I installed Picture It 2000 with a minimum of prompting. I installed all parts of the program. A resolution of 800 x 600 pixels was necessary for optimum results.

The program started off with helpful videos about: What’s New, Stacking Objects,Creating Cut-outs, Replacing Cut-outs, Moving and Resizing, Creating for the Web,Clone Painting, Compositing, Adding Special Effects, Painting with Photo and Art Strokes. The Work Bench lists tasks:

1. Text which may be added, edited, colored, bent or made into 3 D.
2. Size and Position which may be enlarged or made smaller, cropped, moved forward or back, rotated, skewed, and aligned.
3. Touch Up which may be quick or individually done for color, tint, brightness, contrast, red eye, scratches, wrinkles, and cloned.
4. Special Effects which may blur or sharpen, emphasize, fade out, or put into 3D.
5. Paint and Clone Effects which may be done freehand, with photo strokes, art strokes, color changes, and gradients of colors.
6. Edge Effects which may be highlighted , softened, have art or stamped edges.

I used my Logitech Scanner to create a Valentine onto which I placed a photo. In order to insert the photo behind the lacy edge of the card stacking was necessary. The stacking directions for clicking and dragging were followed. I clicked the card to place it above the photo and after resizing the photo to fit the allotted space, it made a pleasing card.

I cut out a face from a photo by placing the guide lines on either side of the area to be cut and then clicking, and the program automatically cut at the delineated line by the difference of colors at the cut site. I inserted this face onto a bathing beauty body after resizing the photo to fit.

I removed red eye and wrinkles from another photo by zooming in on the appropriate areas to create a more manageable work area. I cloned color to remove the wrinkles. I created a magazine cover from this photo.

I changed the edges and enlarged a set of three baby pictures which I placed into a mat.

All of these could be sent by e-mail and/or be saved to bmp, mix, tiff, gif, jpg, or as wallpaper, sent to Fugifilm, or Kodak Photonet.

Projects consisted of:

1. Collages with 12 templates, 12 Photo Album Pages with categories such as 12 for Baby, 6 for Birthday, 9 for Family, 9 General, 9 Kids, 12 Seasonal, 6 Sports, 12 vacations, 12 Weddings
2. Greeting Cards with 7 top folds, 10 side folds, 4 triple folds, and 10 four panel cards.
3. Calendars
4. Fun Stuff had 10 Magazine Covers, 13 Stickers
5. Funny Money, 8 Kids, 12 Head Swaps, and 12 Surface Rubbings
6. Business Cards
7. Mats and Frames
8. Web Page Albums
9. Slide Show
10. Get It Now for Free
11. Shop for Pictures
12. Fugifilm and Kodak Photonet

The help movies were extremely useful guides for all facets of the program. There is a mini lab which allowed me to enhance, adjust brightness and contrast, correct tint, etc. all at the same time for three or more pictures which had the same corrective needs such as overexposure, etc. The Smart Task Scan straightens, crops and adjusts pictures automatically. In addition, the program also has the advantage of making all of the pictures on my C drive readily available for use.