Re-Launch Contest #17: LumaPix FotoFusion Extreme

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.lumapix.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.lumapix.com/</a><br /><br /></div>Here's our 17th giveaway, one of our grand prizes, courtesy of <a href="http://www.lumxpix.com" target="_blank">LumaPix</a>: five (!) copies of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lumapix.com/extreme/ext_overview.shtml">FotoFusion Extreme</a>, valued at $299.99 USD each, will be given away. Here's a bit about the product:<br /><br /><em>&quot;Create elegant and impressive wedding albums in minutes, not days. Create your own custom signature templates, or browse LumaPix's online catalog of designer wedding album styles. Tune your compositions with FotoFusion's best-of-breed tools for image layout; send low-res watermarked proofs to your bride by email, web gallery, print or pdf. Take full advantage of the flexibility of all-digital layout and give your customers the look they expect. FotoFusion's professional photography software is the best album layout tool that money can buy.&quot;</em><br /><br />This software is truly amazing - I use it to make 16 x 20&quot; photo collages after every major vacation my wife and I go on, and over the past year I've used it to create a wide assortment of projects for friends and family. It's a wonderful creative tool! As you can tell, I really like this software - you can check out my <a target="_blank" href="http://www.digitalhomethoughts.com/news/show/31340/gorgeous-photo-layouts-with-lumapix-s-fotofusion-v4.html">full review for details</a>. It's also worth noting that the Extreme version of this software comes with a stunning array of templates and elements for you to use in your layouts.<br /><br /><img border="1" alt="" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/500/dht/auto/1205982911.usr1.jpg" /><br /><br /><strong>Here's how to enter:</strong> just post a message as a reply telling me what type of projects you'd like to use FotoFusion for. Vacation photo collages? Sports team pictures? Scrapbooking? There's one post per person allowed, and five winners will be randomly chosen. The contest will stay open for entries until April 7th, 2008.<br /><br />Special thanks to LumaPix for their donation of this software!

[Cold Flame]

I read the review prior to posting this; and what a beautiful piece of software!

I'd primarily use this to create albums/scrapbooks for vacations, but even more than that, to catalogue my children's lives year by year. Much how you created the collages of your vacations (which is a fantastic idea), I'd love to do 16x20 (or bigger, or smaller) collages of momentous photos throughout the years to cherish through the years. If I don't win this software, I might just have to consider buying it...

Thanks for bringing it to my attention, Jason! =)

Cheers!

[dshep2020]

This is pretty cool software. I would use it to create some pretty nice photo scrapbooks of vacations and the kids.

[Jeff_R]

I'd love to use it to create scrapbooks from all the films I've shot. It'd be a great way to take the best of the photos and bring them together.

[jrmfzf]

My wife and I have gone on some amazing over seas vacations over the last couple of years but most of the pictures are just sitting unused. I'd love to put together some albums and I think my wife would really get enjoyment of using it for scrapbooking.

[Neil Enns]

Bonpsiel photos! I used prior versions of this software to create collages for bonspiels at our local curling club, but haven't upgarded to the new version yet. Hook me up please!

[Gordo]

Vacation photo collages

[jaxim]

I'd create albums of my new daughter with this software. With the advent of digital photos, hardcopy photos are becoming a thing of the past. That's why every year, my wife and I create an album of all the best pictures of the year and have it professionally printed. With this software, it would make creating such albums that much easier.

[fslongo]

With three kids the uses are endless, vacations, sports, activities...

[Dyvim]

scrap booking. The photo-collage Idea sounds cool too!
Hey, anything is better than Microsoft Paint...:)

[PJE]

I'd look to use if to generate product catalogs...

[bcre8v2]

I would use the software for complex collages! Looking at some of the templates gets my Cre8v thoughts flowing. If I don't win, I may have to actually buy it!

[piperpilot]

I would use it to (finally) organize my wedding pictures.

[cmchavez]

My wife would get a real kick out of using this for her scrapbooking projects. It might even be the thing that finally gets me involved directly with putting the pages together, since I have no artistic talent whatsoever.

[riley4077]

Scrapbooking everything...the kids, vacations, sports, church events...

[gstenger]

I have hundreds of photos from a trip to Israel that my wife and I took a few years back. I would love to use this software to put those photos into a nice online album. I'm sure my wife would find this useful for scrapbooking as well. Thanks!

[mrozema]

I'd use it for collages of vacations and other special events.

[Heatwave316]

This would be perfect for finally putting together my photos from my trip to London, which was 5 years ago.

Plus, of course I have lots of photo projects on the to do list: family holidays, sporting events....etc.

[GreatDay]

Oh man, this would be an Outstanding help to organizing and keeping together projects once all the hunting and searching has been done. Since my Dad passed i've been trying to put family photos together by certain time periods and hadn't found a really good way to scrapbook the results and be able to find them again. I'm sure i'd get inspired to do other projects. Thanx.

[mrwickham]

2 kids, 1 dog, 1 cat, and a wife. Wonderful opportunity to at least please some of them.

[elipsoid]

Vacation, sports.

[spacehippie2k]

The usual stuff - kids, dogs, nature shots...

[ptyork]

This would go straight to my wife's computer since she LOVES scrapbooking and creating collages (mostly for gifts). We've got who-knows-how-many unfinished scrapbooks (vacations and baby) that could benefit greatly from a new techno-fun way of doing them. She's pretty good technically and likes using the computer in new ways, so I'm sure she'd really dig this.

Thanks!

[abl00m]

Got a wedding in May - nice timing...

