Print Artist Craft Factory
This is not a paint program. There isn't a brush or pencil in sight. This is clip art heaven -
5500 images, indexed by topics. A 180 page book in included that shows all the images
and gives instruction on how to use the product. The product is full of craft projects. To
name only some; there are templates to make paper airplanes, banners, bookmarks
notepaper and envelopes, masks puppets, posters business cards, gift cards and boxes and
fold and cut objects to create a town.
The interface design is on a "need to know" basis. Only the buttons that are required for
the current activity are shown. Kids should be alerted that they must select something
before anything happens. There is a nice use of voice and sound effects. When selecting
text, all of the letters are sounded out; help which can be assessed with the right mouse
button is vocal and the sound effects probably amuse kids more then they do adults - like
the scream when something is trashed. The manipulation is very Mac-like with "handles"
for scaling, rotating and skewing. For parents that have already found out how quickly
children go through inks for color printers, there is a parent option that will turn printing
off do it can be done under their supervision. Images are automatically saved and can be
accessed when you return to that category. Adults take note. There are copyright
restrictions on some of the images if they are used commercially.
Educational value?: Learning the alphabet, and numbers, names of colors. Handling
rudimentary computer functions, X means close, trash can to discard, manipulating
handles and zooming - good for future CAD work, drag and drop techniques and the
difference between undo and delete
Fun value? Making things and surprising your parents
Reviewed by Genevieve
Ages: 5 +
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