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- dalesmatrix, on 11/28/2008, -2/+53Thank the google gods. Picasa is one of the few PC apps I miss, iPhoto just doesn't cut it for me.
- fluidfoundation, on 11/29/2008, -5/+14Just for the sake of argument, what exactly are you not getting out of iPhoto that you did out of Picasa?
- turpenine, on 11/29/2008, -7/+7agreed, I like iphoto a lot more, but then again I use aperture at school and for anything that matters.
- Daniel591992, on 11/29/2008, -0/+12iPhoto doesn't support various levels of folders, just "events." I actually made a whole site about this (see my profile if you care).
- ralphthemagi, on 11/29/2008, -0/+4Events are just a chronological auto-sort. You can put things into albums in whatever way you see fit.
- freediverx, on 11/29/2008, -1/+23Picasa lets you browse photos without importing them. Same goes for Adobe Bridge. Apple products including iPhoto and Aperture, insist on importing photos before you can do anything with them. This is unacceptable as importing takes too long if I just want to browse a CD or folder containing hundreds or thousands of images, and I don't want to manage all images using either.
- EntropyFan, on 11/29/2008, -19/+4Picasa doesn't have the Apple logo.
Seems regardless of how well/poorly an application works, for the 'faithful' that is the only important thing. - jsauter, on 11/29/2008, -0/+9Picasa also doesn't maintain as many internal copies of the pictures as iPhoto does. It also (at least in the Window's version) doesn't copy your photos to its library either, if you don't want it to. It just indexes the originals.
Some people don't care about that, but I do... I hate having 15 different versions of photos lying around on my hard drive. - fluidfoundation, on 11/29/2008, -7/+4@ Freediverx:
I agree, that's a pain, but MacOSs Preview and Quicklook work tremendously to get around this.
@ EntropyFan:
Seriously man, that's the best you could come up with? Some people happen to be "faithful" because they just enjoy using the products, regardless of the brand. Sorry if I didnt have to type out a command line in order to start up my app. - phoomp, on 11/29/2008, -1/+2Picasa has less bloat.
- aimeedgaf, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2@ Daniel591992:
My friend, if you go to the file menu in iPhoto, you will find new folder, which will hold your albums however you see fit. - d3bruts1d, on 12/03/2008, -0/+1Things you get in Picasa that you don't get in iPhoto:
- The Ability to post to Blogger (my wife uses this).
- Some of the Goofy editing stuff. Picture colleague for example
- Better editing & touchup tools.
- Better organization of files... maybe I'm just using iPhoto wrong.
- Ability to add watermarks to images. (great if you publish to a blog/website)
- I've also found Picasa just feels better to use than iPhoto.
Though I do love the ability to create (and buy) books, cards, and stuff from iPhoto.
- dalesmatrix, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1Quite a few things, but one not mentioned by others is Picasa = Free. iPhoto != free. I know, it's included when you buy your mac, but the updates aren't. I found it a lot snappier for managing large numbers of photos, my iPhoto library is starting to crawl and takes ages to start up.
- derektom, on 12/04/2008, -0/+0iPhoto does not write tags, keywords, captions and other data as XMP or IPTC metadata in order to keep that information with the photo files themselves (similar to ID4 tags that store artist, title and other info within music files). iPhoto stores that kind of data in a proprietary database saved on the Mac's local hard disk and so that valuable data is basically not portable. Right now the only popular programs that do this are Adobe Photoshop Elements and Picasa - both only on Windows!!! There is Photo Mechanic but applying tags in that is very cumbersome, unlike the drag and drop ease as in Photoshop Elements.
- jrb207, on 12/16/2008, -0/+0I actually held off on buying a Mac at home because of Picasa. I finally had to buy a Mac as my PC started to bog down and I've had my fingers crossed for a Mac version of Picasa ever since. C'mon Google!
I've tried every software program for organizing images - ACDSee (PC only), Photo Mechanic, Lightroom, Aperture, iPhoto and more. For the simplest tasks Picasa wins every time. It's not trying to be a Photoshop replacement and that's a good thing.
Really great user interface design. The original designers of Picasa got it right and Google has done a nice job of improving it shy of bring it to Mac. C'mon Google!
- fluidfoundation, on 11/29/2008, -5/+14Just for the sake of argument, what exactly are you not getting out of iPhoto that you did out of Picasa?
- tonicboy, on 11/29/2008, -13/+8I really don't understand the fascination with Picasa, other than that it's free. IMO, it has one of the worst user interfaces of any application I have ever used. Fercrissakes, it doesn't even have a resize feature!
- turpenine, on 11/29/2008, -3/+9resizing isn't the point of the application.
- over9k, on 11/29/2008, -1/+3when you select pics and click on the export, it will ask you if you want to resize or keep the original size.
