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Microsoft Picture It

by Julie Polito
Touch Up Your Family Snapshots
Taking digital pictures is a snap, but editing them afterward can be a drag. Now Microsoft, in partnership with Eastman Kodak, has created Picture It, an image editor that's easy to use and cheap, yet more complete than what comes with most digital cameras and scanners.



Picture It includes simple image-editing tools, and with one click it corrects common photo glitches like red-eye and overexposure. Big buttons make editing and importing photos easy for anyone.

Manipulate and enhance your photos with a variety of tools, then pop those photos into greeting-card templates or borders. When you're done, print the images, e-mail them to friends, or shoot them over the Internet to Kodak's Image Magic Print Service, and Kodak will mail film-quality prints back to you in a few days.

Performance is snappy too--even on a system with 8MB of RAM. Picture It is one of the first products to support FlashPix, a standard that allows fast editing at low resolutions, while still maintaining high-resolution output.

Picture It works on the assumption that you're not a photo whiz, but it's capable of some tricky image editing. It's also a friendly, comfortable product that will make you feel right at home editing those family photos.


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