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Photo Objects 50,000 Vol 2 Review

Photo Objects 50,000 Vol 2
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If you think that the claims made by the manufacturer actually come through and you are purchasing high quality images, think again. Although they offer a money back guarantee if you don't like the collection (shipping is on you), all too many images are blurred by an "artistic" coating that makes them unusable. Then they show you the real image in tiny slides. If you really want the "good" picture, you have to go to their web site and buy it... There are some images you can actually use in the package, but not nearly as many as they claim! I found some 350 variations of ONE picture (1 easter egg). The search engine is really buggy, but they offer an update online.

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Give your projects more life and variety with Hemera Photo-Objects 50,000 Volume II, the follow-up application that contains more than 50,000 new royalty-free photo objects in more than 90 categories. This new collection of photographic objects can easily be inserted into many graphics, Web, presentation, and word processor applications, giving projects a professional edge. The product features an easy-to-use search engine and drag-and-drop export to simplify finding and using the photo objects you need.
Premasked photo objects are useful design tools because you do not have to create transparencies; the images are precut from their original context, making it easier to drag and drop the images into any design in seconds. Since the object is professionally masked from the initial rectangular background, the photo object maintains the quality of a photo but has the flexibility of clip art. In addition to the 50,000 new photo objects, also included in the package are more than 200 new PhotoFont textures accessible in PhotoFont Maker. PhotoFont Maker allows users to instantly fill their fonts with photo-realistic textures.

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PrintMaster Platinum 11.0 Review

PrintMaster Platinum 11.0
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Printmaster 11 Platinum is the latest version of Printmaster - the all-in-one graphics suite by Broderbund (Mindscape, Learning Company, etc.). I have used Printmaster since version 7 - and been thru the two subsequent upgrades (8 and 10). Each upgrade made some nice improvements to what was (is) an excellent all around graphics suite. Among some of the improvements in version 11 are: the ability to change a greeting card layout from a quarter-fold to a half-fold (and vice-versa), easier interface and more intuitive tools, an improved photo workshop, the ability to make matching items for a party such as tablecloth and napkins, among many others. Printmaster has thousands of beautiful pre-made graphics for greeting cards which print gorgeous, vibrant colors using a nice color printer with good card stock (I use HP greeting card stock, Hallmark, or Canon - all good). This new version is well worth the price with its improvements. If you have version 8 installed, though, download the patch from the Expressit website before installing version 11, or uninstall version 8 first. You won't be disappointed!

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PrintMaster Platinum 11 provides tools to create photo albums, party sets, Web pages, T-shirts, home and garden crafts, and more. Users can pick from thousands of ready-made templates and images or start from scratch.
The new integrated photo-editing and multimedia features offer a host of new effects. You can store and share photos online, and give access to family and friends for viewing anytime. The Party Creator Wizard allows you to create coordinated party favors with a click (hat, banner, place card, invitation, and centerpiece). Turn any project into a screen saver, or attach sound/video and send it online. The enhanced design center features ease of use and multimedia tutorials. And you can organize your projects more easily with the My Art and Photos gallery.

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PrintMaster Platinum 15 Review

PrintMaster Platinum 15
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I bought a new computer with windows XP and decided if i was going to be running the newest Windows I should run the newest Printmaster. I upgraded from Platinum 11 and I'm sending back Platinum 15 and re-installing 11. More than half the images are online now. You get three art discs and have to sort through online garbage to get the rest. It's to get you to sign up for their Million image club for another $$. They took away some features and added nothing. Quality went down. Wait for them to bring it back up before upgrading.

