I’m in the same boat Liz – SO SO frustrating!! I spent hours and hours selecting and arranging photos in a book, clicked buy and was told had to upgrade to new OS/photos to print it. I did that (took hours) for the sole purpose of printing the book I made, only to find out that now the service isn’t offered!!

Jefferson Le Blanc’s rude and unhelpful comments don’t point to any solution. Sure, I’ve used Shutterfly before for similar projects and know of many vendors, but exporting to those vendors won’t be perfect and will require hours and hours of additional work to get the same arrangements. Wish Apple was more transparent about this so I didn’t waste so much time!! I’m sorry if you thought I was rude. But do you have any other choice than to look for another publisher? No you don’t. That’s not rude, it’s just real.

If Apple cared about your concerns they wouldn’t have dumped their services. Alternatively, you could have taken the usual precaution of backing up your old system before upgrading to a new one so you could revert to it if need be. If you made no such backup, then you have no one but yourself to blame for your lack of caution and foresight. Maybe Apple misdirected you, but ultimately you are responsible for your own success or failure.

Apple provides Time Machine as a painless backup solution. If you didn’t use it, Apple’s not at fault, you are. Blaming Apple for your troubles may make you feel better, but it’s ultimately a wast of time and energy that would be better spent of solving the problem rather than complaining about it. After you’ve found a solution, you can write about it and we’ll all be grateful rather than censorious. It’s not as if Apple hasn’t done this sort of thing before. Right now they are dumbing down macOS Server software; anyone who needs it would be well advised not to upgrade.

Apple abandoned iPhoto and Aperture several years ago, and an excellent version of iMovie before that. And AppleWorks.

The Mac Cube and the equally elegant but dead end waste basket Mac Pro. For anyone who has been around awhile Apple clearly has Attention Deficit Syndrome and we don’t depend on Apple software in particular for serious work. As for hardware, they surprised everyone with a new version of the Mac mini, which many thought had reached EOL.

Apple is back in the desktop Mac business, after a long hiatus, with an improved iMac and a workstation level iMac Pro. And they have even promised a new, user serviceable Mac Pro for next year.

Which will be a good thing because you cannot even upgrade the RAM in the iMac Pro. Check with the publisher you finally decide to use to see what formats they prefer. Pages and InDesign are good apps to use to layout your book.

And Adobe Lightroom has a book module that can export to Blurb, though that’s rather expensive. It also has PDF export, which would probably be more useful. You might even be able to import your book into Pages, or place it there. Then export to PDF if appropriate. Look for solutions, not sympathy. Older Macs have always aged out at some point. I have an old cheese-grader Mac Pro that could’t got beyond Lion.

It gave me good service, but my now five year old 27″ iMac dances circles around it—and will handle Mojave, for what that’s worth. And the new iMacs are hotter still, though I don’t need all that horsepower anymore. There are plenty of web publishing sites that can handle your book, which is probably why Apple gave up that game. If you can’t find someone to publish your book you’re just not trying. Blaming Apple may make you feel good in some way, but it’s a total waste of time.

With so many other options for printing books, cards, albums, calendars, cups, canvas wall hangings, etc. Available from Walmart and the local Rite Aid it’s totally understandable why Apple is getting out of the print business.

While yes it was neat, easy, and cool, to do it right from your home computer, and the product was good quality – let’s face it a company HAS to be profitable and when something is losing money it has to be let go. EVERY company must do that. The quality of what we’ve gotten from processing our photos and ordering books and cards (and cups and) through the Fuji system at Rite Aid very closely rival Apple’s at a much more reasonable cost to us. So we already switched away from using the feature in Photos/iPhoto. (I guess we are part of the reason Apple had to drop support for it). Another bad move. The third party products are not as good as the Apple photobooks.

This is clear when you look at independent reviews like the one from Tom’s Guide on Best Photo Books 2018. Apple is rated #2 with an 8/10 score. The only service in the top 10 list is Shutterfly with a mediocre score of 6/10. Would rather have seen the prices increase than lose the Apple photobooks. I have tried some of the extension apps before and the product quality is not good compared to what you get with Apple. Ultimately this makes Photos a more useless app since I will not be printing books with any of the low quality vendors that have extensions for Photos.

I know a few photo studios that rely on Appl photobooks for the quality and ease of deliverability to clients. I do not think this is due to lack of demand.

I think Apple decided the service was not as profitable as they want and decided to cut it rather than raise the prices and risk higher for a lower volume. I guess you never noticed all the projects Google and Microsoft have abandoned over the years.

