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Software and Games : Software Categories : Graphics & Photo : Software, Categories, Graphics & Photo, All Graphics & Photo
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Microsoft
Microsoft Works Suite 2003 is a set of five CDs which comprises Works 7.0 with its integrated word processor, spreadsheet, database and calendar and adds full copies of Word 2002, Encarta Standard Edition 2003, Money 2003, Picture It Photo and AutoRoute 2002. Given the individual retail cost of these extra products, it represents excellent value for money.The Works 7.0 core is very task-based. For example, if you choose to "Manage a club" you'll end up using the spreadsheet to track finances, the database for membership records, Word to design the newsletter and Picture It to handle your club photos. By organising its interface around things to do rather than old-style menus of programs, Works encourages novices to explore its wide range of features; once you know what you're doing, you can use the programs menu to jump straight to the applications themselves.
The extras (even the year-old AutoRoute) are really worth having. Word is the most widely used word processor in the world and it never hurts to have a copy on your home PC, while Picture It Photo has a decent selection of mainstream photo projects (calendars, address cards, flyers, kids ID cards and so on) to go with its easy-to-use editing features for removing red eye, adding picture frames and text to photos, cropping and framing photos or preparing them for use on the Web.
Elsewhere, Money 2003 remains the friendliest of home finance programs with good investment tracking and an excellent, customisable front summary page. AutoRoute 2002 still sets the pace for getting from A to B in Europe. The standard version of Encarta 2003 is a good study aid for juniors upwards; it's updatable via the Web and incorporates more than 30,000 articles and images along with videos, animations and audio.
Microsoft Works Suite 2003 is simple enough to allow beginners to accomplish a wide range of home computing tasks. Thanks to the inclusion of Word, it will also appeal to the workaholic who just won't let go. --Rob Beattie
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Microsoft
These days, it's difficult to find a graphics program that stands out in a crowd of identical software offering the same features. Microsoft, with PictureIt! Photo Studio 2001, present a software package which distinguishes itself from its copycat brethren through innovation and ease-of-use.Gone are the pop-up windows with dozens of arcane developer-written options. They've been replaced with an instructional panel which offers hints and clear, concise instructions on how to get the desired performance out of every tool. Every task can be performed using PictureIt!'s user-friendly wizard-style interface. Because the wizards don't pop up in dialog boxes, they don't detract from the functionality of the program in any way.
Some software programs may offer a hundred options that can enhance the way you work, provided you can first navigate your way through five levels of vaguely labelled menus and then decipher the programmer-speak describing what that option does. In PictureIt!, all available options are no more than two clicks away and are clearly described and documented.
The help system has also been given a big facelift, making it much easier to use. Not only does it instruct, it inspires, with dozens of creative ideas on how to use the program. The help system has also taken a technological leap; if you perform certain tasks for the first time, the program will even ask if you would like to watch an easy-to-follow tutorial video on that subject.
In addition to its revolutionary interface advancements, PictureIt certainly packs a wallop of features. Start with a blank project, or choose from over 500 project templates including calendars, greeting cards, invitations, flyers, and Web photo albums. Choose from over 20,000 photos and frames provided by PictureIt!, or use your own photos from the web, a scanner, a digital camera, or disk.
Altogether, PictureIt Photo Studio 2001 offers a tremendous bargain and a first-class product that will allow even a novice to create both print projects and Web presentations, as well as well as perform advanced photo-editing tasks previously only available in complicated and expensive software packages. A great deal no matter which way you look at it. --Victor Andersen, Amazon.com
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FXhome Limited UK
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Microsoft
Digital cameras are outselling their analogue counterparts, but most imaging software seems to be designed for the business market. Microsoft’s Picture It! Photo & Print bucks that trend, with a seriously easy to use home alternative. It is also very comprehensive in the features it offers--and it’s a lot of fun. Whether sending a funky party invitation, designing a personal birthday card, sharing an album of your holiday snaps on the Web or just brightening up the task of labelling a parcel, Picture It! handles it all with ease.The whole process has been divided into three simple stages. Firstly, choose or create a design, add pictures and, finally, personalise the design by manipulating the pictures and adding text, images, sound and animation. There is ample help available at each step, even a guide with mini-movies offering inspiration, help and tips on how to make the most of the features.
