Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 (v. 2.0) - box pack (version upgrade) - 1 user overview and full product specs on CNET.

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). Flowmaster software free download. 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.). Somebody I know is really fond of / dependent on PhotoDraw 2000 **version 1.0**.

We did manage to get a hold of V2 and use it in Windows 10 but it is missing some features and somehow less stable. He runs PhotoDraw on a dying Windows XP laptop now and installed apps are hard/impossible to migrate. So, does anybody have the install media for version 1 somewhere? I read on Wikipedia it also shipped with Microsoft Office 2000 Premium/Developer on disks 3+4 but I couldn't find those disks online anywhere.

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. 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).