If they fail financially, they fail altogether. What professionals ever used iPhoto of Photos to manage their projects? It was always a consumer related enterprise. And consumers have gone elsewhere.

The only alternatives are Linux, not a viable graphics platform, and Microsoft. You’re welcome to choose Microsoft—if you’ve got lots of money to replace your computer and all/any software you use. Oh, and don’t forget the learning curve. Windows 10 is a decent operating system, but it includes no free software even slightly comparable to Photos (not to mention Pages, Keynote and Numbers). You’ll have to spend additional money for that, too. As for publishing your photos in cards of books, there are plenty of on-line services out there to choose from. You don’t need Photos to access them.

Just a little initiative. It’s true Apple has left plenty of abandonware in their wake—like just about everybody else you can name. They are not the least bit unusual in that respect. You might feel justified in feeling annoyed, but betrayed? You are, of course, entitled to your feelings. The loss of Aperture was, indeed, a betrayal of sorts since Apple provided no comparable alternative. Long before that, though, I decided that it was unwise to depend on Apple to provide long term support for anything beyond their core services, as in Apple Mail, which has been around longer than most of the competition, though it’s far from best in class.

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In fact it was when Steve Jobs decided it was a good idea to mess up iMovie with all it’s third-party extensions that made it truly useful. The new iMovie was not, nor is it extensible.

That was eleven years ago. Of course Adobe abandoned Premier on the Mac in that time, but they later reconsidered their decision. Steve Jobs did not. Then too Adobe has not been entirely reliable either. Which is to say that no one has. The sad fact is that products come and go; we may not always be happy with that fact, but there it is.

Coming the end of next year will be the death of 32bit apps on the Mac. Many developers will simply not make the move to 64bit and we will be stuck with finding substitutes, if we can. Not even app developers take our feelings into account.

In the end it’s the bottom line that matters. You may be older but you are mistaken if you think it was ever otherwise.

If businesses don’t make money they don’t stay in business and the end result is the same. They and their products disappear—fun or not. Smitty, if demand isn’t there nor profits, then you must think Apple is not a business, and a publicly traded one. I’m a shareholder and appreciate smart business decisions using my money.

But there are alternatives if you take the time to seek them out. Plus, there are far better paid products like Adobe’s for instance than “bundled” Photos. And in the same vain, Mail, Numbers and Pages are fine for free but lack a ton of features in Numbers and Outlook. Mail is atrociously underwhelming as is Contacts too boot. Have you never paid for an app found in the App Store or else where by the way?. Recent Posts. Macs last a long time.

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We've used all of these, so we're going to say right now that for Apple users, the exiting Photo Print service is superior to all of these from an integration, variety, and overall quality standpoint hands down. All of these services have their strong points, and weak spots.

Unfortunately, there's no real way to pick a best offering overall —because there isn't one. However, if you shop smart, and order a product based on the strengths of the company, you can get the same quality product that you'd get from Photo Print. Shutterfly Of the services without a retail outlet, may be the best known. The vendor has just about anything you could want, including not just standard items like prints, cards, stationery, calendars, albums, and photo books, but eccentric options like pillows, plaques, growlers, and even towels. If you like you can get a custom-printed iPhone case, available for every model from the iPhone 5 through the iPhone X.

Critically, the company has a free for the macOS Photos app. This may make it a more direct repalcement for Photo Print Products, although current ratings for the software aren't so hot. By default Shutterfly offers photo books in seven sizes, with up to 30 pictures per page and a limit of 1,000 total pictures. Prices start at $14.39 and you can choose to use template books or take more direct control of pictures, text, and backgrounds.

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The company also offers a 'Make My Book' service which adds a $9.99 fee on top of whatever book you order. Wall calendars typically start at $19.99, but there are also easel, desk, and poster calendars, or if you insist, there's a $10.39 calendar mousepad. 's offerings may be a little more tame compared to Shutterfly, but they'll still probably have what you want.

Assuming you don't go with the company's special 'accordion mini' options, photo books start at $19.99 for a 20-page 5x5 art cloth hardcover. There are plenty of other options though, up through a $118.99 premium panoramic book with a custom cover and deep matte photographic paper.

A standard 11x8.5 or 12x18 wall calendar is $20. You can also get accordion mini calendars for about the same price, or a dry-erase calendar that starts at $29.99 for 16x12. The company's can be used to order a range of products, including prints in materials like metal, wood, and canvas. Offers cheaper photo books, costing as little as $12.99 for a 20-page softcover. You can design your own or choose from assorted templates. If you want to go all-out, the most expensive option is a $109.99 'premium layflat' 8x11 hardcover. The company has a relatively small assortment of wall and desk calendars, but you can spend as little as $9.99 on the latter.

