Microsoft Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002

As mentioned before, if you are running Windows 2000 then you are going to have all kind of problems.

The software also installs lots of extra things you don't want like a calendar, then attempts to connect over the web to 'update' itself.... Keep that firewall handy.

Don't let the 250k icons draw you in, there is nothing there you cannot get off the web for free anyway.


Tell Me How...   January 10, 2002
12 out of 17 found this review helpful

I am trying to find a way to tell Microsoft that this program or any other PictureIt!! programs I have tried just will not install properly. Hundreds and hundreds of thumbnails are just not there and it is very frustrating because I think this has some good graphics and photos etc. My computer is an HP Pent111 and lots of RAM and only 2 years old!! I have uninstalled and reinstalled dozens of times. I have tried phoning Microsoft Canada but can never get through!! Mrs. Louise Fair


What a hunk of junk!!!   February 12, 2002
William McCurdy (Winthrop, MA United States)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful

What a bunch of $&%@ this thing is. I have a high end gaming system (1.2 P4, 512 ram, 64meg video card etc.) so I know it was not my system, but every time I use this program it freezes. This is a fresh install of Win 98se. Nothing else freezes except PictureIT. I have no idea what they were thinking what they designed this program, they make what is the most simplest processes in other imaging programs and turn them in to 12 steps. So bloody frustrating. I almost never buy the cheapest program but I thought to myself "Well everyone seems to like it, I'll give it a go.", boy was I wrong. Anyone want to buy a used copy of PictureIT?


Worth a try   June 30, 2002
Julie Gopher (A Capitol City in SW Asia)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

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.


Problems with this program are directly related to COMPUTER   March 20, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

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.