But perhaps my favorite features of Funtastic Photos come into play after you've tweaked your images and you're ready to output them. (After all, saving a single photo back into iPhoto isn't very fun, is it?) Clicking on the Print & Layouts button in the toolbar offers you 20 different options for saving or printing your images. You can select from among several simple multiple-image layouts; a photo wall (as seen in the image below); a single or double-fold greeting card; or a grid displaying all your images simultaneously.

For more elaborate results, you can choose to output a collection of photos in a . You select a target photo and a folder full of source photos; Funtastic Photos uses the latter to recreate the target image. The more source images you use, and the wider the variety of colors in those images, the better the results.

Another really cool option is the Funtastic Cube effect, where you choose six photos and place one on each surface of a cube. Funtastic Photos prints the cube flat, and you can then cut it out and fold it up to create a 3-D cube of images. I've done this by hand many times, but it's so much easier with Funtastic Photos. The only drawback is that unless you have access to a printer that handles paper larger than a standard letter-sized sheet, your finished cube isn't going to be very large.

Funtastic Photos makes it simple to share your new creations, including uploading them to popular social-networking services. Click on the Share Via button in the toolbar and you're offered a host of ways to do so, including adding your image to iPhoto; uploading it to Facebook, Flickr, Google Picasa, or your Apple MobileMe Gallery; sending it via e-mail; sending it to your phone via Bluetooth; or--my personal favorite--sending it as a Fun Card.

This last option, Fun Cards, brings back the old Apple iTools (now MobileMe) favorite, iCards. But unlike the iCards of the past, you aren't limited to choosing the image and selecting from among a handful of fonts. With Fun Cards, you can choose any font on your system, any image you have on your computer, and even the image you want to appear on the card's "stamp." Once you've finished entering a message, your Fun Card is attached to a new e-mail message in your default e-mail application, ready to send. I was saddened to see iCards go, so it's good to have this functionality back.