Confusingly, with some of these items, Photos acts as nothing more than a window onto Mpix’s Web site, with no awareness of the photos you’ve selected. However, it has a non-standard interface (basically the company’s Web site), and it seems to crash a lot according to some people.Īlthough Mpix seems to focus on prints, if you scroll down in the project list, the final option is Browse Mpix, which provides more possibilities, including photo books, calendars, collages, foil art prints, posters, keychains, magnets, playing cards, and business cards. The Fujifilm Prints & Gifts extension lets you order prints, cards, wall art, mugs and drinkware, magnets, T-shirts, puzzles, iPhone cases, and much more. Happily, it provides quite a few different sizes and bindings, and numerous themes for each. It doesn’t offer as many themes or options as Mimeo Photos, but it has a better interface, which is always nice.Įven though the popular Shutterfly photo service’s Web site lets you go beyond the basics to put your photos on a vast number of objects, such as pillows, candles, and trivets, the company’s Photos extension is limited to photo books. Motif looks quite similar to Mimeo Photos, also enabling you to create cards, calendars, and books with selected photos, and it comes from RR Donnelley, the company that was previously Apple’s partner for print projects. The extension or service that comes closest to providing the same products and features as Apple’s print projects is Mimeo Photos, which can create cards, calendars, and books. These extensions aren’t exact replacements for Apple’s projects, so let’s look briefly at what they provide. Most of these extensions are free, since they’ll make their money when you order projects. When you click the Open App Store button, Photos opens the App Store app and shows available Photos Project Extensions. You’ll see this dialog whenever you click a project in Photos.

After that, Apple is directing users to download a Photos Project Extension from the Mac App Store.

If you’re building such a project right now, be sure to place your order before September 30th, 2018. Apple is discontinuing these services, which enabled you to create and order physical prints, cards, calendars, and books from within the Photos app on the Mac. I have some sad news for you if you used Apple’s photo printing services.

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