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The Ready-Made Guides templates help you position your design elements in columns.  Typically, you would need columns in a newsletter, so The Print Shop 3.5 has Ready-Made Guides templates in the Newsletter blank projects.  (A Sign project would not have Ready-Made Guides templates.)

Start by creating a new ...Read More

A simple background can be a solid color or a gradient.  There are also lots of possibilities by creating a background fill using an image.

Start a new project, open the Project tab and click the ...Read More

Mother's Day is coming up and The Print Shop 3.5 can help you make a really special card.  Follow these instructions for an easy to design and print card.

Download this Mother's Day card template for ...Read More

Most people add a photo to their project first, and then crop it.  Although this is the intuitive method, it produces an edited image with the same aspect ratio of the original photo, giving it a distorted look.  The cropped photo then requires stretching.

Here is a better method for ...Read More

You have projects that you created in older versions of The Print Shop, on your old computer.  You bought a new computer with Win 8.1.  Since your old version of The Print Shop won't run on your new computer, you installed The Print Shop 3.5.

But what if your projects ...Read More