Virginia Chilcote reviews FotoMagico 2 for Mousebytes, the newsletter of the Bay Area Mac User Group Florida, July 2007 issue, page 8:

iPhoto is limited where FotoMagico is a more complete and extensive slideshow program. Both have Ken Burns effects (pan and zoom) but iPhoto's version is very elementary compared to FotoMagico's output that I can't even compare. FotoMagico's finished slideshows are professional, so intuitive but powerful. [...] I really like this program and on a scale of 5 mice, I would rate it all 5 mice.

A new beta of FotoMagico 2.1 is now available for download. A couple of bugs have been fixed and Peter is working on an improved export wizard.

Kirk Hiner reviews FotoMagico 2 for Applelinks.com:

Without reading one instruction, I opened a new project, selected my output destination, and was dragging photos from iPhoto into the FotoMagico timeline. Within five minutes, I was controlling effects and adding titles. In less than half an hour, I'd put together a three minute slideshow set to music I had stored in iTunes. It really is that simple, and yet the end result looks as if I'd spent hours on it.

The statement we like best is this:

Whether you're creating a slideshow of the kids or of a vacation for family and friends, or you're presenting photos for a business presentation or conference, FotoMagico presents you with almost all the tools you'll need while not making it feel like work.

We strive to make our apps not feel like work while at the same time enabling you to accomplish professional results. Seems as if Kirk agrees that we met that goal.

In the end, FotoMagico is awarded a 4/5 rating and Kirk concludes:

If you're working with photos on any level, whether you should be working with FotoMagico 2 shouldn't even be a question.

A staggering 241 movies are now tagged with "iStopMotion" on YouTube. Keep them coming, folks.

When it comes to showing off photos, FotoMagico 2.0.1 Pro is a photographer's dream come true; and it's packed with enough functionality to impress most presenters

Lesa Snider King for Macworld and rates FotoMagico with 4 of 5 mice.

Head over to our shiny new pages for iStopMotion 2. Have a look at what's already there, download the software and give it a spin.

iStopMotion 2 is available as Release Candidate and can be purchased starting today. iStopMotion comes in three flavors, depending on your needs: Home, Express and Pro. Updates from 1.x to each of them are available and very affordable. They start as low as $10 for 1.x DV to 2.x Home!

More to come...

Ilene Hoffmann reviewed FotoMagico 2 for MacNN:

The short story: If you need to create a photo slide show, then you really want this software! [...] I was very impressed with how effortlessly I was able to throw the slide show together. In under two hours, I had an acceptable presentation, which received high praise from viewers.