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Art Explosion Publisher Pro Review

Art Explosion Publisher Pro
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Nova is a company that buys software from other companies and then they jazz it up with templates, other software, graphics, etc. For the end user this can mean a great deal. You may not get the latest version but you will get solid software with lots of extras. I usually can figure out what software the product really is, not so with this one. What I can tell you is that it is pretty high end as it offers tons of features not found in lesser packages including the ability to create PDF files and Postscript (with color separations) for professional publishing. It also has high end features like the ability to create a table on contents. Add to all of this a quality photo editor. The photo editor sort of looks like an older version of PhotoPaint. It doesn't have wizards (like automatic color balance)...it is strickly manual. With that said, it does has higher end controls like "levels and curves." Remember that your getting this program for FREE. Add to all of this TONS of professionally designed ready made templates and (they say, I have not counted!) 100,000 clip art images. Some of the images are really fun like those BW ad people from the 1950s. Nova has a $30 competative rebate going on too making Publisher Pro super cheap. For years I have used MS Publisher 2000 for most of my publishing needs (including producing a company newsletter). I think this product offers a lot more than Microsoft Publisher. A definate buy.

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Art Explosion Publisher Pro makes desktop publishing a matter of clicking on the right icon. From flyers to newsletters, from brochures to greeting cards this software has the tools and readymade templates you need for spectactular homemade publications. Choose to add shadows, glows and bevels for a powerful 3D effect Stunning filter effects for adding blurs, sharpening, solarized effects and so much moreOutstanding paintbrush tools for making pictures more colorful Preset linear, elliptical and conical gradient -- or create your own with multiple gradient tools

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Printmaster Publishing Suite 7.0 Review

Printmaster Publishing Suite 7.0
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This is a great cd for someone just starting out, it makes you want MORE. I get great artwork. for beginners like myself, its a great introduction to Printmaster. Lots of pictures,cards etc.

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Printmaster Premier 7.0 Review

Printmaster Premier 7.0
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You can make your projects as simple or complex as you want with this program. Features include cards, art projects, envelopes, banners, posters, and more. There are thousands of clip art images, and you can import your own photos, and then crop them with provided shape or by hand, you can even give them an older look. The choices of font are amazing! You can even create your own headlines, with different colors, textures, shapes, shadows, and outlines to add to the text. The program offers ready-made projects, assistance with projects, or you can create your own from scratch. With all the options for cards you'll find yourself making all the cards and invites you need for any occasion. You'll be amazed at everything you can create! Once you register your program PrintMaster will send you information about additional upgrades. All of which are affordable.

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PrintMaster Premier 7.0 is a full-featured print productivity program everyone can use. Besides a powerful set of easy-to-use tools, it comes with thousands of images, exclusive original art and photos, as well as ready-to-print templates that make creating a wide variety of printed materials quick and effortless. Use PrintMaster to create everything from personalized greeting cards and invitations to brochures and newsletters. PrintMaster Premier even includes templates for 300 different banner designs.
With the built-in TWAIN support, you can import photos and images using a scanner, digital camera, or other device. The PhotoEnhancer program included with PrintMaster Premier 7.0 allows you to edit photographs, remove red-eye, and more. Also included with PrintMaster Premier 7.0 are 100 premium National Geographic photographs. With PrintMaster Premier's capabilities, your personal newsletters and greeting cards will look professional and unique.

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My Labels Review

My Labels
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I used a previous version of My Labels, and was quite pleased with it. After changing computers a few times, the old version would no longer work with WinXP, so I "upgraded" to the newer version. Here's my gripe list:
1. When I tried to open my old My Labels files, it kindly offered to convert them to the new format. How convenient! Not at all. The data gets converted (duh), but the label design disappears.
2. Entering data is unbelievably frustrating. If you have fields that are the same, you can copy and paste, but that's it. Ctrl-D is supposed to work, but it doesn't really, making you type the same things over and over. Modern software is supposed to increase productivity, isn't it?
3. This is really a stamp selling program. They actually only want you to buy stamps, the software only being a hook to bring you in.
4. Placement of objects is very clutsy and it's difficult to put things close together.
5. Very limited creative options.
I'll never buy this again.

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The easiest way to create and print labels for business and personal use in minutes!Design on your own, or let the Label Assistant guide you. Select a size, insert text, and add graphics and logos. Alter fonts and objects with the professional color wheel. Add product barcodes and POSTNET-certified barcodes.

