EDIT: Perhaps this question would be better put in the "Design and Graphics" section?
To cut a long story short, I’m looking for a simple but powerful photo layout program - not Photoshop or Quark; something quick & basic (with alignment & text tools) possibly like iScrapbook. Anyone have any suggestions or used iScrapbook (I can’t demo it on my old
as it runs 10.3)? 
The longer story… I’m in the process of switching my rather computer-illiterate Dad away from his ancient PC to an iMac. He works a lot from home so my main concern is ensuring he’ll be able to work equally as well on the iMac (hopefully better).
Writing emails & letters etc will be no problem. But 90% of his work involves taking photos (tons at a time), applying basic edits & printing them with short captions. This is where I need help because iPhoto is no good at custom print layouts with text (unless I’ve missed a function).
Currently he uses Canon PhotoRecord which, if you ignore all the cheesy effects/clipart features, is an excellent layout program. PhotoRecord lets you simply drag a load of photos on to the page, it then automatically aligns them (configured by columns & rows), you add text & then click print. Simple! PhotoRecord is very basic in its approach but this simplicity makes it a very powerful tool.
So I need a replacement for PhotoRecord. I’ve been looking at the following products & I’d appreciate some advice…
My old iMac runs 10.3 so I can’t demo most of the above but iScrapbook looks the most promising so far. Comic Life (if customised to give more professional results) also seems very good. I think Pages would be too complicated for the task, the app I'm looking for needs to be simple & quick to use but please correct me if I'm wrong.
Does anyone have any experience with iScrapbook or can anyone suggest any other products I should consider?
Many thanks!
To cut a long story short, I’m looking for a simple but powerful photo layout program - not Photoshop or Quark; something quick & basic (with alignment & text tools) possibly like iScrapbook. Anyone have any suggestions or used iScrapbook (I can’t demo it on my old
as it runs 10.3)? The longer story… I’m in the process of switching my rather computer-illiterate Dad away from his ancient PC to an iMac. He works a lot from home so my main concern is ensuring he’ll be able to work equally as well on the iMac (hopefully better).
Writing emails & letters etc will be no problem. But 90% of his work involves taking photos (tons at a time), applying basic edits & printing them with short captions. This is where I need help because iPhoto is no good at custom print layouts with text (unless I’ve missed a function).
Currently he uses Canon PhotoRecord which, if you ignore all the cheesy effects/clipart features, is an excellent layout program. PhotoRecord lets you simply drag a load of photos on to the page, it then automatically aligns them (configured by columns & rows), you add text & then click print. Simple! PhotoRecord is very basic in its approach but this simplicity makes it a very powerful tool.
So I need a replacement for PhotoRecord. I’ve been looking at the following products & I’d appreciate some advice…
- Pages
- Swift Publisher
- Comic Life
- iScrapbook
- ArcSoft PhotoPrinter
My old iMac runs 10.3 so I can’t demo most of the above but iScrapbook looks the most promising so far. Comic Life (if customised to give more professional results) also seems very good. I think Pages would be too complicated for the task, the app I'm looking for needs to be simple & quick to use but please correct me if I'm wrong.
Does anyone have any experience with iScrapbook or can anyone suggest any other products I should consider?
Many thanks!