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Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000. Brooks Feb 1, 1999 Microsoft's new PhotoDraw 2000 application workspace is designed to be easy and comfortable for Windows Office application users. There's a bar of primary function buttons across the top of the screen under the menu bar, which pop up right-hand side column tool definitions with easy to. Based on early positive reaction to her first PhotoDraw courses, Chamberlain moved quickly to develop a new course for the just-announced Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2, a major upgrade that features new Web functionality, tight integration with Microsoft Office 2000, and faster performance.
I have Photodraw 2000 on my computer from several years ago - I copied it onto my newer computer and I use it all the time to add text, borders or effects and to correct old photos or erase backgrounds. I use my photos for various purposes, for teaching and family use, so it's good to be able to do lots of things with the photos in just one simple program I love Photodraw- it has so many uses and is easy to use.
I never got the hang of using layers as in paint.net (which I've tried ) and Photoshop (which seems so expensive and complex). Does anyone else still use Photodraw or am I hanging on to a dinosaur here? Re-sizing images - here's a quick way to re-size your photos so they will open in PhotoDraw (it's an old program from when photos were smaller, and the maximum JPEG size it can manage is 2500pixels). If you have Office 2013, it will no longer include MS Office Picture Manager; you can download a free copy of and install just the MS Office Picture Manager component; it's a good quick program for basic photo editing, including very a useful 'midtone' adjustment as well as the usual contrast, cropping, rotate, red-eye etc.).
PhotoDraw works on Windows 10:) Even fixed the 3D problem! I've just installed PhotoDraw2 on my latest computer with Windows 10. There were a few issues and it said it was not compatible, but I persisted and it's working. I had to restart my computer before it would save the files as.jpg or.gif, and it still keeps asking me to insert Disc 2 despite my clicking the ‘ignore’ and ‘don't show me this again’ buttons - a minor problem. I manually copied all the extra files from the disc folders (CD2) into the photodraw folders on my computer, so that I would have the full range of textures, edges etc. The only thing that was missing was the 3D fonts, but I even found a solution to that online, and now they work beautifully! (- download install d3drm.dll at and place it in the folder C: Program Files (x86) Microsoft Office Office).
The disk problem could be related to Windows not realising the program is installed correctly - or the program missing this info in some config file. I had similar issues with multivolume installs of old stuff a lot of times. Like you I just prefer some of the oldies;) One trick that almost always works is to copy all install volumes onto a USB stick. Often there are empty text files as an ID or it is the volume name the installer asks for - but only if the next install file can't be found! If all volumes are present it will just continue to do the work and finnish without any error. Really old programs or programmers like to include a finnish command into the install routine for the program. A simple way of checking if all really is complete from the days where the OS did not care about such things.
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If the above did not help try to copy the program folder from and installation on an old OS into your new program folder. All identical files can be ignored but if there are.ini files.cfg files or similar textfiles then check them and compare the contents. If you are really lucky then it is as simple as one file missing - the one the installer should create to let the program know it finnished correctly. Turkishjim posted an interesting idea to convert large jpeg pics to other formats to use in PhotoDraw.
I tried it out- I used Photoscape (free) to convert a large image to.bmp, png and.tiff. The.bmp file wouldn't open in my PhotoDraw, but the.png and.tiff are fine (I use those formats a lot in PhotoDraw for clipart and picture scans). Once edited in PhotoDraw, the only options for saving (other than special formats) are jpeg or gif, and if you just 'save' from large.bmp or.tiff images, they end up smaller; they don't save at the original size (my image went from 3894px width to 1947px width).
However, you can 'Arrange-Resize' to bring back to original size and save if you want to keep the large image! I usually use MSOffice to do a quick edit on my photos - to bring up the midtones (which PhotoDraw doesn't offer), adjust contrast, colour etc.
Then if I want more editing, I reduce the size (easy to do in MSOffice) to less than 2500 pixels on the longest size, save it (still as jpeg) then open it in PhotoDraw for sharpening, adding borders, watermark/signature etc. It will then save at the same ('2500 pixels max.' ) size, which is still large enough for most uses, and in fact I often have to reduce the size again (or work on a smaller image to start with, but I increase the magnification in PhotoDraw to work on smaller images). I guess the thing is that with modern images being so large out of the camera, we have to re-size before using an old program like PhotoDraw- so some 'pre-editing' will be needed.
