Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 is a discontinued vector graphics and raster imaging software package developed by Microsoft.

History[edit]

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Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000[edit]

Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 was released in 1999 along with Microsoft Office 2000 Premium and Developer, but came separately on 2 CDs. It developed from the Picture It! 2.0 engine's .MIX format and expanded further into vector imaging technology. It required a separate installation from the main installer for the core Office suite, and was also released as a stand-alone product as part of Microsoft's Graphics Studio line of products (Greetings, etc.).

PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2[edit]

It released the subsequent version called Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2 to General Availability on October 4, 1999.^[1]

PhotoDraw Release Vehicles[edit]

PhotoDraw 2000 shipped via these release vehicles

• A standalone packaged product composed of 3 CDs.^[2]
• As part of Office 2000 Premium (CD 3 and CD4)
• As part of Office 2000 Developer (CD 3 and CD4)

PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2 shipped via these release vehicles

• A standalone packaged product composed of 3 CDs.
• As part of Office 2000 Premium SR-1 (CD 3 and CD4)
• As part of Office 2000 Developer SR-1 (CD 3 and CD4)

Relationship to the Office Suite[edit]

Both versions of PhotoDraw were branded 'Microsoft Office Application,' and considered a 'member of the family,' as were other Microsoft applications (most notably Publisher) at the time.

Discontinuation[edit]

After PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2 was released, Microsoft discontinued the program.

Purpose and features[edit]

PhotoDraw is a full-featured dual-type (vector and bitmap) graphics software application like Adobe Fireworks, developed for semiprofessional business use. It includes a vast library of clip-art, and a good collection of additional fonts. Its user interface introduced an activity-based approach (manifested in special graphic menus), a concept later evolving into the Ribbon interface of modern MS Office and other applications.

As positioned mainly as an MS Office family companion and a business graphical solution suite, it was not useful enough for home users, who are more interested in manipulating digital pictures - which are bitmaps - than creating vector graphics. Microsoft has responded by bundling Windows Picture and Fax Viewer with Windows XP, developing Microsoft Picture It!, as well as creating Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Microsoft Office 2003 to expand on Microsoft Photo Editor. Furthermore, PhotoDraw was also not good enough to challenge Illustrator, the de facto standard for graphics professionals. For professional purposes Microsoft acquired, introduced and developed Microsoft Expression Studio, a graphics solution suite but it has been also discontinued, leaving MS Office users without any proper illustration tool with capabilities exceeding those of PowerPoint.

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File Format Support[edit]

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PhotoDraw's native file format is .MIX.

Photodraw can open files in these file formats:

• PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2 Format (*.MIX)
• PhotoDraw 2000 Version 1 Format (*.MIX)
• AutoCad Format 2-D (*.dxf)
• Computer Graphics Metafile (*.cgm)
• Corel Draw (*.cdr)
• Encapsulated Postscript (*.eps)
• Flashpix (*.fpx)
• Graphics Interchange Format (*.gif, *.gfa)
• JPEG File Interchange Format (*.jpg,*jpe,*.jpeg,*.jfif)
• Kodak Photo CD (*.pcd)
• Macintosh PICT (*.pct, *.pict)
• MicroGrafx Designer/Draw (*.drw)
• Microsoft Image Composer (*.mic)
• PC Paintbrush (*.pcx)
• Photoshop Files (*.psd)
• Picture It! Format (*.MIX)
• Portable Network Graphics (*.png)
• Tagged Image File Format (*.tif,*.tiff)
• Targa (*.tga)
• Windows Bitmap (*.bmp,*.dib,*rle)
• Windows Metafile (*.wmf)
• Windows Enhanced Metafile (*.emf)
• Wordperfect Graphics (*.wpg)

Photodraw can save files in these file formats:

• PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2 Format (*.MIX)
• PhotoDraw 2000 Version 1 Format (*.MIX)
• Graphics Interchange Format (*.gif)
• JPEG File Interchange Format (*.jpg)
• PC Paintbrush (*.pcx)
• Picture It! 4.0 (*.MIX)
• Picture It! 3.0 (*.MIX)
• Picture It! 2.0 (*.MIX)
• Portable Network Graphics (*.png)
• Tagged Image File Format (*.tif)
• Targa (*.tga)
• Windows Bitmap (*.bmp)

Changes in PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2[edit]

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• Improved performance and stability
• New Batch Save Wizard
• Setup based on the Windows Installer engine
• Web effects
• Improved integration with Office applications
• Windows XP Compatibility
• Larger collection of clip-art and fonts
• New File Open/Save dialog boxes with places bar

Use of the .MIX file format[edit]

PhotoDraw's native file format is '.mix', a proprietary format developed by Microsoft. Only PhotoDraw can save and load its MIX files and retain the full ability to modify those files.

The MIME media-type for the MIX format is 'image/vnd.mix' (IANA assignment for the MIX format)

Product Lifecycle for PhotoDraw 2000 V2[edit]

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• General Availability Date: 12/31/1999
• Mainstream Support Retired: 6/30/2004
• Extended Support Retired: 7/14/2009

Availability[edit]

PhotoDraw is no longer available for purchase from Microsoft.

References[edit]

1. ^'Microsoft Unveils PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2 | News Center'. news.microsoft.com. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
2. ^'Microsoft PhotoDraw 2.0 Download (Free trial) - PHOTODRW.EXE'. Software Informer. Retrieved 30 August 2016.

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IPhotoDraw is a well-designed portable tool for annotating images.

You can add captions, arrows, lines, spline curves, bubbles, dimension lines, watermarks (including watermarking a batch of images in one operation) and more.

Whatever the object, you're able to set fonts, styles, shadows, glows, fill colour/ gradient/ image, line thickness, opacity and more.

Objects can be grouped/ ungrouped, sized, aligned, spaced, and positioned above or below each other.

If you're adding a lot of annotations then this can become complicated, but iPhotoDraw does its best to help. You're able to save snapshots of your current editing state - image + objects + the current settings of every tool - for easy restoration later. And unusually, iPhotoDraw never actually touches your original images, storing its annotations in a separate file (you export the finished image as a BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF or TIF file).

While it's not intended to be an image editor, iPhotoDraw has a few basic editing options: flip, rotate, brightness/ contrast and hue/ saturation adjustments.

A useful 'Extended Toolbox' feature can add a custom shape to the iPhotoDraw toolbox. If you regularly use a couple of callouts in a certain style, for instance, set them up accordingly, add them to the toolbox, and they'll be instantly accessible in future.

There are some surprise bonus features, too, ranging from a simple screen capture tool to the ability to upload a finished image via FTP.

Version 2.5 (Build 6633) , 2018-03-01

- New shapes: parallelogram, trapezoid, block arc
-Draw lines with more styles
- Highlight tools
- First line indent for text

Verdict:

IPhotoDraw has a little room for improvement. You can't just double-click an object and start typing text; you have to select the Text Properties box first. We'd also like wider file format support (it's just the bare essential BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF and TIF right now), and the local Help file would be much more useful if it had a Search tab.

These are tiny details compared to everything the program gets right, though: its wide choice of annotations, their configurability, overall ease of use, piles of bonus features and the fact that it's entirely free. If you need more annotation features than your current image editor provides, iPhotoDraw is a must-try.