-greetings, and club Web sites.

Find the perfect template with 250,000 unique images and 15,000 projects from which to choose, including 8,500 sentiments and quotes from more than 200 artists for fantastic and personal greeting cards. Picture It! Publishing Platinum features more text controls to create 3-D text, gradient fills, fancy first letters, jazzy effects, and bends. And, of course, it offers spell checking.

Edit photos from within print projects. Picture It! Publishing products integrate photo editing and print projects in one seamless environment. Share thoughts and memories easily. Share ideas and creations with a color printer, on e-mail, on a Web site, or on MSN Photos--powered by Microsoft Picture It! You can even create a gift design with the CD product, then have MSN Photos develop it professionally for you.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Problems with this program are directly related to COMPUTER, March 19, 2004

By A Customer

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

In response to all of these reviews that I have seen on this product.... I just have to say that the majority of the "crash" issues are directly related to the specs of the machine that you are running this program on. I will agree that this program is a memory hog, any good graphics program is. That's the way they are. That includes Print Artist, Print Master, Print Shop... any good program after repetitive graphics and photo use, needs lots of memory. Any graphics design person such as myself will recommend that you do not even ATTEMPT this on a computer below 256 MB of RAM and will tell you that there can still be crashes if you are under 512 Mb of ram with a good processor. I had this program running ME with 256 Mb of ram and I had crashes. Part of them were ME crashes and part of them were Picture It crashes. But all related to RAM. Now I run this 2002 version on Windows XP with NO PROBLEMS and I have been running it that way since XP came out with no problems. Now I have a new PC with 512 Mb RAM and an Atalon XP 2800+ and It runs BEAUTIFULLY. I have not had a crash from this program since I got away from the ME operating system. This program is not buggy for everyone to the extent that people are talking about. It has more capabilities to the trained eye, such as filters, transperency, etc that are similar to Photoshop, but Photoshop is a $700.00 program. This one is less than $50! I have had this program since it was released and I still love it, it serves all of my practical purposes and required no training (unlike Photoshop CS, which I have taken 6 eight-hour classes for.) So it's a great buy for the money and easy to learn I hope this helps anyone who is looking. And as for the guy who said it is Java and runs in your internet browser? I don't know where he got that. This program absolutely does not run in an internet browser.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous publishing software, January 22, 2002

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Gadgester "No Time, No Money" (Mother Earth) - See all my reviews
(HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)   

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

I used to do a lot of family desktop publishing from Microsoft Publisher. I never liked that program because it was hard to use. Picture It! Publishing, on the other hand, is very easy to use -- and offers all the tools a family publishing fan wants. You can get up and running in just a few minutes, and the program is intuitive. Definitely the best such program I have used. I tested the program on Windows ME and Windows 2000 systems and it was rock solid and never crashed. (Of course, your mileage may vary.) I eventually installed it on a Win2k laptop and have been very happy.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Worth a try, June 29, 2002

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Julie Gopher "Sixty pages a day keeps Alzheim... (A Capitol City in SW Asia) - See all my reviews

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

I'm a college student and was looking for a decent non-professional product under $.... I found the software easy to learn and a lot of fun. I haven't had any problems storing pictures or printing. There is a lot of room for creativity.
Pros- easy to learn, a lot of applications, tons of images, a decent price
Cons- shameless Microsoft plugs (I thought it was a joke at first), a bit slow (my computer is Pentium 3/ Windows 98/ 128MB RAM), no slide show feature, few options for collages.