Rating: 5/5

General Info: This curiously named app fixes those images in the Finder that have no thumbnail. The transluscent black “HUD” interface of the app is very slick. With it you can add a thumbnail photo as the icon, or make a .icns file from the picture, just drag files into a box. CocoThumbX then generates a thumbnail. The time it takes to do this is virtually unnoticable, even on a slow machine. The generated thumbnail photos can also have several effects applied to them. Clicking the + button in the upper right corner flips CocoThumbX over like a widget. The effects include shadows, round image, mirror, border, and anti-aliasing. CocoThumbX can generate thumbnails for common image formats, most QuickTime movies, and (pointlessly) text files. CocoThumbX is free and only a download away.

Retail Price: Free

Site: http://www.stalkingwolf.net/software/cocothumbx/

Rating: 4/5

General Info: Photoprint is, as hinted by the title, an application for printing photos. But, the difference here is that you don’t just print your photos out, you print them out in an album.

Yes, this means that you can do what iPhoto promises to do for free! The method you use to make a photo album is really simple, you can add an image from your iPhoto library (or anywhere else), resize it, mask it and then add text. Its like using Pages for designing photo albums, with all of the useful features built in. photoprint comes with a vast array of built in templates, or you can make your own,by masking pictures, adding backrounds.

There is so much to explore in photoprint that’s its hard to sum it up a one review, but I recommend you download the trial version of the software and see whether you can make use of it.

For what photoprint does, it does it very well, but Apple’s iPhoto solution (creating Photo Books) still, to me looks like a better options, but, if you’d like to do it yourself, definitely check out photoprint.

Price: $29.95

Site: http://www.smileonmymac.com/photoprinto

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Rating: 5/5

General Info: Snapshot is a very powerful little app that allows you to imitate the power of a photo lab with your very own digital photos. With a very easy-to-use and user-friendly interface, Snapshot is a winner in my books.

It begins with a workflow, from top to bottom. The first step is to add photos, either by drag-and-drop from the Finder, or by its seamless integration with your iPhoto Library. Snapshot is able to quickly and easily browse your entire iPhoto Library, maintaining all of the structure of your albums and folders. Once you have your photos selected, you simply drag them into the timeline across the bottom of the window, and the editing process begins.

Within its three main modules, you can choose between border styles, add notes or the date to a photo, add speech bubbles, and perform basic crops and edits to the photos. While many of these are simple things, they are implemented in such a seamless way, that makes the entire experience of this app very fun and easy. Finally, it has a plethora of printing options, which help to you to choose precise print sizes, which printer to print from, and, my personal favourite, the ability to print borderless, which makes your photos all the more stunning. Summed up, I really love this app. From the website all the way to the printer, Stunt Software provides a seamless experience, and a very easy-to-use app that anyone, no matter how computer savvy can use and enjoy. I definitely recommend this app!

Retail Price: $29.95

Site: http://www.stuntsoftware.com/Snapshot/