Print an amazing photo book

Put your precious digital memories onto paper

REQUIRES

MACOS High Sierra or later, Photos, Motif extension

yoU WILL LEARN

How to create a photo book within Photos using Motif

IT WILL TAKE

30 minutes APPLE discontinued its photo printing product service last year, but you can still print beautiful photo books in the Photos app, with 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 high quality, which is good news as this was one of the main strengths of Apple’s original photo printing service.

Creating a great-looking photo book is 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. Do this by clicking File > Create > Book > App Store. The Mac App Store will open, and you can download and open the Motif extension from there. Good news — Motif is offering Mac|Life readers 30 percent off a photo book at the checkout with the discount code MacLife30.