Print Shop Deluxe for Dummies [Paperback]

Wallace Wang (Author), Richard Hing (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764506021 | ISBN-13: 978-0764506024 | Publication Date: March 6, 2000 | Edition: 1

Whether you're crafting a birthday card for a surprise party or designing your company's next sales flyer, The Print Shop Deluxe provides a fun and simple way to create professional-looking booklets, brochures, business cards, or Web pages on your desktop.

With The Print Shop Deluxe For Dummies, you get expert advice in easy-to-understand language that enables you to begin creating professional-looking graphics projects right away...

• See how The Print Shop works and take a look at the components that make up a desktop-publishing project.
• Plan and choose the best way to create a Print Shop project.
• Explore the versatile uses of The Print Shop (at home or in the office) to design and make signs and banners, certificates, diplomas, calendars, greeting cards, and labels.
• Use The Print Shop to build Web pages.
• Uncover tips, taboos, and tricks that professionals use to create top-notch publications every day.

Handy appendixes introduce you to the other programs included with The Print Shop program: 3DGreetings, Photo Organizer, Photo Pro, Serif DrawPlus, and The Ultimate Mail Manager.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

A longstanding favorite among teachers, parents, and those tasked with boosting office morale, The Print Shop Deluxe can't be beat as a simple tool for creating posters, banners, calendars, and other cool stuff to hang on walls. The Print Shop Deluxe for Dummies, your ticket to learning to use this tool, is typical of the Dummies series in that no prior knowledge is assumed (other than a general familiarity with Windows), but the book manages to avoid coming across as condescending. It acknowledges that smart people can have a hard time figuring out software, and proceeds to show you what you need to know. It's funny too!

In a typical section, you learn how to create greeting cards. The terms the software uses to describe different kinds of cards (quarter-fold, half-fold, and so on) are explained, and then you find out how to use the QuickLayout features to generate a card in a hurry. (Forgetters of anniversaries, take note.) You learn how to create a card from scratch, including borders, graphics, and text (which you can choose from the hilariously named Sentiment Gallery if you can't come up with your own bon mot). A sequences of numbered steps (with tips) shows the project at various points during the creation process. --David Wall

Topics covered: How to use The Print Shop Deluxe for Microsoft Windows. Sections address particular kinds of publications suited to The Print Shop, including banners, certificates, business cards, forms, newsletters, and fancy stuff like coffee cups and T-shirts. An eight-page color section shows how The Print Shop works with color.

From the Publisher

Discover how to:

Use Print Shop tools

Save time with built-in templates and graphics

Create animated electronic greeting cards

Turn out tee-shirts and other fun stuff

Produce newsletters, brochures, and flyers

Build cool Web pages

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (March 6, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764506021
• ISBN-13: 978-0764506024
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #451,437 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I may be the only computer book author who hates computers. I love what computers can do but I hate the fact that they're so complicated, hard to use, unreliable, and downright troublesome. Besides writing computer books, I also enjoy performing stand-up comedy just to do something creative that involves human beings as opposed to machines.

I've been involved in computers, stand-up comedy, teaching, writing, and game designing for most of my life. In the computer industry, I've written over 50 computer books. Initially I focused primarily on Microsoft products such as Visual Basic and Microsoft Office. Later I switched focus to the Macintosh, iPhone, and iPad as I've watched the trend of computing shift from the PC/Microsoft dominated world to the mobile/Apple-influenced world. I've also shifted my programming focus from Delphi/Pascal and Visual Basic to Objective-C and LiveCode (a HyperCard clone) to create Macintosh and iPhone/iPad programs.

In the stand-up comedy world, I've been performing stand-up comedy for over 20 years, having appeared on A&E's "Evening at the Improv" and SiTV's "Latino Laugh Festival" along with appearing at the Riviera Comedy Club in Las Vegas. Currently I'm focusing my comedic writing skills towards occasional comedy performances but mostly towards screenwriting. You can read my screenwriting blog at The 15 Minute Movie Method (www.15minutemoviemethod.com). I've collected the best ideas from my screenwriting blog and condensed them into an e-book also called "The 15-Minute Movie Method," which is available as an e-book.

In 1992, I got my first cat and after reading a basic cat care book, I found that none of the advice offered had any basis in reality for dealing with the quirks and whims of a real cat. Based on that experience, I wrote a parody of a cat care book called "How to Live with a Cat (When You Really Don't Want To)." This book is now available as an e-book.

In the teaching world, I've taught at community colleges around San Diego as well as teaching at the University of Zimbabwe in Africa. Currently I teach an online Microsoft Word course through a company called Ed2Go.

In the writing world, I've written for several magazines including Computer Power User (CPU), Boardwatch Magazine, and Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities. I also write a weekly Macintosh column in an online computer magazine called ComputorEdge (www.computoredge.com). In addition, I've ghost written several books for real estate experts, stock day trading specialists, and network marketing millionaires. In 2008, I also helped San Diego State University's film department win their first student Emmy when they filmed my sitcom pilot, "Three of a Kind."

In the game designing world, I've created and published a game in 1983 called "Orbit War," which was published by Steve Jackson Games (the game is now out of print). The game simulated low orbital combat between satellites. I'm currently designing educational games for teaching various college level topics such as organic chemistry, calculus, and geometry.

I'm interested in always learning something new and combining my various skills and experience to stay ahead of changing technology and I enjoy writing about complex topics and making them easy to understand.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PrintShop Deluxe for Dummies., March 18, 2007

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Emily J. Shaffer (Chicopee, Ma) - See all my reviews
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A great book. Explains everything so I can understand it. Very helpful in getting my new web site published. Expert help. The author was no
DUMMIE. Thanks for a wonderful book.

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1.0 out of 5 stars print shop deluxe for dummies, April 7, 2008

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Mycah Zwerstein "Mycah" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Print Shop Deluxe for Dummies (Paperback)

This book's copyright date is 2000!

There have been a number of new versions since then that Broderbund declares have new features etc.

That this book is so outdated should have been made clear in the advertisement.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Print shop for dummies, May 6, 2007

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Lu Ann Van Hulle "Threadlady" (Riverside, CA) - See all my reviews
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This is a good book. I hate the name Dummies. No one is a dummy. Good directions easy to follow. Good all around book.