Print Shop Deluxe Reviewer's Comments

Our first pick for print software and our "TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award Winner" is Print Shop Deluxe by Broderbund. With this latest version of Print Shop Deluxe, you can sharpen the quality of photos and graphics using their preprint technology. This gives you crisp, clear headlines, text and images.

Print Shop Deluxe is fun and remarkably simple to use. The wide variety of templates, images and features allow for virtually unlimited print project designs, and the intuitive tutorials set Print Shop Deluxe above the rest.

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Ease of Use:  

Print Shop Deluxe is extremely easy to use. There are several tutorials features and helpful hints that can be turned on or off at will (under the general options folder of the file menu). You can use most every tool in Print Shop Deluxe with just a click of the mouse.

Feature Set:  

This latest version of Print Shop Deluxe allows you to create professional-looking calendars and hand-crafted cards with 3-D effects, ribbons, cut-outs and more. You can use your favorite specialty paper to print labels, business cards, envelopes, note cards, postcards and folded greeting cards.

Creating a project to publish to the web is simple with Print Shop Deluxe; the software even includes a web design checker to help you decrease the download time of your online projects.

Graphic/Image Tools:  

It’s easy to transform your photos and clipart with Print Shop Deluxe. You can crop and resize an image to almost any shape. With the flaw-fixing tools included in Print Shop Deluxe, you can eliminate red eyes in photographs, fix scratches and dust and even add effects, such as distortion, transparent, black and white and more.

A new feature in this version of Print Shop Deluxe is the hot shot viewer, where you can access your favorite photos, images, headlines and logos easily and then drag them directly into your projects.

With the artist stamp tool you can enhance a photo with artist stamps ranging from antique items to toys.

Text Tools:  

Like most Broderbund products, Print Shop Deluxe allows you to create fun, interesting paragraphs, headlines and anything else you can think of using text. You can create drop shadows to give text the appearance of floating on the page, wrap text around an image and add unique shapes to text.

You can create some cool-looking custom headlines for projects or choose from ready-made headlines. Each tool allows you to view results before adding to your project.

Help/Support:  

Print Shop Deluxe is so easy to use that you'll create stunning projects without reviewing any tutorials. Just in case, however, the Print Shop Deluxe tutorials are useful and easy to follow. Our only complaint was that you can't read the tutorial and try it at the same time; you have to print it out if you want to follow along

Summary:  

The sheer number of templates, images and tools bundled in Print Shop Deluxe sets it apart from the other print software products that we reviewed. Not only can you create impressive print projects, you can share your projects with friends using messenger programs or even publish your projects to a webpage.