Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002 Anniversary Edition [Old Version]

by Microsoft

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000067G68
• Item model number: E26-00017
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 6, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,863 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Discover greeting cards from commercial artists, rich photo editing tools, and thousands of ways to make outstanding print and Web projects with Microsoft Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002 Anniversary Edition. This home publishing program lets you create everything from personalized greeting cards, invitations, and newsletters, to calendars and collages, business cards, e-greetings, and club Web sites.

Find the perfect template for your project 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 2002 features more text controls to create 3-D text, gradient fills, fancy first letters, jazzy effects, and bends. And, of course, the program offers a spell checker.

Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002 produces integrated photo editing and print projects in one seamless environment, allowing you to edit photos from within print environments. Share ideas and creations with a color printer, on e-mail, on a Web site, or on MSN Photos--all powered by Microsoft Picture It! You can even create a gift design, then have MSN Photos develop it professionally for you.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002 Anniversary Edition, September 9, 2002

By A Customer

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

If you go to the Microsoft news group and look under Pictureit you will find that "Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002 Anniversary Edition" is nothing more than "Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002" renamed & packaged. I have "Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002" and the programs has many bugs in its templates section which put little red squares where graphics are supposed to be on lots of cards. Other than that it's not a bad program and does offer some neat picture editing tools an effects with lots of publishing project templates for many projects including web pages. It also can use almost any clipart graphic format you find on the web pulse Microsoft offers a large clip art library on the web for downloading from. It also has quick links to Microsoft Photo site for posting your pictures on their web site. Printing is a snap because of the many paper manufacture templates it supports. Just a few simple steps like picking print to special or regular paper, set you printer special settings then what brand of paper and pick form there listed templates which then gives you the option to print one project for the page or many different ones. Making animated email with sounds of one or multiple panels could not be easier even if using your own pictures. To have objects move around takes nothing more than picking one of the preset paths or make your own. There are also many enter & exit effects and these can be set to any length of time you chose. You can pick to have a sound play for the page and/or for each object and the duration it plays. It's not Adobe PhotoShop or Elements but not bad for simple picture editing and making animated email cards. If you want a simple to use program to make Cards, Labels of any kind, animated email ..ect and play with your pictures specially if your buying it for the kids it's a very easy program to use but if your really into digital pictures then go for something more powerful like Adobe PhotoShop line of picture software.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Grrrrrrr!, November 19, 2002

By 

Doghill "Doghill" (Central NY) - See all my reviews

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

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!

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a nifty program easy to use, August 24, 2002

By 

Deborah MacGillivray "Author," (US & UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002 Anniversary Edition [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I love Paint Shop pro and use it for nearly everything, but I also run Picture It Publishing for several reasons. First off, the lettering is superior to PRP. I get a sharper titling with this program, especially on small titles where PSP tends to look fuzzy. It is very easy to control. PSP make you know what size you wish things when working in layers. With Picture You, you just add the image or titles and then you can make adjusts of all layers at any point. Save it in Picture It format, and you can come back later and made changes and adjustments as needed.

Also, many people complain PSP is too complicated for them to learn. This program is very simple and provides you many of the features and effects you get with PSP.

So if you wish to improve your photos or create projects with them, but don't want the hassle of learning a complex program, this simply to use photo/paint shop is very nifty indeed!!