Reviewer, 2009-05-28 10:53:00

Picture Publisher is one of the oldest bitmap-based editors for Windows. It was developed by Micrografx up through version 10.

Features: Picture Publisher offers complete image processing from capture to publishing. You can capture images from any number of sources. It can be digital camera or a scanner. Capture, manage, correct, enhance, create and publish images. Whatever stage you need to process an image, the picture publisher has the tools to do it. It has full support for 48 bit RB and 64 bit CMYK color space images. Managing pictures is no problem with this utility. Pictures can be unlimited. All you need to do to organize the photo collection is to browse the thumbnails and create albums. Create as many albums you find logically needed. For a batch of images, if are able to define the process, you can set up macros that can take care of a whole batch of photographs/images. Whether correcting the white balance or removing red eye process a batch of photos together in one go.

Not only enhancements but embellishment of photographs and images are possible in this program. To the extent that a photo starts looking like a work of art. A number of filters can be applied to the images. Creative text captions or otherwise can be added. The extensive toolset helps with anything creative you want to do with your pictures. You can optimize the images for publication in different media. Optimize them for publication on a web site, for sending via e-mail, making a HTML slide show, print with accurate colors or may be burn into a CD.

Overall: This is a wonderful application. You are offered a range, almost complete, of image processing operations. A must have tool for your tool chest.