MacFormat UK – June 2019

APPLE SKILLS Mac software

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Print an

amazing

photo book

Put your precious digital

memories onto paper

IT WILL TAKE

30 minutes

YOU WILL LEARN

How to create a

photo book within

Photos using Motif

YOU’LL NEED

macOS High Sierra

or later, Photos,

Motif extension

Apple discontinued its photo

printing product service back

in September last year, but

you can still print beautiful

photo books using the Photos app, thanks

to the Motif extension.

RR Donnelley – the company behind the

Motif app – was responsible for physically

printing Apple’s photo books (as far back as

2005), so the printed books from Motif are

very high quality, which is good news as this

was one of the main strengths of Apple’s old

photo printing service.

Creating a great-looking photo book is

just as easy as it used to be, too, and you can

tailor the exact look and feel; if you’ve got a

particular budget in mind, Motif will adjust

its length and complexity to suit.

You can’t just go to your Mac and start

making photo books straight away, though.

First, you’ll need to add the free-to-install

Motif extension to the Photos app. You can do

this by clicking File > Create > Book > App Store.

The Mac App Store will open separately, and

you can then download and open the Motif

extension from there. Nick Odantzis

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View your

project

This is where

you edit your

book. You can

navigate left

or right using

the arrows.

3

Browse all

images

Images you

select appear

in the image

library. Hover

over one for

a preview.

2

Alter project

settings

You can make

changes at any

point in your

book’s creation

by clicking the

gear icon.

4

Edit elements

Below the page

you’ll find a text

icon for adding

words, and an

image icon for

tweaking photos

in your book

EXPLAINED... Starting a project in Motif

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