Google is planning to release a beta of the popular photo editing/viewing program Picasa on the Mac today. According to Jason Cook from Picasa the features you will be seeing in the beta will be the most of the features you currently see in the Windows version. They are going to try to implement more features like geotagging in the coming weeks.
The question is how many Mac users will use the program? Picasa think the fan base will be big with many Mac users requesting the program, "We have many Mac users, and we think they'll be excited about this. It makes the Picasa Web Albums experience better" said Cook. With the massive surge of Photo Editing on the internet people are turning away from installing programs onto their systems for the ease of use, but there are still a majority of people that like to edit using a proper program with powerful editing tools.
According to the makers, the program will be different from iPhoto but will not affect the program in any way, you could edit an image in Picasa but it will remain the same in iPhoto and if you rate something in iPhoto, Picasa will read it but don't expect iPhoto to reciprocate.
I prefer Picasa over iPhoto any day. At least on Windows, it is an amazing tool. I take lots of photos at work, and Picasa makes it easy for me to fly through 100's of photos while touching up/cropping/straightening. Its awesome. I hope this mac version delivers.
I might give Picasa a try then.
It isn't image editing. It is photo touch-up, and organization tool much like iPhoto.
No kidding. After switching to a Mac, there were very few Windows apps that I missed... Picasa was one of the few.
no
Picasa not only leaves it alone but is also more organized.
iTunes at least has some kind of logic behind its madness... iPhoto just throws things into a blender and throws them wherever it feels like.
I do want to know, and do care where my photos are. Music, not so much.
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iPhoto stores all photos in a SINGLE library file, usually in your Pictures folder. Pretty easy to view the contents of it, and all photos are sorted logically within it. But you're supposed to use iPhoto as the front-end and not have a massive folder full of images.
Last edited by LTD on 06 Jan 2009 - 13:03
Yeah, the idea of being able to organize your files and folders in a way that makes sense to you ... on your computer ... is just MADNESS.
iPhoto --> Preferences --> Advanced
. . . and untick "Copy files to iPhoto Library folder"
Now iPhoto organizes files like iTunes and we can all stop crying and moaning.
Bets on how long that will be beta for?
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