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Whether you're interested in home or small business print projects, Print Shop by Broderbund has thousands of ready-made and easy-to-use templates for creating professional looking business cards, letterheads and more. Photo editing is easy with their photo workshop, where you can fix flaws, crop and resize a photo or add special effects.

Ease of Use:

Print Shop has an easy-to-view project picker to help you create a project, edit a photo, search projects and access help. Its control panel is also designed with simplicity in mind. On the left you can choose a tool based on the type of object you're working on or use your mouse button once you have an object on your project.

Feature Set:

Print Shop lets you create labels for your CDs, personalized greeting cards, invitations and postcards, animated greeting cards and more. You can instantly share your projects with friends and relatives with their instant expression features, which allow you to share while chatting online or via email.

Graphic/Image Tools:

Print Shop's graphics and image tools not only work great with photos, but also with clipart images (unlike other print software programs). If you want to create your own images, Print Shop includes drawing tools that let you draw both pre-designed shapes and freehand. Or you can use their advanced drawing tools to create your own graphics.

Text Tools:

Print Shop's text tools are some of the best that we reviewed. You can add effects to both headline and body text. The text tools allow you to insert text boxes or headlines and even change the appearance of your text by applying shapes or stretching the text.

Help/Support:

Print Shop includes easy-to-find tutorials, a help system and online help resources. Unfortunately, phone support does require a fee.

Summary:

Print Shop is ideal for most print projects you think of; not only does the software offer a wide variety of templates and project categories, it also provides some good tools for working with text and images.