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Labelpro for Windows 3.0 Review

Labelpro for Windows 3.0
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Program is easy to use with any Avery product. Once the product is identified by product number (easily visible on all products), the program does the rest.

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Now you can create professional-looking labels and more, in less time that you ever imagined. Print eye-catching graphics or text in your choice of font--even in color. You'll never struggle again to make text fit and align properly. Avery's LabelPro 3.0 simplifies all the formatting automatically. Get perfect results the first time and every time.

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PrintMaster 2011 Platinum SB Review

PrintMaster 2011 Platinum SB
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I pre-ordered this through Broderbund. Somewhat satisfied and dissatisfied with it's predecessor I decided I would take a chance. My evaluation isn't about the software because I won't put the disk in my Mac. Why? I was sent a cheaply created (burned) copy of the program with a homemade adhesive label. I'd expect this from a new software company but Broderbund??? Tacky and potentially damaging to your machine. It's stupid to put disks with adhesive labels in your computers and cd players.
After arguing for 40 minutes and threatening a fraud alert with the BBB they finally agreed to credit me for the disk, shipping and let me keep the disk because they wouldn't pay for return shipping. Will it be the same way with Amazon? I'm not sure. I do know that the supervisor told me there are no boxes for the product even though there is one pictured here AND on Broderbund's site. I'd investigate first unless you're OK with adhesive labels.
***UPDATE**** I had to look at this product. If you look at the software product just before they released this one (PrintMaster Platinum 2.0) you'll see that people didn't have the greatest opinion of it. I gave it a 3. I think they whipped this one out to 'fix' the fatal issues of 2.0. Well, "Back to the drawing board Broderbund!"
***The labels got slightly better. SLIGHTLY. You still have to literally copy and paste your address for every single cell. No Find/Replace. Very time consuming.
***The calendar is basically a graphic. Yes, you choose the year or the month depending on whether you are doing an annual or monthly. However you have no way to type items into a cell/day. With Print Shop you can. An improvement but like the labels, a very SLIGHT improvement.
****EVERYTHING IS ONLINE. People complained about everything being installed and killing your hard drive but now you have to be able to access the Internet if you want to create anything. Yes, this is normal for print software but at least you get some on the disk or installed. But with this one it looks like you need the Internet for everything. Let's put it this way. Everything I tried to find kept needing the Internet. Maybe the clipart is on the disk but the projects don't appear to be. Very sad.

****Tackiness: I'm a teacher and I'm picking about spelling. I'm adding a graphic that shows how poorly they were at Broderbund when it came to looking at things before releasing this 'burned' disk. They spelled 'coming' as 'comming.'
****Going back to labels I'm also including a graphic of a sheet of labels aimed at Halloween. First the design has graphics all over the sheet. Next they have the instructions mixed within the labels themselves. Huh? It's a bunch of gobbledygook.
If you're interested in this product look at 2.0 but I'm still very glad I got my money back. Big, big, big disappointment. It keeps it's 1 because they did a shoddy job 'fixing' up a piece of software that they screwed up in the first place. So not worth $40.00! Back to Print Shop for me and praying I can find a good one for my Mac.*****UPDATE***** I wanted to create business cards/behavior punchcards (yeah, I didn't fully take it off) and the program printed some crazy enlarged business card that had the right side of it printed on the left side and vice-verce. I have NEVER seen a printing program this messed up!!!

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PrintMaster 2011 Platinum
The Fun and Easy Way to Create Personalized Projects and Crafts
Create personalized print projects in minutes - anything you can imagine, you can create!*

PrintMaster 2011 Platinum is easy-to-use design software that's great for making a greeting card, capturing memories in a scrapbook, creating a calendar or writing a newsletter to keep in touch with friends and family. It's the ultimate creative toolkit for all your craft projects.


