Use this freebie.
http://www.getpaint.net/


"PICTUREIT! angry !" wrote in
message ...
The problem is that PICTUREIT! which I have used EVERY DAY FOR 7 YEARs
allowed you to cut out objects from pictures and put them in a new
picture,
people who run ebay businesses or other online ecommerce sites relied on
this
function every day , Microsoft has gone back 7 years in time by now only
allowing you to crop and chang color/brightness etc, they have not
replaced
the cut out features with anything else and we NEED to be able to cut out
items and objects from photos to eliminate background clutter. The only
thing
we can do now is how we did PRE-PICTURE it and that is to add shapes all
around the object to block out the background or to use paint brush which
takes HOURS to do one picture, instead of the 2 min job it used to be.
John,
do you know of any other program that works with VISTA that you can cut
out
objects with ? Microsoft software development team dont use the products
and
they 'think' people want to cut and paste pretty photos into a photo
album,
they dont realise that thousands of ppl actually used the features they
took
away from picture it. It is so disappointing, it is costing me time and
money. What used to take me minutes is taking me hours and it is time i do
not have to spare

"Bill Condie" wrote:

Windows Photo Gallery is actually quite good for basic tasks, such as
cropping.

Picasa and Irfanview are both better than earlier MS stuff, imho.


"DufferDan" wrote in message
...
Like "GudGolf" I too am about to go under the knife with my wife. I
relied
on
MS Digital Suite 10 for all of my photo editing. I am so discussed wit
MS
for
discontinuting this program. I tried to used suite 10 along with MS
Media
Center, with no luck. Why did MS screw things up.

"GudGolf" wrote:

I can tell you that Picture it! Publishing 2002 Platinum and Digital
image 7
Pro, both older Microsoft products will not work with vista. I will be
lucky
if my wife doesn't kill me for installing Vista on her computer,
Microsoft
has outdone them selves to introduce one upgrade that kills 2 other
functional and great programs. If anyone can find a way to make these
work I
would like to hear about it.
--
Helpless Ken


"Dana Cline - MVP" wrote:

Microsoft has the Digital Image Suite, which includes an editor as
well
as
plenty of other features. I mostly use PaintShop Pro, which is now
from
Corel and is reasonably priced...

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

"hollandr1" wrote in message
...
I am looking for relatively simple Photo Editing software that
works
with
Vista, besides the Photo Gallery installed in the product. Also,
is
Microsoft Picture It no longer made?

Thanks

I'm soooo upset with microsoft that I can't use Picture It! with vista.
I used it for all
my pictures when I worked on genealogy.
I'm ready to have vista uninstalled from my computer and install
Windows XP.


--
Charl

Charl wrote:
I'm soooo upset with microsoft that I can't use Picture It! with
vista. I used it for all
my pictures when I worked on genealogy.
I'm ready to have vista uninstalled from my computer and install
Windows XP.
=============================
I like XP...I'm still running it...but...as I
suggested in the Vista General newsgroup...
try MS Digital Image Suite 2006.

--

John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

"cwodave" wrote:

You go that right. My wife makes greeting cards with Picture It. SHe has
thousands of them and now they will be worthless if I move her to Vista. Is
there ANY program that can read the .php and .mix extensions that Picture It
uses.

"GudGolf" wrote:

I can tell you that Picture it! Publishing 2002 Platinum and Digital image 7
Pro, both older Microsoft products will not work with vista. I will be lucky
if my wife doesn't kill me for installing Vista on her computer, Microsoft
has outdone them selves to introduce one upgrade that kills 2 other
functional and great programs. If anyone can find a way to make these work I
would like to hear about it.
--
Helpless Ken


"Dana Cline - MVP" wrote:

Microsoft has the Digital Image Suite, which includes an editor as well as
plenty of other features. I mostly use PaintShop Pro, which is now from
Corel and is reasonably priced...

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

"hollandr1" wrote in message
...
I am looking for relatively simple Photo Editing software that works with
Vista, besides the Photo Gallery installed in the product. Also, is
Microsoft Picture It no longer made?

Thanks


Do I ever agree with you! I love Picture It, v 2002 and I am on vista and hate it because of that one program. Once the warranty is gone, I am seriously thinking about going back to XP