Cool Solution for Collages and Rapid Page/Album Design

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This past week I got introduced to an amazing application. Not new, just new to me...it is called Fotofusion by Lumapix. Its focus is collages and page/book layout for pro photographers. I had another pro (and fellow Aperture user) that I respect give me a demo of this, and I ran home to play with it myself. To say it is fast and responsive in doing this work is an understatement...you have to play with this thing to believe it.
As an event pro, I am always doing a collage 8x10 as a promo piece (mailer/giveaway) to point folks at the buying site. Even with all the PS templates, etc. There is NO COMPARISON, trust me. I just output a 20 image collage, with custom cropping, frames, shadowing and text in less than 10 minutes from a blank page in Fotofusion. My 2nd day playing with it... I can do it in less time now using the template it created. I can even tweak component images and simply re-render the piece to show the updates.
It responsiveness is due to its referential architecture, much like Aperture. It only stores references to the photo files, and creates and stores an instruction set on how to build the page. It only reads in the high detail of the photos when it renders the pages, and it can output the pages in any major format. It is a mature app, v4.3, my friend has been using his for about 4 months, and has done a dozen books with it already. Knowing all the shortcuts, he can really fly with it now.
I called Lumapix in Montreal, and found that the principals were formerly with SoftImage, a very high end modeling/compositing/animation system. That explained a lot, as SoftImage is an amazing app.
So what is the problem??? Fotofusion is a Windoze-only app. (Please don't stop reading, lol, fight the nausea) No one hates PC more than I, and I am still excited.
I have a Mac running Parallels (my financial app), and Fotofusion was just as fast on mine as it was on his Dell PC. My buddy actually bought dedicated PC to run this app. If you are a pro delivering wedding albums or collages on a regular basis...I have seen nothing that even comes close. This is the first time I have seen a photographers app on the PC that was really different & worthwhile.
I asked Lumapix if a Mac version was in the works, they said not at the moment as the software uses Windows system resources and would need to be re-written from the ground up for the Mac. I told them a dream of mine would be that they write this as an Aperture plug-in.
OR...if the Aperture team was to incorporate this Fotofusion level of speed and functionality to this task in the next version of Aperture, it would be awesome. I guarantee Apple would sell a lot more books...Fotofusion takes a fraction of the time that the Aperture book tool does to do a layout. I am hoping the Aperture team gets excited about this software design.
The demo of the software is fully functional except it prints watermarks on the output. It does work well in Parallels on my MBP, and is $299USD...but I would really want this functionality in Aperture...either native or a plug-in.
I figure if I made you folks aware of this, and you end up sharing my enthusiasm...maybe we can make some collective noise and see this or a design like it like it in or for Aperture. Before anyone asks...I have no commercial interest of any kind with this company...it just solved a huge workflow issue for me, I am excited, and I wanted to let others who need to do similar tasks know about it.
Sincerely,
K.J. Doyle

I want to see if anyone has an answer to this as well! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Aperture album designer, as it is so easy and fast to use. I am also making photographic printed albums for professional binding. I can't find a way to export the pages so that I can make these albums. The custom feature in the book designer looks as if it is only if I am printing here at the office on ink jet. If I was going to do that, I'd use InDesign.
I really really really want to hear that there is a way to export the book, but not in a PDF... so it can go to a real lab.
If anyone figures this out, please let me know.
Thanks,
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