Any good programs like Picasa for Mac?

[Gambuchi]

follow the link...
http://picasa.google.com/web/mac_tools.html

[sfenton83]

Alan R that link (as you've probably seen) is only the web album uploader and doesn't do much good. As for not being familiar with Picasa on a PC; in my opinion ignorance would be bliss. If you've read through this thread you will find varying opinions, but from what I've read here and at other sites it seems that iPhoto 6 competes fairly well. So if you've got 6, enjoy.

[AlanR]

SF
I don't know where the link took you but you should be able to download the 7.2MB zipped dmg from that site - there's 3 locations to choose from.

Good luck. I'll enjoy iPhoto 7 (or 6 or something) when I upgrade to 10.4.8 in a month or two (Christmas present from the family maybe?)

Cheers
Alan

[sfenton83]

What I meant by it not doing you any good is that this application is not any form of a substitute for iPhoto - it's merely an application that allows you to upload to the google web albums, nothing more. I've used the app already - and that is why I say this.

[sfenton83]

Originally Posted by AlanR

Anybody tried iPhoto Buddy? It works pretty well for me.

www.iphotobuddy.com

I'm trying it - but have some questions first to avoid wasting the time of importing and sorting etc. since I just finished getting all my photos OUT of iphoto. For optimum performance you keep your libraries around say 1000 photos, right? So I assume that searching, keywords, albums, etc are specific to EACH library, is this correct? For example: I couldn't have keyword results turn up photos with the same keyword if they are in a separate library (I assume this, but want to make sure). And you wouldn't see any albums from other libraries either, right? Thanks

[AlanR]

Originally Posted by sfenton83

What I meant by it not doing you any good is that this application is not any form of a substitute for iPhoto - it's merely an application that allows you to upload to the google web albums, nothing more. I've used the app already - and that is why I say this.

SF
Sorry, I've been busy all weekend and only just caught up with this.

You're right it is not a substitute for iPhoto. It is nothing but a management tool for any number of iPhoto Libraries.

iPhoto buddy simply makes it possible to have many independent iPhoto Libraries which you can name anything you like (Famiy - 2004, Car Racing, Kids in the Park...whatever).

As for uploading to google web albums I'm not sure Buddy can be used for that. I think it's only intended for managing a bunch of iPhoto Libraries. Because I'm running 10.2.8 (see my earlier post) I can't use Buddy 1.2.6 so maybe there is something there for uploading as you mentioned.

Originally Posted by sfenton83

I'm trying it - but have some questions first to avoid wasting the time of importing and sorting etc. since I just finished getting all my photos OUT of iphoto. For optimum performance you keep your libraries around say 1000 photos, right? So I assume that searching, keywords, albums, etc are specific to EACH library, is this correct? For example: I couldn't have keyword results turn up photos with the same keyword if they are in a separate library (I assume this, but want to make sure). And you wouldn't see any albums from other libraries either, right? Thanks

As no doubt you know, the bigger your iPhoto Library the slower it is to load, so keeping Libraries to about 1000 is about right. That's what I aim for, although it's not always possible.

From the list of Libraries in Buddy you choose whichever Library you want to open and then do your searches or anything else in iPhoto itself just as you would if you hadn't used Buddy to open the Library.

Buddy shows you the Albums you have set up in each Library and if you double click on an Album in a Library Buddy opens that Library and takes you to the Album. That's all.

So everything you said about keywords etc is right.

Hope that is some help and hope you find iBuddy is useful. Bummer if you have to reload them all!!

Cheers
AlanR

[cyberprop]

i'm a long time unix user (background is solaris, running on sparc) and have just bought a 17" mac book pro after my laptop was stolen. used pc for my photos as theres not much for sun gear so settled on picasa, my workflow is load raw pics from my 20d divide into respective folder, then i go through and edit on the fly tweaking shadows colour temp etc and selecting the ones i want by using the star tool. i then used the export option and resize to 800 x 600 for my web site and then upload using gallery remote. now if theres is away to do this in iphoto i haven't figured it out yet, namely selecting the photos i want but retaining all of them, then exporting the selected and resizing at the same time to a folder of my choice. can anyone suggest a way of doing this or shall i just continue with boot camp install and have to boot into windows just to do my photos? or hopefully google will get picasa done for mac as there seems to be demand for it.

forgot to add my image library is currently standing at about 150,000 images, so i'm concerned about what i have read about iphoto and large quantities of images.

thanks in advance

Giles

[Mario8672]

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