Picture It! Digital Image Pro v.7
Picture It! Digital Image Pro v.7
 By Dale Farris,
SecretaryGolden Triangle PC Club November 2002 General Overview Microsoft's Picture It! Digital Image Pro v. 7 puts you in control of your photos through a unique combination of powerful digital imaging tools with helpful wizards and professional-quality photo projects. Picture It! offers advanced tools that let you make your digital pictures look the way you want them to. Choose from over 3,000 professional photo projects or a wide variety of special effects to enhance your photos for sharing through prints, email, and the Web. In today's world, we now depend more on digital cameras to capture our photos, and this has caused significant growth in computer software that helps digital camera owners with the transfer, storage, and especially enhancement of all their digital images. In addition, with USB now becoming the device connection option of choice, to be further enhanced with new USB 2.0 compatible ports, cables, and devices, this means we have an extremely fast means by which we can transfer these digital images from the camera to the computer. Once loaded onto a hard drive, then with an image editing software program, digital camera owners can begin to edit to their heart's delight their captured images. This explosion in digital imaging software has resulted in a great number of choices in this market, all with a great span of difference in price. At the time of this writing, these software applications have begun to fill the retail shelves, and fortunately for consumers, this has also resulted in the continuous improvement in these programs, along with a continuous drop in price. Microsoft's Picture It! Digital Image Pro 7 represents one the more fully featured digital image editing programs that offers super value for its reasonable price point. While this program certainly does not compete on the same level as Adobe's premier Photoshop 7, it also costs ($109) a lot less than Photoshop ($600). Powerful Features Picture It! offers advanced tools from batch processing and Adobe Photoshop Filter Plug-in support to Fill Flash and Backlighting controls for precise yet fast photo correction. You can fix, organize, and print photos fast. The Mini Lab and Gallery tools make it quick and easy to bring in a several pictures at a time, make them perfect, and organize them so they are easy to find and use. It's easy to get started and use. You can use photos from just about anywhere, including a digital camera, a picture CD, scanner, hard drive, or the Web. With the new file browser, additional file menus, and the new startup window, it will take even less time to correct all of your photos. Photo templates and projects help you create like a Professional. Picture It! Digital Image Pro 7 includes 3000 pre-created templates for letterheads, business cards, presentations, web photo albums, photo cards, frames, calendars, magazine covers, web photo albums, and more. You just supply the picture and make professional-quality results. What's New? Adobe Photoshop Filter Plug-in Support - Adds hundreds of more filters to create a wide variety of photo effects with Adobe Photoshop Plug-in support Fill Flash and Backlighting - Adjust over and under exposed elements with Fill Flash, Back Lighting, and the Dodge and Burn Brush to precisely fine-tune each photo. Adjust Brightness & Contrast - Manually adjust color balance, saturation and more A Whole New Look - The new File Browser, Start Up window, and enhanced user interface make it even easier to acquire images easily from your digital camera, scanner, hard-drive, or the Web. Improved Features Fourth Generation Mini Lab - Fourth generation Mini Lab lets you correct and save several photos at once. You can load all your vacation or event pictures, make automatic corrections on all and save them with meaningful names that you can find again easily. Import photos from all sorts of external devices Quickly view, rotate, rename, or sort photos from your digital camera Super instructional videos Adjust color and lighting Add flash, reduce backlighting, and use the dodge and burn brush Manually adjust shadows, mid-tones, and highlights Manually adjust color balance, saturation, and more Sharpen photos to correct focus errors Touch up faces by removing wrinkles or blemishes Remove imperfections such as dust specs and scratches Fix red-eye problems with advanced red-eye selection and zooming tools
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