Totally agree. I for one use Picture Publisher 8 on an almost daily basis for creating graphic material of varying kinds on a semi-professional basis for various non-profit projects, getting nothing but good comments on the stuff i put out and much appreciation for quick turn-outs almost no matter what the request is. No way i could do this in a hurry (if at all, sometimes...) with the less-than intuitive user interface and in comparison meager creative capabilities of the out-of-the-box Photoshop CS i have on hand but seldom use. PP 10 can be made to run fairly stable at least up to Win 7 Home Premium SP3 with 3rd party patches if you paste it manually in the (x86) directory and allow Windows to search online for solutions to the startup problem that will occur at first. The bugs in PP are irritating but can be somewhat handled by saving work often to keep losses to a minimum when it crashes - seems like it breaks mostly under the pressure of keeping long work lists and running many complex macros in a row on a picture, crowding the RAM of the computer. To me, Picture Publisher is kind of the missing link between Corel Draw and Adobe Photoshop, still ahead of the competition. Btw, Adobe is dropping the support for 8bf type filters in Photoshop, which makes another reason for keeping your PP running as long as possible.
Lightweight, intuitive, better than Photoshop. It has all the functions for editing pictures, import from scanner, textures, clone, work with layers, objects, etc.
