Effortless Photo Printing with Snapshot
The clash between the two has been going for years. The battles were chaotic, however, everything must come to an end, and the end is indeed near. The era of film is slowly crawling to its end; digital formats are starting to dominate. No more changing rolls - digital has become the new ruler of the land and the photographer’s workflow has much benefited in both speed and instant feedback.
Everything is a snap these days. People aim, shoot, and review in mere seconds. The time needed between shots is getting shorter and shorter. To keep up with such a fast moving world, one needs to keep up with the post-production process. Why waste time in a dark, red, and dusty room to process your photos? In fact, why waste time walking or driving to the nearest photo service shop to get your photos printed? Why do all that if you can easily do it from the comfort of your own home?
Snapshot helps make your photo printing process a walk in the park. At its heart Snapshot allows you to print pictures to exact sizes like 4×6, 8×10, or any other size you specify. It’s easy to use, and with just a few clicks you’ll have your favorite photo printed the way you want it. You can also do some basic editing like cropping, resizing, adjust exposure, brightness, contrast and more on the fly. Adding photos is as simple as drag-and-drop. You can even add creatives like attractive borders and speech bubbles to spice up your pictures even more. The interface and buttons are pretty much straight forward - There is really little to no learning curve with this utility.
Nobody’s perfect though, a few flaws do exist. One is how photo resolution will affect the size of the word balloon. It’s nothing significant, but it makes it harder to add speech bubbles to your photos. The second flaw that I’ve found is that I can’t print more than two pictures on a page unless I print in contact sheet mode (but this makes the photos too small). How about 3 on a page? 4? 6? it would be nice. Overall though, Snapshot really does the job for the average day-to-day photo printing needs, with a few basic editing features, that don’t feel like an after-thought. I really liked it. If you regularly print photos and are frustrated with the results, this one’s for you.
Snapshot v2.0 is $29.95 and includes a free trial.
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Indra,
Thanks for the nice write-up on Snapshot! I am the developer, and I just wanted to ask about the trouble you are having when trying to print more than one picture on a page. If you select the Minimize Paper Usage setting, Snapshot will try to fit as many pictures on the page as possible, depending on the size of the images you want to print and the size of the paper you have selected. If it’s not working that way for you, please send me an email (dan@stuntsoftware.com) so we can figure out what the problem might be.
Hey Dan,
Thanks for stopping by. Yeah, I thought Snapshot is generally good, except the little problem I had with multiple pictures and the balloon problem. I will try what you’ve suggested and I’ll let you know. How about the balloon problem? any idea on why it can’t be resized? When I adjusted the font to be bigger, the moment I clicked outside the balloon the font always switched back to the smallest possible.
I just checked the website because I am interested. But I noticed integration with iPhoto but not Aperture. Might the developer comment on whether there are any plans for future integration with Aperture?
Thanks in advance for any help with this!
For me I won’t pay for such an application as Adobe Lightroom has superior printing features as well.
Marie: Yes, it does integrate with iPhoto for browsing need. As for Aperture, well, Dan?
Yong Hwee: I guess Snapshot is for people who don’t like to use far too complicated software to print. I haven’t tried Lightroom yet, but how does loading speed compared to Snapshot?
Indra: The bug with the balloon fonts is actually that you were able to open the font panel at all. In the future we do plan to allow you to change the font and font size, but that was not meant to be a feature in the current release, which is why you see the strange behavior.
Marie: We have looked into Aperture integration a little bit - thanks for letting me know you’re interested in it! It looks like I’ll have to check into it some more.
$29 for something that does the same thing as iPhoto? What am I missing? Sounds like a $4.99 add on if it just makes printing a tad easier.
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