There are a huge number of design templates offered on the CDs or on-line. Thankfully, these 13,000 designs are logically categorised by Type (cards, newsletter etc.) or by Activity/Occasion (birthday, wedding etc.) so searching for the right one is not too arduous. Once the design has been chosen the next step is to add images. If the images need to be uploaded via a digital camera or scanner Picture It! will fire up the relevant software and upload the files. There are also thousands of clip art images available; three of the four CDs included in the software contain around 75,000 images. And for those with Web access who need even more choice there is a link to another 100,000 images online.
However, the real fun starts with manipulating the images. All the usual features are available here–-adding borders, frames, text and shapes; rotating your picture; adjusting brightness and contrast et al--but there are also some seriously addictive transformations to indulge in. These range from helpful to just plain silly but fun. So while the image connoisseur in us is fine tuning a masterpiece by removing dust and scratches (or even red-eye and wrinkles!) the mischievous in us can skew the image, add a 3-D effect and then create the illusion that the viewer is looking through frosted glass. This latter feature is dangerously addictive. There are more illusions than a magician has up his sleeve and it’s almost impossible not try to them all out. Picture It! also features one great time-saving feature. A "mini-lab" allows basic manipulation of a number of images simultaneously.
Once the design project is complete sharing your pictures can range from easy to imaginative. Simply print them or have them printed professionally, e-mail them to friends or relatives, upload the design to the Web or go one step further and order custom t-shirts, mugs or mouse pads.
So, hire some Victorian costumes, take a family photo by the mantelpiece, add a sepia tint and the odd handlebar moustache and away you go... Adrian Spence
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Microsoft
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Microsoft
Picture It! Print Studio is an easy-to-use publishing package complete with 100,000 images and 6,500 project templates to get you going. Newsletters, greetings cards, calendars and invitations are just a few of the print-based ideas, but you can also send animated e-mail or design Web pages and then upload them onto your server.The interface is simple and straightforward; you just drag and drop elements onto your project and then adjust them by choosing items from drop-down menus. To kick start your imagination Microsoft have also included helpful movies to illustrate how to touch up photos or add movement and sounds to animation.
To get the most out of Picture It! Print Studio you will need a printer, a modem and either a scanner or a digital camera. You will need a whopping 790MB of free hard drive space for Microsoft's recommended installation and be running Internet Explorer 5.5 although it is automatically installed it you don't already have it. If you fancy impressing people with animated e-mail you should note that they are sent as EXE file attachments and will only run under Windows! Picture It! Print Studio comes on four CD-ROMs and you will be constantly feeding them in and out when working so you must make sure you always keep them safe and to hand otherwise you are stuck. If you can cope with all that Picture It! Print Studio is a comprehensive, slick and simple package that will have anyone producing sleek graphics and animation! --John Cranmer
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Corel
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Microsoft
Picture It! Photo and Print Studio is an easy-to-use photo retouching and publishing package complete with 150,000 images and 12,000 project templates to get you going. Newsletters, greetings cards, calendars and invitations are just a few of the print-based ideas but you can also design Web pages and then upload them onto your server or send animated e-mail. There are plenty of tools to enhance or distort photos according to your whims. The interface is simple and straightforward; you just drag and drop elements onto your project and then adjust them by choosing items from drop-down menus. To kick start your imagination Microsoft have also included helpful movies to illustrate how to touch-up photos or add movement and sounds to animation.To get the most out of Picture It! Photo and Print Studio you will need a printer, a modem and either a scanner or a digital camera. You will need a whopping 980MB of free hard drive space to install it and be running Internet Explorer 5.5, although it is automatically installed it you don't already have it. If you fancy impressing people with animated e-mail you should note that they are sent as EXE file attachments and will only run under Windows! Picture It! Photo and Print Studio comes on five CD-ROMs and you will be constantly feeding them in and out when working so must make sure you always keep them safe and to hand otherwise you are stuck.
If you can cope with all that, Picture It! Photo and Print Studio is a comprehensive, slick and simple package that will have anyone producing sleek graphics and animation! --John Cranmer