Print Explosion Deluxe 3.0 (Mac)

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Product Features

• Over 13,000 ready-made designs, including 5,000 store-quality greeting cards
• More than 100,000 graphics and over 900 fonts
• Templates for signs, posters, banners, certificates, postcards and more
• Hundreds of different text effect combinations
• Step-by-step guidance for creating Web pages and electronic greetings

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EXU9AY
• Item model number: PNM
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 9, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #863 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

Product Description

For years Print Explosion® has offered Mac users the fastest, easiest way to create spectacular custom print projects. Now Print Explosion Deluxe 3.0 takes advantage of the latest OS X innovations, delivering more creative options than ever before—from store-quality greeting cards to photorealistic scrapbooks.

And you can do it all without ever leaving your Macintosh. Print Explosion Deluxe’s easy-to-use interface will walk you through the process, from concept to finished product in a matter of just minutes!

Print Explosion Deluxe 3.0 is ideal for first time publishers and professional designers alike because it contains rich graphics, layout features and text effects once found only in programs costing ten times as much.

Optimized for both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs, this brand new version features an enhanced user interface, thousands of new projects plus complete integration with iTunes and iPhoto!

You can even use the enhanced mail merge feature to automatically personalize and send greeting cards to people in your Mac OS X Address Book.

LOOK WHAT YOU CAN CREATE!
- Greeting Cards - Signs & Posters
- Scrapbooks - Banners
- Certificates - Calendars
- Labels - Letterheads
- Envelopes - Business Cards
- T-Shirts - Web Pages
- Postcards - Crafts
- And More!

LOOK WHAT YOU GET!
• Expanded! 13,000+ Readymade Designs, Including 5,000+ Store-Quality Greeting Cards
• Expanded! 100,000+ Premium-Quality Graphics and 900+ Fonts
• Hundreds of Text Effect Combinations
• Hundreds of Label Layouts—All Avery®- Compatible
• Hundreds of Signs, Posters, Banners, Certificates, Postcards, and More!
• Turn Projects into Web Pages
• Electronic Greetings
• Brand New User Interface
• New! Browse and Import Photos from iPhoto
• New! Print CD/DVD Labels with iTunes Playlists
• New! Photorealistic Scrapbook Graphics
• New! Mail Merge Integrated with Mac OS X Address Book

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Universal Binary: Runs natively on both PowerPC (G3 or faster) and Intel-based Macintosh computers; Mac OS X 10.2 or later; 512 MB RAM; DVD Drive. Software furnished on DVD. CD-ROMs available free via mail exchange. See user manual for details.

Product Description

Never before has it been this easy to create digital scrapbooks on your Mac. We’ve even included hundreds of photorealistic embelishments to make your scrapbooks really come alive!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Progam with some quirks, August 9, 2006

By	N. Medina (Jackson Heights, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this program because it was the best MAC OS X progam out there for digital scrapping that I could find. The scrapbooking graphics and digital papers are surprisingly good. There are lots of different papers, from crumpled, inked, striped, circles and bordered. There are lots of embellishments like tags, fibers, shapes and velum. Outside of the scrapbooking graphics, the graphics can be a bit cheesy. There are lots of templates or a person can create a layout from scratch.

There are lots of fonts, with many of them resident on the DVD bonus fonts folder. Currently there is a bug that does not allow all the fonts from the bonus folder to load. The tech people say they are working on an update to fix this.

When creating more than one page scrapbooking Layouts, be aware that once a page is created, the layout order cannot be adjusted. This was a bummer, because I wanted to create a theme album in a digital format. The tech people said they expect people to print out their pages and then switch them around if necessary. I think that is absurd!

There are graphic tools to create your own shapes, but there is no drawing tool, so doodling on your layout is not possible. Bummer!

The program integrates with iLife 06, such as iPhoto which is nice. I can drag and drop a photo into the program easily. And since it integrates with iPhoto and the iLife suite, it does not come with a photo editor or scrapbook DVD option. I guess they figure you should be able to do this with your Mac already.

So, for simple digital layouts of 1 or 2 pages it is great. It gives you the option of saving your layout as a jpeg image file. The scrapbook gallery art is impressive and gives great results. I would recommend it, with recommendations for some changes in future versions of this program.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I'm Sorry I Bought This, January 20, 2007

By	Anne Sitterud (Utah) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This should be called "Print Disappointment". It's buggy, some of the really cool features, like color gradations on a shape, don't work. You can't open networked files. The clipart is amateurish. There is a very limited colorset. I asked tech support about that and they said it can't be expected to provide the same features as professional software. Well, I've been using Printmaster on a PC for 8 years, it cost $20, and the earliest version I used worked better than this product.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Laborious to use, October 27, 2007

By	D. Carhart (Medford, Oregon) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was looking for a greeting card program to use on my G4 iMac, as I missed my programs from my PC. Print Explosion Deluxe takes a long time to open and operate. The organization is also poor. ALL greeting cards are lumped together alphabetically by the name of the card. It operates at random whether or not you can access subdivisions such as Halloween, Get Well, etc. when looking for greeting cards. I'll keep using it because I spent so much money on it, but it irks me every time I attempt to use it. I suggest you keep looking for another program.