There is no Mac software, but Snapfish does have an which can be used to order just about anything without even touching a computer. You can also get up to 100 free 4x6 prints per month for ordering from the app, albeit with a. Nations Photo Lab. If you want to go even cheaper on photo books, has what it calls 'buzz books' — 40-page, 6x6 softcovers for $10.05. The site's regular hardcover books start at $19.43 for 10 pages, and go up to $52.93 for 12x12 leather with lay-flat semi-gloss paper. Of course 10 pages isn't much, so expect to pay more than the sticker price. Wall calendars — custom or using six different templates — start at $9.35, but you'll pay more if you want decent-quality paper, more likely between $12.40 and $15.74.

Nations lacks a Photos extension or even an iOS app. It does have Mac-compatible ordering software called, but for the average person there's likely little advantage over using the Web. Adorama is probably better known for selling camera gear and other electronics, but is out there for those of us who already have our photos in hand. The vendor charges $19.99 for an 8x8 softcover book, and the decadent can scale up to a leather 12x15 that costs a whopping $169.99. Calendar-wise there are desktop, standard wall-flip center-fold, and top-hanging 12x18 calendars. These range between $12.99 and $29.99 and support a lot of personalization, including the ability to make photos the backgrounds for important dates. Adorama actually has several iOS apps:, for the iPhone, for the iPad, and for ordering metal prints.

Uploader and aPix seem problematic, so like Nations you may want to stick to Web designs. Naturally, it's hard to talk about digital printing services without talking about retail behemoths like. They offer many of the same things as services like Shutterfly with the convenience of being able to walk into a local store for pickup. As you'd expect, you can go dirt cheap at Walmart, but don't expect to get much until you pony up, relatively speaking. The cheapest photo book is a $3.98 2x3 'mini' with 24 pages. Regular softcovers start at $8, hardcovers at $14.96, either with 20 pages.

The main drawback is a lack of high-end options, since you can't get any better than 'premium' lay-flat hardcovers, falling short of Apple's offerings. The retailer does have a variety of, including wall, desk, easel, poster, and planning. You can spend as little as 59 cents on a whole-year poster, though realistically, you'll probably want to pay for something nicer. An 8x11 wall calendar is $17.47.

Walmart doesn't have a mobile or desktop app for its Photo service. Like Walmart, doesn't have many options when it comes to photo books. These can range in size from 4x6 to 12x12, and from $7.99 to $49.99 or more, but don't hope for anything better than a lay-flat or hardcover. Leather isn't even a choice. Are even more limited, split between $9.99 desktop calendars and a handful of wall calendars costing either $19.99 or $29.99. One thing CVS does have is an, but don't expect too much out of it.

It's the same app the pharmacy uses for coupons and prescriptions, and not meant for anything more complex than prints or cards. Seems to be a little bit better than CVS when it comes to books. You can start small at a 25-page, 4x4 'PrintBook' for $6.99, and scale up to $69.99 for a 'premium' lay-flat, with dozens of templates. Curiously, leather is only available for the normally cheaper window-cover format. There also doesn't seem to be much personalization available for the higher-end books. The most customizable products are actually 15-page 8.5x11 books available for same-day pickup.

There are just: a $9.99 desktop, wall calendars starting at $19.99, and whole-year calendar posters costing $10.99. Another area where Walgreens beats CVS is with its. You can use it to order anything available for same-day pickup, including books, calendars, and even metal and canvas prints. Is another specialist in the photo printing world, with 20-page books ranging in size from a 4x6 softcover to a 12x12 hardcover, the latter of which can use black or white leather if you so choose.

W2363d driver for mac pro. Prices run from $9.99 to $49.99. As with most photo services you can add extra pages, but here only in two-page add-ons costing between 75 cents to $1.95, depending on the dimensions of the book. The service doesn't have as many options as outfits like Shutterfly though, and in fact its calendars are limited to $9.99 10x5 desk designs, and 8x11 ($19.99) or 11x14 ($32.99) wall options. To its credit though, it does offer hundreds of background designs for desk calendars, and on wall calendars individual dates can be given custom images and clip art. York does have an, but we would steer well clear. It has poor reviews, and visually resembles apps from 2012.

It hasn't been updated since July 2017, which is either a sign that a complete overhaul is coming or that the company is throwing it under a bus.