PrintMaster Platinum 2.0 Review

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(More customer reviews)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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PrintMaster 2011 Platinum SB Review

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(More customer reviews)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
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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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