Design modes help users
By nonpayment , launching Print Shop 2 invokes the New Project Setup Assistant , which prompts you to choose one of 20 project types , include signboard , streamer , greeting card , or leaflet . Once you choose a project , the Assistant give you a choice of three design modality : Quickstart Layout render stop projects you’re able to modify or print as - is ; help oneself Me Design prompts you to choose an appropriate format ( let in custom paper or label stock ) , ground , and layout to create a usance design ; and Start from Scratch prompting you to prefer paper stock only , then provides a white workspace for you to use .
Precise controls
Print Shop 2 makes function in all three modes slow , with fresh layout controls that let you exactly place images and text box within a written document . you’re able to customize rule in inches , inch fraction , or centimeters along the bound of the workspace , or you’re able to place a graphical record - paper - stylus grid , also in customizable increment , over the workspace . you may choose to have layout elements snarl to the grid or to guides that you may identify anywhere on the workspace .
Other advance include an enhanced lot of peter for ordinate objects to each other , and slider controls that allow you to adjust the tint and opacity of objects in one - pct growth , instead of 10 - pct increments offered in the former version .
Print Shop 2 doubles the number of clip - art images and photograph include with the programme ( and now ships on two CD - ROMS alternatively of one ) . It also provides some useful fresh ways of manipulating that art ( and any of your own image that you spell into a Print Shop labor ) . novel transparency - base effects have you soften the edges of images or overlay textures ( such as shattered glass or a brick wall ) on images .
Print Shop 2 builds on the political program ’s impressive integration with Apple software : In addition to enable automatic consequence of iTunes playlists and iDVD chapter bearing into CD and videodisk labels , and insertion of iPhoto images into projection , the program now allows you to drag and deteriorate images into any labor .
More variety
Three of the five new task offered in Print Shop 2 are derived from previous versions : Gift Tags and Tickets wisely has been spun out from the Business Cards labor ; Quick Prints – a ready to hand puppet that rent you print multiple copies of a exclusive photo on one plane – used to be part of Photo Pages . Much of CDs and Cases was formerly part of the Labels project , but it has been enhanced with newfangled templates for wraparound DVD box seat labels . The DVD - label and matching disk label templates admit purpose that impressively complement the project themes find in iDVD .
While it was possible to produce a nice - look four - Thomas Nelson Page text file using the Booklet template , it was nowhere almost as fun or gentle as it was to create Print Shop ’s one - page projects .
Macworld’s buying advice
The Print Shop for Mac 2.0 is a great program for anyone who wants to create fun print projects for family , schooling , or small business . New layout restraint and enhanced image effects make this version a suitable climb . newfangled multi - page project templates are a great idea , but are good left for very occasional projects . Anyone who needs to publish farsighted document on a regular basis should debate using Apple ’s Pages instead .
[ Jim Akin is a engineering author and editor program base in Minneapolis . ]
