New transparency-based effects let you soften the edges of images or overlay textures (such as shattered glass or a brick wall) on images. It also provides some useful new ways of manipulating that artwork (and any of your own images that you import into a Print Shop project). Print Shop 2 doubles the number of clip-art images and photos included with the program (and now ships on two CD-ROMS instead of one). Other improvements include an enhanced set of tools for aligning objects to each other, and slider controls that allow you to adjust the tint and opacity of objects in one-percent increments, instead of 10-percent increments offered in the previous version. You can choose to have layout elements snap to the grid or to guides that you can place anywhere on the workspace. You can customize rulers in inches, inch fractions, or centimeters along the edge of the workspace, or you can place a graph-paper-style grid, also in customizable increments, over the workspace. Print Shop 2 makes working in all three modes easy, with new layout controls that let you precisely place images and text boxes within a document. Once you choose a project, the Assistant gives you a choice of three design modes: Quickstart Layout provides finished projects you can modify or print as-is Help Me Design prompts you to choose an appropriate format (including custom paper or label stock), background, and layout to create a custom design and Start from Scratch prompts you to choose paper stock only, then provides a blank workspace for you to use. Design modes help usersīy default, launching Print Shop 2 invokes the New Project Setup Assistant, which prompts you to choose one of 20 project types, including sign, banner, greeting card, or booklet. The new tools, along with templates for newsletters and booklets, don’t quite make Print Shop ideal for generating multi-page documents, but the application is a great choice for anyone who wants to create greeting cards, fliers, banners, signs, custom calendars, CD and DVD disc and case labels, or more than a dozen other types of typical print projects. New layout and imaging controls make The Print Shop for Mac 2.0 even better at what the program has always done well: Publishing projects for home, school, or small business.

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