- DeadPlasmaCell, on 11/29/2008, -0/+4Select Picture > Export > Resize to
Seems pretty easy to me. Picasa 3 is awesome, btw.- tonicboy, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1That is the most idiotic interface for resizing a photo I have ever heard of. Picasa sucks ass.
- darkNiGHTS, on 11/29/2008, -0/+5You must not use very many applications if you think that's the worst. I happen to like it, it looks great and it's easy to use. Its integration with Picasa on the web is a huge plus and it does everything you need it to as a photo managing application. Why would you want to resize a photo in a photo MANAGING application anyway?
- tonicboy, on 11/30/2008, -2/+1Umm, because editing a photo's properties (of which size is a pretty essential one) is part of managing it? And yeah, you must be right. I've only been using computers for thirty years so I must not use very many applications.
- darkNiGHTS, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1Resizing a photo for anything other than uploading it to the web is dumb, why would you want to lower the quality? Can iTunes transcode an MP3 file and lower the bitrate? Bitrate is an important part of an audio file's properties too.
- optize, on 11/29/2008, -7/+2Um, I have it for my mac and have for a while. I'm confused...
EDIT: Maybe I only have the 'uploader' ?- Daniel591992, on 11/29/2008, -0/+3Yes.
- replikhant, on 11/29/2008, -0/+1u can´t upload vids
- corpski, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1You most definitely can. Import an mp4 file (iPhoto will accept this). Then use the Picasa uploader to upload it.
- Harrison88, on 11/29/2008, -11/+11iPhoto?
- Daniel591992, on 11/29/2008, -7/+10Sucks?
- BossKey, on 11/29/2008, -0/+13I love my Macs...and iPhoto is teh suck.
- gotacalc, on 11/29/2008, -1/+21I'm waiting for Chrome as well.
- beerwench, on 11/29/2008, -9/+3i used to use picasa... but then it killed my brother and raped my sister... now i use flickr uploader
- over9k, on 11/29/2008, -5/+3I raped your sister and she loved it.
- beerwench, on 11/29/2008, -1/+4:*(
- CanadaMan87, on 11/29/2008, -1/+4if she loved it, it wouldn't have been rape.
- mmockett, on 11/29/2008, -1/+1That's what he said.
- ethana2, on 11/29/2008, -1/+3i used to use flickr uploader, but then it drove an ice cream truck full of angry bees through a petting zoo and crashed a locomotive full of screaming babies into an aircraft carrier which was on fire... now i use f-spot
- over9k, on 11/29/2008, -5/+3I raped your sister and she loved it.
- KraigR, on 11/29/2008, -6/+4howabout digsby?
- timf, on 11/29/2008, -0/+1yeah... or notepad
- farplaner, on 11/29/2008, -6/+3I currently use iPhoto and export to Picasa. It works great so I don't really need a separate picasa app.
- Harboggles, on 11/29/2008, -8/+1You're too late. I spent two and a half years with my Macbook Pro waiting for Picasa and Games to come out for Mac. It never happened and Apple let me down.
I just bought new PC parts yesterday.- catpuke, on 11/29/2008, -0/+2lol, I'm sure you never had a freakin' Mac.
- freediverx, on 11/29/2008, -0/+3More likely, you've spent two and a half years WANTING a Macbook Pro, but always finding lame excuses not to buy one. I look forward to Picasa for Mac (or for improvements to iPhoto to provide missing features like browse mode), but I would never hesitate to buy a Mac due to this small omission.
As far as games go, gaming is not my priority in a computer, but there are plenty f Mac games plus you can always run Windows-only games using Boot Camp.
- savocado, on 11/29/2008, -5/+2Picasa FTW!
- BigRed24, on 11/29/2008, -0/+3Im still waiting for Space Cadet Pinball
- dafragsta, on 11/29/2008, -0/+1I remember when that first came with the Plus! pack in Windows 95 days.
- theGoodness, on 11/29/2008, -0/+2yay i guess?
- beck5, on 11/29/2008, -1/+9If they can make is as snappy for mac as they did for pc then slow boots iphoto will have some competition.
- ethana2, on 11/29/2008, -1/+2I'm running Picasa on Ubuntu, it's pretty sweet... doesn't look native though, it has like its own gui toolkit or something.. Still, it's pretty handy, you osx users will like it I'm sure..
'course, you guys have sketchup..- lolwtfhaha, on 11/29/2008, -1/+1they bundle wine with picasa for linux. I use F-Spot instead. native C# :-P
- eldridgea, on 11/29/2008, -2/+11iPhoto rocks.
Picasa rocks harder! - nysus, on 11/29/2008, -0/+4Yes! One more application that I won't have to fire up Fusion to use. I use fusion only about once every few weeks now.
- jbiggs12, on 11/29/2008, -0/+1Picasa? I'm waiting for Chrome. Before I got Aperture, I would've loved Picasa on a Mac.
