Standard procedures can be picked up by just playing around with the program for a few minutes with little or no need to crack open the help file. The more advanced stuff can get a bit tricky, but Picture Publisher comes with several wizards that can guide you through the rough spots. Additionally there s a large selection of macro s included which can further ease complicated tasks as well as helpful tutorials that can teach you all the in s and out s of Picture Publisher. While Picture Publisher can be used for any of your graphics needs, it s best suited for web images. Animated GIF s are a snap, you can import pre-existing ones and edit them within Picture Publisher to refine them or create brand new ones with the help of the animation wizard.
Image maps are equally easy to whip up, a point and click affair that takes a matter of seconds.
To help with page navigation Picture Publisher offers up two nifty features, a thumbnailer and a bevel factory. The thumbnailer lets you create a contact sheet for any number of selected images. Just select a folder full of images and let Picture Publisher loose, it will fly through em all and make a nicely organized page ready to be uploaded. Finally, Picture Publisher fully supports the Adobe Plug-in format. That means that beyond the included filters you can take advantage of all the great third party plug-ins available like Eye Candy.