Once Upon a Time ...

We, creative photo editing species, : )),
we were constantly creating the most stunning effects on our pictures in the most simple and easy way.
You see, we were just using Microsoft Picture It.

We were happy with this special piece of software that made it possible for us to be creative without almost any knowledge at all.
But, also, that gave us plenty of possibilities that other photo editing software (even the most expensive ones) definitely DON'T!
So, never could or would we expect Microsoft to stop supporting this superbe photo editing software.
But,
as you figured out by now,
they did! They just simply did.
And now a days there are still thousands of people still holding on to old versions of windows XP on very old computers, they just keep running to be able to still work on old versions of Picture It!
All around the world!
Imagine that.
They've tried lots of other programs for trust me, once you find your way of being creative in editing, you don't ever want to stop.
But Adobe is WAY TO COMPLICATED for normal users and like PSP, sorry, it really doesn't do what Picture It facilitated.

So, We, "forever loving Picture It editors", are trying our very best to get Microsoft to either renew Picture It and put it back on the market,
or to give it up for OPEN SOURCE EDITING.

We have our Facebook Page where you can post your messages or ask your questions,
and where you might find an answer if you're lucky.
We hope to get as many friends on our page as possible so we can send a clear message to MICROSOFT and make a strong plead.

Now Picture It! According to Wikipedia:
Microsoft Picture It is a discontinued photo editing application created by Microsoft. Microsoft acquired the intellectual property rights and full U.S. trade registration from RomTech, later renamed eGames, and released Version 1.0 of the application in September 1996. Borrowing from the wizard user interface concepts of Microsoft Publisher, Picture It! was geared to make digital imaging easy for consumers. It was the first consumer imaging program to enable sprite creation, leveraging alpha masking (a concept published by Alvy Ray Smith, founder of Pixar, in 1978) while running on an 8 MB RAM Pentium computer. Microsoft purchased Altamira Software, the company owned by Alvy Ray Smith, in 1994 and made Smith a Microsoft employee.

The Picture It! file format used the extension .MIX (Microsoft Image Extension). The .MIX extension was also used by Microsoft PhotoDraw although its format was incompatible with Picture It!.

In 2001, Microsoft merged its Home Publishing product with Picture It! to create Picture It! Publishing. In 2003, Picture It! was significantly changed, expanded with more advanced editing features and rebranded as Microsoft Digital Image with the home publishing features removed and a focus exclusively on photo editing. Digital Image was also eventually discontinued in 2006 after the release of Windows Vista.