Kid Pix Deluxe 4 Home Edition

I am a tutor and my first, second and third grade students have used this delightful fun art program in our tutoring sessions and they love it. It works very well and has many features that keep students interested. It was very easy to install on my laptop and I don't have to insert the disc to play it since it was installed, like I do with other educational software. My only disappointment was that several of my students already knew the program because they practiced it on computers in their schools. But the program is so complex that they can always learn other techniques on it or show me what they've mastered. The fact that elementary schools have the program in their classrooms for enrichment and reward to children who finish their work early or earn free time is quite an endorsement. I highly recommend it.

Unfortunately, I didn't carefully read the software requirements for Mac. This software runs on my Windows Vista computer, but does not work on my Mac operating with Mac OS X 10.6.5. I bought the software from Amazon.com and didn't realize that this software is a few years old and does not work with the latest Mac operating system. I had planned on using it on my Mac.

My kids have always used Kid Pix Deluxe 3 and loved it, however after upgrading their computers to windows 7, Kid Pix 3 would no longer run due to a change in how windows handles text to speech. So I ordered this - and thought that since it was a newer version it should be better, right? NO - WRONG!!! Somehow they have managed to take a wonderful classic kids software and junk it up. It tried to install an older version of the Adobe Reader, even tho the newest version was already installed - F - it should've quit and left the reader alone. Then the final straw - it looks like crap!!!!! Graphics are worse than version 3 and the drawing space is in a window that doesn't fill the screen if your resolution is set higher than 800x600, and most of todays monitors run at much higher resolutions than that - hello! It is 2010! How hard would it be for them to scale the software for higher resolutions? This looks and feels like software that was written 10yrs ago when everything was 16bit 800x600. What I really don't understand and ticks me off the most is that KidPix 3 didn't do this, so why does version 4 get worse and not better? Why didn't they just fix version 3 to run on Vista and Windows 7? I feel like I've been taken for a ride - thank goodness I didn't pay more than $10 for it - but even then, it's really only worth a couple of bucks.

My youngest begged for this having tried it at kindergarten. Upon installation I set her up and watched her create fun, colorful art and effects with ease. She could spend hours creating (if we'd let her). The graphics rendering can be a bit pixelated at times but for the average child user, it's of no concern. The variety of the art creation potential does not represent the price paid - the software's a steal of a value. Compared to games I've purchased, this was a much better investment. Highly recommended.

I bought this to put on my daughters laptop for christmas since so many people said it runs on windows 7 and it said on here it runs on windows vista. The dvd I got does not say vista on it. I know a lot of people said you have to use old versions of reader and quicktime. That was not a problem her laptop did not have those on it so i just installed version on dvd. The install went well so I thought great not any problems. It loads fine but the animation do not work or the animated stickers. This is the main reason she likes it so much and all that works is drawing. I am so glad I tried this out before I gave it to her.

My older two children used to play it all the time. My youngest twins, now 7, use it at school and have been asking for it. I found it on Amazon, received it in a few days, paid an amazing low price since its been out a while, and my kids love it. They can be creative and it keeps them busy on the pc.

Works great in my vista computer. My son used the kid pix deluxe 4 right away when he lost his DS to make a poster to put around the neighborhood! So its fun and handy!P.S. yes my son did get his DS back!

It's OK only because it is an older program that doesn't seem to work well with my OS. (Windows 7). It works better with Vista but even so my kids like it. We got it because the kids use it at school, but on Macs. Not so good at home on my PC.