Review by Laura

This software allows you to create projects and provides tools to help you complete them, including a collection of pre-designed templates. You can add and enhance photos, design and print or upload certificates, banners, business cards, envelopes, calendars and greeting cards. You can insert and style text, use custom backgrounds, shapes, lines, headlines, and images/clip art. I didn’t have a problem installing PrintMaster and liked that it opened with a window that shows you the New Project Options. You can choose to start from scratch or use an existing template and there are many help messages to help you with the next step in creating your project.

When working with photos you can insert them manually (click and drag) or use an autofill (select folder and photos). I like how the tools expand and collapse to save space on the screen. You can display design tool options for every element on the page simply by double clicking on it. The design and cropping tools are easy to use and the photo editor works well. You can also customize your text, changing size, color and shape.

The end of the process provides options for printing in different quality levels, exporting as images, or uploading.

The only negative in all of this is the time it takes, many of the steps are tedious and repetitive. I look forward to future technology to streamline the whole process.