Publisher Plus for Mac Tutorial

Publisher Plus for Mac is a wonderful solution for the basic publishing needs of small businesses, students, teachers, restaurants, and just about everyone else who occasionally needs to whip up a poster now and then. In this tutorial, David will show you the ins and outs of Publisher Plus, show you the best place to buy it, how to get extra templates, and basic navigation.

Links to Websites/Other Classes Mentioned:
Purchase Publisher Plus for Mac via the Mac App Store (USA link) https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/publi...

Mark's Class on Canva for Creating a Business Card: http://www.pcclassesonline.com/design...

PDF Shrink for Mac & Windows: http://bit.ly/1NMamv1

Printing Companies we like:
http://clubflyers.com (average priced, but great quality)
http://vistaprint.com (inexpensive, average quality)
http://moo.com (expensive but amazing)

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hello everyone and welcome to the class
this is david a cox with
pcclassesonline.com and today we're
talking about a little piece of software
called publisher plus for Mac you've
probably never heard of it but you're
gonna love it
for those of you who grew up in like the
eighties and nineties you might remember
something like printshop deluxe this is
a little bit like a grown-up version of
that it's a fantastic piece of software
the other thing i want to mention right
off the bat is it very much resembles
the older version of pages for mac a lot
of people like the old version of pages
better than the current version for
those of you out there who i just
described pay attention so publisher
plus for Mac it's made by a company
called pearl mountain soft and the first
thing i want to go over today's show you
where to buy it so check this out to go
to their website its thirty nine dollars
and ninety cents now there is an option
to get a trial right here with a little
download button of course links to
everything I'm about to mention are
going to be in the description of this
video
however if you go to the mac app store
and you just simply search for it
publisher Plus check this out
twenty bucks so save yourself a little
bit of money go right through the mac
app store if you decide to get it and
just for full disclosure a part of the
reason why we're doing this class is
more and more companies lately have been
sending me other software or their
products saying would you please
consider reviewing them and what I say
to every single one of these companies
is look I'm only going to review it if I
like it if I think it's going to be a
good solution for a lot of people then
we'll both be very happy but if not I'm
just not going to talk about it so I've
had a few months now to play with the
software and i really really do enjoy it
and so I'm genuinely recommending this
to all of you
let's go into the actual app here you'll
immediately see it definitely starts to
resemble the old version of pages when
you open it you brought to this template
chooser now if you're going through at
the same time on your computer as I'm
showing this video and you don't see all
the same templates don't worry i'm going
to show you where to go to get all of
them and what you'll find is that these
templates are incredibly very well
designed for a template so right at the
top we have of course your blank options
if you want a blank landscape or blank
portrait style template you can use that
flyers like check that out how cute is
that for a bake sale looks a little bit
better than sharpie on a blank piece of
paper
ok and the way that all of these
templates of course work it's what makes
them a template is all of this text all
of these images it can all be swapped
out so it's very very simple and of
course i'm gonna show you how to do that
today see a few more options of Flyers
here then we get into brochures you'll
notice something a little bit different
here and some of these you'll see we
have this little arrow icon and what
that means is that for that particular
template it's a multi page template so
for example for this one for discover
Australia but over you can see it's
obviously a trifold that's gonna happen
inside and outside very very cool
ok bike biking lesson brochure
ok you can swap that with really
anything have a bunch more here scroll
down a little bit further
i'm gonna scroll a little bit slowly so
you can kind of get an idea for them
newsletters for those of you who are in
some sort of an organization whether
it's your local mac users club which by
the way I love making guest appearances
at or if it's something like a church
group something like that
these are fantastic and a lot of these
actually in particular with the
newsletters usually the last page it has
space for you to put a name and address
that you could theoretically spall this
staple it and mail it
the one thing I have not seen an option
so you can do a mail merge that's the
one downside
ok so just be aware of that whole bunch
of different newsletters here and there
is more in a moment
catalogs ok perfect for small business
owners going on a little further we have
posters for your holiday BBQ or whatever
it may be
scroll a little bit further magazines
perfect for whether you want to make it
look like you just appeared on the cover
of fitness magazine for kicking your
butt over the winter or whatever it may
be
menus um I don't know if i would use
this if I'm a restaurant that's you know
currently up and running and been up and
running for a while but certainly for a
lot of restaurants that are just opening
up and fighting all the cost of getting
up and running
this might be a really really good
solution who knows if you do enough work
it in
they work for a permanent option one
thing i want to mention by the way right
now is that you know when we're talking
about printing one of the things i
always encourage people is to get these
things professionally printed don't do
it on your home printer folks okay it's
gonna look if it's especially for
business you want it to look really good
i'll give you a few different companies
that I've found to be really really good
in the description of this video
the one thing you want to be aware of is
that those printing companies can
dramatically change in prices so you can
you know go from the the cheap side like
vistaprint to mu dot com which makes
possibly the best card stock I've ever
