Picture It! Publishing 2001: List of New Features (270113)

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Microsoft Picture It! Publishing 2001 is a comprehensive home creativity package that integrates photo editing and desktop publishing into one easy-to-use software program. With Picture It! Publishing 2001, you can easily add photos to your desktop publishing projects and create great, personalized projects.

The new features in Microsoft Picture It! Publishing 2001 can be divided into the following categories:

• Features designed to help users get organized.
• Features designed to help users edit and personalize content.
• Features designed to help users create and share content.

Get Organized Features

Features designed to help you get organized include:

• New home page helps you to choose the right design and get started quickly.
• New helpful movies explain image editing and project creation.
• New Creative Ideas tab helps you to learn about some of the great projects you can create.
• New gallery lets you easily catalog, preserve, and organize your photos. With the Gallery, you can easily organize content on multiple CD-ROMs and search for content by name, date, keyword, or event.
• New mini lab allows you to open, fix, save, and print all of your photos at the same time.
• New visual previews let you quickly and easily find and preview any image or photo you need.

Edit and Personalize Features

Features designed to help you edit and personalize content include:

• New ClipArtist tool lets you customize your clip art.
• New automatic tools allow you to fix common photo problems such as red eye, brightness, contrast, and tint. Automatic correction tools work in your guided projects to automate difficult editing tasks.
• New cut out objects feature allows you to easily trace an object and add it to another picture, or cut it out by color to change an entire background. In addition, you can clone or crop unwanted objects from your pictures.
• New easy image manipulation feature lets you rotate, flip, zoom, or change the picture size of your photo.
• New option to restore old pictures so that scratches, tears, and dust are removed. Your photos are restored to their original beauty.
• New rulers, gridlines, grouping, and multiple select capabilities help you to accurately size and align photos in a collage.
• New button that turns color photos into black and white photos.
• New illusions to add fun effects to your pictures.

Create and Share Features

Features designed to help you create and share content include:

• New feature for publishing your photos to the MSN Photo Album Web sites.
• New designs from Microsoft and Madison Park give you an extraordinary collection from top greeting card companies. The collection includes a unique variety of images ranging from bold and watercolor to classic and contemporary designs.
• New sounds, music, animated .gifs, and other images are available for you to add to your projects.
• New streamlined e-mail sending and Web publishing features let you integrate with popular e-mail clients and personal Web page services.
• New pre-designed projects such as compact disc labels and t-shirt transfers are available.
• New print to Kodak PhotoNet online or Fujifilm.net online feature allows you to send any photo project to Kodak or Fuji's online services and receive a true photographic print in the mail.