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.

Product Description
Get the complete publishing solution for your business. You'll be able to create impressive presentations, brochures, newsletters and more. Includes 1,200,000+ premium images and 16,000+ project templates. It's your start-to-finish design solution!

The art is wonderful; my real complaint with the program is the website access. All too often, I find myself in the middle of designing something when suddenly an object cannot download. There appears a blurb from the manufacturer telling you to try again later. Sometimes "later" is just a few moments later, other times it can be quite a while. Also, I find that the thumbnails are a little slow appearing, making scrolling through the art time consuming. I would give this product a much higher rating if it wasn't for this unreliability. I like the PrintShop, but I just bought Version 20 Deluxe, to be installed when I install my larger hard drive. I haven't installed it yet; I'm reading reviews here to see if anything else sounds more promising.


Experienced Print Shop user   April 9, 2003
10 out of 10 found this review helpful

I bought the print shop deluxe version 15 because I had been very pleased with its previous editions. Well not with this one. It installed only part of the program, I uninstalled the whole program and started installation again, but the program insists it is already installed. So here I sit with a new program that is useless. Have contacted Broderbund but have not had a reply. Have had the computer checked out and it is the program not the computer causing the problem.


Terrible Software - Does edit photos   March 27, 2003
Ray Salemi (Framingham, MA USA)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful

This is terrible software. I gave it two stars because it does edit photos and I needed that feature, but, overall I am very sorry that I spent my money before looking at these reviews.

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.