seen in my life
cards and invites ok not a ton of
options here but you know some and
there's more that you'll be able to get
in just a moment letters for that I'd
probably just use word or pages
envelopes resumes the resume templates
they have tend to be a little bit on the
flashy side so i don't know if i would
recommend it unless maybe you're an
actor
otherwise you might want to do something
a little bit more clean and professional
business cards if you're looking to
design a business card
it's not bad to use this maybe as a
guide or as a source of inspiration but
you may want to check out we have a
separate class that we did that mark
recorded called creating a business card
with canva link to that in the
description for those of you teachers
out there you have you know little kids
that you you know work with and you want
to show them you know good pat on the
back you can make your own certificates
here very very easy to mock those up
that disc covers for those of you
Millennials discs those are those things
that you probably use a coaster and yes
i realize that i am technically a
millennial and I make fun of myself all
the time for that
so let's show you how to actually deploy
one of these babies how's that sound
so let's just go into one of them uh
just going to a technology newsletter
double click on it and it brings it all
up here and let's go through how to
navigate me just expand my window first
so that the where I would begin you're
just getting started here is go to the
very very top left 4 it says store his
little purse icon
despite the fact that it says store
everything here is free ok so they've
all of these a dish
general templates that do not come with
the software and my theory for why they
did this is they wanted to show you some
of the best of the best right up front
but they want to keep the size of the
software small so if you download these
you know they do take up some space it's
not significant but it does take up some
space so we have our packs for each
category so brochures flyers business
cards etc and go through them check them
out if you decide that you like one of
these may be like these menus
ok you can click the download button
here or if you do want everything just
hit download all so like all templates
all of this is swappable so anywhere you
see text you can just simply double
click on it and highlight it just as if
it were a word document and put in
whatever you want okay
anywhere there's images you can swap
those out too i want to show you how to
do that so here on the left-hand side
here we have your photo library is now
forgive me
it says I photo over here I do actually
have a photos library that would
normally show up I had to do a little
bit of work on the library and that's
the reason why it's not showing up but
for all of you
it should and you'll see here you have
this little triangle next to where it
says your photo library if you click on
that you'll see all of your various
events photos and albums right here so
if you are doing this for something like
business or a club you might want to
have your photos for that Club organized
and have them in something like an album
so you can very quickly navigate to them
ok you can also just drag-and-drop a
folder if you want over here so let's
say you're the kind of person that
doesn't really use a photo program but
you use Dropbox ok you can drop your
dropbox folder right over here and then
navigate through that the other thing
that is worth mentioning is yes you can
literally just drag any image from
anywhere on your computer or the web
like it well here's the image for this
class right here i can literally just
drag this on to my document and there is
one thing that i want to show you check
this out so I dragged into the middle
and gave me the whole graphic but if
instead moments believe that if instead
I dragged it onto weathers and
other image see how it highlights that
image when I let go it swaps it so
that's that basically how you use a
template so if i want this background
image here with these arrows to be maybe
this nice sunset photo i can just
drag-and-drop that of course that one
doesn't do it dude oh I know what that's
because that's actually built into the
background in this case
sorry bad example let's go to a
different one let's just drag and drop
it in here
there you go it works fine ok so I'm
that's about getting photos the other
option you do have they have built-in
clipart and to get that go right here
bottom left corner looks a little bit
like a flower
click on that and we have all these
different categories of clipart ok now
to my knowledge and my disclosure here
is that I am NOT a lawyer to my
knowledge all of this clip art you can
use for whatever you want the exception
to the rule is search results so when
you use this option here you can
actually search on google images for
other images just be very careful with
this stuff because you don't wanna get
sued over using someone else's photo
quickly we'll go over the stuff here at
the top navigation bar we have a generic
text box so if you want to add text
somewhere where there is no text
currently just click on it you can see
added this box here it says double-click
to edit text just type in text here and
then you can drag that wherever you want
i can put up here at the top i can put
on top of an image whatever I want the
other thing you'll notice here is that
when you click on something like an
image or text you'll have these little
arrows right here pointing up or down
that's just basically to change where it
applies where where it lives in terms of
layers so if you have two different
images overlapping and you won't want to
be on top you can use these arrows to
determine that next thing we have here
is shapes so whenever you want something
like an arrow maybe to point something
out you can click on a narrow use of
course all these little dots are
attitude determine the thickness the the
size of it in general as well as of
course over here on the right-hand side
ok so they said we're going to we're
going to change the style so if you
something like a gradient you can choose
that right up here if you don't you can
just change the color to something else
you can have shadows reflections similar
stuff that you can do of course in pages
moving on we have the draw tool
something I don't sense a lot of you
will probably be using a very generic
