Why I LOVE Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 V2
Here are some .CamStudio.-captured
screencasts
showing me having <<FUN>> image-editing with
this
superb (if superannuated) software :
"The Eyeball Kid" - PhotoDraw Screencast
~ Thursday 28 May 2009 ~
"The Eyeball Kid" -
Screencast of Extracting an
Oracular Orb with .Microsoft
PhotoDraw 2000
Version 2.. Soundtrack Song = "Cut Away"
by Blue Eyed Vinyls.
"My Facial Hair Problem" in PhotoDraw
~ Friday 29 May 2009 ~
Screencast of extracting Lord
Kitchener's
moustache with .Microsoft
PhotoDraw
2000 Version 2.. Classical music
soundtrack by (Franz)
Joseph Haydn.
Editing a Fire Hazard Sign with PhotoDraw
~ Saturday 30 May 2009 ~
Screencast of editing a Fire Hazard Sign
using .Microsoft
PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2.
and then importing the resultant gif into
.Adobe
Premiere Pro.. Soundtrack Song
= a live performance of "Burn in Hell"
by Twisted
Sister.
"The Eyeball Kid" - PhotoDraw Screencast
~ Saturday 30 May 2009 ~
Screencast of modifying a Fire Hazard Sign
with .Microsoft
PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2.
to fit properly within a wooden snooker
frame (and MANY frames of film) in a
[Poetic Post Card] presentation composited
with .Adobe
Premiere Pro.. Soundtrack
Song = "Breathing" by Tommee
and the
Neighborhood.
Soccer Club Badge Editing in PhotoDraw
~ Thursday 4 June 2009 ~
Screencast of eliminating original text
from a soccer club badge using .Microsoft
PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2. and
then testing
the result in .Adobe
Premiere Pro.. Soundtrack
Song = "Arthur Nix" by Jupiter
Sunrise.
REACTIONARY RANT !
I am
<ridiculously in love>
with
.Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2. .
This excellent package, the evolution of
.Microsoft Image Composer. (known
to
users of .Microsoft
FrontPage.), was ahead
of its time, on release, at the turn of the
millenium.
I imagine it failed to win the (Windows)
following it more than deserved (and
CONTINUES TO DESERVE (!!!!)) because it
was marketed, as an "Office"
application
to businesses that were unlikely to have had
enough RAM (contemporary reviews suggested
64MB as a requirement) and general graphical
GRUNT installed in their low-end PCs to be able
to run it - thus they had no choice but to
disMisS
it and MisS
out.
The iPod should never have
~ SLIT THE THROAT ~
of the Sony Walkman and Microsoft should not have
~ MURDERED THEIR BRIGHTEST BABY ~
If you also enjoy .Microsoft
PhotoDraw 2000 V2.,
think you might have done, given the chance,
and would like to see it re-vamped and resurrected,
it's easy to send the software giant an e.mail telling
them so. They were unable to assure me that the
program would run in .Vista.
, .Windows
7. or
any future operating system - so
I have no
confidence that my favourite software will run on
a new machine - therefore I have NO MOTIVATION
TO BUY and will ONLY do so when my current
computer breaks beyond all repair.
For me, a computer WITHOUT .Microsoft PhotoDraw. is
*NOT* A COMPUTER
If Microsoft
created a contemporary,
guaranteed-compatible, graphics solution
that only had to be AS GOOD
AS .PhotoDraw.,
I'd be able to make further
purchases from them.
I'd WANT the new OS and I'd WANT the arts package.
WHY
are Microsoft letting Adobe
and
the Apple Mac steal
a march on them ?
As it makes no (surface) SENSE,
did it make
them some ((green)back-handed) CENTS ?
Did they mothball
<<a winning product>>
because it was
VERY GOOD and
VERY QUICK and VERY
EASY
to use and therefore presents (nearly)
NO learning curve and so requires
<NO TRAINING> leaving
nospace for
people trying to make a living from $elling ¢our$e$
which generally seem to revolve around showing students
<<WHERE
the buttons are>>
in DELIBERATELY unwieldy
user interfaces constructed
by behemoths to baffle the blinkered and
preclude the POOR from PSD participation ?
Isn't the <PICTURE>
the
<<BIGGER PICTURE>>
?
Heh. "Our way or the Highway".
No way !
.....No wait !
STOP !
Stop
your cringing and stop me
whinging by
making your mark an addition to the petition
QUICK ! CLICK :
~ BRING BACK MICROSOFT PHOTODRAW ~
Thankeeeee !
...Now you've done that
GOOD DEED FOR THE DAY,
you can reward yourself by playing :
~ "STOP !" by Sam Brown ~
Is the foregrounded brunette on the right (at 3:14, 3:32 & 4:06-End)
(Lady) Heather
Mills (McCartney) ??? IMDB
won't/can't tell.
and noticing how like the dusty
(not "Dusty",
"Dusty"
"Duffy"
or "Dirty")
dancing troupe troopers :
~ STOMP ! ~
her clean cut (not "Coldcut"
or "Coldplay")
.sooty
and sweeping. (not "Sooty
& Sweep"ing
(Don't
sue if(pseudo (?) "Soo"
<don't> - she is a Panda !)
(Bear but prim, more Pandora than panderer)
cleaning companions are.
Click [HERE]
for more bare bears ; Click [HERE]
for more "Sweeping
Defenders", weeping surrenders and the opera "Turandot".
Um...and
when did Matthew
Corbett turn into Simon
Pegg ? I may have to do a
LookieLikey Morph later - although "Morph"
may be more suited to
THIS page, as you may see soon.
Don't <STOP !> Stopping
This isn't the first time I've made a
connection between "Stop"
and "Stomp".
"Here's one I made earlier..." :
[CLICK] to view :
These Boots Were Made with CloneCloth
"Here's one I made earlier..." is a catchphrase
from the classic (and long-running) British
children's television magazine programme
"Blue
Peter". That show's logo is the :
"Blue Peter Ship".
It was designed by Tony
Hart in .1963.
(and
possibly not (!!) in .Microsoft
PhotoDraw 2000
Version 2.). I make a brief
visual reference
to the "Visionary of "Vision
On""in my
[POETIC POST CARD] adaptation of "The
Tyger",
another "visionary"'s imaginings, which may be
seen (and (not) not heard) at this link :
William Blake's Lamb-like Wail
Here is the beautiful, organic calligraphic
animated title sequence to Tony
Hart's
television series "Take
Hart". I can't begin
to imagine the work that must have gone
into this <<exquisite execution>> ------>
Queen
Elizabeth I, on the other hand,
as her
own "exquisite "hand""
shows :
Elizabeth I's Signature
knew all there is to know about about the
"exquisite
executions" of the "exquisite
executable"
and could be be forgiven for not knowing to call
.Microsoft
PhotoDraw. by the latter (not
Latimer)
epithet.