Jason Dunn
07-01-2008, 10:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.geardiary.com/2008/06/27/review-fotofusion-making-the-sum-of-the-parts-equal-more-than-the-whole/#more-9758' target='_blank'>http://www.geardiary.com/2008/06/27...hole/#more-9758</a><br /><br /></div><em>"Not long ago, I had the opportunity to review Adobe’s PhotoShop Elements 6, which is probably the best consumer level photo editor. It basically takes all of the tools the pros use and bundles them into easy to use menus and wizards for the average user. The problem I have is that even with Photoshop, I am still left with hundreds (if not thousands) of photos in my “shoebox” of a hard drive, What to do? I mean, I don’t just want to say, here is a folder, have at it, when I show people my pictures. I want them to see my pictures pleasantly arranged in a manner which provides context and makes them enjoyable to look at. Enter Lumapix with the answer to the second half of my digital photo equation: FotoFusion."</em><br /><br /><img border="0" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1214887393.usr1.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br />Based on reading Doug Goldring's review, it seems he was intimidated by the program until he started using it - meaning that he was psyched-out by the <em>idea </em>of the program, not the program itself. That's probably not an uncommon situation, because when you <a href="http://www.fotofusion.com/web_about/gallery_online.shtml" target="_blank">look at the images</a> that FotoFusion can create, you might think "Gee, that looks kind of hard!" - but you don't realize just how easy it is. Doug's review <a href="http://www.digitalhomethoughts.com/news/show/31340/gorgeous-photo-layouts-with-lumapix-s-fotofusion-v4.html" target="_blank">echoes my own feelings about FotoFusion</a>: it's a fantastic program that's much easier to use than you might think. It's not the kind of software I use every day, but when I need to make photo collages, it's the first, and only, tool that I turn to. I just made a photo collage for a friend the other day in fact, and she adores it. <a href="http://www.lumapix.com/downloads/LumaPixSetup.exe" target="_blank">Download the free demo</a> and check out FotoFusion for yourself.