Funtastic Photos does have a few pitfalls. For example, using some of the effects on high-resolution photos (in my testing, those larger than 20MB or so) is a bit slow, though still perfectly useable. (The fact that your images are kept at full size and resolution when saved is of some comfort.) And some of the One-Click Styles produce, for lack of a better word, lame results. It's also difficult to use Funtastic Photos' preview area to see what a style will do to your image, because the preview uses a line-art Ohanaware logo instead of a photograph. Finally, customizing some of the enhancements can produce unpredictable results, and using sliders to choose the amount of an effect makes it difficult to perform precise adjustments; I'd like to see a numeric field next to each slider to manually enter a value. Thankfully, the program makes it easy to undo an effect and move on to the next one.

The list of effects and enhancements in Funtastic Photos is exhaustive when you consider that you can adjust each one individually. The program is perfect for scrapbookers, those who wish to customize their images before sharing on the Web, and users who want a little more in the way of image adjustment than iPhoto offers. With such a wide variety of tools, there's little reason for non-professionals to look at other options--Funtastic Photos has a little bit for everyone.

James Dempsey runs The Graphic Mac, which offers tips, resources, and more for Mac OS X, Adobe Creative Suite, and the Internet.