- einsteinxx, on 11/29/2008, -0/+0Maybe a bit off topic, but does anyone know of a tool (PC) that will let you find duplicate images on your hard drive? A friend suggested Picasa, but it doesn't appear to have that feature, though I do like the sync feature (is there a tool that will do the same for photobucket?).
- Demens, on 11/29/2008, -0/+1Trust your friend.
Picasa: Tools->Experimental->Show duplicate files
- Demens, on 11/29/2008, -0/+1Trust your friend.
- a0peter, on 11/29/2008, -2/+2If you can't wait, try out an open source alternative:
http://intipunku.berlios.de/index.php?id=screen
The maintainer could use people to test it on macs. - notquiteleet, on 11/29/2008, -1/+4Screw Picasa, I want Google Chrome for Mac
- beirne, on 11/29/2008, -0/+0I guess I'll be glad that there is competition for iPhoto, and I recommend Picasa for my friends with Windows, but I don't really see what Picasa will add to the Mac since iPhoto is already there. Both do basic photo editing, iPhoto does more flexible tagging, especially if you add on Keyword Manager (yes it costs money, but there's nothing like it for Picasa). The Event model in iPhoto is also easier to work with than the folder system in Picasa.
- kreatre2007, on 11/29/2008, -1/+1It's interesting how everyone wants software to be free. iPhoto comes preinstalled and free on every Mac. I don't see anything with paying for the new iLife releases since they also include iMovie, iDVD, iWeb and, Garage Band along with iPhoto. Google makes great apps and, I hope that they continue doing so -- especially for the Mac but, I think that iPhoto works better than anything else that I've tried.
- jrb207, on 12/16/2008, -0/+0I was excited by the idea of organization by Event but without the ability to edit your events it fails miserably. My events are a mess and I can't correct them.
Keywording in Picasa is fast and easy without any plug-in. Hold down control, click K, type keyword, enter, type keyword, enter then click OK with your mouse. Same for multiple images. It's the fastest keywording system of any program I've tried.
iPhoto fails on the simplest of tasks that Picasa handles so elegantly. I guess it comes down to preference but having worked with Picasa for years, managing over 10,000 images (I was a stock photographer for 10+ years) I find that Picasa excels even where some of the professional programs don't measure up.
I'm forced to use iPhoto at work on my Mac and its painful. Yes, Aperture is a more complete program with more powerful tools but the simple organization tasks don't compare to Picasa.
- danwgre, on 11/29/2008, -0/+8Oh thank the heavens!
I am quite the MacFanboy, but iPhoto makes me want to throw my fist through my iMac on almost a daily basis. - hitkaiser, on 11/29/2008, -1/+1'suppose mobileme won't work with picasa?
- kreatre2007, on 11/29/2008, -3/+1Eh... I don't care. iPhoto works great for me. I don't need another photo utility. Using iPhoto, I can import my photos and, keep them organized in any way that I choose. Using iPhoto with Mobile Me allows me to upload them to an online gallery that looks a hell of a lot better than anything that Picasa or Flickr creates. I don't mind paying for the Mobile Me account since it also allows for continuous synching between my MacBook Pro and my iPhone. Yes, I'm and Apple fanboy!!! I'm also and Apple Consultant.
- supermanKD, on 11/29/2008, -1/+1This would be interesting but I can't see it competing with iPhoto unless they do something revolutionary that provides an added benefit to iPhoto. I like iPhoto it is simple easy and very well integrated into the OS. I always recommend Picasa to PC users it is a great app. I just can't see it going anywhere on the Mac
- lausley, on 11/29/2008, -0/+4This app will blow iPhoto cleanly from the water. There are SO many people waiting for this. I run an entire WIndows OS on Parallells on my Mac SOLELY for the ability to use Picasa and bypass iPhoto. Please Google, make it happen ASAP.
- beirne, on 11/29/2008, -3/+1Why? What does Picasa do better than iPhoto?
- Standachance, on 11/29/2008, -6/+0For PC people I can see why, but on the Mac, what's the point. I really don't see the attraction to this app outside of the name. Boring!
- TEEMANOID, on 11/29/2008, -0/+1Picasa is a great app, hope mac users enjoy it.
- wastern, on 11/29/2008, -0/+1I'd probably use iPhoto for my pictures from my camera and real life. Then Picasa for wallpapers, and bull ***** I get from the net
- snkscore, on 11/29/2008, -2/+1Any chance they are going to allow you to use Picasa from more than 1 computer against a single shared storage location where all images are stored?
This is so clearly a needed feature.
My entire family puts their fotos up on the NAS, and yet, we can't all use Picasa to view/manage these pictures? Why? - timf, on 11/29/2008, -0/+1I hope for the mac folks that Google doesn't use wine for porting.
