It's easy to get started and use. The new acquisition wizard makes it easy to use photos from just about anywhere—a digital camera, a picture CD,scanner, hard drive, the Web or MSN Photos. Many consumer and computer magazine reviews declare Picture It! products as the easiest photo-editing software to use largely due to integrated help features and built-in wizards.

Improve your photos with smart editing tools. It's simple to fix lighting, hue, composition, and other common photo problems and use photo restoration tools to change tint, remove dust and scratches, and restore old photos. Mini Lab make it easy to fix batches of photos with automated editing tools saving valuable time fixing photos so you can share in prints, email, and the Web.

Creativity abound. Photo templates and projects help you create like a professional. Use the 1,500 pre-created templates for photo cards, frames, calendars, and tons of other photo projects or choose from a wide variety of special effects like black and white.

Features:

Import Pictures Wizard makes it quicker and easier to acquire photos from your CD, digital camera, or removable media.
Selection tools A complete set of selection tools lets you focus on a specific area of your photo for improvement.
Rule of thirds gridlines. Improve cropping with rule of thirds gridlines. Create the perfect image composition with ease. Use the easy tool the pros use.
Straighten picture easily corrects crooked pictures.
Gaussian Blur provides smoother blurring to reduce emphasis on part of your photo.
Take your photos on the run Photos can be resized to fit on most popular cellular phones, Pocket PC or Palm devices.
User interface provides a larger workspace area for viewing and enhancing photos.
How-to movies helpful step-by-step how-to movies in the product show you exactly how to use the photo editing tools and make and share great looking results.
Mini Lab fifth generation Mini Lab makes it easier than ever to apply the most common editing tasks to a series of photos from your digital camera.
Sharpening helps focus details in a photo to salvage even more blurry shots.
Printing makes it even easier to get great printing results without wasting expensive photo papers. New auto collage print templates fit multiple photos and multiple photo sizes on a page.

Features:

Master the basics and beyond

Easily import photos from digital cameras, CDs, and scanners.

Capture frames from downloaded video files.

Quickly remove red eye, straighten and crop, and adjust lighting, contrast, color, and focus in the Quick Fix dialog box.

Automatically blend multiple images into seamless panoramas with Adobe Photomerge® technology.

Organize photos in the File Browser, where you can preview, sort, rotate, and rename images.

"Realtime" editing with RT.X10 Suite gives you unparalleled creative freedom to experiment. There's no penalty for changing your mind. Everything happens instantly, without rendering, so you can quickly try out any number of effects and combinations of effects to get just the look you want. The Matrox RT.X10 Suite bundle includes a state-of-the-art video capture and realtime 3D effects card, an audio/video breakout cable, plus the full versions of Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Encore DVD, and Adobe Audition.

The combination of Matrox RT.X10 Suite and the Adobe software provides vastly more realtime editing and productivity features than software alone. You capture video faster, edit it in real time without rendering, and then quickly deliver your finished videos on tape, VCD, SVCD, DVD, and the web. You get full-quality, full-resolution, no-compromise realtime editing; professional DVD authoring; and advanced audio editing, all for less than the price of just the software alone.