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PrintMaster Platinum 2.0 Review

PrintMaster Platinum 2.0
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I have been a loyal Printmaster user for years. I have upgraded many times because of the ease of use and the variety of design elements available. I recently got a Mac so I purchased the new 2.0 version to use with my new Mac computer. WOW, AM I DISAPPOINTED. The product STINKS!!! Everything that I loved about the older versions is gone. First of all, you have to install all of the art onto your computer. This is a 23G program! But still, the templates are limited, the clip art is awful and I can't seem to layer them onto my own designs without the white background showing around the clip art, so if I have a colored background in my design, I can't get the clip art on my project without the white around it. I imagine it can be done because the white is not in the ready-made templates, but I can't seem to edit it out. If anyone knows how, please let me know. I can't copy and paste outside clip art into it either. It just puts a box with the name of the item and there is no way to activate the contents. As I said, I have been using PrintMaster products for a long time and I can usually figure out most software programs without a problem, but this version has me so frustrated that I will probably uninstall it from my computer. It is not worth the enormous amount of space it takes up. Sadly, I probably can't return the opened item so I am just going to have to eat the $39.99 I paid for this inferior version of a once-loved product. I will try to contact the company to see is there is a satisfaction guarantee, but I'm not hopeful. I would NOT recommend this version of PrintMaster.
UPDATE: Thank you Amazon for your great return policy. You sent a return shipment label and bar code immediatly when I asked to return for a refund on this Horrible Product. Initial shipping was free, so for less than $5 for return shipping, it is well worth it to be rid of PrintMaster 2.0. AMAZON IS THE BEST!

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PrintMaster Platinum 2.0, the quintessential toolkit for creating thousands of amazing projects.With an enormous library of elegant templates, beautiful artwork and expressive fonts, producing "store-quality" creations has never been easier.


Create Personalized Print Projects in Minutes
New--Easy-to-Use Software Drag-and-drop photos, text and design elements with incredible ease and quickness.
PC and Mac Compatible Use the program on a PC or Mac and create, edit and share files seamlessly.
Easy Design Tools Edit photos to make them perfect, add text and add amazing artistic effects with an arsenal of creative tools at your fingertips.
Perfect for Every Occasion Choose from a gallery of spectacular designs to capture life's special moments--birthdays, graduations, holidays, weddings, anniversaries and more.
Tons of Projects Select from ready-made designer templates or start fresh with a blank template for:

Easy to Share Print at home, email or publish your latest creation on the web to share with friends and family.

What's New? PrintMaster Platinum 2.0 is the next generation in print software.Completely built from the ground up, this comprehensive toolkit takes advantage of the latest technology to significantly improve ease-of-use and provide you with the utmost design flexibility.
All Content Inside the Box All designer templates, graphics and fonts available on discs so no downloading is required.
PC and Mac Compatible For the first time ever, you can create, edit and share files between PC and Mac users.This is a great cross-platform software program to have in a home with both PCs and Macs.
Streamlined Workspace With a sleek new workspace, it's easy to find and switch between the various tools quickly.Create anything you want with a robust collection of photo editing, design and text tools at your fingertips.
Drag-and-Drop Quickly add photos and graphics to your workspace with speed and ease.
Auto-Fill Wizard Too busy to look through your photos?Save time with the convenient auto-fill wizard that searches and imports photos automatically.
Advanced Color Match Technology Click on an object with the eye-dropper tool to find the perfect color match.
Text-to-Shape Create text to flow around a circle or square for a contemporary look.
Slider Tools Compress or amplify graphic effects by sliding the cursor left or right.
Thumbnail Preview Easily switch back and forth between multiple pages in a scrapbook project.
Integrated Professional Printing From within the program, directly order your greeting cards, scrapbooks/photobooks and calendars from an online photo site to get "store-quality" printed designs shipped right to your home.
Check Project The project check feature helps you check for errors and misspellings in your projects.Examples of common errors include photo or text boxes going off the page.


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