Yes there are methods that exist to make life posters that are entirely free but if you really want to make a poster that looks exactly how you want it to look with minimal fuss this program is the way to go. So far beta 6 seems stable for me and I love the feature set. I particularly like that it's so easy to scale images to fit just the way you want without having to crop pictures first. I also love how you can delete frames and expand images horizontally or vertically to take up multiple slots. This is very cool for pictures that you just don't want to crop in order to fit in to a predetermined slot. Now that making life posters isn't so easy with iPhoto 6, this is the clearly the best way to make life posters that kick ass.