[Tim Williamson]

Are contributing editors-in-training allowed to enter? ;)

I'd use it to build a slideshow/scrapbook for my upcoming Washington DC trip. :)

[wynand32]

I have two kids, and a new puppy. I would simply love to be able to create organized collages of each of them.

[txcdub]

I'd love to use LumaPix FotoFusion to create stunning creations featuring my 15 year old boy and girl twins. They're finally old enough to do lots of fun stuff (they're walking and can talk - sorta) so we've been doing a lot this spring and looking forward to even more this summer.

Thanks,
_Chris (txcdub)

[supreme_one3]

I'd use it to make collages that I could give as gifts.

[makicr]

improve the photos of the kids (as I can't improve how they look in real life).

[dh]

Wedding albums for me.
Cheers!
David

[whydidnt]

This would be great for putting together collages of my daughter's soccer exploits. I take hundreds of pictures every year, but always have a hard time finding the right way to bring them all together.

[Bob Christensen]

I'd use it for family events, vacations. With my limited skills, I need help like this!

[andrewpmoore]

This sounds like it would be great for the wedding photography I'm just starting to get into.

[PeeVee]

I love taking photos and my wife loves scrapbooking. This software would be perfect for us documenting our son's life.

[Rob Cannon]

I would give the software to my wife. She is the photo buff and is always making projects for family gatherings, school projects, vacations, etc.. The software she uses now is long unsupported and she could use something new.

[Iglesiab]

I tried this out based on your review, had never heard of the sofware before. The software rocked! unfortunetly the price was not in my budget. Would love to win a license for this.

I would use it to make collages for friends and to frame and put up around my house. I have an extensive family and would like to make a collage that includes everyone. That would be a great gift!

brian

[srsabu]

My wife would use it to do collages of the kids. She makes them for the grandparents on their days and for me on Father's day she gives me an updated one from the last year to hang in my cube.

Also, we take photos of the kids with a particular teddy bear once a month, and she started producing combined shots of the kids at the same age but gave that up once we hit three (now four) kids since the tool she was using didn't support more than two.

[tal]

Your review really sounds impressive. I'd really like to have an easy to use tool for making collages of my vacation shots for gifts to my friends with whom I spent the holidays (BTW: the AutoJumble sounds fun, too).

[leslietroyer]

I'd use it to organize the scads of digital images into albums

Les

[John Lane]

This is the coolest software!!!! I would definitely use it alot for my son's hockey team and for vacation photos. It is so creative. Neat!

[timmy]

I watched the demo a coupe of weeka ago on DHT, and was really impressed!

I would use it for vacation collages and albums!

[David Horn]

I'd use it to sort out the photo albums after my cycling and climbing trips; at the moment everything just gets dumped onto Facebook.

[Reid Kistler]

Can imagine many uses, but these come immediately to mind: Weddings (2 down, 1 scheduled, & 2 to go...), Vacation memories, and a College Portfolio for budding "Artistic Photographer"....

rkistler / se mi

[Ploobers]

Definitely family scrapbooking

[rtrueman]

I'm looking to do more paid work for family portraits and would LOVE this software. I've used the trial and think it's great. If you haven't tried it, by all means, get the demo. It's super easy to use and the results are fantastic.

Rob

[mamoleh]

I would love to make a scrapbook of my kids for their grandparents!

[canux]

My wife (the scrapbooker) would love this program...the kids give endless photo ops!

[jspear]

Photo layouts of the kids school plays.

[follick]

I like to collages and photo collections of my kids periodically to send out to relatives and friends. This software would make that alot easier as well as making them look better.

[wilkinsjme]

Very cool software.
I would use it mainly for creating collages of the kids to give to relatives. But also for some of the nature and object photography that I have as well.

[rwelch]

I have 3 pregnant sisters-in-law that I could make some neat gifts for with this software!

[txa1265]

Definitely for scrapbooking! We love putting pictures together to tell a story of our vacations and events.

[uzziah0]

This looks cool, and if it is really as easy as indicated, it would be great for ALL my digital pictures (the past several years worth).
I think mostly I'd make pages for vacations, but also for holidays, and just other fun family things.

[LindaP]

I would use the LumaPix FotoFusion for scrapbooking. I always say I will get all my pictures together and organize them, this would help a lot!

[fromamerica]

I have just started to use my equipment for portrait and event purposes, and want to take it to the next level. I would use this application to build products for my customers. The SW looks great and would be extremely useful in starting this business.

[6 Feet More]

I'd love to win this software to make collages of the airshows a shoot each year along with our family vacations. Thanks for the contest.

[dbng]

Every 2 years or so we go on a family visit trek in the US and Europe to see the grandparents and aunts/uncles. Tons of pictures - this would make for great scrapbooks.

[Jason Dunn]

Contest officially closed - no further entries will be permitted. Please check the front page within the next 96 hours to see a list of the winners.

[gpalmerhorse]

I guess the contest is closed. Wish I had known about it. You can see my work on www.scrapbook.com (http://www.scrapbook.com). All of my work now is accomplished with LumaPix FotoFusion. I always give you credit for it to. My screen name is horse-withnoname. If I have another chance, please let me know. I bet other neighbors would like to enter you contests too!
Thanks
Glenda Palmer
horse-withno name, here I had to call myself gpalmerhorse.

[Jason Dunn]

I guess the contest is closed. Wish I had known about it.

Yes, the contest is closed. The winners were announced here:

http://www.digitalhomethoughts.com/news/show/88974

Keep visiting the site, we always have contests going on here and there. :)