Any good programs like Picasa for Mac?

[cyberprop]

[sarcasm]thnx for that mario really helpfull reply[/sarcasm]

so can anyone actually suggest a method of selecting specific photos as i go through them without having to either delete the ones i don't want or then going back through and selecting with mouse and and apple option to select specific ones can get annoying with 1000+ photos especially if you miss click.

Giles

[Lt Major Burns]

drop them into an album, as in iTunes with playlists. then you can keep track of the ones you want.

also, to export in different fliesizes to different places, go File > Export.

[ex2bot]

Cyberprop,

Awhile ago, MacAddict magazine dumped 250,000 pictures into iPhoto 6 (the latest). It didn't work so well. Glitchy!!

So, I would think twice before dropping all 150,000 pix into iPhoto. 10,000? 20,000? Probably fine. Not 150,000.

What about running Picassa in Parallels? You'd have to buy Parallels and have a copy of Windows. Just a thought. I've never run Picassa so I don't know how it would handle 150,000 pix.

Doug

[eric2006]

Originally Posted by dktrickey

Awhile ago, MacAddict magazine dumped 250,000 pictures into iPhoto 6 (the latest). It didn't work so well. Glitchy!!

If you really have that many pictures, you'd be better off with something like Aperture.

[darkhighway]

I don't know....I've given iphoto (5/6) plenty of chances to make me forget about Picasa and it's not really happening. I've had too many problems with the database in iphoto getting corrupted. iphoto doesn't have the cool inset picture when you zoom in on an image. iphoto doesn't have native IPTC embedding like Picasa does (with the captions). Picasa is really the only thing I miss about using PCs. Aperture is really nice, but it's still needs a bit of work in terms of performance and features.........mainly the web export feature and the fact that it doesn't seem to have very good image compression for saving web photos. What is really promising is Adobe Lightroom (currently in beta). It's development is almost completely driven by user feedback. I've found that a great program for batch editing is Graphic Converter X. It's an excellent value and even though a copy came with my computer, I decided to support the developer by purchasing it separately. It would probably rival Photoshop as a retouching tool if they'd only allow users to custom configure the keyboard shortcuts.....plus the GUI needs to be revamped. If you're looking to just manage/view alot of photos (without much editing), a great program to try is PhotoGrid. Drag and drop a folder to the photogrid icon on the dock and you can get a quick view of all photos (including the ones in subdirectories) and then move/copy or edit them in Photoshop. I've found Adobe Bridge to be too bulky in its feature set and it loading time seems to take awhile (although I'm only using a late model Powerbook with 1.5gigs of RAM).

[geewillikerz]

Add me to the list of Mac lovers who don't love iPhoto. Picasa is the one thing I really miss about windows and I would love to see it ported to OSX. I switched to Mac a couple of years ago and I am still struggling with iPhoto... I still can't easily accomplish fairly mundane tasks without pulling my hair out.

My wife works in the same room as me on her windows machine and it embarasses me how much easier it is to do ANYTHING on picasa than it is in iPhoto. Way faster on her old windows box than iPhoto is on my much newer Mac, too.

Otherwise, I love my Mac.

[Satcomer]

Well boys there is now the Picasa Web Albums Uploaders and the Google Picasa Web Album site. I know this is not what you wanted, but it might due for now.

[cyberprop]

Originally Posted by eric2006

If you really have that many pictures, you'd be better off with something like Aperture.

i have apature and have started loading my photos in but its slow, even on my new mac book pro, albeit i only have 2gb of ram but still shouldn't be as slow as it is. i'm running osx stripped down while i run it nothing but bare minimum running inc dock switched off. but it allows me to do what i want and rate certain pics and edit on the fly just wished it ran a bit quicker, i will investigate pararells. picasa ran fine on my old pc with that many photos just struggled a bit with the raw images flying through them in full size.

thnx for all that have helped

gi