Digital Home Thoughts: Gorgeous Photo Layouts with LumaPix's FotoFusion v4

A Superb Tool in Need of Polishing
FotoFusion is unlike any software tool I've used in how it allows for fast and creative photo layouts. I've only scratched the surface of this program - there's a lot more to it, including organizing tools for accessing your photos, creating categories, putting them in buckets for different projects, etc. You can archive projects for another user, bundling up every element and photo for sharing. There's FotoScraps, the official community for sharing and learning from other FotoFusion users - you can learn a lot about what the program is capable of by looking at how others have used it.

It's also worth pointing out that if you pony up for the Enhanced version for $119 USD, you can export images at a high enough resolution to allow for photo book printing. It's been mentioned quite a few times in our forums that the tools photo book printing companies offer for layout are crude and hard to use. If you want to create the perfect photo book, use FotoFusion to lay out your pages, export them as JPEGs, and get your book printed exactly how you want it.

While I'd recommend this software to anyone who wants to create page layouts with their photos, and it's a tool I enjoy using, I dearly wish LumaPix would re-think the way they save and organize templates and objects. I want to see a floating object picker with frames that I can drag and drop into my project - I don't want to have to leave my project to find a frame. There's a search function that shows templates, but not the frames I've downloaded. In my opinion, this entire approach needs to be re-thought.

I also have concerns about the online product activation and the amount of online access this software requires, but none of my concerns are enough to sway me away from using this program. There's truly nothing else like if that I've seen, and if you want to create beautiful pages with your photos, FotoFusion earns high highest recommendation.

Jason Dunn owns and operates Thoughts Media Inc., a company dedicated to creating the best in online communities. He enjoys mobile devices, digital media content creation/editing, and pretty much all technology. He lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with his lovely wife, and his sometimes obedient dog. He really digs digital photo tools of all types.