Digital Home Thoughts: Photo Collage Fun with Lumapix FotoFusion 3.0

Sharing Photos
Once you have a collage put together, you probably want to do something with it right? With Lumapix FotoFusion, you can share your photos in a variety of ways. One of the easiest is with the Share tab. Simply take your collage, select who to send it to and you're off. It doesn't get much easier that that. If you want more advanced features though, FotoFusion delivers. You can choose the quality of collage, attach your original photos, and add a banner or watermark. If you buy the Pro version, you can create custom watermarks and banners. With the Standard edition, you get a Lumapix banner on your e-mailed and uploaded images. If you're into commercial photography, these Pro features are aimed directly at you.


Figure 3: Ready to send some photos to our friends.

Sending pictures via e-mail by default uses the Lumapix mail servers. You are limited to the size of e-mails (not quite sure what the limit is though). But as a registered user, you can use your own SMTP server directly. Wait, your own SMTP server? That is pretty slick. Most programs would use your default e-mail program to send e-mail. With this, your pictures go straight to the server saving you time and effort.

Publishing and Processing
If you want to save a copy of your final collages, you can use the Publish and/or Process tabs. They will render a high-res image of your collage. Publishing is very similar to Sharing via e-mail. You can choose quality, watermarks, and banners. In addition, you can choose to save to a local file or to your web server.


Figure 4: Processing a collage.

With the Process tab, you have similar options as with the Publish tab. In addition, you can also choose from BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, and TIF formats.