Cheap Microsoft Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002 (Software) (Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP) Price

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Customer Reviews of Microsoft Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002

Fantastic Consumer Graphics Program
This is a terrific program for creating greeting cards, flyers, certificates, labels, etc. Incredibly easy for even beginners to learn to use. Has a huge library of sample projects and graphics. It's silly to compare PictureIt's photo editing capabilities, which are perfectly adequate for basic, nonprofessional use, to Photoshop, which costs about ten times as much and requires substantial training and experience. Previous versions of this software could be challenging to older computers and operating systems, but runs great on a new Pentium IV using Windows XP w/ample RAM. Of the 4-5 similar programs I've tried, this is easily the best for general consumer graphics use.

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Problems with this program are directly related to COMPUTER
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.

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Love it but am tired of it.
I absolutely love this software program but will Microsoft never update and create a new version???Does anybody know anything about a newer version being in the works?