Working with text was just as intuitive, offering a range of easy-to-select tools that enable you to change everything from text size and color to shadow and shape. When you double-click a photo, the photo editor pops up over the PrintMaster window so that you can apply photo effects, crop the photo, and click OK to save your changes and return to the page.

The design and cropping tools are easy to use photo editing is simple and intuitive. For example, when you double-click a photo on the page, the Photos area expands, presenting you with all the tools you need for editing, enhancing, rotating, cropping, and resizing the image. You can also click the element on the page to display the options in the Design Tools. This saves space on the screen and avoids the need for popup dialog boxes, which helps you stay in creative mode. As you click each tool, context-sensitive options for that choice appear and other selections in the list close, accordion-style. Printmaster’s Design Tools appear along the left side of the window and give you the ability to add and customize your project. If you choose the manual option, you can simply click and drag the photos you want from the Resource Gallery along the right side of the PrintMaster canvas. If you choose the AutoFill feature, you are led through selecting the folder and the photos you want to include. Disappointingly, there was no specific scrapbook template, which would have been a natural for such a package.Īfter you choose the type of project you want to create, PrintMaster asks whether you want to insert photos manually or let PrintMaster AutoFill the photos for you. Whether you want to design and print banners, business cards, calendars, certificates, crafts, envelopes, and greeting cards, you will find a great range of tools for adding photos, inserting and styling text, and enhancing the project with custom backgrounds, paper styles, shapes and lines, headlines, and clip art. You can create many different types of projects in PrintMaster. PrintMaster Platinum 2 offers a collection of pre-designed templates you can use for your projects. A series of help messages, appearing in red text along the bottom of the work area, tell you what your next step in the process is (for example, “Please enter a name for your project”) so you never feel unsure about what to do next as you’re beginning to work with your project. PrintMaster is a powerful but intuitive program that offers a lot of support along the way. Once you choose whether you want to create a project based on an existing template or start from scratch, the program walks you through the process of creating your page. PrintMaster installs easily and opens with a window that offers you New Project Options.

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