On the look for a cool, affordable, all-in one software that'd let you touch up pictures, add funny effects, share photos online easily while being able to create publishing projects so you can print newsletter, brochures, etc? If so be sure to read the review I've just posted on Microsoft Picture It! Platinum Edition 2001 consumers software! Below is a snippet from the review:

Back in 1996, Microsoft surprised everyone by introducing its first home users’ dedicated touch-up software. At the time Picture It! 1.0 was a real basic software, but was acclaimed by customers due to its friendly user interface and the quick way it provides to perform vital editing operations on pictures like removing the nasty red eye effect. Since then the software has grown into versatile and powerful software. Now that almost everyone owns a camera, a scanner, a camcorder or a digital camera, pictures’ touch-up software are essential. Microsoft understood this need and made Picture It! 2001 even more complete and user friendly so families can edit and play with digital pictures easily. Microsoft Picture It! 2001 now includes the ‘old’ Microsoft Greetings/Microsoft Home Publishing Suite software: Microsoft has merged both software into a single one so users can edit pictures and create papers based projects or even websites that’ll use the just edited pictures, within the same application!