WOW!! In the several years that I have been interested in the computer in general - and in love with graphics - in particular, - I must say that I have never seen an application that is so chock-full of EVERYTHING you could possibly want to do, that has ANYTHING to do with graphics.

I should start by telling you that it has 160,000 click art images, and 8000 designed layouts. The application is divided up into a Business area, where you will find blank pages, banners, booklets, brochures, business cards, calendars, certificates, envelopes, fax covers, forms, greeting cards, labels, letterheads, newsletters, postcards, presentations, resumes, signs, transfers and web pages. In addition, the Home and Community area has all of the above plus photo albums, photo novelties, and photo collages. The Beyond Basic area has photo editing, advanced drawing, multimedia organizer, animated 3D greetings, address book, and an event minder. Can You Imagine?? You can't even name all the things they have in one breath. Amazing!! What is more amazing is that you don't have to be a genius to be able to use all the functions. The application gives you choices with everything that it offers. You can either start from scratch (a blank page) or you can use one of their beautifully designed layouts and change the words or change the artwork. What you have to do - is be patient with yourself, so that maneuvering around doesn't become tedious.

The application comes with an install CD, a program CD and 7 art CDs. The minimum requirement is 260mg, and you must use the program CD to use the application. You do have a choice of loading all the applications separately, (Print Shop, Print Shop Photo Organizer, 3D Greetings, Serif Draw Plus). If you choose the typical installation you will need 535mg and you won't need the program disk, but you still will have to change disks. For instance, if you want a card that is on the Program disk, but you want the artwork that is on disk 6, and possibly other artwork that is on Disk 2, you will have to change the CDs.

The installation took about 7 minutes on my 266MH computer. It is truly a robust full featured application. However, it did install some things without giving me a choice, i.e.: AOL trial, Serif Draw, and Fonts. Also, they did not put an uninstall feature in the application, so that if you wish to Uninstall in the future, you must be sure to go to the Add/Remove feature in the Control Panel and remove all parts of the application. As with all installations of new apps, you should be sure to exit anything that is running, such as your virus app, etc.

You can get some easy elegance by designing coordinated sets of letterheads, envelopes, business cards, greeting cards, brochures, etc. Any combination can be done easily. You have an enormous array of clipart, as well as thousands of beautiful photos with which to enhance your work and make it uniquely yours. You can also import photos from your scanner, or use photos that you may have saved in your special file, and edit them. You can eliminate red eye, adjust the brightness, take out unwanted objects, change the color or shape. In short, you can do anything you want to do.

Another feature is the Mail Manager. They have given you templates for rolodex cards, envelopes, and address books with a Find and Sort feature. It also has an Event Reminder, so nothings slips by on a busy day. You become so organized!! And all this for $40.00.