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Back what feels a lifetime ago, out in the rural areas of Ontario, Canada, I used to train a novice on how to use the computer, and one day I came over he said look I need you to train me how to edit photos on the computer, because it is getting a lot more expensive and too tedious to edit photos using the old ways. He brought out a boxed set of Microsoft PictureIt! Premium 10, and I absolutely LOVED using it. It was made for novices, but could get so much work done. Sure, other programs have some of the features this did, and it’s spiritual successors by Microsoft cannot hold a candle to this software, it’s excellent. I truly miss it, and one day I hope an open-source project matches the UI/UX with feature set. Until that time, I feel well endowed to Microsoft over my lifetime, and it does pay off. I wish I could find the full suite as the CD set again (heh not even DVD!)

Versions

• Picture It! 1.0 (1996)
• Picture It! 2.0 and Picture It! 2.0 Express (part of Microsoft Plus! 98) (1997)
• Picture It! 99 (3.0) (1998) - 2 disc set
• Picture It! 2000 (4.0) (1999) - 2 disc set
• Picture It! 2001 (5.0) - the last version to support Windows 95. (2000) - 7 disc set for Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2001 (with the merger of Picture It! and Microsoft Home Publishing)
• Picture It! 2002 (6.0) (2001) - 5 disc set for Publishing Platinum 2002
• Picture It! 7.0 and Digital Image Pro 7.0 (2003) - 2 disc set
• Picture It! Premium 9, Digital Image Pro 9 and Digital Image Suite 9 (2004) - 2 disc set
• Picture It! Premium 10, Digital Image Pro 10 and Digital Image Suite 10 (2005) - 2 disc set
• Digital Image 2006 and Digital Image 2006 Anniversary Edition (2006) - 2 disc set
• Download: Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 CD 1 of 2 on archive.org
• Download: Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 CD 2 of 2 on archive.org

Editions

• Picture It! Express - Scaled down edition of Picture It!
• Picture It! Photo and Photo Premium - Picture It! editions with only photo editing features
• Picture It! Publishing (Gold, Silver and Platinum editions) - Picture It! editions with photo editing as well as home publishing features
• Picture It! Print Studio and, Photo & Print Studio (UK editions of Picture It! Publishing)
• Picture It! Library - An image organizing application since version 9 Suite edition, which later became Digital Image Library and eventually some features went into Windows Live Photo Gallery
• Microsoft Greetings Workshop, later Microsoft Greetings (a scaled-down Picture It!-based application with only greeting card templates) - single CD