The Print Shop Pro Publisher Deluxe 15

There's no need to stop with paper projects. The Print Shop Pro Publisher Deluxe 15 lets you create multimedia presentations and entire Web sites. You can create compelling video presentations using MovieShop Express, incorporating transitions, titles, music, and more. Calendar Creator Special Edition lets you create exciting calendars to help you organize and manage your contacts.

The Print Shop Pro Publisher Deluxe 15 lets you unleash your creativity. Enhance your publications with artwork from world-class collections including Christie's and Papyrus. Turn snapshots into masterpieces with a complete photo workshop, which lets you edit, crop, and correct your photos, and apply a wide array of special effects. The Print Shop Pro Publisher Deluxe 15 delivers everything you need to gain the creative advantage.

The interface is AWFUL! For example, if you want to add a rectangle you would think you would just click on a rectangle tool and draw it. Nope! Instead you click on "Insert Shape", then you get a dialog box of possible shapes. You have to select the shape you want and the color in this dialog box. Then you click OK. Now you have a rectangle that you can reshape.

The Wizards are OK, but the designs are very lame and unprofessional. The system creates some integrated letterhead and business cards, but you wouldn't want to use them.

I bought this ... figuring, ...how much worse can it be than Microsoft Publisher 2000? Afterall, this isn't rocket science. The answer was MUCH worse!


Is there an award for Worst Software Imaginable?   January 10, 2003
15 out of 15 found this review helpful

This is great if you want to send a note to your Aunt Helen. Anything more substantial and it is full of quirks and bugs. Huge Waste of Money----the programmers should be lined up and shown the door or preferably worse.


Not a good upgrade   October 6, 2002
13 out of 13 found this review helpful

I upgraded my old Printshop 6.0 to version 15, thinking there would have to be lots of improvements in the last 3 yrs. So far, I haven't seen them. In fact, some things I could do in the older version can't even be done in the new version.

I find the user interface to be more cumbersome than the older version. One area where I had high hopes was the Quickstart projects and graphics -- I thought they would be updated. They're still amateurish. It's hard to see how a business would use any of them.


Waste of Money!   September 20, 2002
D. Cox (Denver, Colorado)
27 out of 28 found this review helpful

I recently purchased this item thinking it would be much better than the previous versin I had (#12). The problem here is there is hardly no diference. There is not as many graphics. You have to go online to get the graphics if you want them. And also, when you start the program, it tries to automatically connect to the internet. I think version 12 was much better and has almost all the same features as this new version and a lot more graphics on the CD's without having to go to the internet. Personally, if you're satisfied with version 12, there is no need to waste money on this new version.