PrestoPhoto 4+

Photo book/ Apple Photos

Template Modern Lines
1. text edit, did not alleign well under photos, and the box would not extend on photos on the bottom of page. I had to crop photo boxes. Text box was no where near the boundary cropping line. Also when double clicking to write text box would grey out and I could NOT type in box, NOR could the box be deleted to repeat the process. Also Font size option does not always come up.
2. Edit Layout: changing size of photos; no guidelines appear to aleign with other photos, eyball it is not accurate!
3 Starting Book options should be more spefic once Templat is chosen for Modern Lines there should also be a option to change background to white. You havde one but one has to "search for it" luckily I was doing 3 books so on the 3rd book it was familiar....MANY PEOPLE ARE ONLY MAKING ONE BOOK.
4. Photos do not load quickly when switching from Template options back to Images. Big frustration was, I oraginize photos by Event which is NOT necessarily by DATE and all my organization was down the drain when loaded on the book. It is very time consuming to scroll through all the photos to get specific events together. IE : Spending 3 days in a city..all city photos should be together.
5. Unsure if its better to start creating book thourht PHOTOS or going on line to Presto Ap???

Sorry, cant scroll back to proof read my remarks so hope you can find some benefit from this report.

Need more flexibility

Using the app is relatively easy. However, compared to the old apple app which I used all the time I find this app somewhat inflexible

1- I would like to be able to use a picture of my own as a background for the other pictures on the page
2- the templates with text depending on how many pictures are on a page seems to me to have too much text space where another picture could be placed or the pictures could be slightly bigger using that space.
3- other than a straight picture apple had an option to make a single picture from many pieces. One was able to take a picture and create it as if it were created from many post it note pieces it was very interesting to do that with certain pictures.

Difficult to use

I have used Apple's Aperture to produce many books in the past and found this app difficult to use and unpredictable in comparison. The PrestoPhoto product randomly crashed many times during my book build forcing a reload/restart of the app. When this occurred the book being built returned as it was before the crash so this was more of a nuisance. A more serious problem is that at least a half dozen times while constructing pages the app eliminated/relocated either pictures or captions that I had built on pages after I had hit the DONE button. I am at a loss to explain why this occurred, but it forced a rebuild of those pages. This caused me a loss of confidence in the product. If I caused this problem by incorrectly using the product, please advise me so. Otherwise, this is a serious problem that should be corrected quickly.

Developer Response ,

Hello JimPaulS, thank you for bringing this problem to our attention! I'd love to get you connected with our engineering team to troubleshoot these crashes - please reach out to us via email at support@prestophoto.com. We are big fans of Aperture and can understand the frustration that comes with trying out another product.