If you re-save as jpeg format, you'll be losing some quality each time (unless you use Irfanview's 'loss-free' re-sizing). It's all interesting. Please keep the suggestions, comments and ideas coming! Hello, can anyone please help me!
I've been using Photo Draw 2000 V2 to do some vector graphics and my most recent work will not open due to the size of the file (almost 18MB). I hate to lose the three days of work that I've invested in this project. I have a PC running Vista Ultimate Service Pack 2, with a AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2.21 Ghz, 18.0 GB of RAM and a 32 bit OS.
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Is there any way to save my project file? I've tried every suggestion that I've stumbled upon, thus far, online regarding saving it to a jpg file but each time that try to open it the file eats up all of the available memory on one of my two processors, as it tries to render the file and then just sends me an error message. Do I need even more RAM? A vastly faster processor? Java jdk 1.7 51 64 bit. Even though I have the Affinity set for both processors, when trying to open the file I notice that it uses the memory of only one of the two processors. I tried to increase the priority.
That didn't work. I tried increasing the Virtual Memory for each of my two hard drives, since the program is on one drive and the image is stored on the other drive. That didn't work either. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I use Outlook as an email program and have found the best way to quickly resize photos is to go to the file location, right click the photo, select 'send to' then 'mail recipient'. A dialogue box will open asking if you want to resize the photo to one of five options: Original, Large, Medium, Small, or Smaller.
Select 'small' or 'medium' and send to yourself. It will be sent in the smaller size. From there just save it to your desk top.
This has never failed to reduce photos to a size where I can use them in PhotoDraw and requires no other programs. Glad I found this forum. Been using PhotoDraw since around 2000. Hi Vickie, I installed Photodraw on my new Windows 8 computer (which I'm still taming - I use the old desktop and only a few of the Metro features). Photodraw still works OK but it still asks me to insert Disc 2 at various times, which I ignore (I painstakingly copied all the 'extra' files from the disc into textures etc on my computer). Still can't get 3D etc. Interesting that there is a later version- I'll have to check it out!
Do you still have your installation discs from before? I've backed up mine online so if you can't get a copy from MS (I don't think they sell it any more), they may be happy for you to access my backups. I'm new to this community but agree with others that Photodraw 2000 is much more intuitive than many of its more recent competitors. (Or am I just an old fuddy-duddy, I wonder?) Anyway just for information I have just managed to get PD working on my home PC which has just been upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 (both x64). I only have 8Gb of RAM, by the way. Also in case it helps anyone else I have found in the past that large jpg files which will not open in PD can be converted to bmp format using a free programme like IrfanView and will then open in PD.
I have iso files of both CDs if someone can advise how best to share them (but not the licence details) with those who want them as they are each about 1/2 a gigabyte. Hi Turkishjim, Thanks for that great info, and for the offer to share your iso files. I have made back-ups of my discs and put in a onedrive folder in case someone needs them, but they are large files! They don't seem to need licence details, I guess as the program is out of date.
It's really good to know that it works on Windows 10 - I was a bit scared to update as I didn't want to lose PhotoDraw. That's also an interesting idea to convert large jpeg pics to other formats to use in PD. I'll try it out! Regards, Cathy.
Hi Artlady1, Please note PhotoDraw 2000 is not compatible with Windows 7 for more information you may visit this below link. As it is not compatible, you may try installing PhotoDraw 2000 in compatibility mode and check for the issue to do that you need to follow the steps provided below. Locate the installer.exe or setup.exe file in your PhotoDraw 2000 folder. Right-click on the file. From the contextual menu, d. Choose Properties Compatibility. Choose the version of Windows you want to emulate and select the “Run this program in compatibility mode” checkbox.
Run the installer If you need further information on the above provided steps then you can follow the link provided below. Make older programs run in this version of Windows If the above provided steps doesn't resolve the issue then you need to wait for the program manufacturer to release the Windows 7 compatible program. Thanks and Regards: I. Suuresh Kumar - Microsoft Support.