Earlier this workweek I covered iWatermark , which lease you easily add watermarks to your photos . I ’m pass to make it a exposure - focused ( no punning mean ) workweek here at Mac Gems ; today I ’ll show you a smashing tool that makes printing photos quick and simple .
Apple ’s iPhoto is a stellar photo direction program , no doubtfulness about it . However , its printing functionality makes a braggart assumption : that you ’ve already train all your photos for impression — you’ve rotated them , cropped them , resized them to the right size and proportion ( 3×5 , 4×6 , etc . ) , and so on . Assuming the picture is quick to go , you just penetrate the photographic print button , choose the report sizing and print . But what if you have n’t done all that cookery ? Or what if you want to print a cropped interpretation of a picture but leave behind the original intact ? ( iPhoto always keeps an unaltered written matter , but you have to remember to utilise the Revert to Original command to get it back . ) Sometimes I just want to quickly publish a new picture that I downloaded from my digital camera without interest about “ manage ” it first .
Which leads me to today ’s Gem : Stunt Software ’s $ 20PhotoBooth 1.1(;www.stuntsoftare.com / product / photobooth.htm ) . When you launch PhotoBooth , you ’ll see all your iPhoto album in a inclination on the left . prefer the photo to be printed by selecting the appropriate album ( or your iPhoto Library itself ) and then the image — it will be display in the master watcher pane . Now it ’s time to work your quick - print illusion : Select a margin width , picture size ( 3×5 , 4×6 , 5×7 , 8×10 , or custom ) , and orientation course . The appropriate crop outline will appear in the image looker pane ; just as you would in iPhoto , you could move the craw abstract to pick out the trust plane section of the photo , but unlike iPhoto , you could actually resize the crop as needed ( it will keep the correct aspect ratio for your take picture sizing ) . Click the Print Picture button and the selected section of the pic is print at the desired mental image size . It ’s that quick and simple .
The chief PhotoBooth window also supply a Page Setup button and Printer bulge - up menu for flying access to these place setting . A ready to hand Preview view shows what your final printout will look like on the take newspaper size of it and printer — a skillful feature that ’s more helpful that you might remember .
I ’m certain there are some readers who right about now are thinking , “ I just do n’t get it — printing in iPhoto is n’t that hard . ” You ’re right , it is n’t . But PhotoBooth is even easier . It only takes printing a few photos from PhotoBooth to appreciate its usefulness .
The current reading of PhotoBooth is n’t perfect . For example , I wish that the Image list could be blow up to make it easier to find a particular photo in big record album , and I ’d wish to be able-bodied to use the arrow keys to “ nudge ” the crop boxful into the perfect place . But these are minor complaint . ( It would also be nice to be capable to do quick brightness and reddened - middle tweaks , but bring those feature would likely be missing the distributor point of PhotoBooth as a elbow room to apace print photos without a lot of tweaking . ) Overall , PhotoBooth is a majuscule service program that does on the nose what it ’s intended to do .
