There are three available versions of PrintMaster the Platinum 15 2012, Platinum 2011 and PrintMaster Platinum 18.1. Broderbund created PrintMaster to enable users to design images or photos in different templates. PrintMaster supports windows operating system and Mac OS X. The users must have the follow essentials to enable the software to run: Pentium 4 1.6 GHz 1 GB (WinXp) 2 GB (WinVista and Win7) 2.7 GB Hard disk space (Disc) 36 GB (Downloadable Installer) 16 MB Video RAM and Monitor resolution 1024 X 768. The following applications must be present in the users system as well: Java v6 or 10.5-10.6.8 and Quicktime v7.5.0 or higher. The functions of the PrintMaster are photo alteration, graphic lay-outing, advance text toolkits. This has ready to use templates that can create invitations, calendars, brochures, banners and many more. Varied effects and alteration tools are provided too. Its interface is user-friendly and understands drop and drag functions.
Broderbund PrintMaster 2012 Platinum is a print workshop graphics and image editing software that creates personalized print projects. It has more than 3,500 templates, more than 150,000 images and tools that users can utilize to customize their projects. These tools include page lay-outing tools, drag and drop tool, image manipulating tools like lighten, darken, sharpen, blur and sepia tone, it also has art filters, effects slider tool, clip arts, a gallery of several stock images, text tools and effects, greeting card templates, banner maker, calendar templates, business card templates, brochure templates, printable certificates and scrapbook designs that has boarders, embellishments and backgrounds. For the latest 2012 version, it features add-ons like the greeting card wizard, avery templates, Iron-on printings and more than 150,000 clip art images. Fonts in with 3D headlines and other effects designed to capture a viewer's attention. Users can also upload their own photos and imports it with the use of the drag and drop tool, and keeps the user's personal photos in a photo library.