Product Description

PrintMaster® Platinum 18, your key to thousands of creative project possibilities, now comes with a complete Scrapbooking solution so you can keep all those special memories close to heart! The All-New PrintMaster® Platinum 18 presents you with the exclusive convenience of creating your very own digital scrapbook – all on your PC - with no mess and hassle! Save, email or print for sharing with family and friends near or far!  It’s the ultimate creative studio that allows you to create everything from greeting cards to scrapbooks to digital slideshows! Getting started is as easy as 1-2-3!   - Select from over 305,000 premium images or add your own photos and drawings to your project 

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #395 in Software
• Brand: Encore
• Released on: 2007-10-09
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .85 pounds

Features

• Design and make fabulous greeting cards, seasonal gifts and digital scrapbooks
• Contains more than 21,000 project templates, more than 305,000 included premium images and more than 2,500 fonts
• Photo FunHouse, Photo Manager and more than 1.5 million extra images let you turn your photos into hilarious pieces of art
• Hot Shots Viewer makes it easy to find your favorite images and photos in one location
• Share your finished projects by printing them, burning them to CD, saving them as PDFs, publishing them on the Web or e-mailing them to friends and family

Customer Reviews

You'd better have internet access ...
I have Printmaster 12 and I enjoy it immensely! I wanted to upgrade since I now have the Vista Operating System. It's frustrating that you have to have internet access to be able to use many, many of the graphics. In my Printmaster 12 I physically own all the graphics -- with this version, it will give you a thumbnail pix of each of the graphics but you have to download many of them from Broderbund. I think that should be in the description of this product and I thought many others might appreciate knowing this bit of information before you jump into this one.

Extra Info. About Use With Microsoft Vista ... One of the reasons I bought this is because it's suppose to work with Microsoft Vista. My experience now is that it crashes (shuts down) as does my earlier Printmaster with the Vista. I think they have some bugs to work out before they should be claiming it works with Vista. My daughter uses it on her computer (this Printmaster 18 and the Printmaster 12) which has Microsoft XP and there is no problem. She was surprised to find mine shuts down so frequently, and I was surprised it doesn't give her any trouble!

Printmaster 18 Somewhat Disappointing, Still Good
I, too, have worked in Printmaster for years, upgrading every time a new one was available. I have enjoyed them all, especially PM 16, which fulfilled most if not all of my modest desktop publishing needs. My new computer runs on Vista, which necessitates the new PM 18, and I find it is skimpier than 16 and lacking some of the features I have counted on and used in previous versions.I can still build my page and get done most of what I need to do, but find the program subtly (or not so subtly) pared down in various areas which had produced a more fully-rounded 16. The clip art seems oddly lacking, even with the "Million Dollar Club", which I was unprepared for. Many graphics I have used regularly for years in various versions are no longer available. Furthermore, I ordered PM 18 directly from Broderbund and paid the going price plus postage. I didn't even get a box, just a cardboard mailer containing the PM disk and the one for scrapbooks (not of interest to me). Not a word, not an insert, not a picture, not nothing. I will not buy online from Broderbund again. The boxes illustrate aspects of the program which I might use if I knew what they were. I feel just a tad cheated and disappointed, and find that I crash just as often with this Vista-compatible version as I did with the PM 16. Also I have encountered stubborn printing problems with this version that I didn't have before; i.e., the program just prints on and on and on, long past the number of copies I have asked for. It would print forever if I kept feeding it paper. I have to cancel every printing manually or turn my computer off to stop it from disgorging the same print job unto eternity. I have the feeling that PM 18 was whipped together hastily to get in on Vista as it hit the market, and that newer and better versions will address some of the problems that present Vista users encounter with it.

Best Printmaster Software out there
Honestly, this version of Printmaster or other companies that sell this type of product this is the best one that we've used so far for our small business needs. I am not sure why other people are having difficulties with Broderbund or the internet, but this program by far is better than their competitors for clip art quality/content, text, and web capability. Besides, all the companies that sell these types of software have way more content online than what is included on the Cds. If your looking for a program like this one, I highly recommend this one rather than all of the others out there on the market. Very easy to use and my wife is all about the scrapbooking and greeting program that's also included!