I'am currently using Picasa 3 and while it works for the most part the look and feel is really out of place, some fonts look really bad and some features don't work at all.
And if you do a native Mac version, please Google, also think of the Linux users. - svizamnom, on 11/29/2008, -0/+8Picasa is far superior to iPhoto and I can't wait to have it on a Mac.
1) Speed. Have you ever compared browsing speeds of the two apps. I have about 60 000+ image sin my library and it takes me no time to access them all on the Picasa (Pentium 4, 1G ram) while both iPhoto and Aperture choke (MBP Intel core 2 duro, 2G ram).
2) Ease of use. Picasa is the ONLY pc app that is actually easier to use than its any OSX counterpart.
3) Ease of emailing. Have you ever tried emailing images from a mac? iPhoto exports very poor jpegs (too large for crappy quality) same for Aperture (even worse actually). Picasa beats them all hands-down. I'm a fanboy but I'm not going to pay for MobileMe (ever)... Picasa lets me g-mail photos with pretty much once click. My current mac workload includes selecting files in Bridge, batch resizing in Photoshop and attaching it all manually in gmail :(
4) Picasa lets me keep my files organized the way I want them and is still super fast. Ever try referencing files from external HDs using iPhoto or Aperture? They choke no matter what. Even worse they create multiple copies on my local drive - Aperture creates a separate folder with 5 files per each photo!!! WFT?
I understand people have personal preference but in this case I just don't see how anyone can prefer iPhoto to Picasa. I've purchased both iPhoto and Aperture (and upgraded multiple versions) but I still can't wait for Picasa to come out on OSX.- beirne, on 11/29/2008, -0/+0I haven't found iPhoto to be particularly slow, and it is easy enough to use.
Regarding emailing, the photos I email from iPhoto look fine. It requires two or three clicks, but that's only because I get to choose the picture quality when I mail it. When helping my family members who use Picasa, I've had to take them into the preferences to change the picture quality. - Standachance, on 11/30/2008, -2/+0Dude, you never used iPhoto or Aperture. If you use a PC I can see why its a joy, but on the Mac side I see an incomplete piece of software. Google is like MS, copying Apple
- beirne, on 11/29/2008, -0/+0I haven't found iPhoto to be particularly slow, and it is easy enough to use.
- Mahluc, on 11/29/2008, -5/+1Who cares?
- mindpuzzle, on 11/29/2008, -0/+1Wait and see.
- pika2000, on 11/29/2008, -0/+1Oh I hope this is true. I love Picasa. It's the "iPhoto" for Windows. In a way, its actually better than iPhoto in certain features (for example, Picasa's "I feel Lucky" image enhancement almost always give a better image, unlike iPhoto's auto enhance feature) and truly easy to use. Picasa is definitely better than iPhoto06, but iPhoto08 is pretty good on its own. I hope this will force Apple to enhance iPhoto09/iLife09 to be even better. I mean if people can get Picasa for free, they might not be willing to pay to upgrade to iLife09. Love the competition. :)
- GarryBarker, on 11/30/2008, -1/+1Even though iPhoto is superior in every respect this is great news as this is one less reason for people to stick with Windows.
- archer75, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2I can't stand iphoto. It completely obliterates my folder structure and sets it up it's own way and after using it for months of importing photos that same directory structure is very unorganized. I don't want iphoto ***** with it! itunes leaves my music directories alone so why not iphoto?
iphoto also does not work well with my library which I don't keep locally but rather on my server.
Picasa has none of these problems and is better organized too. - Churnd, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1Please, Google, don't port it through Wine like you do with the Linux version. :)
- ookees, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1finally, picasa is so much better than iphoto.
- derektom, on 12/04/2008, -0/+0iPhoto does not write tags, keywords, captions and other data as XMP or IPTC metadata in order to keep that information with the photo files themselves (similar to ID4 tags that store artist, title and other info within music files). iPhoto stores that kind of data in a proprietary database saved on the Mac's local hard disk and so that valuable data is basically not portable. Right now the only popular programs that do this are Adobe Photoshop Elements and Picasa - both only on Windows!!! There is Photo Mechanic but applying tags in that is very cumbersome, unlike the drag and drop ease as in Photoshop Elements.
This is why Picasa for Mac is a big deal... to me, at least!! - digitaltoast, on 12/28/2008, -0/+1Picasa is superior to iPhoto in so many ways - it's just...easier! And quicker. And more intuitive, and more standards based.
I can't believe Mac CHARGE for iPhoto - Thank the Google Gods for some competition!
And before someone kicks off, I'm not anti-Mac. In many ways it's better than a PC, but Mac Mail and iPhoto let the whole side down. - digitaltoast, on 01/05/2009, -0/+1Finally launched today - and after 2 years of waiting and rumours and excitement...it's INTEL ONLY!!!
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!
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