MOTIF OR MIMEO PHOTOS UPDATE

Update (): Motif sent a replacement calendar.

Update (): The new Motif 1.8 update says that it can convert Apple book projects to Motif book projects. The printing is sharp and detailed, but the photos look very dark compared with how they looked on screen, and also compared with prints of those same photos from other services. Update (): I received my first calendar from Motif. The in-app order form is actually more cumbersome to use than a Web form, as type-selecting doesnвЂ™t work in the address combo boxes. This time, everything worked as expected, and I was able to place the order. After finishing each month I clicked Done and verified that it had, in fact, saved. It ended up being easier to redo everything in Motif because then I could use the same layouts as before, and it was still pretty fresh in my mind how IвЂ™d done them. I briefly when to Shutterfly, as itвЂ™s worked OK for me in the past, but aborted because I didnвЂ™t like its calendar layouts. All it showed was a single photo for January (IвЂ™d made a layout with six or so), and the photo displayed was not even one of the ones from this calendar project it was one IвЂ™d ordered an 8Г—10 print of a few years ago. When I opened the calendar again to order it, everything I had worked on for over an hour was gone.

MOTIF OR MIMEO PHOTOS PDF

I had planned to save a PDF of the project, as I always do before printing, although it turns out that Motif doesnвЂ™t support that. This brought me back into the regular Photos view. I finally finished creating my photo calendar, laying out all the photos and fine-tuning the zooms and crops. Update (): IвЂ™m not having a good experience with Motif. There is no easy way to swap two photos placed on a page. Scrolling through the thumbnail picker works in a non-standard way you can only two-finger trackpad scroll when the cursor is over the scroll elevator (rather than anywhere over a thumbnail). Update (): I found that when creating a photo calendar with Motif, most operations do not support undo. If you want to reprint books you designed in Photos in the past, you can - Mimeo will let you upload your Production PDF (exported from Photos) and will reprint your book. Previously: Apple Discontinues Its Own Photo Printing Service.ДЄ couple people have asked about this. (Unfortunately, it wonвЂ™t let you drop photos on the overflow dates from the previous or following months, which was always something I did with AppleвЂ™s old calendar.)

ItвЂ™s got more available template themes and offers the capability to customize individual dates portion on the calendar, with text or photos, which is fun. Mimeo Photos has the edge over Motif on the calendar front. While Motif offers more layout flexibility than AppleвЂ™s old tools did, if you want to have ultimate control, Mimeo will give it to you. If I had to sum up the differences between the apps, IвЂ™d say that Motif feels more modern and is easier to use, since it puts project photos (rather than page thumbnails) on the main interface and isnвЂ™t reliant on a bunch of slide-out drawers to access photos and layout controls. (Unsurprisingly, the companies behind both apps seem to have been past suppliers for AppleвЂ™s book-printing servicesвЂ¦ so this is their way of staying in the game.)

MOTIF OR MIMEO PHOTOS FOR FREE

The result is that there are two apps-available for free from the Mac App Store-that are worth checking out if youвЂ™re interested in printing photo books or calendars from within Photos for Mac. Apple started in leaning into extensions last year, but with its official announcement that itвЂ™s getting out of this category, a few other companies have finally jumped in.

Motif or mimeo photos