This program allows you to make creative posters, banners, greeting cards, signs, certificates, labels, calendars and stationary. It contains 5500 graphics, and if you add the 2nd CD that each school has in their lab with the manual, you get over 10,000 more. Here are some basic steps.

Customizing a Ready Made

Starting from Scratch.

Starting from scratch first gives you an orientation option of either a tall page or wide page. Then a Backdrop Browser to scroll through a number of different background choices, and then Layout choices where you can position different text and graphics on the page. You can choose a blank page for any of these and add things as you go.

Adding Objects or Text to a Blank Page.

Choosing Graphics

Moving, Sizing, Rotating or Flipping a Graphic

Adding Text

The text box is easily moved around on your project by clicking and dragging. It is easily sized by dragging the corner "handles" on an angle.

Adding a Headline

Page Blend

To put a nice blend in your background, choose, Project, Page Blend, then choose the direction you want the colors to blend. Choose the page blend color by selecting the pull down arrows.

Duplicate Formatting- allows you to duplicate images so you can arrange them in a particular design on your page. You can also size them larger or smaller.

Select All- Click Edit, Select All to grab together all the images and text on the page. This way you can move them all together around the page.

Saving to Your Home Drive

Print Preview

Printing a Poster to Scale

These are some basic steps to get you started making beautiful color projects in your classroom.