Print Shop Photo Pro 2.0

by Riverdeep

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004W4CS
• Item model number: 379858M
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 12, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,698 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Mark milestones and preserve memories with fabulous photos enhanced by state-of-the-art editing tools. Modify a simple snapshot or create an elaborate photo collage--The Print Shop Photo Pro 2 is a complete photo workshop solution. Everything needed to crop, rotate, enhance, or correct photos is in a simple-to-use format that lets beginners design like pros.

Image manipulation is just the beginning of the creative possibilities: Use Photo Pro 2's more than 800 professionally designed project templates to create cards, calendars, and hundreds of other photo masterpieces. Display photos in exciting multimedia presentations and whimsical animated greetings. Enhance photos with more than 600 props or experiment with more than 100 exciting one-click special effects. Increase skills and enjoyment with handy multimedia tutorials and printable hints and tips.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor Performance, December 6, 2001

By 

Bryan (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Print Shop Photo Pro 2.0 (CD-ROM)

I too thought this would be good software, having the printshop name. The software does an ok job, and has a good user interface. The place where it falls down flat on its face is performance and file saving.

1. If you scan 5 pictures at 600 dpi, then go from the get photo to the print tab, it takes 30 minutes!! and the computer is locked up for that entire time. I have a PIII 800 Mhz with 256M of memory and lots of free disk space. There is NO WAY it should take this long.

2. When your scanned image is brought into the program, it immediatly saves it to the C drive WITHOUT asking for your permission, it also gives it a generated file name. You have no choice in this matter, and there is no 'option' to turn this off. Oh, it saves it as a BMP file, so any file that is saved is huge. Hope you have Giga bytes of free disc space. You can do a Save As later, but you still have to go in and delete the origional file saved by the software.

Adobe has a FREE product called ActiveShare that does almost the same thing, and seems to have better performance. I'm trying that software out next.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, September 5, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Print Shop Photo Pro 2.0 (CD-ROM)

The editing features for photos are great. The photo album layouts are very basic--which is great if that is what you want. If you want scrapbooking layouts this is not for you. (Art explosion Scrapbook Factory Deluxe) I have been scanning a lot of old family photos, and this package is good for correcting MANY things-overexposure/underexposure, coloring, cropping... There are lots of edges to choose from. The clip art is limited and basic. The frame selection is, well, ugly. I use this to edit photos, resave them and load them into other packages to create album pages.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I think this is Great!, October 16, 2001

By 

P. Rozzen "pamammo" (W. Brookfield, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Print Shop Photo Pro 2.0 (CD-ROM)

Of course, Photoshop is supposed to be the best - if you can take the time to learn/use it! Well, I do digital imaging part-time for myself and a photographer, and I don't have the time it takes to learn PS. THIS is THE program I use - I can do all that PS can do quickly (minus layers) and very effectively, without spending hours learning - instead hours are spent editing photos that turn into $$$$ for me. It's a great, cheap editin program!