calendar
ok that's basically the only form
deduction that comes in and backgrounds
ok so see how it was talking about
that's actually the background that's
why I couldn't swap it out so you can
have a background that's either just a
solid color you can do a pattern or you
can image if you do an image it's most
likely going to be coming from your
computer you're going to tell it what
kind of image but there's a ton of
different options here you can segment
scroll through it's just an easy way to
kind of change up the look to your
newsletter whatever it is you're trying
to produce ok so you can have fun with
it just gives a little bit of style over
here on the right-hand side
ok this area right here is what in pages
we would refer to as simply the
inspector and it's going to change based
on whatever it is you click on so for
example if i go to click on a photo you
know and it can figure out that I'm
dealing with images here so I can you
know change the different styles and a
reflection for example right there again
my shadows
ok images ok this is where you can go
when you're done with the photo you can
basically with one click for example
make it black and white
okay or you can change the color you can
add me to a little bit of extra
saturation if you really want those
colors to pop out a little bit under the
range tab
okay i'm gonna show you a great example
where this can be handy especially
something like a newsletter
let's use this clip art of a girl right
here okay i'm going to just kind of
shrink her down a little bit by clicking
on the corner and if you want to kind of
you know jazz up your newsletter one of
the tricks you can use is you can cause
the text to wrap around the image and
the way you do this is you're going to
click on your image go over here to a
range and click this box right here and
check it out see how the text just kind
of molds its way around her
pretty cool right now that's only going
to work on an image that has a
transparency
well it's it's going to work on images
non-transparent
but it's going to certainly look a hell
of a lot better on images that are
transparencies one little downside about
the software that someone brought this
up during the live klassno there does
not appear to be an instant alpha option
within the software unfortunately so for
those of you who are familiar with
instant alpha sadly it's not an option
here but who knows maybe one day live in
as a feature so that would certainly be
good in my book
ok some of the other things you'll find
over here if I for example not click on
any object right here is you can change
the page size so if you're not doing a
you know an a4 size you can switch this
over so it'll print to an envelope you
no legal sighs whatever you want just by
clicking on one of these options right
here when you're done with your project
you have a whole bunch of different
options for what you can do with it
we have a share button where you can
email it message it airdrop tweet it
Facebook it or Flickr it who uses flickr
anymore you have all those options right
there with one click you can also hit
export now if you hit export you are
sending this out as a basically a lock
document essentially i know that there's
there's piece of software that can do
modifications but essentially it's a
done deal to lock product so PDF is the
most universal format for something like
a newsletter or menu is also going to
maintain very very high quality if
you're having it professionally printed
there's one little tip i would like to
give you that goes slightly off topic
for those of you out there who create
big newsletters you may be where the PDF
files can be giant there was a magazine
that I used to have a relationship with
where they would create their magazine
as a PDF and would be like a hundred and
forty megabyte file you can email that
so they would hire me to shrink it down
and there's this great little piece of
software that maintains really high
quality and shrink it down i would be
able to get that hundred and forty
megabyte file usually down to about five
megabytes and me see if I can show to
it's right here PDF shrink will probably
do a separate class on that at some
point in the near future but i will put
a link to where you can get it if you
want in the description of this video
other formats that you can export to PDF
p.jpg p
jeet if no one uses BMP anymore and PSD
photoshop hit cancel on that one print I
think that's fairly self-explanatory and
that really is it it's a really really
simple piece of software i encourage you
to just have fun with it a one last
thing i do want to mention before we go
here at the very bottom
ok you'll see here that we have these
arrows in a book ok that's for
navigating between which page you're on
you may have already picked up on that
if you run out of pages you need
additional pages you can click on this
book and you'll see there's a little
plus symbol here also if you want to
remove one of these pages and let's say
I don't really need this last page here
you can hit a little minus symbol and
that will remove it
one quick little note i would like to
make because I know the manufacturer
this software is watching this video i
want to point out to you guys something
that I can't help it's a bug on my own
or if it's something in the software
that is affecting most people i noticed
that a lot of times I not always you can
actually move these pages around so if
you want Paige want to become three
theoretically it should be you just drag
it and drop it you'll notice it's not
sticking so to the manufacturer's a
publisher bless pearl mountain soft
might want to check that out
I suspect for those of you who are
watching this video it's something that
maybe they're already aware of they just
have yet to release an update to correct
that little bug but I've noticed that
seems to happen sometimes but not all
the time
very very strange anyways publisher plus
for mac is a fantastic little piece of
software there's so many different
templates to choose from and for those
of you out there who are like me and
just to a total idiot when it comes to
graphic design and that's by the way why
we have mark call you because he's a
genius
this is just a lifesaver it's so easy to
use its so user-friendly Bravo to them I
think they did a really really great job
thank you for watching the class
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