Comments on: Google Developing Mac Version Of Picasa, Due To Be Released This Year

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Rainy Friday « approximately. — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:20:45 +0000

[…] - Photoshop Express was released yesterday. You get 2gb of storage and some of the more popular Photoshop tools in a convenient, Flash-based format. I still am hoping for Picasa for Mac. […]

By: sébastien

sébastien — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:41:56 +0000

ctmajor: when it’s done.

By: ctmajor

ctmajor — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:18:17 +0000

GREAT. I Just got a Mac and need Picasa. WHEN is later in the year? Next week??

By: saiyad

saiyad — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:35:39 +0000

how can add jpeg file on google

By: Van the Man

Van the Man — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:02:52 +0000

That is great news! Recently switched to Mac, lashed out on a 24″ iMac, and really like it a lot. My wife is a professional photographer and really loves the mac but missed Picasa! iPhoto is good in a lot of ways, it looks beautiful, the slideshows are cool, the ‘events’ function is handy, I didn’t have any problems importing 20 Gig of photos from our external HD. But Picasa has a few effects we use a lot, like the ‘Glow’ function, looks lovely on brides! I have been trying to emulate them in iPhoto but I just can not do it. The’soften function does not work, you can only ’sharpen’, this sucks, our digitsl photos are often too sharp especially for portraits. I also have Photoshop Elements, and I can come close but it takes me 10 x as long, using filters etc., hate the programme. My wife can not use Photoshop at all, and why should she? Please hurry up Google.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:13:00 +0000

QRIUS: Iphoto only lets you order books from Kodak directly and they only let you order one version of a photo book at a time, making you pay a $5 shipping for each and every book. PICASA gives you a list of printing companies that you can order from (my fav is shutterfly). You can save ALOT of money this way, especially if you need to order more that one book at a time. ALSO, Kodak does not have all of the larger print formats available. So the sizes of photos you can order are limited. ALSO, Iphoto does not have a decent soft focus tool. Their “soft focus” only allows you to center where the in focus image is….this is very olan mills/ jc penny to me. Picasa allows you to decide for yourself where you want the photo to be in focus and then blurred. ALSO Iphoto’s soft focus really just looks pixalated, not fuzzed out. BAD! Those are just the main differences that stand out to me. I also like the way Picasa organizes the photos much better than Iphoto. I hope this helps! PLEASE OH PLEASE PICASA….BRING YOURSELF TO MAC QUICKLY!

By: Kevbo

Kevbo — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:28:37 +0000

Great to have Picasa for the Mac on top of iPhoto. Just hope they share the iPhoto database. Two sets of tags, album structures, events would render Picasa useless. Love Picasa on the PC where it’s the only decent entry-level photo management package, but hope Picasa can also fit into the iLife world gracefully.

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By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:28:13 +0000

I am excited to hear about this. I am a recent switcher and the only program I really miss is Picasa. I hate iphoto. It frustrates me how it duplicates all of your photos and then you can’t delete or edit the originals. It is a horrible design that makes me have to keep my pc around for photo editing and organizing.

By: Michael Slater

Michael Slater — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:55:03 +0000

Picasa can upload directly to Flickr… Select the photos you want and then email them to your flickr private email address — they get posted immediately.

iPhoto isn’t very nice. I don’t like how it wants to move all my images off my NAS and into its own directory storage. Consequently I’m temporarily using Adobe Bridge, which at least lets me browse the directories nicely.

By: J Luther

J Luther — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:40:08 +0000

Nice. Count me in. I’ve really (really) missed Picasa since my switch. It took a lot to convince my wife to give up our PC for a Mac, and now she despises iPhoto. It got me into big trouble so I set her up to run Picasa in bootcamp. Not ideal, but better than iPhoto, which was a good app five years ago but has really stagnated since.

Now all we need is a decent version of Quicken.

By: Gate 303

Gate 303 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:12:00 +0000

Google utvecklar mac-version av Picasa…

Jag har under många år använt mig av Googles program Picasa för att hålla ordning bland mina digitalfoton på min Windowsdator. På min mac har jag använt iPhoto, helt enkelt för att det var det bästa jag hittade till OS X, däremot har det hel…

By: Dan W

Dan W — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:12:51 +0000

I guess I’m not that concerned. I really like iPhoto. The events functionality is fantastic and the tagging is really quite great. It is better than the folders that are created by Picasa as it takes less work when you do your imports. Albums are manual, but they are a different concept. Plus you can use tagging to do smart albums.

It was so fun and east to create a slideshow and send it off to iDVD and create a nice dvd to share with the family as a christmas present.

I really liked Picasa, but I can’t say I miss it. As for the way iPhoto stores all of the files, well, that is fine. It’s all the same to me. I am either backing up a whole directory structure or one file. In reality it is a directory structure under the hood. Apple just hides it from you like they do with applications.

Maybe people aren’t giving it a fair chance. It’s different, but so is the mac.

Dan

By: Steve J.

Steve J. — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:24:46 +0000

It’s about fucking time!!!

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Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:02:42 +0000

Google Picasa soll in diesem Jahr für den Mac erhältlich sein…

Das Video zeigt die Funktion des derzeitigen iPhoto Plugins für Google Picasa.
Zur Zeit müssen Mac Nutzer den Umweg über iPhoto gehen und können damit ihre Bilder auf einen Google Account laden. Dies ist natürlich recht umständlich - zur Zeit …

By: Furball

Furball — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:26:16 +0000

Yes! Please, mighty gods of Mac conversion, work your magic on Roboform next!!!!

By: Gardfield

Gardfield — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:03:58 +0000

YES !
I switched to Mac 3 months ago and the only application I really miss is Picasa.
Let’s wait and see if it comes out …and if it works fine

By: krangsquared

krangsquared — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:06:36 +0000

Yes!! Just the news I’ve been waiting for. I just bought an iMac 2 wks ago, and the thing that’s causing me headaches is figuring out how to move over 60Gb of photos to iPhoto. Apparently iPhoto 08 stores *all* the photos in a single database. Hmm… a single 60Gb file holding all my memories from the past 4 years? Ah… why.. NO.

Now what would really be cool is a converter so that current iPhoto users can also get their info migrated easily to Picasa. And maybe something like a plugin API so that users can add functionality for Picasa (like an integrated Flickr Uploader - come on guys, just give up… there is *no* comparison between Picasa albums and Flickr)

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:52:09 +0000

I don’t have any issues with Google Notifier on my Mac. Google Desktop is a complete waste of time with OSX because most of the functionality is already in the OS or available with apps with a much smaller footprint.

But Picasa would be a welcome competitor to not only Flickr and iPhoto, but .Mac as well.

By: hardcoreUFO

hardcoreUFO — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:29:19 +0000

Who. Cares.

I have no faith that Google will put any effort into this application at all. Witness the disasters that are Google Notifier (completely broken for the mac) and Google Desktop (try getting support for this). Google products for the Mac are just sad ports of Windows apps. Mac will always — always — be a second class citizen to Google.

You get what you pay for with Google.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:48:42 +0000

qrius, it’s simple.

Picasa sorts the picture for directories. So each directory will be an album. In iPhoto I have to create every new album manually. Until now I don’t found some way to do this automatically.

And iPhoto 7 is very slow compared to Picasa for Window$.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:41:22 +0000

Finally. Two things I am missing since my switching to Mac last january are Picasa and a good finance app. Not far away it will be only one thing.