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

Product Category: Photo-centric page layout software
Manufacturer: LumaPix
Where to Buy: LumaPix
Price: $39.95 USD (Essentials), $119.95 USD (Enhanced), $299.95 USD (Extreme)
System Requirements: Internet access (you pretty much need high-speed access to do anything online with it), a working email account, minimum 256 MB RAM, minimum Pentium III 350MHz or faster, minimum 1024x768 desktop display resolution, a two-button mouse (three buttons preferred), 20 MB free disk space.

Pros:

• Creatively, a joy to use;
• Highly optimized user interface for fast productivity;
• Amazing rendering engine;
• Flexible output options.

Cons:

• Resolution output limited on lower-end versions;
• Requires product activation and high-speed Internet access for some functions;
• Accessing and storing templates and objects is confusing.

Summary:
LumaPix FotoFusion is, at its core, a photo-centric page layout program. But this is no QuarkXPress - the heavy focus on photos makes it a streamlined, efficient way to make gorgeous pages covered with photos in a few easy clicks. I originally discovered it a couple of years ago and I used it to create photo collages of my vacations, and the software has only grown more functional. With all that functionality, is it still easy to use?

Read on for the full review!