Original content, thousands of graphics and projects, and a superior interface make PrintMaster Gold Classic V.2.1 an easy pick as our Editors' Choice in this roundup.

PrintMaster offers a simple graphical user interface that resembles a grade-school notebook. All of the options are organized by tabs while you're setting up a project, but these tabs disappear when you're ready to dive into the actual manipulation and customization of your projects. Using PrintMaster, you can create newsletters, greeting cards, brochures, calendars, business cards, signs, fax sheets, and a variety of other projects.

If you're just starting out, you'll love the preformatted designs, which you can customize and personalize with only a few mouse clicks. To jump right in and create your own designs from scratch, you can use a simple wizard that sets the project parameters. If you get stuck during the creation process, you can turn to either written or on-screen and spoken help files, which are especially useful.

PrintMaster really shines in the graphics and photo image department. The program comes with 1,000's of graphics and 1,000's photographs. Instead of the usual boring stock drawings, you'll find rich, exciting illustrations that look like they are hand-painted or hand-drawn.

These images, will help you create greeting cards that rival the store-bought variety. You can browse through them using an integrated Photo Album. The included copy of PictureWorks' image-editing program PhotoEnhancer Plus will let you add to and alter existing images and create your own graphics from scratch.

Rounding out this outstanding product's bulging feature set are a version of Netscape Navigator, an event reminder that will prompt you when special occasions approach, and the ability to import your personal address book.

All of these helpful features, combined with the product's ease of use and excellent array of stock images and photographs, make PrintMaster Gold Classic 2.1 the hands-down winner in this roundup.