Graphics forum: Opinions On Microsoft Picture It!

According to ZDNet:
"Picture It blows the competition away with its variety of features and easy-to-learn interface."

It has a rating of 9.0, a VERY HIGH rating.

Read: Picture It review

I have 3 versions - Picture It Publishing 2001- Digital Pro 7 and Digital Pro 10 - they are the absolute best programs you could ever want ...
Picture It Publshing was my first one and the pro 7 and pro 10 are upgrades - they do quite a bit more than the PIP. If I were going to buy one I would
make it the Digital Pro 10 - worth every penny -
so easy to use - if you do lots of graphic work and photo work, this is all you will need. Great Programs .

making a new discussion.

Microsoft Picture It Publishing has been discontinued. You might find what you are looking for here

http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&q=Picture+It

or here

http://forums.cnet.com/5238-7813-0.html?messageType=1&kw=Microsoft+Picture+It+Publishing&username=&forumID=&dateRange=all&maxHits=10

Now for the scanner part. Your scanner came with a disk. You should be able to install the drivers for the scanner with the disk. Same with a camera.

If these things do NOT work, do you have a recovery disk?

If so, then insert the recovery disk and restart your computer.

Press any key to boot with recovery disk.

Select install

yes to agreement

then choose recover.

It will take about 30 minutes, give or take depending on your processor. No programs or files will be lost. You will have to go to windows updates and reinstall them.

Before you recover Windows, Do you have the proper keys for your products?

If you're not sure, run Belarc Advisor

http://www.download.com/3000-2094_4-10643403.html

so you have your product keys.

Unistall Microsoft Picture It after you have the product key and before you recover.

Hope this helps.


Rick

I haven't used MS Picture It in several years. Before, I was comparing it to MGI PhotoSuite 2, which IMO the MGI was much better at the time. Through the years, I keep finding such good deals getting better versions of MGI PhotoSuite either free or less than $10 after rebates that I have stuck with them. I'm currently using MGI PhotoSuite 4, and like it. One thing I've always liked with MGI is the ability to click a photo out of file, resize it if necessary, and with another click, place that photo in the text portion of a email, rather than an attachment (which most people hate to open to avoid viruses).

I have the same problem. Did you find anything out?

It's indeed abandonware, so there's no guarantee it will work in new versions of Windows (no surprise for a Microsoft application).

You can try selecting the application and right-clicking, then going down to Properties and select the Compatibility tab. Then select an older version of Windows (say Windows 98) and try running it. A friend of mine got another abandonware app to work that way, but I couldn't test it seeing as I don't use Windows.

Another possible solution for the ambitious would be to run it in Wine in Linux or OS X (shucks they ought to release Wine for Windows).

It's also not free, so it must be purchased, and no one is selling it because it's abandonware. To top it off, the review is old, so it was awesome software for its time. Software can do so much more with less effort now.

I don't know what I would do without Picture It Platinum 2002 and thankfully, Windows 7 Professional allows me to install it and use it in XP mode. I have tried a number of programs when it comes to edges and frames but I always go back to Picture It. It's simple and effective. There may be other programs out there as good but likely there aren't any as easy to use.